Legacy

Our arts community is a constellation comprised of innumerable bright lights.

The following list of BIPOC artists was compiled and arranged by HRH Anand Rajaram in June 2020 as an act of service, and offered to the community with the following preamble: 

"I don't know or remember many POC performers of generations older than mine. I want all of us to know their names cos their struggle allowed for our success...”

The list originally featured performers, but other artists and cultural innovators were soon added. This community-generated list of POC pioneers in the arts in Canada keeps growing.

For all the emerging artists and cultural innovators across Canada, here is but a small list, (still growing, please contribute more names) of artists who fought systemic issues on the regular and continue to fight for all of us. Many have either passed on or retired without becoming household names.