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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!

 

Outreach for Grassroots Arts Organizers is on June 4

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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.

Tickets: General Admission: $15 | Accessibility Pricing: $5

Register on Eventbrite today!


Outreach for Grassroots Arts Organizers: Finding Resourceful Ways to Reach Participants workshop | June 4, 2024 at 12:15 pm via Zoom

This workshop will address actionable steps and techniques for often resource-strapped IBPOC organizers to identify and build relationships with groups and media that share their audiences. 

As a case study, Pam Lau will use the past 3 years of data running outreach for their community arts program Ideas From I:

  • Nearly doubled the number of applicants from previous years, from 65 in 2022 to 118 in 2023 in a 2-week application period
  • +801% accounts reached, +1782% accounts engaged and +17.5% follower growth in a 3-week period of announcing and talking about the program
  • Got platforms with up to 272k reach to share our call for applicants
  • Got articles written about us in RepresentAsian Project, A Photo Editor, Women of Influence
  • Ad spend: $35. The rest was organic and word-of-mouth

Techniques discussed will include:

  • Building rapport with your network year-round so when it’s time to share your call for applications they’ll happily oblige
  • Outlining a strategy for targeting existing communities and groups that your potential applicants frequent
  • Putting together a press kit and pitching earned media press coverage for your program to establish trust
  • Structuring the copy of your marketing materials to make it easy to understand what your program is and who is it for
  • Using testimonials and past participants’ work to validate the effectiveness and impact of your program
  • Reducing the overwhelm of the application form and making it more seamless for people to apply

Bio: 

Pam Lau is an independent photographer and edua photo of a women in a red shirt cator. Ambassador for Canon Canada and Curatorial Advisory Board Member for PhotoED Magazine. She is a recipient of the Applied Arts Young Blood Photography Award and was named a photographer to watch in a 500px spotlight on Asian Heritage Month.  

Frustrated with a culture of gatekeeping and lack of transparency, Pam co-founded Ecru; a grassroots educational initiative for those who face financial, cultural and institutional barriers to entering creative industries. From 2021-2023, Pam has co-facilitated ‘Ideas From I’; a free film and photography program for pan-Asian youth funded by ArtReach via Toronto Arts Council and the City of Toronto.

 

 

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!