The 2025 Sobey Art Award shortlist is here—and CBC Arts is once again lifting up Canada’s boldest contemporary artists.
Public broadcasting doesn’t just inform. It inspires.
#SaveTheCBC #CBCArts #SobeyArtAward
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Public broadcasting doesn’t just inform. It inspires.
#SaveTheCBC #CBCArts #SobeyArtAward
Read more: beacons.ai/cbcarts
June 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The 2025 Sobey Art Award shortlist is here—and CBC Arts is once again lifting up Canada’s boldest contemporary artists.
Public broadcasting doesn’t just inform. It inspires.
#SaveTheCBC #CBCArts #SobeyArtAward
Read more: beacons.ai/cbcarts
Public broadcasting doesn’t just inform. It inspires.
#SaveTheCBC #CBCArts #SobeyArtAward
Read more: beacons.ai/cbcarts
🏛️ Ottawa is turning 200, but its history is far older.
For CBC Arts, Algonquin artist Jay Odjick uses animation to explore the Indigenous peoples who gathered and traded here long before European arrival.
“Ottawa has always been a place where people come together.”
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For CBC Arts, Algonquin artist Jay Odjick uses animation to explore the Indigenous peoples who gathered and traded here long before European arrival.
“Ottawa has always been a place where people come together.”
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September 25, 2026 at 11:30 AM
🏛️ Ottawa is turning 200, but its history is far older.
For CBC Arts, Algonquin artist Jay Odjick uses animation to explore the Indigenous peoples who gathered and traded here long before European arrival.
“Ottawa has always been a place where people come together.”
beacons.ai/cbcarts
For CBC Arts, Algonquin artist Jay Odjick uses animation to explore the Indigenous peoples who gathered and traded here long before European arrival.
“Ottawa has always been a place where people come together.”
beacons.ai/cbcarts
A Canadian animated film just had Cannes audiences openly sobbing 😭🎬💔
Tangles, based on Sarah Leavitt’s memoir about losing her mother to Alzheimer’s, reportedly moved the entire theatre to tears.
Canadian storytelling really does hit different 🍁
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Tangles, based on Sarah Leavitt’s memoir about losing her mother to Alzheimer’s, reportedly moved the entire theatre to tears.
Canadian storytelling really does hit different 🍁
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May 23, 2026 at 7:44 PM
A Canadian animated film just had Cannes audiences openly sobbing 😭🎬💔
Tangles, based on Sarah Leavitt’s memoir about losing her mother to Alzheimer’s, reportedly moved the entire theatre to tears.
Canadian storytelling really does hit different 🍁
beacons.ai/cbcarts
Tangles, based on Sarah Leavitt’s memoir about losing her mother to Alzheimer’s, reportedly moved the entire theatre to tears.
Canadian storytelling really does hit different 🍁
beacons.ai/cbcarts
For 25 years, the Paprika Theatre Festival has supported emerging artists 🎭
Its artistic director Amanda Lin says: “Better art comes from healthier artists.”
Honestly? That conversation feels more important than ever.
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Its artistic director Amanda Lin says: “Better art comes from healthier artists.”
Honestly? That conversation feels more important than ever.
beacons.ai/cbcarts 💜
May 12, 2026 at 12:45 PM
For 25 years, the Paprika Theatre Festival has supported emerging artists 🎭
Its artistic director Amanda Lin says: “Better art comes from healthier artists.”
Honestly? That conversation feels more important than ever.
beacons.ai/cbcarts 💜
Its artistic director Amanda Lin says: “Better art comes from healthier artists.”
Honestly? That conversation feels more important than ever.
beacons.ai/cbcarts 💜
“Do Not Touch” signs mean nothing to toddlers 😄🎨
CBC Arts highlights a Toronto exhibit where kids are invited to engage with art through play, curiosity, and imagination.
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CBC Arts highlights a Toronto exhibit where kids are invited to engage with art through play, curiosity, and imagination.
beacons.ai/cbcarts 💜
May 10, 2026 at 6:45 PM
“Do Not Touch” signs mean nothing to toddlers 😄🎨
CBC Arts highlights a Toronto exhibit where kids are invited to engage with art through play, curiosity, and imagination.
beacons.ai/cbcarts 💜
CBC Arts highlights a Toronto exhibit where kids are invited to engage with art through play, curiosity, and imagination.
beacons.ai/cbcarts 💜
After 15 years, Seth Rogen got Sarah Polley acting again
Teased our interview in my CBC radio pop culture column on The Studio, which you can listen to here.
