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
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?
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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