CPAMO Newsletter 9

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Welcome to the ninth Cultural Pluralism in the Performing Arts Movement Ontario (CPPAMO)

newsletter. This is a regular digest that will introduce you to, and keep you updated on

CPPAMO’s initiatives, and act as a portal to relevant research in the field of pluralism in the arts,

innovative artists, and links to interesting talks about pluralism in the arts. The newsletter is

intended to be your go-to resource for information on cultural pluralism in the arts.

You have received this e-mail because you are a member of the CPPAMO listserv. Please let

others who share our professional and artistic interests know about this listserv and encourage

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NEWSLETTER CONTENTS

1) What is CPPAMO? 2) CPPAMO at CAPACOA3) Third Audience Building Workshop

4) Upcoming Events5) Who We Are6) Contact Us

What is CPPAMO?

Cultural Pluralism in Performing Arts Movement Ontario (CPPAMO) is a movement of Aboriginal

and ethno-racial artists working with presenters to empower the performing arts communities of

Ontario. CPPAMO seeks to open opportunities for Aboriginal and ethno-racial performers to

engage with presenters across Ontario and to enable presenters to develop constructive

relationships with Aboriginal and ethno-racial performers.

CPPAMO is supported by Aboriginal and ethno-racial artists who are involved in theatre, music,

dance and literary arts. They are members of CPPAMO’s Roundtable and include

representatives of Sampradaya Dance, Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Little Pear Garden Theatre

Collective, Centre for Indigenous Theatre, Kaha:wi Dance, Sparrow in the Room, b-current, why

not theatre, urban arts and backforward collective, Teyya Peya Productions, Culture Days,

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Canada Council Stand Firm members, Obsidian Theatre, the Collective of Black Artists,

CanAsian Dance, Native Earth Performing Arts, Diasporic Dialogues and others.

With the involvement of artists from these organizations, CPPAMO is working with Community

Cultural Impresarios (CCI) and its members to build their capacities, cultural competencies and

understanding of pluralism in performing arts so that CCI and its members engage performers

from these communities and, thereby, enable audiences across Ontario to access artistic

expressions from diverse communities on a regular basis.

CPPAMO gratefully acknowledges the funding support it has received for its activities from the

Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the

University of Toronto Scarborough Campus and the Ontario Ministry of Culture

CPPAMO at CAPACOA

In collaboration with CAPACOA, on Sunday, November 7, CPPAMO presented a program on

pluralism at the National Arts Centre. With a keynote address delivered by George Elliot Clarke

and performances by the Collective of Black Artists, Ipsita Nova Dance and Kaha:wi Dance

Theatre, the program gave evidence to the invaluable work of artists from diverse backgrounds.

Following welcoming by Warren Garrett, Executive Director of Community Cultural Impresarios,

and then greetings by charles c. smith, CPPAMO Project Lead, COBA performed a compellingduo to open the performances. Entitled “Djembefola”, and choreographed by BaKari Segun

Lindsay, with performers BaKari Segun Lindsay, N’dere Ade Nimon Headley-Lindsay and music

by Baba Toure and N’dere Ade Nimon Headley-Lindsay. As COBA states, “The Djembe is a

Malinke instrument. It is presently one of the most popular drums in North America. To be a

Djembefola is to embody the essence of this instrument. Not everyone who plays a Djembe is a

Djembefola, because it requires love, passion, and spiritual connection.”

Djembefola awakened the stage for George Elliot Clark’s keynote which opened doors to other

visions of Canada, particularly African descent and Aboriginal. He examined the legacy of ‘race’

in performing arts, whether on stage or in communities, and how this plays out in the arts today.

With poignant reference to current events, e.g., a Halloween contest win for costumes of a Klan

member bringing along in a lynch knot a ‘Black-faced’ White man and the burning of a cross on

the lawn of an inter-racial couple, Clark found moments to interject the salience of the story on

‘race’ as an integral part of the construction of Canada both in story and fact.

Further, based on his own experiences with his operas, Clarke shared stories with what was at

times a very intimate understanding of performing arts and the social values they both embed

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and construct, and how this is generally devoid of the experiences and voices of Aboriginal

peoples and peoples of colour while, at the same time, often weighing in against the expression

of these voices. In responding to a question from an audience member, Clarke closed his

comments acknowledging that there has been some change on the stages across Canada but

that there is so much further to go.