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Full interview in @CBCArts on Wednesday.
Teased our interview in my CBC radio pop culture column on The Studio, which you can listen to here.
shorturl.at/iQBhX
Full interview in @CBCArts on Wednesday.
March 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
After 15 years, Seth Rogen got Sarah Polley acting again
Teased our interview in my CBC radio pop culture column on The Studio, which you can listen to here.
shorturl.at/iQBhX
Full interview in @CBCArts on Wednesday.
Teased our interview in my CBC radio pop culture column on The Studio, which you can listen to here.
shorturl.at/iQBhX
Full interview in @CBCArts on Wednesday.
🏳️⚧️ A generation of queer and trans people fought for the right to live openly. What happens when they grow old and need care?
For CBC Arts’ Cutaways, Rodrigo Barriuso explores that question through Neverman, about a trans elder with Alzheimer’s entering a hostile nursing home.
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For CBC Arts’ Cutaways, Rodrigo Barriuso explores that question through Neverman, about a trans elder with Alzheimer’s entering a hostile nursing home.
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September 12, 2026 at 11:30 AM
🏳️⚧️ A generation of queer and trans people fought for the right to live openly. What happens when they grow old and need care?
For CBC Arts’ Cutaways, Rodrigo Barriuso explores that question through Neverman, about a trans elder with Alzheimer’s entering a hostile nursing home.
beacons.ai/cbcarts
For CBC Arts’ Cutaways, Rodrigo Barriuso explores that question through Neverman, about a trans elder with Alzheimer’s entering a hostile nursing home.
beacons.ai/cbcarts
“I was so tired of being underappreciated as an artist.”
Punk legend Carole Pope on Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions, opening Hot Docs 2026.
Through CBC Arts, artists tell their own stories.
beacons.ai/cbcarts 💜
Punk legend Carole Pope on Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions, opening Hot Docs 2026.
Through CBC Arts, artists tell their own stories.
beacons.ai/cbcarts 💜
April 23, 2026 at 12:05 PM
“I was so tired of being underappreciated as an artist.”
Punk legend Carole Pope on Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions, opening Hot Docs 2026.
Through CBC Arts, artists tell their own stories.
beacons.ai/cbcarts 💜
Punk legend Carole Pope on Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions, opening Hot Docs 2026.
Through CBC Arts, artists tell their own stories.
beacons.ai/cbcarts 💜
Violists bringing classical music to the Downtown Eastside.
Ryan Davis returned to Canada and is now sharing music in one of Vancouver’s most marginalized communities.
This is the kind of story CBC Arts tells… where art meets community.
beacons.ai/cbcarts 💜
Ryan Davis returned to Canada and is now sharing music in one of Vancouver’s most marginalized communities.
This is the kind of story CBC Arts tells… where art meets community.
beacons.ai/cbcarts 💜
April 29, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Violists bringing classical music to the Downtown Eastside.
Ryan Davis returned to Canada and is now sharing music in one of Vancouver’s most marginalized communities.
This is the kind of story CBC Arts tells… where art meets community.
beacons.ai/cbcarts 💜
Ryan Davis returned to Canada and is now sharing music in one of Vancouver’s most marginalized communities.
This is the kind of story CBC Arts tells… where art meets community.
beacons.ai/cbcarts 💜
Could 3D-printed clay homes help address the housing crisis?
A new installation at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum explores how natural materials, architecture, and emerging technology could reshape the future of housing.
CBC Arts spotlighting ideas like this is makes it so valuable
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A new installation at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum explores how natural materials, architecture, and emerging technology could reshape the future of housing.
CBC Arts spotlighting ideas like this is makes it so valuable
beacons.ai/cbcarts
May 30, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Could 3D-printed clay homes help address the housing crisis?
A new installation at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum explores how natural materials, architecture, and emerging technology could reshape the future of housing.
CBC Arts spotlighting ideas like this is makes it so valuable
beacons.ai/cbcarts
A new installation at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum explores how natural materials, architecture, and emerging technology could reshape the future of housing.
CBC Arts spotlighting ideas like this is makes it so valuable
beacons.ai/cbcarts
Candy-coloured sculptures up to 9 metres tall have transformed the Royal Botanical Gardens into a surreal pop art playground.
