The Conversation
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The Conversation
The Conversation
Saturday 9 September 2023 Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT
Location Ottawa Art Gallery 10 Daly Avenue Ottawa, ON K1N 6E2
This event is free but participants must register on eventbrite – Donations are welcome!
The Conversation will be a unique gathering for people from diverse walks of life. It will be a great opportunity after the Pandemic to get together and explore how we connect with or disconnect from others who are different from us. How do we work in tandem with others? How do we listen and discuss respectfully in order to collaborate on a project? In our polarized world, how do we respond to extreme positions nudging against each other?
The Conversation will be an opportunity for participants to share, create, play and connect. Different activities led by facilitator, poet and visual artist Nadia Chaney will guide the group to create a sense of trust to create community. Nadia will use wisdom and humour to draw a path for the day to evolve.
Agenda
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM – Introduction, presentation of facilitator and speaker
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM – Morning activity led by facilitator Nadia Chaney poet, visual artist, facilitator.
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM – Presentation by Marisa Gallemit visual artist
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM – Lunch catered by Le Petit Kiwi. Colombian food: tamales made of corn meal and trimmings. Some will be vegan, all gluten free.
1:00 PM – 3:45 PM – Afternoon activities led by facilitator Nadia Chaney poet, visual artist, facilitator.
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM – Wrap up of the event, conclusions, steps forward – Maria Gomez-Umana visual artist and educator.
4:00 PM – 9:00 PM – Visual artist Marisa Gallemit will share aspects of her path in art making. Hopefully, it will motivate collaboration projects and a sense of curiosity in others.
This event will take place in partnership with The Mandala Project which will showcase BIPoC artists at the Alma Duncan Salon (50 Mackenzie King Bridge) on the same day immediately after, from 4:00 to 9:00 pm. The organizers of The Conversation and The Mandala Project will be promoting each other’s events as a way to support each other.
This project is possible thanks to an Equity and Inclusion in the Arts Fund from the City of Ottawa; an endowment from The Ottawa Arts Council; a partnership with the Ottawa Art Gallery; and special thanks to private sponsors who believed in it. Sponsors : Julie Hodgson; Ricardo Gómez, Rosario Umaña