About the Board of Directors

The Board is composed of 7 elected members. The role of the Board of Directors is to take administrative and creative initiative in providing direction on the activities and functioning of articule. This involves attending Board meetings and general assemblies, and keeping oneself informed of the centre's status on several levels: its programming and financial situations, its standing within the various collectives and groups it participates in, and its standing vis à vis funding organizations. As well, Board members sit on at least one of the centre’s committees, and attend openings, artist talks, and other articule activities based on their interests. The Board is delegated by the general membership to establish policies. It must, therefore, represent the interests of the general membership.

How to vote or nominate an active member to the Board of Directors

Voting will take place in person at articule and online (via Zoom) during our Summer General Assembly on Saturday, August 23, 2024, from 2 - 4 PM. You must register in advance.

This year, we are opening nominations to all active members of articule (view list on the right). There are four available seats. Anyone wishing to nominate an active member of articule can contact us directly at rh-hr@articule.org.

Reminder: To be nominated or to nominate a candidate, you will need to pay your $1 membership fee by sending 1$ to administration@articule.org via Interac etransfer. Be sure to do so before the AGA, to be eligible to vote. 

As per our bylaws, each articule committee was invited to submit at least one question, in writing, to the election candidates. The goal is to help articule members cast their votes at our Board of Directors elections on Saturday, August 23, 2024, from 2 - 4 PM. Candidates have the option of answering one question per committee.

Questions

Q. Members’ Committee: How can we further interaction and discussion between members, artists and anyone who makes up the articule community?

Q. Fabulous Committee:

• What is your understanding of anti-oppression, and how do you see the board’s role in articule’s endeavour to be an anti-oppressive organization?

• Could you discuss your approaches to harm prevention, justice, and accountability as care?

Q. Writer’s Club: How do you think about making decisions with and on behalf of an organization that you are not implicated in on a day-to-day, operations level?

Q. Programming Committees:

• How can we have a programming selection process that respects our basis of unity? More specifically, we invite you to comment on principles such as anonymous submissions, representativeness quotas or more generally on an anti-oppressive approach to programming.

• How do you see our virtual platforms contributing to our commitment and expansion of our mandate and basis of unity?

Q. Rainbow Committee: articule is moving, which means change. Where do you see opportunities to shape positive change through this move? Is there any current, positive aspect of articule that could be threatened or sidelined by the new location? If so, what is this?

Q. Fundraising Committee: Our structure has always had a lot of resistance and distrust for anything related to philanthropy and fundraising, what strategies do you have to make articule and its members interested in these issues in order to improve in the long term our self-funding intake?

Q. Bonus: How can we better connect all of articule’s committees so that our meetings follow a more collective trajectory outside of General Assemblies (GAs)? In other words, how can we feel like we are moving more as a collective than as individual committees outside of GAs?

Nominees

• Maral Farrokh

Eligible and Active Members

• Maral Farrokh