This striking presentation received a very warm and memorable closing as, after taking a few

questions, a number of Clarke’s poems were put to song by vocalist Pat Watson accompanied

by pianist George Bird.

Nova Bhattacharya, Ipsita Nova, then presented “A Calm Abiding”. At times epitomizing theenormity of silence and motionlessness, then calculated sculpture, and then again a frenzied

pace balanced by diverse musical accompaniment, Nova’s performance demonstrated quite

artfully a hybrid combination of classical bharatanatyam (South Asian classical) and

contemporary dance that is clearly in the vanguard of choreographic expression in Canadian

dance. This is why Nova has been acclaimed as one of Canada’s most captivating dance

artists. She has trained with some of bharatanatyam’s most esteemed teachers including

Menaka Thakkar, Kalanidhi Narayan and Kitappa Pillai. Her development in contemporary

dance has been informed by her ongoing work with Peggy Baker, Sasha Ivanochko and Louis

Laberge-Côté and in butoh by Yumiko Yoshioka and Denise Fujiwara. Described in The Globe

& Mail as possessing a style that is "bold and disturbingly direct"

Bhattacharya has a compelling and magnetic stage presence, with strong technique and

thoughtful characterizations, always eager to explore the scope for innovation within the

Bharatanatyam form and seeking to create works that utilize classical vocabulary in a

contemporary aesthetic. Her choreography has been characterized as "a contemporary

expression of the Bharatanatyam form … and more" (Vancouver Sun) and been commissioned

by the Canada Dance Festival, Cahoots Theatre Projects, Dusk Dances, Theatre Direct Canada

and Toronto Dance Theatre.Bhattacharya’s artistry is a reflection of her classical training and

present- day aesthetic, her work is formally rigorous and displays an eloquence that goes

beyond pure movement.

Interspersed between the performances, there were two workshops focusing on the relationship

between programming and audience development amongst Aboriginal and ethno-racial groups.

One workshop was led by Sandra Laronde of Red Sky Performance and the other had co-

panelists Shahin Sayadi, Artistic Director of One Light Theatre in Halifax, and Jeanne Holmes of

Dancemakers in Toronto. These speakers examined the things that work for them in connecting

with diverse communities and the importance of programming that speaks to these

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communities, particularly the importance of inclusive representations of their stories and

themselves as well as their integral involvement in the creation and control of these stories.

Each speaker provided examples based on their experiences across the country in dance and

theatre. Sandra Laronde had just come off a whirlwind tour with the Dora Award winning “Tono”

which played to appreciating audiences in B.C., Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, Ontario.

She had many insights into the how the vibrancy of her work draws a range of communities as

audience and the central position of her Aboriginal heritage within this work and its connection

with Indigenous peoples around the world.

After a quite honoured time working with dance at Harbourfront, Jeanne Holmes, now of Dancemakers, looked at the importance of being open to artistic expressions that come from

diverse artists and putting them on centre stage. To her, this meant having familiarity in the

differences in vocabulary of each expression, and its cultural symbols, and the coherence of

these symbols in a framework of knowledge, meaning and beauty that comes from elsewhere

and must be viewed within that context.

The final speaker was Shahin Sayadi whose paper focused on the limited understanding of

many theatre personnel, including artistic directors, critics and managers of performance

venues, whose values and behaviours as articulated through what is presented on stages

remain largely homogenous and, thereby, not open to the works of diverse artists. Hechallenged the notion that change is evident and spoke to the lack of performance venues run

by Aboriginal artists and artists of colour, and that this absence results in these artists having to

understand, negotiate and work with managers of venues who do not have a significant

understanding of what these artists are offering to put on stage.

The program ended with a performance by Kaha:wi Dance Theatre. The cycle of Life unfolds

throughout Kaha:wi as a grandmother dies and a new baby is born. The narrative weaves

around the lives of three generations of women and the community in which they thrive.

Steeped in traditional Iroquoian based song and dance, the contemporary dance production is

powerful and captivating. Kaha:wi touches audiences on an emotional, physical and spiritual

level. Kaha:wi is powerful due to the cultural weight it demonstrates by being profoundlyconnected to the richness, integrity and beauty of the Iroquoian people.

