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Friday November 18, 2022

9am to 6pm

Eastminster Church
310 Danforth Avenue (close to Chester TTC station)

Panel presentations, restorative workshops, and a Balancing Act Presentation, highlighting the achievements of our national Level UP! Initiative! Also featured: pop-up installations and performances from Animacy Theatre Collective, Ruth Howard and Sarah Cullen/Mothra.

With Guest Host Djennie Laguerre!

Bring your kids! Free on-site childcare by The Summerhill Club and children's programming by Theatre Direct's Creation Warehouse.

You are encouraged to come take part in the full day of programming with us! But, there is also the option to pop in from 3pm to 6pm for Parent Artist Advocacy League (PAAL)'s Compassion Training and our Closing Reception hosted by TAPA.

The training, led by PAAL's founder Rachel Spencer Hewitt, explores how to create a culture of support for employees with caregiver responsibilities. Stay for the reception to chat with fellow conference attendees and presenters!

"EXCELLENT session on ‘Compassion Training’ today. Some great take-aways for me. Notably, right now at TAPA we are ‘refreshing our core values’ as part of our work with Board and staff team."
- Jacoba Knappen, TAPA response to the online Compassion Training session in 2020

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Thank you to the Canada Council for the Arts for their support.

Artwork by Ruth Howard

TWO AFFINITY GROUPS THIS MONTH

Monday November 14, 2022:
All Parents/Caregivers Group
Guest Artists - The Sense Archive: Ruth Douthwright, Sally Morgan and Jessica Winton

Tuesday November 15, 2022:
IBPOC Parents/Caregivers Group
Facilitator - Ella Cooper

1pm to 2:30pm EST

Online via Zoom

In advance of A Conference of Care, we are really excited to host two online Affinity Groups, opportunities for conversations about art and care in a peer support environment.

On Monday November 14, the All Parents/Caregivers Affinity Group will feature Guest Artists the sense archive: Ruth Douthwright, Sally Morgan, and Jessica Winton.

the sense archive is interested in exploring, reading, and transcribing the body as the site of the narratives that shape us as artists/mothers. They will beam in live from Welland, Ontario where they are in residence at Femmes de Feu's The Bank Art House with additional support from Dancemakers.

Balancing Act is hosting an IBPOC Parents/Caregivers Group on Tuesday November 15.

It will be facilitated by Ella Cooper whose multidisciplinary arts practice explores the diaspora, positive representations of the Black body in Canada, equity and arts for social change, oral traditions and hybrid identity. Active Listener Blessyl Buan and Balancing Act's Saba Akhtar will be present to offer additional support to the group.