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Our office is located in Tkaronto, Dish With One Spoon territory and covered by Treaty 13 and the Williams Treaties. We are grateful to work, live and make music on the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of Credit, Anishnabeg, Chippewa, Haudenosaunee and Wendat.
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March 8 - June 7
The 2025 pilot program has officially ended.
If you’re interested in participating in a future iteration, please contact [email protected].
Choral Canada and the Black Pledge Collective, in collaboration with Provincial Choral Organizations from across the country, is proud to launch All Together Now, an organizational change program for leaders of choirs and singing groups.
Born from Choral Canada and the Black Pledge Collective's joint training and collaborative work with CPAMO (Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario), this initiative is designed to support leaders in driving transformation within their choral and group singing organizations through the lens of Accessibility, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Decoloniality, and Anti-Racism (ADEI-DAR).
This online pilot program is currently offered in English, with plans to expand to a French version in the future.
Learn more about the program:
Participants will engage in a supportive, cohort-based learning environment to explore concepts and case studies that impact their choirs and singing groups. Course structure and content was created in collaboration with Choral Canada, with feedback from a focus group of choral leaders, ensuring relevant context and case studies for the choral and group singing arts sector.
Program highlights include:
- Organizational Leadership: Building inclusive, effective leadership structures, evaluating and understanding cultural leadership with an ADEI-DAR lens.
- Conflict Management: Navigating challenges with empathy and strategy, creating and/or revising policies, agreements and procedures to manage conflict.
- Community Engagement: Fostering long lasting, meaningful, and reciprocal connections with diverse communities through responsive strategies.
This program invites 2–3 leaders from 10–15 choirs or singing organizations who are ready to embrace meaningful organizational change. It is ideal for leaders who are:
- Passionate about growth and transformation
- Open to new approaches and perspectives
- Committed to fully participating in all program sessions
We invite leaders who are open to change and fully committed to attending all sessions. Each organization is required to have a minimum of two (2) and no more than three (3) leaders in attendance. The program consists of seven (7) Saturday sessions, each lasting 2 hours, from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET with 30 minutes - 1 hour of preparation which could include readings, evaluations and a final presentation to the group.
The scheduled dates are:
- March 8 and 22
- April 12 and 26
- May 10 and 24
- June 7
The fee to participate is $200 plus tax per choir/singing group. The fee is not per person. If the fee is a barrier to participate, registrants will have the option to "pay what you can".
Please note: The choir/singing groups for which the participating leaders represent must be members of either Choral Canada or the collaborating Provincial Choral Organizations (BC Choral Federation, Choir Alberta, Saskatchewan Choral Federation, Manitoba Choral Association, Choirs Ontario, or Nova Scotia Choral Federation).
Meet your facilitators:
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Lead Producer, Black Pledge Collective
Sedina Fiati is a Toronto based social justice consultant and multi award winning artist for stage and screen. Proudly Black and queer, Sedina holds a BFA in Music Theatre from the University of Windsor and is a proud co-founder and current Lead Producer of the Black Pledge Collective. Sedina was the 2nd VP of Membership Engagement for Canadian Actors' Equity Association's member council from 2015 - 2018 and was Artist/Activist in Residence at Nightwood Theatre. Recent projects: Strategic Planning with Nightwood Theatre and Confluence Concerts, Industry Consultant with Oya Black Arts Coalition, Associate Producer - Equity, Diversity, Inclusion for Pretty Hard Cases Season 3, Toronto Fringe - Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Audit.
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Strategic Partnerships Lead, Black Pledge Collective
Velvet Wells (they/them) is an award-winning queer, Black, lyrical comedian and creator-producer based in Ottawa, unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation. They are the Strategic Partnership Lead for the Black Pledge Collective, and co-facilitator of the successful Beyond Black Squares workshop series. In 2024, they piloted their anti-racism/anti-oppression workshop “Practice Dismantling Racism”, designed as an interactive practice space using applied improvisation. They are the creator of the sold out “Ottawa Comedy Cabaret Cruise” series, the internationally toured “All Request Radio”, and they are a multiple award winning playwright for “(Re)Tired Magical Black Man.” They are proud of their Disability Files contribution “Accessibility, One Person at a Time.”
This session is part of Pluralism and Organizational Change Through Anti-Racism and Equity Education in the Arts Cohort 5 (CPAMOPOC 5) project.
CPAMOPOC and its training is conceived by Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario (CPAMO) and funded with the support from the Canada Council for the Arts and Canadian Heritage.
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