This performance of Kaha:wi was an excerpt from the longer original production featuring the

main scenes of the story. Kaha:wi is a profound contemporary Aboriginal dance performance

that bridges the gap between contemporary and traditional Iroquoian song and dance without

losing the integrity of the cultural content and dance style. The choreography, music and design

for Kaha:wi explores fundamental philosophies of Iroquoian culture such as honouring the cycle

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of Life, thanksgiving, sacredness of the natural world, rite ceremonies and duality.

Choreographically, Kaha:wi draws inspiration from Iroquoian social dances such as the

Gada:tro:t (Standing Quiver Dance or Stomp Dance), Ehsga:nye: gae:nase: (New Women’s

Shuffle Dance), Gayowaga:yoh (Old Mocassin Dance) and the Wa enoti:yo (Stick Dance).

Musically, Kaha:wi highlights traditional based songs such as the Dawn Song, Gada:tro:t,

naming songs and Ato:wi:se (Women’s Chant or Moon Songs).

A report on the Town Hall and workshops will be available in January 2011. If you would like a

copy, please contact us.

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Audience Building Workshop

Following its workshops at CAPACOA, on November 23, 2010 CPPAMO held its third Audience

Building Workshop which focused on building partnerships with Aboriginal artists and arts

organizations and developing ethno-racial and Aboriginal artists and audiences. Attended by

representatives from over 30 organizations, the morning started with an Elder, Grandmother

Jacquie Lavelley, opening the workshop. She was greeted with tobacco by CPPAMO Project

Lead, charles c. smith, and shared with the participants the wisdom of her peoples and a

blessing for the day’s proceedings.

Following the Elder, the first panel speaker was Sara Roque, Aboriginal Officer of the Ontario

Arts Council, who discussed the history of colonization and important developments in the

history of Aboriginal artists. Amongst several historical and contemporary references, she

emphasized the important work of Daphne Odjig, and others like her (e.g., Thomson Highway,

Alannis Obansawin) whose practice was both advocacy for art created by Aboriginal people and

resistance to colonization. Odjig’s efforts paved the road for contemporary Aboriginal artists

and Roque emphasized the importance of involving Aboriginal artists from the start, and not as

add-ons, to truly integrate Aboriginal culture in programming.

The second panel speaker was Melanie Fernandez from the Harbourfront Cultural Centre whomade a presentation about Planet IndigenUS, a multi-disciplinary arts festival coordinated

through a partnership between Harbourfront and the Woodlands Cultural Centre located on Six

Nations. Planet IndigenUS started in 2004 and has grown extensively since then. The festival

challenges stereotypes about Indigenous peoples and involves a wide-range of programming,

including Ask Me which is a new program that provides opportunities for visitors to ask any

question about the cultures of Aboriginal peoples and, in doing so, receiving an education about

Indigenous cultures.

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The third panel speaker was Jennifer Green, International Director, of Soundstreams. Shediscussed the need to really listen to each other when working on cross-cultural collaborationand mentioned the example of touring workshops, where performers work for several days ineach community and, doing this, establish long lasting relationships and collaborations.

According to Green, CPPAMO’s role is to bring people together and to provide information andtools needed to create long lasting and meaningful collaboration.

Andrea Fatona, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Ottawa Art Gallery, indicated that theGallery has been committed to present Aboriginal art for the past seven years throughdevelopment of long term relationships and that successful collaboration necessitates a longterm relationship. She felt that this was particularly important since the OAG is a municipal

gallery as well as a national/international gallery. As part of this collaborative effort, the OAGproduces catalogues and strives to develop discourse around Aboriginality in relation toCanadian visual discourse.

All of the OAG’s exhibition programs are accompanied by educational programming. Allexhibition programs accompanied by educational programming. Exhibition-connection – multi-media online site enabling high school teachers and students to explore the sites from theclassroom. For example, in 2007 the showing of Oh So Iroquois presented contemporaryIroquois art with a catalogue produced in French, English and Iroquois. This was the OAG’s firsttime producing in an Aboriginal language. Following this, Burning Cold (2009) broughttogether both aboriginal and non-aboriginal artists to discuss stereotypes both sides have of each other. In 2009 the Gallery showed Rosalie Favell Works (2009) and Decolonize Me in the

Fall of 2011. The OAG is now developing new strategies with public programming in terms of First Nations photography – its history and ways of interrupting that history.

