WMT FOUNDATION

Race diversity in Canadian Theatre has come a long way in the last three decades, but has a longer way to go. Works by artists of colour now grace many stages in the country, but they still only play on the fringes of our performing arts scene and are largely contained within a few major urban centres. This situation is particularly worrisome from an Asian-Canadian perspective, considering the direction of our nation's rapidly changing demographics... To finance the activities of our Foundation, we established the Wuchien Michael Than Fund in partnership with the Ontario Arts Foundation and rolled out the first of our funding programs in 2013. Since then, we have added a second program in 2014 and a third in 2015, expanding the scope of our offerings to ensure that the impact of our initiatives is both robust and sustainable, and extending our reach beyond Ontario to all Canadian provinces... We firmly believe that our mission to develop and nurture Asian-Canadian theatre rests with..