In collaboration with ELAN
articule is thrilled to announce our collaboration with ELAN Québec for our joint Québec Relations webinar!
Join us on May 26th from 5 to 7 PM as our representatives discuss their own firsthand experience in implementing non-hierarchical structures within the organization. During this session, presenters will discuss the multi-year development of the center’s anti-oppressive practices and describe how the non-hierarchical, horizontal structure functions for our board, staff and members. They will also share perspectives from members who have participated in the development and implementation of these structures.
Panelists from left to right: Sophie Le-Phat Ho, Samuel Garrigo-Meza, Libby Shea and fernando belote.
Sophie Le-Phat Ho is a cultural organizer, facilitator and editor who currently works as a consultant in organizational health processes and conflict mediation. Back in the days, she completed degrees in environmental studies, medical anthropology and archival science. For more than 15 years, her work has been about experimenting with tactics for fostering intersectional solidarities through anti-racist feminist organizing, publishing, and curating, especially in the artist-run world. With a multidisciplinary background managing various projects in the grassroots, community, non-profit, academic, public as well as private sectors, she tends to think about social change through an organizational and interpersonal lens. As the cofounder of the transdisciplinary Artivistic collective, and in all of her different leadership roles, she aims to facilitate the emergence of a critical and creative culture rooted in social justice. Sophie is second-generation Vietnamese and grew up in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyaang / Montreal and its suburbs. She was Outreach Coordinator at articule from 2013 to 2017 and co-organized, among others, three editions of Montreal Monochrome with the Fabulous Committee, which also authored articule’s Basis of Unity during that period.
Samuel Garrigo Meza is an artist, writer, and gallery technician. He has been involved with articule for 12 years, participating as board member, president, original member of the Fabulous Committee, and now employee.
Based in Montréal, Libby Shea is an independent arts administrator working with artists and arts organizations in Québec and Ontario. Since 2007, she has played an active role in artist-run centers in Montréal, organizing arts festivals, collaborating with artists and contributing to art projects. With a background in not-for-profit governance and organizational development, she has been instrumental in implementing care and equity agendas in the organizations with which she has worked.
fernando belote is a bixa/queer and multidisciplinary artist coming from a context of cultural diversity. Fern's artistic practice is strongly expressed through their life experiences as a neurodiscordant individual and survivor of domestic violence. Fern's art is a reaction to the massifying and dehumanizing power of capitalism and aims to reframe everyday objects towards a contra-colonial and anti-fascist struggle. Fern is currently involved in collaborative research on the P(B)ajubá, a subversive, heavily codified dialect spoken among dissidents who are geographically located in the stolen territory known as Brazil. In Tio'tia:ke, fern has just been elected a member of the Board of Directors at the newest local artist-run center: the DC – Art Indisciplinaire, which is dedicated to the self-management of capacity and diversity. Witness of significant changes in the local art scene and a member of Articule since a long time, fern contributed to the discussions that have been brought to Fabulous Committee at Articule.
The English-Language Arts Network (ELAN) is a not-for-profit organization that connects, supports, and creates opportunities for Quebec’s English-speaking artists and arts communities. ELAN members are individuals and organizations from a wide array of artistic disciplines, cultural and geographic backgrounds, and linguistic and cultural communities. Together this network reflects an evolving Québec identity and celebrates the province’s cultural, artistic, and social diversity.
