CPAMO Hosts Online Gathering on Impacts of COVID-19 on Arts Administration

The following is excerpted from a communication issued by Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario (CPAMO) 

Understanding precarity is embedded in the reality of working / creating in the Arts. However, COVID-19 as a global pandemic has shifted how organizations should and can plan for precarity especially as Arts Administrators.  What are some of the impacts of the pandemic on the Arts and also on Arts Administration? What are some of the lessons we are learning about the sector? “Navigating Precarity and the Impact of COVID-19 on Arts Administration” will take place June 11, 2020 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. PST, via Zoom.

Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario (CPAMO) hopes to offer further space for networking with artists and organizations, asking the same questions about IBPOC visibility, inclusion and their intersections with artistic/organizational practices while speaking to many perspectives in the arts and the changing demographics of audiences and participation within the Arts sector.

The Gathering: Online will invite artists and organizations to speak about their work and the viewers to engage with the artists while having a forum for asking questions in real time. CPAMO is committed to being a supportive convenor of arts practitioners from the Indigenous, racialized, deaf, disabled and mad, women and other historically-marginalized artists and communities. 

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-gathering-online-tickets-105192573820

Panelists: 
Ben Donoghue, Director - Media Arts Net­work of Ontario
Camille Georgeson-Usher, Executive Director - Aboriginal Curatorial Collective 
Jason Samilski, Managing Director - CARFAC Ontario 
Kehinde Bah, Project Manager, Precarity in the Arts - WorkinCulture
Alica Hall, Executive Director - Nia Centre for the Arts
Kristina Lemieux, Executive Director - Generator
Brenda Leadlay, Executive Director - BC Alliance for Arts + Culture 
Alida Esmail, Research Officer - Diversité Artistique Montréal 
Martha Rans, Founder and Legal Director - Pacific Legal Education and Outreach Society