In the afternoon session, Professor Nadia Caidi from the Faculty of Information Studies,University of Toronto, made a presentation on information gathering practices of immigrant,ethno-racial and Aboriginal communities. She pointed out that there is limited researchavailable about how immigrants and ethno-racial communities accesses information about artsand culture because most of the data is about employment, education and social and healthservices. An important trend in information gathering was the reliance on social networks, suchas family and friends, and the different ways immigrants search for different information. For example: recreational information is obtained from the community while employment informationis obtained both through social networks and newspapers.

This workshop provided an inside view on the issues concerning both cultural organizations and

immigrant, ethno-racial and Aboriginal communities. Participants appreciated the learning

opportunity and expressed hope for a new generation that will build and develop ways to

produce and present art from Aboriginal and ethno-racial communities.

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Following the protocols explained by the Elder during the morning opening ceremony, the

workshop ended with everyone holding hands and thanking each other for their presence and

contributions.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Save the Date! Please join us on January 19th for this special event…Neighbourhood Arts Network, Creative Mosaics and Access Alliance

Given the increasing diversity of our population, the need for arts and culture programming for children and youth that facilitates intercultural dialogue is clearer than ever! On January 19th a

networking session hosted by Creative Mosaics, the Neighbourhood Arts Network and Access

Alliance will bring together community and arts organizations to share their thoughts and

practices on culturally diverse arts programming.

Cian Knights of Creative Mosaics will be discussing key findings from Creative Mosaics:Mentoring in Community Arts and Culture – Needs and Capacity Assessment , Letecia Rose of Harmony Movement will be speaking on the topic of Arts as an Equitable Practice, andDiverseCity Fellow Colin Lacey will share details of the brand new GTArtist Award for community-engaged artists. Join us for a fabulous evening with tasty treats!

This free event is taking place from 5:30pm–8:00pm on Wednesday, January 19th at AccessPoint on the Danforth. AccessPoint is located at 3079 Danforth, on the southeast corner of Victoria Park and Danforth. We look forward to seeing you there! Space is limited; please RSVP before January 7th 2011 by contacting [email protected] or calling 416.392.6802 x212.____________________________________________________________________________

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CPPAMO AUDIENCE BUILDING WORKSHOPS – January 28, 2011

As a follow-up to the three previously challenging, inspiring and successful workshops held at

Hart House in June, as part of CAPACOA’s CPPAMO session and at the Centre for Social

Innovation in November, CPPAMO is planning its next workshop to take place at Markham

Theatre at the end of January 2011. This full day session will build on the previous ones and

provide an opportunity for presenters and performers to discuss common issues and concerns

related to staging performances by Aboriginal and ethno-racial artists.

This workshop will involve presentations by:

• Ken Coulter (Oakville Theatre), Eric Lariviere (Markham Theatre), Cheryl Ewing (Ontario

Contact) and Costin Manu (Rose Theatre) who will discuss what presenters need to doto set up a season's schedule, the criteria and methods they use to select performancesand how performers can build a relationship with presenters;

• to complement this, a number of performers will make presentations on how their

companies create their work, the influences (traditional, modern, contemporary) on their work and how it fits into Canadian culture today. Some of these artists include: SandraLaronde (Red Sky Performance), Lata Pada (Sampradaya Dance Creations), BrainardBlyden-Taylor (Nathaniel Dette Chorale) and Julia Chan (Diasporic Dialogues).

Registration information and a full agenda will be released in early January.

CULTURAL PLURALISM IN THE ARTS (CPA) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF

TORONTO SCARBOROUGH CAMPUS (UTSC)

Following the September 2010 release of Anti-Racism in Education: Missing in Action,

edited by charles c. smith and published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative, a

speaking engagement with TIFF Artistic Director Cameron Bailey in October and drama and

performance workshops with local theatres in November coordinated by Trisha Lamie, the CPAproject will be hosting the following events in the winter of 2011.

- City of Words literary readings series coordinated by Karina Vernon and focusing on

pluralism in contemporary Canadian literature;

- A seminar on audience studies by Cheryl Ewing and Anahita Azrahimi for CCI and

CPPAMO and by members of the Scarborough Arts Council’s Creative Mosaics project

and Neighbourhood Arts Network; and

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- wind in the leaves collective interdisciplinary approaches to pluralism in performance

with dancers, musicians and visual artists and led by charles c. smith based on his

poetry.

