Created in 2016, the Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAM) Canada is an award-winning non-profit.
BSAM Canada aims to construct a collaborative and supportive platform that empowers, elevates, and evolves Afrodiasporic creative industries and organizations, along with supporting artists who work within the field of the speculative arts.
Learn Our Story
Cultural Arts Organization
BSAM Canada started out as an artist collective in Toronto to broaden outlets of representation for artists of the Afrodiaspora (including Black African, Afro-Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean descendent people). We are invested in works that push imaginative boundaries, thereby contributing to broader and more vivid visual language of Blackness within arts education and the arts industry.
PROJECTS
Public art, short films, and healing activities, and more! Take a look at all of the things we’re getting up to.
PROGRAMS
Throughout the year we have various free workshops &
skill-based programs.
See for yourself.
PARTNERSHIPS
We are always looking to for new artists and organizations to collaborate with. Are you interested?
What's Happenin'
Kemetic Yoga Series - Earth
Olamina
Levyi-Alexander Love on In The Moment
Expect the unexpected when it comes to Levyi and BSAM Canada, you give us a stage and we will make the most of the opportunity that we possibly can. Not only do we live in the moment, we live for the moments.
Queen Kukoyi Shortlisted for TAF Community Arts Award
Queen has been shortlisted for Toronto Arts Foundation’s (TAF) Neighbourhood Art Network’s Community Award. This award celebrates folx who have worked to broaden access to the arts by working with and contributing to diverse communities in Toronto.
Olamina’s Rain
Recanting the experience of installing Olamina in Aitken Place Park on the Toronto Waterfront. Then celebrating her with a launch event the following day.
Parable of the Talents: Tale of Humanity’s Resilience
In the last blog post we talked about Parable of the Sower, and learned about the beginnings of the Earthseed belief system formed by Lauren Oya Olamina.