Listening to Artists
The Listening Room proves that people in the city have a real desire to fellowship with each other around this music. In a time when more people than ever are asking “what happened to our communities, what happened to our third spaces?”, we forget that artists are an integral part of creating and sustaining those spaces.
Beep Beep: Get Outta Our Community, and Get Into Our Thoughts A Look Into Prioritizing Anti-Poverty Measures
When we talk about violence in Toronto, the focus tends to be on crime committed by the poor. By the struggling and unwanted parts of the city.
LOUD
“It's very cool to be Black right now,” Adams says, but only in a specific manner. If an artist isn’t interested in jumping headfirst into mainstream R&B or rap, or trying to sound like a variation of Drake, Daniel Caesar or Tory Lanez, then it becomes much harder to build a fanbase and gain any sort of income in Toronto off of music”.
Safe Spaces
Imagine if we had enough room for love; if we could meet each other with the same patience we took to love our mothers, our children, our closest friends, our lovers. Imagine a world like that.