CBC Arts highlights the artists and exhibitions that make Canada's cultural landscape so vibrant. 🎨🌸
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CBC Arts highlights the artists and exhibitions that make Canada's cultural landscape so vibrant. 🎨🌸
beacons.ai/cbcarts
June 26, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Candy-coloured sculptures up to 9 metres tall have transformed the Royal Botanical Gardens into a surreal pop art playground.
CBC Arts highlights the artists and exhibitions that make Canada's cultural landscape so vibrant. 🎨🌸
beacons.ai/cbcarts
CBC Arts highlights the artists and exhibitions that make Canada's cultural landscape so vibrant. 🎨🌸
beacons.ai/cbcarts
3/3 #NayaniJensen #katephillipsart #valmy #sableislandnationalparkreserve #newfoundlandandlabradorartscouncil #artsnovascotia #PrinceedwardIslandart #artsnewbrunswick #VisualArtNS #artslinknb #ArtsNB #ArtsNS #ArtsNFLD #ArtsPEI #CBCArts #writing #illustration #music #history #performance #songwriting
June 29, 2026 at 6:03 PM
3/3 #NayaniJensen #katephillipsart #valmy #sableislandnationalparkreserve #newfoundlandandlabradorartscouncil #artsnovascotia #PrinceedwardIslandart #artsnewbrunswick #VisualArtNS #artslinknb #ArtsNB #ArtsNS #ArtsNFLD #ArtsPEI #CBCArts #writing #illustration #music #history #performance #songwriting
CBC Arts is highlighting The Asianadian this Asian Heritage Month 💜
One of the first magazines created for Asian Canadian audiences, documenting community, activism, and history that shaped later generations.
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One of the first magazines created for Asian Canadian audiences, documenting community, activism, and history that shaped later generations.
beacons.ai/cbcarts
May 17, 2026 at 12:44 PM
CBC Arts is highlighting The Asianadian this Asian Heritage Month 💜
One of the first magazines created for Asian Canadian audiences, documenting community, activism, and history that shaped later generations.
beacons.ai/cbcarts
One of the first magazines created for Asian Canadian audiences, documenting community, activism, and history that shaped later generations.
beacons.ai/cbcarts
Margaret Atwood's MADDADDAM has been transformed into a ballet. 🩰📚🍁
CBC Arts explores how the National Ballet brings Atwood's dystopian world to life through movement, music, and spectacle.
Have you ever loved a stage adaptation more than the original?
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CBC Arts explores how the National Ballet brings Atwood's dystopian world to life through movement, music, and spectacle.
Have you ever loved a stage adaptation more than the original?
beacons.ai/cbcarts
June 18, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Margaret Atwood's MADDADDAM has been transformed into a ballet. 🩰📚🍁
CBC Arts explores how the National Ballet brings Atwood's dystopian world to life through movement, music, and spectacle.
Have you ever loved a stage adaptation more than the original?
beacons.ai/cbcarts
CBC Arts explores how the National Ballet brings Atwood's dystopian world to life through movement, music, and spectacle.
Have you ever loved a stage adaptation more than the original?
beacons.ai/cbcarts
Canadian filmmaker Pony Nicole Herauf reflects on misogyny and power dynamics in the arts through her debut feature Young Female Playwright 🎭
“I was taught to perform. I was taught to cry only in the bathroom.”
A powerful and deeply familiar piece from CBC Arts 💜
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“I was taught to perform. I was taught to cry only in the bathroom.”
A powerful and deeply familiar piece from CBC Arts 💜
beacons.ai/cbcarts
May 20, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Canadian filmmaker Pony Nicole Herauf reflects on misogyny and power dynamics in the arts through her debut feature Young Female Playwright 🎭
“I was taught to perform. I was taught to cry only in the bathroom.”
A powerful and deeply familiar piece from CBC Arts 💜
beacons.ai/cbcarts
“I was taught to perform. I was taught to cry only in the bathroom.”
A powerful and deeply familiar piece from CBC Arts 💜
beacons.ai/cbcarts
⚖️🎨 Can you balance everything a community cares about?
For Culture Days, artist Jon Sasaki spent 6 hours balancing a street sign, film canister, skeletons and dozens of objects into Everything in Balance.
CBC Arts asks what holds a community together.
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For Culture Days, artist Jon Sasaki spent 6 hours balancing a street sign, film canister, skeletons and dozens of objects into Everything in Balance.
CBC Arts asks what holds a community together.
beacons.ai/cbcarts
September 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM
⚖️🎨 Can you balance everything a community cares about?
