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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!
Alleah Erica Clarke is a Business Strategist and Development Coach who founded AJ Cultured, a rapidly growing organisation that provides a wide range of services for small business owners. She is a business developer that holds a portfolio of companies including Culturnique, a full-service and digital design firm, and Alcreance, a bookkeeping and accounting firm. Having been a solopreneur herself, she understands the responsibilities and struggles of solopreneurs that strive to see their visions through. AJ Cultured and its sister companies allow Alleah Erica to guide solopreneurs to where they want to be, help propel their organisations to higher heights and newer sights, hold businesses accountable for their growth, and ultimately influence change. Alleah intends to create a powerhouse of small business development assets and organisations, becoming a facilitator and agent of change in business, culture, art, and community.
Nicole “Nico” Taylor (she/her) is a performance and digital artist, curator, and scholar with a Master of Arts from Concordia University. She is also the co-founder and co-lead of Oddside Arts, a not-for-profit cultural arts organization that merges art, technology and wellness. Through her work at Oddside Arts, she has contributed to the creation and curation of exhibitions, public art projects, STEAM programming for youth, and cultural events centering Afro Diasporic communities.
Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario (CPAMO) 
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