Canada’s home for the performing arts has announced that it will provide half of its theatre resources to Black theatre companies hereon in. To start, Canada’s oldest Black theatre company, Black Theatre Workshop, will become a “Co-Curation Company in Residence” at the National Arts Centre (NAC) in Ottawa for the 2021-22 season. The co-curation idea grew from calls for substantial change in Canadian theatre and a recognition that Black artists
Black Theatre Workshop kicks off 50th season online
January 26, 2021
Billing itself as Canada’s oldest Black theatre company, Black Theatre Workshop will launch its 50th anniversary season online on January 15, 2021 at 3pm ET. It starts with the annual Discovery Series which features a reading of a new work in development. This year’s play is Sanctuary by Lydie Dubuisson, a playwright and director who has just been appointed the company’s artistic associate. Dubuisson participated in the company’s mentorship program
Black, trans and metal-lover artist is awarded Canada’s indie music prize
January 26, 2021
The 2020 Polaris Music Prize was awarded on Monday night to Montreal-based Gothic rap singer Backxwash. Her self-produced album God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It was selected over nine other contenders as Canada’s best album of the year. A jury of 11 music critics from across the country met online to cast their votes. The Polaris Music Prize has been awarded every year since
BHM: A socioeconomic portrait of Blacks in Canada
February 27, 2020
Canada’s official statistics gathering agency, Statistics Canada has just Released two studies on blacks in Canada as part of Black History Month. One deals with diversity of the black population in Canada, while the other looks at education, labour, and resilience. Using the latest census, the Stats Can study on diversity shows some 1.2 million Canadians list themselves as being black or about 3.5 per cent of the total Canadian
CBC Report: Racism in Canada thrives and pretending otherwise nourishes it, say people who live it
February 26, 2020
A Toronto-based journalist who walked away from a columnist gig at a major newspaper after protesting the controversial practice of police carding has written a book on anti-black racism. Read More…
CBC Report: Breaking the black stereotype: CBC Manitoba live chat to tackle myths
February 26, 2020
CBC Asks: What does it mean to be a black man in Winnipeg? What presumptions are made about women of color? Rob Wilson is a black man who drives a nice car and that, he says, was enough to subject him to a curious traffic check while on the road in south Winnipeg. Read More…
CBC Report: ‘It reminds us of who we are’: 5 songs to play during Black History Month
February 25, 2020
A big part of any culture is music, and during Black History Month, CBC asked Josephine Watson and Clinton Davis, both of Moncton, to share their favourite songs. Read More…
Black History Month: Canada’s star Hall of Fame major league pitcher
February 21, 2020
The first Canadian in the baseball hall of fame Ferguson “Fergie” Jenkins came from a baseball background. His father played with the Chatham Coloured All-Stars which helped break colour barriers in Ontario in the 1930’s. Further back and through his mother he was descended from slaves who escaped from the U.S via the ‘underground railway’ Born in Chatham Ontario, he was a star athlete in school and was signed at
CBC Report: This rural Ontario black hockey line broke barriers — producing generations of star players
February 20, 2020
An aged photo of three young black hockey players hangs in Darren Lowe’s basement. His dad Arthur is in the centre, stick on the ice, hunched over beside teammates Howard Sheffield and Gary Smith. Read More…
CBC Report: 7 works of Canadian nonfiction to read for Black History Month 2020
February 20, 2020
It’s Black History Month. Check out these seven recent works of nonfiction by black Canadian writers. Read More…
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