For Culture Days, artist Jon Sasaki spent 6 hours balancing a street sign, film canister, skeletons and dozens of objects into Everything in Balance.
CBC Arts asks what holds a community together.
beacons.ai/cbcarts
For Culture Days, artist Jon Sasaki spent 6 hours balancing a street sign, film canister, skeletons and dozens of objects into Everything in Balance.
CBC Arts asks what holds a community together.
beacons.ai/cbcarts
パンチニードルの懐かしいの出てきた。5年前の！
カナダの国営テレビ局CBCのアート部門ロゴの期間限定SNSアイコン。
A throwback—this is from 5 years ago!
A punch needle piece I made for a limited-time social media icon for the art department of CBC in Canada.
#hinemizushima #cbcarts #seacreatures #punchneedle #水島ひね
カナダの国営テレビ局CBCのアート部門ロゴの期間限定SNSアイコン。
A throwback—this is from 5 years ago!
A punch needle piece I made for a limited-time social media icon for the art department of CBC in Canada.
#hinemizushima #cbcarts #seacreatures #punchneedle #水島ひね
May 6, 2026 at 4:03 AM
パンチニードルの懐かしいの出てきた。5年前の！
カナダの国営テレビ局CBCのアート部門ロゴの期間限定SNSアイコン。
A throwback—this is from 5 years ago!
A punch needle piece I made for a limited-time social media icon for the art department of CBC in Canada.
#hinemizushima #cbcarts #seacreatures #punchneedle #水島ひね
カナダの国営テレビ局CBCのアート部門ロゴの期間限定SNSアイコン。
A throwback—this is from 5 years ago!
A punch needle piece I made for a limited-time social media icon for the art department of CBC in Canada.
#hinemizushima #cbcarts #seacreatures #punchneedle #水島ひね
The Happy Brothers, unfired ceramic, approx 13” tall
#ceramicart #ceramicsculpture #cbcarts #canadiansculpture #margiekelk
#ceramicart #ceramicsculpture #cbcarts #canadiansculpture #margiekelk
July 13, 2026 at 2:37 PM
The Happy Brothers, unfired ceramic, approx 13” tall
#ceramicart #ceramicsculpture #cbcarts #canadiansculpture #margiekelk
#ceramicart #ceramicsculpture #cbcarts #canadiansculpture #margiekelk
Tonight, Toronto revisits a piece of local history. 🕺✨
Sparkles, the legendary disco that once turned the CN Tower into the highest dance club on Earth, returns for one night only.
Did you ever experience it, or is this your first time hearing about it?
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Sparkles, the legendary disco that once turned the CN Tower into the highest dance club on Earth, returns for one night only.
Did you ever experience it, or is this your first time hearing about it?
beacons.ai/cbcarts
June 5, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Tonight, Toronto revisits a piece of local history. 🕺✨
Sparkles, the legendary disco that once turned the CN Tower into the highest dance club on Earth, returns for one night only.
Did you ever experience it, or is this your first time hearing about it?
beacons.ai/cbcarts
Sparkles, the legendary disco that once turned the CN Tower into the highest dance club on Earth, returns for one night only.
Did you ever experience it, or is this your first time hearing about it?
beacons.ai/cbcarts
As World Cup fans gather in Vancouver, a nearby exhibition explores the stories of Chinese Canadian athletes and the intersection of sport, identity, belonging, and social change. ⚽🍁
CBC Arts highlights Momentum: Power and Identity in Sports.
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CBC Arts highlights Momentum: Power and Identity in Sports.
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June 24, 2026 at 7:30 PM
As World Cup fans gather in Vancouver, a nearby exhibition explores the stories of Chinese Canadian athletes and the intersection of sport, identity, belonging, and social change. ⚽🍁
CBC Arts highlights Momentum: Power and Identity in Sports.
beacons.ai/cbcarts
CBC Arts highlights Momentum: Power and Identity in Sports.
beacons.ai/cbcarts
The 2026 Sobey Art Award finalists have been announced 🎨🍁
A powerful mix of contemporary artists from every region of the country, reminding us how alive and diverse the arts scene here really is.
CBC Arts continuing to spotlight working artists and contemporary culture matters
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A powerful mix of contemporary artists from every region of the country, reminding us how alive and diverse the arts scene here really is.
