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The Gathering Divergence: Multi-Arts Festival Spring 2025 is next week!

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The Gathering Divergence
Multi-Arts Festival & Conference Spring 2025
Now and for the Future: Steps Towards Dismantling Inequities in the Arts

May 21-23, 2025
Online and at East End Arts (Toronto, ON)

The Gathering Divergence Interdisciplinary Festival & Conference 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. Join us online on May 21 and May 22-23 in-person at East End Arts (St. Matthew’s Clubhouse, 450 Broadview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4K 2N3).

Upcoming Panels:

  • Who’s Talking About Advocacy in the Arts?: It’s Continued Importance (in partnership with Canadian Arts Coalition) | Wed. May 21 at 10:30 am via Zoom 
  • Wellness for IBPOC Artists and Arts Organizations in a Sector of Continued Inequities | Thu. May 22 at 10:30 am | East End Arts and via Zoom 
  • Stories / Strategies to Address Aging as an IBPOC Artist: What do we need to Consider? |  Thu. May 22 at 1:30 pm | East End Arts and via Zoom 
  • Now and for the Future of the Arts Sector: Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity Towards Pluralism (EDIP) in Action | Fri. May 23 at 10:30 am | East End Arts and via Zoom 
  • Advancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: A Reunion of CPAMOPOC Organizations | Fri. May 23 at 1:30 pm East End Arts and via Zoom 

Upcoming Workshops:

  • Weaving Workshop facilitate by Ebru Winegard | Thu. May 22 at 12:15 pm
  • Moving Together/Arriving Together Toolkit by Diane Roberts | Fri. May 23 at 11:45 am

Featured Artists:

  • May 21: Laurie Dumont-Bal, Reequal Smith, Ana Luísa Ramos & Eric Taylor Escudero, and Camille Fontaine
  • May 22: Neena Jayarajan, Olga Barrios, and BaKari Lindsay
  • May 23: Patrick Walters and Robert Ball
Register today!

Tickets are $15 general admission $ $5 accessibility pricing.

Accessibility:

May 21-23 online via Zoom: Otter closed captioning will be provided.

May 22 and 23: We aim to host a fragrance-free event. Please do not wear perfume, cologne, or other scented products.

May 22 and 23 will take place in-person at East End Arts at St. Matthew’s Clubhouse, a fully-accessible venue with accessible washrooms. If you have specific accessibility needs please contact us.

North York Arts is searching for their next Executive Director

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We’d like to share an exciting opportunity with you on behalf of our friends at North York Arts. North York Arts is searching for their next Executive Director. This is a full-time position that is set to start in mid-late July 2021. 

North York Arts’ Executive Director reports to the Board of Directors and is responsible for the operations, development and implementation of North York Arts’ programs, events and services to the community. 

Click here for the full job description: https://www.northyorkarts.org/2021/04/job-posting-executive-director/

Applications are being accepted until May 24.

North York Arts is strongly committed to equity and inclusion within the community and especially encourages applications from all qualified candidates including Indigenous, Black, Persons of Colour, Persons with Disabilities, and 2SLGBTQIAP community members.

North York Arts is committed to providing accommodations throughout the recruitment process. If you require accommodations, please notify North York Arts and they will work with you to meet your needs.

Please feel free to share this opportunity with individuals who you think would be a good fit.

For more information about the role – please contact board.member@northyorkarts.org

Call for Submission: The Gathering Spring 2021

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Gathering Divergence Multi-Arts
Festival & Conference Spring 2021

Call for Submissions

Gathering Divergence Multi-Arts Festival & Conference Spring has been a powerful, positive and supportive convening of arts practitioners geared towards sharing strategies in the engagement of indigenous, racialized, deaf, disabled and mad, women and other historically – marginalized artists and communities. This year, Gathering Divergence Multi-Arts Festival & Conference Spring 2021 | What Have We Learnt: Approaches, Lessons and Future Strategies towards Anti Black Racism, Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Digital Support in the Arts will explore frameworks for understanding the potential of working with digital technologies in IBPOC arts practices.

Held over three days, the festival and conference will feature panel discussions, showcase performances, workshops and networking opportunities for arts organizations, artists and arts sector professionals asking the same questions about anti-black racism in the arts, digital technology, its intersections with one’s artistic / organizational practices all grounded within the EDIP (Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity towards Pluralism). The sessions will be aimed at investigating systemic challenges, providing professional development while building organizational and artistic capacity. We aspire to enlivening the many ways in which the arts will support cultural impact, civic engagement and deeper understanding of emerging digital frameworks.

What is the overall concept? 
Gathering  Divergence Multi – Arts Festival and Conference offers an interactive space where arts organizations, artists and attendees dedicated to advancing performance, advocacy and pluralism in the arts can share, dialogue on common interests, purposes and strategies towards a better more equitable and inclusive arts sector.
 
Why are we doing it?
We believe systemic change is more effectively achieved through collective, creative action, and seek to create, support and learn through open-source resources, toolkits and strategies to understand how we are influenced, relate to anti-black racism and digital technology in and out of our artistic practices and administrations.
 
What we hope to achieve?
We hope that everyone arrives at a better understanding of the many ways in which we support, create from and within the Arts sector as indigenous / ethno-racially identified artists with a pluralist lens.

Deadline: March 31st, 2021
 
When and where is the festival and conference?
May 19-21, 2021 via Zoom  
 
What we offer:
Opportunity to display/showcase your work to a wide range of artists/ audience, publicity, copy of the performance. (No more than 15 minutes in length)

Compensation Range:

  • Dance / Theatre  / Music Honorariums $400 – $600 
  • Literary Readings up to $200
  • Visual Artists will be based on CARFAC Standards 

Required for consideration:
– Brief explanation of how your proposed work relates to ONE OR BOTH of the Conference’s Themes:   

  • IBPOC Experiences Approaches, Lessons and Future Strategies 
  • Workshops specific to the needs of the IBPOC Artists / Arts  Organizations and the Festival / Conference’s theme
  • Digital Applications, Support and Thinking 

– Works where contributors / artists or those self identify as IBPOC
– Works created by Black / IPOC artists and Organizations
– Artist / Organization Website URL, Social Media Info, Biography (150 words)
– Headshot / Company Image 300 dpi
– Links to previous work(s) or work proposed.
 
Visual Arts submissions MUST include:

  • Set up requirements 
  • Estimated time for set up and striking of work
  • Whether assistance is needed or included

Selection Process: 

Administered by a Selection Committee (CPAMO Board member(s), Program Manager, Executive Director, and Pluralism in Organizational Change (CPAMOPOC) members. The committee will consider the following:

  1. Artistic Merit and with overall connection to CPAMO’s mandate and objectives
  2. The Focus on the Gathering’s themes 
  3. Viability (overall programming cost, # of artists proposed, range / breath / depth of the submission)

What should I put in the submission subject line?

“Submission: The Gathering Divergence Festival Spring 2021″
 
Please make sure to also include a link to your folder with the required support material. 

An important notice: CPAMO operates in a Cloud-based platform. Documents MUST be submitted via (Google Drive, Box, One Drive, Dropbox etc.)
 
Where to send your submission?
programming@cpamo.org 
 

Successful applicants will be notified Friday, April 23rd, 2021