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AITC October 2026 - The Currency of Time - Kardinal Offishall

October 06, 2026

OCTOBER 2026 IS LOADING.

Kardinal Offishall fronts the October issue of Afros in tha City.

In The Currency of Time, Kardi goes beyond the highlight reel to talk about independence, attention, longevity, family, the business of music and what it takes to keep creating after more than three decades in the industry.

“We’re not fighting for their money. We are fighting for attention.”

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AITC October 2026 - The Currency of Time - Kardinal Offishall
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Freedom Is the Work: Spicey Landé and Jai Nitai Lotus Find A Way Through Mōnad
Dance, Hip-Hop
Freedom Is the Work: Spicey Landé and Jai Nitai Lotus Find A Way Through Mōnad
Dance, Hip-Hop
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Dance, Hip-Hop
Movie Stars Linda Ejiofor-Suleiman & Ibrahim Suleiman are headed to Calgary!
Podcast
Movie Stars Linda Ejiofor-Suleiman & Ibrahim Suleiman are headed to Calgary!
Podcast

Calgary-based producers Ejiro Onobrakpor and Nenritji Suwa are bringing the acclaimed Due Parenting Podcast Live to the stage.

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Podcast
Beyoncé Is Coming to the Symphony. Do You Understand What Is Happening Here?
Music
Beyoncé Is Coming to the Symphony. Do You Understand What Is Happening Here?
Music

Composer and conductor Steve Hackman brings Beethoven X Beyoncé to Calgary, weaving Beyoncé’s music through Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.

Kimberley Dooshima Jev talks with Hackman about “Halo,” Beyoncé’s musical intelligence, classical music’s boundaries and what happens when two musical worlds are allowed to meet.

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AITC September 2026 - What Will It Take For Us To Feed One Another - Aquakultre

COVER STORY PREVIEW

Through 1783 and Matriarchs, Aquakultre is transforming family memory into a living archive while asking Black Nova Scotian communities to remember how deeply they belong to one another.

By Kimberley Dooshima Jev

Lance Sampson was standing in front of a video kiosk at the Africville Museum when a familiar name appeared on the screen. The woman speaking was his great-great-grandmother. Sampson had stumbled onto what he understands to be the only surviving recording of her voice.

His first instinct was reverence. His second was hip-hop.

“I immediately went into hip-hop mode,” he remembers. “Let me sample this right quick.”

That impulse sits at the centre of Sampson’s work as Aquakultre: find what remains, listen closely, then give it somewhere new to live.

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Aquakultre covers the September 2026 issue of Afros in tha City. The complete story explores 1783, Matriarchs, the family histories behind the work and the moment Lance Sampson found his voice.

The full feature and photo story will be released with the September digital issue and limited print edition.

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How Springboard Is Building Calgary’s Cultural Ecosystem
Art, Contemporary Dance
How Springboard Is Building Calgary’s Cultural Ecosystem
Art, Contemporary Dance

Dance, public space, galleries and live performance become part of the same conversation when Springboard Performance asks what a cultural ecosystem can look like.

Through Fluid Fest and its wider programming, artistic director Nicole Mion is building connections between artists, audiences and ideas in Calgary while placing the city within national and international conversations about contemporary performance.

In How Springboard Is Building Calgary’s Cultural Ecosystem, Afros in tha City looks at the systems behind the art, the importance of circulation and the artists using movement, theatre, music and visual art to create new ways into performance.

The full feature and photo story will be released with the September digital issue and limited print edition.

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Art, Contemporary Dance
What Sugar and Indigo Remember
What Sugar and Indigo Remember

Sugar, indigo, family photographs and the Atlantic carry histories that are easy to overlook until someone asks us to look again.

At Dalhousie Art Gallery, curator francesca ekwuyasi brings together Stina Baudin, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Bushra Junaid and Christina Leslie for Burnt Sugar Blue, an exhibition examining colonialism, Black diasporic memory, family, spirituality and the histories embedded in everyday materials.

In What Sugar and Indigo Remember, Afros in tha City looks at how these artists turn materials and archives into something living, while Roger Mooking’s SoundBites continues the conversation from across the gallery.

The full feature and photo story will be released with the September digital issue and limited print edition.

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Roger Mooking Is Building Beyond the Algorithm
Roger Mooking Is Building Beyond the Algorithm

Roger Mooking is thinking beyond the algorithm.

With SoundBites, the Canadian multidisciplinary artist is responding to streaming culture, shrinking attention spans and the rise of AI by asking a different question: what happens when technology distributes the work, but does not define its value?

In conversation with Afros in tha City, Mooking talks about the state of the music industry, the value of slow creative practice and why the future of music may look a lot more like a campfire than a platform.

The full feature and photo story will be released with the September digital issue and limited print edition.

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Alberta Doesn’t Have a Talent Problem. It Has an Access Problem.
Film
Alberta Doesn’t Have a Talent Problem. It Has an Access Problem.
Film

Talent, ambition and strong ideas are not always enough when the people with the power to finance, develop and distribute them are somewhere else.

At the inaugural TIFF: The Market, Creatives Empowered brings Alberta creators Sandra Bueckert, Tobit Luyeye Lemba and Flordeliza Dayrit into conversations with producers, buyers, distributors and other industry decision-makers from around the world.

