a seat at the table

This project is a series of small, community-based workshops supported by the Government of Canada’s Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program (MARP).

The project has two connected goals:

1. To document how culture, identity, and belonging are actually lived within Toronto’s diasporic communities, including the diversity and differences that exist within those communities; and
2. To explore whether the diversity inside contemporary music is experienced by those communities as familiar, meaningful, distant, or not relevant at all.

The project does not assume alignment or shared meaning. Instead, it creates space to examine how different forms of cultural complexity meet, and what that reveals for both communityparticipants and Arraymusic.

These workshops offer:

• space for people to speak in their own terms, without representing an entire community or resolving contradictions;

• a way for lived experience to be recorded, synthesized, and taken seriously as knowledge; and

• a chance to influence how public institutions understand the communities they aim to serve.

Insights from the workshops are anonymized and included in a formal report to Canadian Heritage through MARP, contributing to a more grounded picture of diversity as it is actually lived in Toronto.

This project supports MARP objectives by:

• centring lived experience rather than abstract categories,

• supporting dialogue across difference, and

• contributing qualitative insight that strengthens public understanding and institutional learning.

Registration is open! As a small thank-you for joining us, attendees will be entered into a $200 gift card draw.

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