CBC Arts continuing to spotlight working artists and contemporary culture matters
beacons.ai/cbcarts
May 27, 2026 at 12:45 PM
The 2026 Sobey Art Award finalists have been announced 🎨🍁
A powerful mix of contemporary artists from every region of the country, reminding us how alive and diverse the arts scene here really is.
CBC Arts continuing to spotlight working artists and contemporary culture matters
beacons.ai/cbcarts
A powerful mix of contemporary artists from every region of the country, reminding us how alive and diverse the arts scene here really is.
CBC Arts continuing to spotlight working artists and contemporary culture matters
beacons.ai/cbcarts
Opera 🤝 wrestling
CBC Arts is covering a Toronto collaboration between Opera Revue and Junction City Wrestling, proving both art forms run on drama, spectacle, and absolute commitment to the bit 😄🎭💥
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CBC Arts is covering a Toronto collaboration between Opera Revue and Junction City Wrestling, proving both art forms run on drama, spectacle, and absolute commitment to the bit 😄🎭💥
beacons.ai/cbcarts
May 6, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Opera 🤝 wrestling
CBC Arts is covering a Toronto collaboration between Opera Revue and Junction City Wrestling, proving both art forms run on drama, spectacle, and absolute commitment to the bit 😄🎭💥
beacons.ai/cbcarts
CBC Arts is covering a Toronto collaboration between Opera Revue and Junction City Wrestling, proving both art forms run on drama, spectacle, and absolute commitment to the bit 😄🎭💥
beacons.ai/cbcarts
A bedtime story helped shape Tonya Williams' life. 📚✨
Now the actor, producer, activist, and arts leader is receiving a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. 🏆🍁
What childhood story stayed with you?
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Now the actor, producer, activist, and arts leader is receiving a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. 🏆🍁
What childhood story stayed with you?
beacons.ai/cbcarts
June 7, 2026 at 12:45 PM
A bedtime story helped shape Tonya Williams' life. 📚✨
Now the actor, producer, activist, and arts leader is receiving a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. 🏆🍁
What childhood story stayed with you?
beacons.ai/cbcarts
Now the actor, producer, activist, and arts leader is receiving a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. 🏆🍁
What childhood story stayed with you?
beacons.ai/cbcarts
🏆 Innovation in Digital Storytelling – #DPA25
Think Like An Artist – CBC Arts
Check out the acceptance speech from the team!
🔗 Watch the full awards gala: zurl.co/S56ob
#DPA25 #DigitalJournalism #CBCArts #ThinkLikeAnArtist
Think Like An Artist – CBC Arts
Check out the acceptance speech from the team!
🔗 Watch the full awards gala: zurl.co/S56ob
#DPA25 #DigitalJournalism #CBCArts #ThinkLikeAnArtist
June 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🏆 Innovation in Digital Storytelling – #DPA25
Think Like An Artist – CBC Arts
Check out the acceptance speech from the team!
🔗 Watch the full awards gala: zurl.co/S56ob
#DPA25 #DigitalJournalism #CBCArts #ThinkLikeAnArtist
Think Like An Artist – CBC Arts
Check out the acceptance speech from the team!
🔗 Watch the full awards gala: zurl.co/S56ob
#DPA25 #DigitalJournalism #CBCArts #ThinkLikeAnArtist
Holy shit there are amazingly #talentedpeople in this world! They bring magic, beauty and fun, into a time when we desperately need to remember those things.
Just watched #CBCArts #OnDesign and I’m in awe!
Sometimes I forget how cool humans can be. ❤️🩹
Enjoy🫶
#Canada
#Art
youtu.be/Zh4OLQxXEZ0?...
Just watched #CBCArts #OnDesign and I’m in awe!
Sometimes I forget how cool humans can be. ❤️🩹
Enjoy🫶
#Canada
#Art
youtu.be/Zh4OLQxXEZ0?...
How these designers are redefining concrete
YouTube video by CBC Arts
youtu.be
July 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Holy shit there are amazingly #talentedpeople in this world! They bring magic, beauty and fun, into a time when we desperately need to remember those things.
Just watched #CBCArts #OnDesign and I’m in awe!
Sometimes I forget how cool humans can be. ❤️🩹
Enjoy🫶
#Canada
#Art
youtu.be/Zh4OLQxXEZ0?...
Just watched #CBCArts #OnDesign and I’m in awe!
Sometimes I forget how cool humans can be. ❤️🩹
Enjoy🫶
#Canada
#Art
youtu.be/Zh4OLQxXEZ0?...