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Now You Know brings you real Toronto experiences from some of our most influential and impactful voices, reflecting the breadth and diversity of Toronto’s creative and cultural industries.
A graphic designer by trade, Kevin Boothe stumbled on a talent for curation that turned into a career. Through his art gallery, Towards, Kevin exhibits contemporary works that contribute to the city’s place in the global art conversation.
Stand-up comedian Allie Pearse’s fascination with relationships and her biographical approach to comedy make for relatable material that encompasses life’s good, bad, but mostly dirty.
After learning to unapologetically centre his Blackness, Travis Knights is using his tap dance career and passion to help expand his audiences’ worldviews.
To reprise her Broadway role in Toronto’s onstage version of Harry Potter, Sara Farb returned to the city that raised her. We took the opportunity to not only reflect on the role Canadian theatre has played in her career but also to look ahead at its trajectory.
A multifaceted artist and activist, Sarain Fox is working to amplify the narratives of Indigenous peoples — as told in their own voices.
As she oversees the vision of Toronto Fringe, executive director Lucy Eveleigh is tasked with simultaneously maintaining the theatre festival’s original mandate of accessibility and redefining what that means today.
Theatre creator and activist Donovan Hayden blends the art of performance with powerful messages of Black liberation that inspire and challenge.
Multimedia artist Jay Soule’s Indigenous pop art shines light on Settler Canada’s atrocities — past and present.
Internationally renowned Edward Burtynsky has devoted his career to documenting how our insatiable desire for consumption impacts our environment. Burtynsky's most ambitious project took him into uncharted territory as a visual artist to illustrate the devastation's increased sense of urgency.
Sculpting, photography, and illustration, Briony Douglas does it all while finding ways to advocate for meaningful causes through her work.