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Publication Launch 2024

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Unfortunately, our publication launch on November 14 is cancelled due to low registration. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and look forward to seeing you at our events next year. 

We are excited to offer our publication for purchase starting this Friday. Stay tuned for more information!  

You are invited to celebrate with us the release of our latest publication, hear about the editorial process and enjoy some refreshments! 

Join us!
November 14 from 5:30 to 7:30pm 
163QE Community Hub
163Queen Street East Toronto, ON M7A 2H6 
PWYC 

We are excited to invite you to the official launch of the second volume of An Anthology Visioning Canadian Cultural Transformation: Thoughts from Canadian Artists / Arts Workers / Organizations in the Arts Ecology. This publication builds on Volume 1 and continues the conversation on the need for sectoral change centering the voice of IBPOC visionaries for the Arts sector’s future. Featured articles (previously published / written) will complement articles from invited contributors from all performing arts and visual arts disciplines, digital / media arts and arts administration. View the table of contents and introduction here.

CultureBrew.Art: a Canada-wide IBPOC artists searchable database

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We’re delighted to partner with Vancouver-based arts company, Visceral Visions, to spread the word about their fantastic initiative, CultureBrew.Art (CBA). A digital platform created by racialized artists for IBPOC artists, CBA features a Canada-wide searchable database of Indigenous and racialized artists working in every artistic discipline: literary, media, performing, and visual arts.

As a CBA member, your profile will be visible to exciting engagers from across disciplines across the country! By subscribing to CBA, these engagers have shown a commitment to hiring BIPOC artists for their projects, events, and artistic collaborations, and they post opportunities on CBA to find artists just like you. Additionally, CBA’s private and secure message system allows Engagers to contact you directly, as well as for CBA members to connect with each other.

Check out the benefits of becoming an artist member, and if the one-time membership fee of $25 is a barrier for you, CBA offers bursaries through the Jean Yoon Bursary Fund!

Sign up today!

Outreach for Grassroots Arts Organizers is on June 4

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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.

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

Register on Eventbrite today!


Outreach for Grassroots Arts Organizers: Finding Resourceful Ways to Reach Participants workshop | June 4, 2024 at 12:15 pm via Zoom

This workshop will address actionable steps and techniques for often resource-strapped IBPOC organizers to identify and build relationships with groups and media that share their audiences. 

As a case study, Pam Lau will use the past 3 years of data running outreach for their community arts program Ideas From I:

  • Nearly doubled the number of applicants from previous years, from 65 in 2022 to 118 in 2023 in a 2-week application period
  • +801% accounts reached, +1782% accounts engaged and +17.5% follower growth in a 3-week period of announcing and talking about the program
  • Got platforms with up to 272k reach to share our call for applicants
  • Got articles written about us in RepresentAsian Project, A Photo Editor, Women of Influence
  • Ad spend: $35. The rest was organic and word-of-mouth

Techniques discussed will include:

  • Building rapport with your network year-round so when it’s time to share your call for applications they’ll happily oblige
  • Outlining a strategy for targeting existing communities and groups that your potential applicants frequent
  • Putting together a press kit and pitching earned media press coverage for your program to establish trust
  • Structuring the copy of your marketing materials to make it easy to understand what your program is and who is it for
  • Using testimonials and past participants’ work to validate the effectiveness and impact of your program
  • Reducing the overwhelm of the application form and making it more seamless for people to apply

Bio: 

Pam Lau is an independent photographer and edua photo of a women in a red shirt cator. Ambassador for Canon Canada and Curatorial Advisory Board Member for PhotoED Magazine. She is a recipient of the Applied Arts Young Blood Photography Award and was named a photographer to watch in a 500px spotlight on Asian Heritage Month.  

Frustrated with a culture of gatekeeping and lack of transparency, Pam co-founded Ecru; a grassroots educational initiative for those who face financial, cultural and institutional barriers to entering creative industries. From 2021-2023, Pam has co-facilitated ‘Ideas From I’; a free film and photography program for pan-Asian youth funded by ArtReach via Toronto Arts Council and the City of Toronto.