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There has been much talk about community development and community engagement in the arts, one of the central features of CPAMO’s mandate and activities and a key part of the CPAMO publication "Pluralism in the Arts in Canada: A Change Is Gonna Come". To continue this conversation, this event will underline and reinforce work taking place in communities across Ontario and highlight what we’ve learned and what we need to do to build on these experiences. As well, this session will continue CPAMO’s shared educational, networking and collaborative activities between presenters, Aboriginal and ethno-racial artists, and interested individuals from these communities.
As most of you know, when CPAMO convenes such gatherings we encourage learning that leads to action and this forum is no different. In fact, it is a critical moment to discuss how best to support these arrangements and to examine resources that can be shared between artists, presenters and communities, and what each of these sectors needs to effectively engage in this enterprise.
Location: CPAMO will host this session at the studio space of the Collective of Black Artists (COBA), one of CPAMO’s most active members.
The forum will be structured as follows:
1) Keynote Address
Keynote Address will be presented by Sandra Laronde (Founder and Artistic Director of Red Sky Performance) who will discuss Red Sky’s ‘Deep Waters’ project which looks at the development of curatorial and presenting capacities in an Aboriginal community.
2)Panel
-Jini Stolk (formerly of Creative Trust/Working Capital for the Arts) who will discuss the shared platform that Creative Trust provided and how such a structure might be needed/established to support Aboriginal and ethno-racial artists and arts organizations; - Nadia Caidi (Professor Information Management/U. of T.) who will discuss how new communities gain access to information and provide some insights as to what the arts communities might learn and need to do to engage these communities.
-Beatriz Pisano (Artistic director Aluna Theatre) who will share her learnings from her recent learnings from a conference she attended in south america and the explorations she embarks upon in her company.
-Robert Daly (Associate Producer Arts and Culture Pan Am Games 2015) who will share the efforts being made by the Pan Am Games to engage with local communities in preparation for the cultural activities that will take place alongside the Pan Am Games in 2015.
The session will then close with some examples from CPAMO’s book “Pluralism in the Arts in Canada: A Change is Gonna Come" and next steps we can take as a community to build on the collaborative work CPAMO has been engaged in with Community Cultural Impresarios and how this is unfolding to involve other arts services organizations and their constituencies.
Cost: $15
Registration: http://community-engagement.eventbrite.ca
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