The new music community has taken a huge financial and emotional hit due to COVID-19. As a performing arts non-profit organization that employs many freelance musicians and navigates relationships between individual and institutional funders, the International Contemporary Ensemble would like to take a moment to gather together with our community to focus our processes, answer questions, and share initiatives.
Please join us on Monday, April 20, 5pm EDT for an online town hall. We’re thrilled to continue our conversations and to connect with one another to offer guidance on ways we can respond individually, institutionally, and collectively to support our arts ecosystem.
The topic for the next Town Hall will focus on Equity & Access in the time of COVID-19. How do we ensure that we are not overlooking those on the fringes within a virtual space? How do we recognize our own privilege and power in regards to gatekeeping and creativity during this time?
We're excited to announce that Rania El Mugammar will facilitate our discussion. Plus we have some very special guests joining the call to share in the conversation about equity and access. We'll leave time for a community conversation and we look forward to hearing your questions and ideas.
Please RSVP above to receive Zoom call-in info via email.
About Rania El Mugammar
Rania El Mugammar is a Sudanese Artist, Liberation Educator, Anti-oppression Consultant, multidisciplinary performer, speaker and published writer.
As a writer, Rania's work explores themes of identity, womanhood, Blackness, flight, exile, migration, belonging, gender, sexuality and beyond. Rania's primary mediums are poetry, spoken word and oral storytelling. She is a published poet, storyteller and playwright. Rania is deeply interested in poetic form and the auditory texture of words as well as the visual/aesthetic impact of language and form.
She is co-chair of the St. Jamestown Collective Impact Steering Committee, a member of the Leaders Panel for the Economic Development and Culture Strategic Plan at the city of Toronto. Rania is the also the lead anti-oppression consultant for RECENTRE, Program director of B Inc at Bcurrent Performing Arts and co-founder of the How to be an Ally Series at the Centre for Social Innovation.
Rania is an experienced anti-oppression, equity, inclusion and liberation educator and consultant who is unflinchingly committed to decolonization and freedom as the ultimate goals of her work. She has worked extensively with contemporary arts institutions, STEM based enterprises, media organization, educational institutions and community/grassroots spaces. Rania has worked with hundreds of organizations, collectives and institutions including VIBE Arts, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Ministry of Canadian Heritage, Daniels Spectrum, Trinity Square Video, Ebay, Facebook Canada, Toronto Cultural Music Lab, Canadian Art Magazine, Bcurrent, Toronto Arts Council, WattPad, Women’s College Hospital, the University of Michigan, Canadian Art Magazine, TPW Gallery, Peel Dufferin Catholic District School Board, Regent Park Focus and beyond.