Photo by Min An from Pexels At Barrett and Welsh, we'd like to say zhōngqiū kuàilè – 中秋節快樂 – to all our friends celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival today and Chuseok jal ji nae sae yo to our Korean friends. Mid-Autumn

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Image by Oliver Jeffers via thisisnthappiness.com It has been a year that left even satirists out of breath as they chased the presidential twittercade. Over 2017, I’d occasionally turn away from that particular train wreck – and other disasters – and

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As an ad agency specializing in inclusion there are some holiday questions we often face. Whom do we wish? When? How? And, if we do it wrong, will we be trolled?  Allow us to be the star that guides you

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  Joss paper, aka Ghost Money aka Hell Banknotes are burned to honour ancestors during China's Ching Ming Festival. Co-written with April Barrett, with contributions from the Barrett and Welsh team As seasoned Canadians, we often take holidays like Halloween

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Jama Masjid, Old Delhi. Photo by Gavin Barrett Eid Mubarak to any of our friends, clients or vendors celebrating Eid ul Adha this weekend. And to those on their Hajj journeys, inward, outward, onward, we say khuda hafiz. Much of

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Our #MulticulturalMonday post yesterday took a look at NFL’s simple Kiss Cam twist to the Love Has No Labels diversity campaign. A true celebration of the beauty of love regardless of race, gender, disability, age or religion. 

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Kung hei fat choi to all our friends! May this year of the rooster bring you much to crow about.

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The Barrett and Welsh #MulticulturalMonday post for January 30, 2017, is a brief musical respite from the savagery swirling around us on the news and in social media.  Think of it as a much-needed harmonic counterpoint to the cacophony of hatred: the world’s

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Image from http://thisisnthappiness.stfi.re/?sf=zzprgrl#aa  My annual habit of sharing the links that led me to think most, love most, give most, pause most over the past year, has long been a replacement (for me) of less useful customs, such as the

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    The worst of times? On one level 2016 was a shocker. Rarely has so much prejudice, ignorance, misogyny, homophobia, bigotry and straight up xenophobia been displayed so proudly or delivered in such toxic concentrations. Rarely have so many

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This fascinating read in the Washington Post exposes the expectations the mainstream has of the multicultural and, equally, multicultural expectations of the mainstream when it comes to what a cultural brand should be named. Emperors and Empresses fence with Chopsticks

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Before Humans of New York became a social media sensation and before Bill Cunningham made street photography fashionable, Helen Levitt, inspired by a conversation with Cartier-Bresson and took to the streets of Manhattan equipped with a Leica. She slipped past

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