Art Talks

Art Talks is a series of conversations with local change makers who address the challenges in the current cultural landscape. Be it the importance of diversity or issues regarding inclusion, Art Talks allows us to delve deeper into the social fabric and find answers to unanswered questions.

Art Talks with Bernice Carnegie

Bernice Carnegie is the co-founder of the Herbert H. Carnegie Future Aces Foundation and served as its former Executive Director for seventeen years. Bernice is the daughter of Herb Carnegie, Black hockey trailblazer and creator of the Future ACES Philosophy a character development tool widely used in hundreds of Ontario schools.  She worked with her father for thirty years to help share their vision of encouraging behaviours that foster respect, caring and peaceful interaction.

Currently, Bernice is an Educational and Life Enrichment Speaker who reveals vignettes of her family’s story of being Black in Canada since settling in the Toronto area in 1912.

Like her father, she has received many educational and leadership awards including the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, and was an honouree at the inaugural 2016 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women Event.  The Carnegie autobiography, “A Fly in a Pail of Milk, The Herb Carnegie Story” has been re-released with Part II written by Bernice – “Lessons passed on from father to daughter”.

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