More details on each of these are provided below.

City of Words: Reading Scarborough Writing

This reading series is focused around two key questions. How have Scarborough’s unique

cultural terrains—at once highly cosmopolitan and yet suburban—helped shape the identities of

those who have migrated there? And how has Scarborough shaped its writers and their cultural

production?

This event, scheduled for the Spring semester of 2011, proposes to bring novelist David

Chariandy to read at UTSC. Although currently based in Vancouver, Chariandy grew up in

Scarborough, and his novel Soucouyant (2007) is set against the backdrop of the Scarborough

bluffs. Nominated for the prestigious Giller Prize as well as the Governor General’s award, it is a

significant novel about migrancy, race, family, and the crisis of historical memory that, the novel

argues, Scarborough seems to produce.

Although an eminently local novelist, Chariandy has yet to read from Soucouyant in

Scarborough. This event would bring Chariandy back to his hometown, and to UTSC for the first

time. The reading would provide UTSC students an opportunity to connect with an important

Canadian writer whose work inscribes the complexities of their own historical and cultural

moment.

This alternatively-imagined reading series proposes to address the key question about the

interrelationship of Scarborough’s cultural geographies, diasporic identity, and writing, by

bringing several up-and-coming Scarborough writers to UTSC rather than one “big name”

author. Although not yet finalized, the list of possible readers include:

Short-story writer and poet Sabrina Ramnanan; she was born in Toronto to Trinidadian

parents and currently lives and works in Scarborough. Her work has appeared in Tok:

Diasporic Dialogues (2009) and in the journal Cerulian Rain.

Spoken-word artist and activist poet Sheniz Janmohammed; she was raised in

Scarborough and is currently based in Toronto. Her work speaks out against injustices,

violence, and such issues as fundamentalism.

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Seminar on Values and Benefits Study And Scarborough Arts Council

Creative Mosaics Project – March 2011

CCI has undertaken a three-year study to gather evidence of the impact that participation in the

arts has on peoples’ lives and in their communities. Specifically the project reveals the personal

benefits that people derive from their participation, and link these values to social [instrumental]

public values. It is anticipated that the discoveries of this study will lead to a clearer picture of

the personal benefits and public value that the arts have in our province.

The project is directed by a Steering Committee consisting of representatives from six

communities lead by Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts. In the first year, focus was ondevelopment and testing of the information gathering tools. In the second year, efforts expanded

to include rolling out of the project to a secondary market. This market included rental clients of

the Lead Partners as well as additional communities interested in participating. Simultaneously,

an electronic tool was developed with the assistance of TixHub.

The University of Waterloo Survey Research Centre has analyzed the raw data and assisted in

the development of surveys. The audience members participating in the project attended the

performing arts and provide an understanding of the benefits from their viewpoint. This gives us

an understanding of the language to be used to entice those inclined but not yet participating. It

is understood by all involved that there is a lot more work to be done in the area of

understanding those who are not attending.

The list of participants in this study include:

• Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, Oakville

• Centre for the Arts, Brock University, St. Catharines

• Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts, Parry Sound

• Markham Centre for the Performing Arts, Markham

• Showplace Performance Centre, Peterborough

• Alliance for a Grand Community, Waterloo Region: Cambridge Library & Gallery,

Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Centre In The Square, Grand Philharmonic Choir, KW

Art Gallery, KW Symphony, Theatre & Co., and Waterloo Regional Arts Council

A pilot study is now underway with CPPAMO of ethno-racial and Aboriginal audiences.

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Creative Mosaics is a new collaborative project involving seven organizations, has set out to

identify and respond to the needs of newcomers and culturally-diverse communities with the

goal of developing an intergenerational, youth-focused arts program. Scarborough contains

some of the most diverse neighbourhoods in Canada, yet it remains under-served in providing

arts and cultural programs, services and opportunities to newcomers, youth and culturally-

diverse communities.

