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.
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 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.
APPLY NOW! Deadline: March 29, 2024
When is the festival and conference?
Week of May 13 – 17, 2024
Location: Online / In-Person events
Nia Centre for the Arts 524 Oakwood Ave, Toronto, ON M6E 2X1
What we offer:
Opportunity to display / showcase / facilitate a workshop or performance ( performances should be No more than fifteen minutes in length)
Required for consideration:
– Explanation of how your proposed work relates to the Conference’s Themes:
a) Broadening capacities for IBPOC Arts makers
b) Implementing creative process for the future
c) Advancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusive Learning
d) Critically understanding IBPOC Artists & Organizations and their work
– Works where contributors / artists or those self identify as IBPOC
– Works created by IBPOC artists and Organizations
– Artist / Organization Website URL, Social Media Info, Biography (150 words)
– Headshot / Company Image / Bio Image 300 dpi
– Links to previous work(s) or work proposed.
For Performances or Workshop Proposals include:
– Set up and installation requirements
– Estimated time for set up and striking
– Whether assistance is needed or included
– 300 words explanation on how your work applies to the CPAMO Call for Submissions
Compensation range varies:
– Dance / Theatre / Music Honorariums between $1000 – $2000
(based on the number of artists)
– Literary Readings between $500 – $700
– Workshops $350 (1 hour maximum)
Selection Process:
Administered by a Selection Committee (CPAMO Board member(s), Curator of Programming, Convenor, and Pluralism in Organizational Change (CPAMOPOC) members.
Submission Link:
https://forms.gle/LRaZrvjqrfNNtvSW7
Please note: Please make sure all submitted links are functional and include accessible links to a headshot and your support materials.
Personal links from your computer / laptop should not be sent. Please upload all required
Questions?:
Contact: Kevin A. Ormsby programming@cpamo.org
Applicants will be notified by April 14, 2024
Rhodnie Désir has created about fifteen choreographic works. Her flagship piece BOW’T TRAIL Retrospek and her pioneering memoir journey BOW ‘T TRAIL have earned her two awards from the Prix de la danse de Montréal (2020): The Prix Envol and the highly coveted Grand Prix de la danse.
Ruth Howard is an interdisciplinary artist and founding Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre + Arts: a company that makes art with, for and about people, and places. With Jumblies, Ruth has produced a series multi-year residencies in Toronto neighbourhoods, several cross-country tours, and many other collaborative community-engaged projects and productions. Ruth has also worked across Canada and in the UK as a theatre designer, taught universities, colleges and schools, mentored artists and organizations, and won awards and recognition for her work. Her recent multi-year project is and Grounds for Goodness, a suite of new works on the theme of ‘social goodness’.
Nova Bhattacharya is an award-winning dancer, choreographer and cultural leader based in Tkaronto. Bhattacharya crafts vivid images that invite the viewer on a journey of heart and mind. Integrating improvised movement and gesture, she invents a language that needs no translation. Dancing solos that are intimate and intense, creating mesmerizing ensemble works with dancers from a diversity of techniques, she reinterprets traditions through a diaspora lens to tell new stories with movement. In 2008 she founded Nova Dance, a space for celebrating the essential nature of art in our lives.
Hi! We are In-Kloo-Siv Voices – an LGBTQ+ friendly, anti-racist, body-liberation ensemble of singers and musicians from different walks of life brought together by a love of gospel and R&B music. Our goal is to provide a brave environment for music lovers and performers to collaborate, experiment with, and explore their craft, free of the harmful barriers produced by prejudice and discrimination. We welcome individuals of all non-religious or religious backgrounds, sexual orientations, genders, and belief systems to explore and create music in an inclusive, welcoming space.
Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario (CPAMO) 
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