The Gathering Divergence
Multi-Arts Festival & Conference Spring 2024

June 4, 2024: Online
June 6-7, 2024: Nia Centre for the Arts & Online

The Gathering Divergence Interdisciplinary Festival & Conference (GDMAF/C) is a festival and conference with a specific focus on Indigenous, racialized, deaf, disabled and mad, women and other historically – marginalized arts communities. Held over 3 days, GDMAF/C features performances, literary readings, visual arts exhibition, panels, workshops and creative investigations from diverse practices. Held at Nia Centre for the Arts – Toronto’s newest multidisciplinary Arts centre.

Registration: General Admission: $15 | Accessibility Pricing: $5

Featured keynote:

• Theresa Garrow
• Alica Hall

Featured Panels and Workshops:

• Understanding Ontario Not-For Profit Act and IBPOC Organizations
• Outreach for Grassroots Arts Organisers: Finding Resourceful Ways to Reach Participants
• Addressing and Visioning Beyond Precarity for the Arts
• Impact of Technology on the Practice of the Arts
• Building Partnerships and Strategizing Desired Outcomes
• Public Imagination Network Imagining in Public – a creative approach to challenging questions
• Art at the Heart: Sharing Strategies for an Equitable New Normal

Featured Artists:
Jing Xia, Thushara Premarajan, Sandeep Swaminathan, Theresa Garrow, Olga Barris,Therese Estacion, Zoe Marin, Abigail Whitney, Jesse Ryan, Maria Christina Cruz, Coco Murray and Helena Elueme.