Creative Mosaics is engaged in a comprehensive community needs and capacity building

assessment in order to develop a proposal for an arts program that integrates after-school,

mentorship and intergenerational components, providing learning opportunities in the arts and

an exploration of diverse cultural identities. The Creative Mosaics collaborative includesScarborough Arts Council, Catholic Cross-Cultural Services, Children’s Aid Society of Toronto,

Kapisanan Philippine Centre for Arts and Culture, Arising Women, Ontario Council of Agencies

Serving Immigrants (OCASI) and Philippine Advocacy Through Arts and Culture. Creative

Mosaics will include engagement with youth, mentors, artists and cultural leaders, organization

of community discussions and focus groups, distribution and collection of surveys, outreach,

exploration and development of arts program models and writing of the final report.

wind in the leaves – a journeying: improvising bodies, words and

music

This will be both interdisciplinary performance and workshop based on improvised music (as

recorded) which is currently in development and explores the influence of improvised music on

the creation of interdisciplinary art. Based on the poetry of CPPAMO Project lead, charles c.

smith, the poems have been arranged with the music of various composers/performers, e.g.,

Ornette Colemen, Roscoe Mitchell, William Parker and Peter Kowold, Wadada Leo Smith and

the trio of Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves and William Parker. The poems are set to the music

as is dance, photography, stills and moving image in collaborative performance pieces.

Working with charles for these performance pieces are: Robin Styba, Deanna Bowen, and

Anahita Azrahimi, photograpy, moving image and video; and choreographers/dancers Olga

Barrios of Olga Barrios Contemporary Dance and Kevin Omsby of Kashedance; and guitarist

Harvey Weisfeld.

wind in the leaves – a journeying provides several ways to both present and engage the

artists involved so that the performance pieces reveal various insights into the themes of the

poetry as accompanied by the music. This performance presents the inter-disciplinary

approach of this project, and how it engages at several intersections, visceral, sensual,

emotional, intellectual and spiritual as a multi-textured illustration of the various phases of the

presence of persons of African descent in Canada, e.g., enslavement and narratives about

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racialization in Canada that are woefully absent in public discourse as well as in Canadian

history and forms of cultural expression.

The performance pieces capture experiences of the first slave in Canada, the burning down of

Montreal by another slave, the influence of freedom fighters who came to Canada with the

Underground Railroad, Viola Desmond’s legal challenge to racial segregation in Nova Scotia,

police shootings of Black youth, racial profiling, the Black body in a global context and other

related stories and events.

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WHO WE ARE

CPPAMO ROUNDTABLE MEMBERS

As a resource to plan and coordinate the Town Halls and workshops, CPPAMO has set-up a

Roundtable comprised of individuals involved in the performing arts from ethno-racial and

Aboriginal creation-based arts organizations and those involved in performing venues. The

members of the Roundtable are:

Anahita Azrahimi, Sparrow in the Room

Farwah Gheewala, Education Coordinator, Soulpepper Theatre

Denise Fujiwara, Canasian Dance

Charmaine Headley, Collective of Black Artists

Bakari Eddison Lindsay, Collective of Black Artists

Lata Pada, Sampradaya Dance Creations

Andrea Baker, arts administrator and fund raiser

Helen Yung, Culture Days (national office), Canada Council for the Arts' Stand Firmnetwork

Wayne Dowler, Cultural Pluralism in the Arts/University of Toronto Scarborough Universityof Toronto Scarborough Campus

Dan Brambilla, Chief Executive Officer Sony Centre for the Performing Arts

Phillip Akin, Obsidian Theatre

Mae Maracle, Centre for Indigenous Theatre Brainard Bryden-Taylor, Nathaniel Dett Chorale

Emily Chung, Little Pear Garden Theatre Collective

Spy Denome-Welch, Aboriginal Playwright

Sedina Fiati, performance artist

Danielle Smith, urban ink productions and backforward collective

Ravi Jain, why not theatre

Shannon Thunderbird, Teya Peya Productions

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Santee Smith, Kaha’wi Dance

Menaka Thakker, Menaka Thakkar Dance Company

Kevin Ormsby, Kashedance

Mark Hammond, Sony Centre for Performing Arts

Yvette Nolan, Native Earth Performing Arts

Vivine Scarlett, danceImmersion

Julia Chan, Diasporic Dialogues

Contact Information

charles c. smithProject Lead of CPPAMOLecturer, Cultural Pluralism and the Arts/University of Toronto [email protected]

Victoria GlizerProject [email protected]

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