In Alberta Doesn’t Have a Talent Problem. It Has an Access Problem., Afros in tha City looks at what meaningful industry access can mean for creators working outside Canada’s largest production centres, and why visibility only matters if the conversation continues after the festival.

The full web exclusive is available now on Afros in tha City.

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Film
Prismatic Is Thinking Beyond Representation
Prismatic Is Thinking Beyond Representation

Prismatic Arts Festival has spent nearly two decades creating space for Indigenous, Black and racialized artists. For Executive and Artistic Director Raeesa Lalani, the conversation now goes beyond visibility to sustainability, power and what artists need to build lasting careers.

In our September 2026 issue, Afros in tha City looks at the festival’s history, its place in Canada’s arts ecosystem and the artists shaping Prismatic 2026, including Walter Borden, Tara Taylor, Bageshree Vaze, Tania El Khoury and Dee Hernandez.

The full feature and photo story will be released with the September digital issue and limited print edition.

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Timeless: 100 Years of Oscar Peterson Extended at Studio Bell
Timeless: 100 Years of Oscar Peterson Extended at Studio Bell

The National Music Centre’s Timeless: 100 Years of Oscar Peterson has been extended at Studio Bell through January 3, 2027. Originally opened in July 2025 to commemorate the centenary of Peterson’s birth, the exhibition brings together instruments, archival materials, awards, personal artifacts, interviews and multimedia installations to tell the story of one of Canada’s most important musicians.

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Saul Williams Still Believes Art Has a Job to Do
Saul Williams Still Believes Art Has a Job to Do

With Leap Life and Songs My Mother Taught Me arriving eleven days apart, Saul Williams turns sound and page into one argument about art, memory and responsibility.

There is something almost unreasonable about the amount Saul Williams still expects from art. Nearly three decades into a career spanning poetry, music, theatre, film and literature, Williams has not arrived at the comfortable conclusion that art should simply entertain us. Within the span of eleven days this summer, he released two projects arguing that culture does much more than that.

His album Leap Life, released August 28 on Big Dada, moves through spoken word, hip-hop, jazz, ambient composition, African rhythmic traditions and improvisation.

On September 8, Haymarket Books published Songs My Mother Taught Me: Why the Artist Must Take Sides, a political memoir tracing the people and experiences that shaped Williams’ understanding of art as power.

The full feature and photo story will be released with the September digital issue and limited print edition.

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Afros Picks: Three DJs Setting the Tone at MUSE N°001
Afros Picks: Three DJs Setting the Tone at MUSE N°001

Vancouver’s MUSE N°001 brings together four DJs with distinctly different approaches to the dance floor. RAEDIAMENDZ, SAANZ, DJ DES and DJ BOMBAE move through hip-hop, R&B, African electronic music, Afro House and open-format sounds, each bringing her own relationship to culture, rhythm and the room.

Created by creative director Drew Ragiste, MUSE is built around a bigger question: what happens when women are considered in the design of nightlife from the beginning?

In this month’s Afropicks, Afros in tha City meets the four selectors setting the tone for MUSE’s first night.

The full feature and photo story will be released with the September digital issue and limited print edition.

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This Is What Calgary Sounds Like Now
Award Shows, Music
This Is What Calgary Sounds Like Now
Award Shows, Music

Bijaan and Jaiden Riley arrive at the 2026 YYC Music Awards from very different corners of Calgary’s music community. Bijaan’s path runs from childhood rap sessions in northwest Calgary to two nominations for “Jungle,” while Riley enters with three nominations after a year shaped by rapid career growth, community and profound personal loss.

In conversation with Afros in tha City, both artists look beyond the awards to the friendships, mentors, family histories and years of work that made the nominations possible.

From Bijaan’s third-culture story and long relationship with Calgary hip-hop to Riley’s rise through the city’s country and folk community, the feature offers a deeper look at what it actually takes to build a music career from here.

The full feature and photo story will be released with the September digital issue and limited print edition.

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Award Shows, Music
Recovery Was Never Meant to Be Hidden
Fashion, Wellness
Recovery Was Never Meant to Be Hidden
Fashion, Wellness

Sober Runway is bigger than a fashion show. Built from lived experience, work in addiction and mental-health services, and belief in recovery through community, the organization uses fashion to challenge the idea that surviving addiction should remain hidden.

In the September issue, Sober Runway founder Suzzy, opens up about stigma, culture, family, recovery and the community she is working to build beyond the runway.

The full feature and photo story will be released with the September digital issue and limited print edition.

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Fashion, Wellness

July 2026 - The Omnibus - Print July 2026 - The Omnibus - Print
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The Summer Omnibus is our most ambitious issue yet. Bringing together seven months of journalism, photography, and storytelling, this special collector's edition celebrates Black arts, business, fashion, music, and community across Canada and the diaspora.

Featuring exclusive cover stories with Judith Demosthene, Funmi Osatuyi, Adrianne Williams, Nancy Nixon, Ayokunle Akinsebikan, Femi Jr., and more, this 70-page volume captures the people, ideas, and conversations shaping culture today.

Beautifully printed in limited quantities, the Summer Omnibus is designed to be collected, shared, and revisited long after publication.

Limited print copies available.


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