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The Gathering Divergence Spring 2024’s schedule is available!

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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.

View the schedule here!

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.

Register today!

Upcoming panels on June 4!

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On an abstract blue and white background, on the left CPAMO's logo and on the right a photo of a workshop with 7 people sitting on chairs in a circle.

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!


Upcoming Panels on June 4 via Zoom:


Understanding Ontario Not-For Profit Act and IBPOC Organizations @ 10:15 am

Ontario’s Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) replaced Ontario’s Corporations Act on October 19, 2021. Nonprofits have until October 19, 2024 to comply with ONCA. The session will look at the process for making sure Arts Organizations comply and unearth some of the challenges that the process and new legislation will have for arts organizations. The Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA) was proclaimed on October 19, 2021. To learn more about what you might need to change, visit Nonprofit Law Ontario. It may affect your nonprofit in many important ways, such as: The requirement to get an audit, members’ rights to make proposals and call members’ meetings, the number of directors. While existing nonprofits must change their articles or letters patent to comply with ONCA, they are not required to pass new bylaws. However, you may need to update your bylaws so that your nonprofit have a set of bylaws that reflect the guidelines of ONCA that is applicable to your nonprofit.

Addressing and Visioning Beyond Precarity for the Arts @ 1:30 pm

With limited to no increases in public funding for the arts combined with the ever-increasing growth of IBPOC artists/arts organizations, how will arts organizations and arts service organizations survive/thrive? There is a need to realign core values with shifts and needs within the Arts sector. What levels of accountability are needed to support the growth of thriving artists and organizations?

Save the date: The Gathering Divergence Spring 2024

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SAVE THE DATE 

The Gathering Divergence
Multi-Arts Festival & Conference Spring 2024

Rescheduled for early June, 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.

Geared towards meaningful conversations, professional development, sharing strategies, it encourages divergence across arts practices and collaboration. This year’s theme for The Gathering Divergence Multi-Arts Festival & Conference SPRING 2024 | Visioning Canada’s IBPOC Artistic Transformation: Navigating Beyond Precarity Towards Stability.

We facilitate
– an interactive space where arts organizations artists and attendees share
– dedicated to advancing, visual arts and performing arts , while advocating for pluralism in the arts
– dialogue on common interests, experienced and strategies towards a better more equitable and inclusive arts sector.

We believe
Systemic change is more effectively achieved through collective, creative action, and seeks to:
– create, support and learn through open-source resources and toolkits
– advance strategies to understand how we are influenced by issues of equity and digital technology in and out of
– amplify the artistic practices and administration of IBPOC individuals

We aspire?
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.

Stay tuned for the full schedule and registration in the upcoming weeks!