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Panels, Workshops & Performances: View the Full Schedule for the Gathering Divergence Spring 2026

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 The Gathering Divergence Multi-Arts Festival & Conference Spring 2026

May 12, 14 and 15, 2026

Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Centre

877 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M4W 3M2

This three-day hybrid festival and conference centers Indigenous, Black, racialized, Deaf, disabled, Mad, women, and other historically marginalized artists and arts communities.

Featuring performances, literary readings, visual arts exhibitions, panels, workshops, and creative investigations across diverse artistic practices, Gathering Divergence is grounded in cross-sectoral understandings of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Pluralism (EDIP). The festival explores transformative change in the arts through critical reflection, collaboration, and visionary practice.

Panels

  • Building a Diverse Canadian Cultural Arts Management Ecology
  • Access Panel: Strategies for Increasing Access in the Arts in partnership with Tangled Arts – UPDATE: We regret to inform attendees that, due to unforeseen circumstances, our Strategies for Increasing Access in the Arts panel has been cancelled.
  • Can Your Work Tour? Building an IBPOC Touring Network and Supporting Artists to be Tour Ready
  • From EDI to What? The Changing Landscape of Equity and Inclusion in the Arts
  • Steelpan – The Versityle Musical Instrument!

Workshops: 

  • Worldbuilding The Collective Dream
  • A Time Was Had!: Navigating the Urgency and Impact of Black Out Nights

Artist performances: Deborah Dinshaw, Ana Luísa Ramos, Nekeisha Garrick / Uche, charles c smith, Nathaniel Hanula-James, Juan Jaramillo, Prathyusha Dwibhashi, Victoria Miller, Yukiko Tsutsui, Donné Roberts, and Vismaya Sreekumar.

Plus:

  • Key note by Katelyn Brennan
  • Key note by Pamela Sugiman
  • Land Acknowledgment by Katelyn Brennan

Visual Arts exhibition featuring work by Anupa Khemadasa, Kelita Braithwaite, Sara Oveissi, and Yafang Shi (with contributions by EMILIA-AMALIA and Chinese Feminism Toronto).

More details coming soon!

View the Schedule

 

Join us online or in person

 

🎟 Tickets: $20 General | $15 Artist / Arts Worker / Accessibility

If ticket prices are a barrier to attending, please email info@cpamo.org to request a complimentary ticket.

Accessibility: 

Online:  Otter closed captions will be available. ASL will be provided for the  Access Panel: Strategies for Increasing Access in the Arts panel. 

In person: the Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Centre: all spaces are accessible to most; many are barrier-free. For more information: https://jackmanperformance.ca/how-to-find-us/

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

Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario (CPAMO) is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, the City of Toronto, and the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration.

Register today for our upcoming panels!

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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).

Geared towards meaningful conversations, professional development, sharing strategies, it encourages divergence across arts practices and collaboration. This year’s theme for Gathering Divergence Multi-Arts Festival & Conference SPRING 2025 | Now and for the Future: Steps Towards Dismantling Inequities in the Arts. 

Upcoming Panels:

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

Plus! Keynote speakers, workshops, exhibition and performances by Ana Luísa, Camille Fontaine, Bakari I. Lindsay, Robert Ball and more!

Register today!

 

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

CPAMO is supported by the Canadian Heritage, Ontario Arts Council, Canadian Arts Presentation Fund, Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council, English Testing Canada, Barrett and Welsh, Sun Life and LeSage Arts Management.

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Save the date: The Gathering Divergence is May 21-23, 2025

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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).


Geared towards meaningful conversations, professional development, sharing strategies, it encourages divergence across arts practices and collaboration. This year’s theme for Gathering Divergence Multi-Arts Festival & Conference SPRING 2025 | Now and for the Future: Steps Towards Dismantling Inequities in the Arts

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!