Rethinking The Structures : a Discussion on Organizational Change
Panel in English
Wednesday February 24, 2021 1:00 PM
On Zoom - registration required
Closed-captioning will be provided
Join us for this two-part panel - one in English, one in French - bringing together art and community organizations across Canada for a discussion on organizational change. What might it mean for an organization to work with an intersectional anti-oppressive framework? How does the not-for-profit structure reinforce institutional oppression, and how can we disrupt it? What barriers does the myth of apoliticality present? These panels aim to foster dialogue among art organizations in an effort to share failures, successes, and empower organizations to take charge of their own change.
The panel in French will bring together Laurent Maurice Lafontant (Fondation Massimadi) and Yarijey (Nigra Iuventa). More details to follow on the date and time. Stay tuned!
This event is organized in collaboration with articule’s Development Committee.
Max Ferguson, Tangled Art + Disability
Max (formerly Sarah) Ferguson has been a practicing artist since 1996 and received his BFA from the University of Regina in 2001. He graduated with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies (Visual Art and Women’s and Gender Studies) in 2017 and is currently pursuing his PhD in Art and Women’s and Gender Studies at York University. His artistic explorations involve disability studies, gender, neurodivergent and trans-queer sexualities, activism, the body, surrealism, and psychoanalysis. Max has worked with a variety of media, ranging from computer-based works and readymades, to paintstick, graphite, and digital collage. Currently, his work revolves around hybridized notions of photography, sculpture, sound, installation and performance, involving the psyche, the body, activism, queer theory, and mental health. He is also a published poet and writer, holds a degree in journalism, and has worked as a political, legal, military and arts writer in four different provinces over the past decade.
Tangled Art + Disability (Toronto) is boldly redefining how the world experiences art and those who create it. They are a not for profit art + disability organization dedicated to connecting professional and emerging artists, the arts community and a diverse public through creative passion and artistic excellence. Their mandate is to support Deaf, Mad and disability-identified artists, to cultivate Deaf, Mad and disability arts in Canada, and to enhance access to the arts for artists and audiences of all abilities. https://tangledarts.org/
Emil Briones, COCo
Emil is a researcher, musician, writer, and educator based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Their practice is informed by their background in orchestral and chamber music performance, community care, anti-oppression research, and institutional equity work. Emil currently works at COCo as Anti-Oppression Researcher and Organizational Health Consultant where much of their focus is on anti-racism education, conflict resolution, and change management.
The Centre for Community Organizations (COCo)’s mission is to help build a more socially just world by supporting the health and well-being of community organizations in Québec. Through supporting organizational development, offering training, disseminating resources, producing research, and by strengthening links between nonprofit organizations, COCo helps to promote the vitality of the community sector in the province. https://coco-net.org/
Alexander Dirksen, CKX
Alexander is the Director of Programs + Community Accountability, where he oversees core programming and ensures all CKX programming remains responsive and accountable to community voices. Outside of his work with CKX, he serves as the Co-Vice Chair of the City of Vancouver’s Urban Indigenous Peoples’ Advisory Committee, on the board of Apathy is Boring, and as a member of the Vancouver Foundation’s Partnerships Advisory Committee. He is a proud member of Métis Nation BC, and lives as an uninvited guest on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓wətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Community Knowledge Exchange (CKX) is committed to the pursuit of just futures: transformative and healing change that disrupts and reimagines entrenched paradigms and approaches. We believe this is achieved through the amplification of the vision and leadership of 2SLGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities, whose generational leadership is foundational to bringing these just futures into being. As an organization we seek to be in service to this work by cultivating more equitable spaces for reflection, relationship and action, and by increasing access to the necessary resources and supports for leaders to thrive in their social change and community-building work. https://www.ckx.org/