Overview

• Attendees can explore food stalls, craft shops, live music stages, speaker panels on personal narratives of resilience, plus volunteer booths encouraging community contributions.
• The celebrity basketball game pits actor Simu Liu against former Toronto Raptors star Jeremy Lin as the festival’s grand finale.
• ARC launched in 1995 as the Chinese Canadian Youth Athletic Association to provide safe basketball spaces, evolving over three decades into a cultural collective embracing all of Asia.
• The acronym ARC combines the three-point arc in basketball with a narrative arc to symbolize its journey from sport to storytelling.
• ARC has raised funds to build a mini-community centre in Markham offering sports facilities, art spaces, coding classes, a basketball hoop, video games plus more to foster youth engagement beyond the court.