Call for Two Facilitators: Black History Month Series
Application deadline extended: January 14th, 2022
About Lakeshore Arts
Lakeshore Arts is a non-profit community arts organization in South Etobicoke dedicated to engaging all people using multidisciplinary art forms as a way of enriching lives and strengthening Toronto’s communities.
Opportunities:
- Lakeshore Arts is looking for a workshop facilitator to run two participatory workshops for staff and board members, with the goal of helping to build an ongoing framework and safe space to resolve race-based issues with a transparent accountability process within Lakeshore Arts.
- Tentative Dates: Saturdays in March
- Venue: Socially distanced in-person
- Fee: Flat $900 fee for both workshops
- Supplies Provided
- Lakeshore Arts is looking for a workshop facilitator to run two participatory workshops for artists and creatives. One of the workshops will be closed to BIPOC participants, and will have the goal of enabling artists of colour to build resiliency while advocating for themselves in predominantly white workplaces. The other workshop will be open to anyone, and will have the goal of building active allyship skills in support of racialized colleagues and peers in a workplace.
- Tentative Dates: Weekday evenings in February
- Venue: Online via Zoom
- Length: 1.5 hours each workshop
- Fee: Flat $600 fee for both workshops
- Supplies provided
This call is open to Black and/or Indigenous facilitators who have experience in incorporating art activities in workshops. The facilitators will be required to sign a confidentiality agreement to protect the information given by participants and create a safe space.
How to Apply
Please submit a cover letter, your resume with reference to other workshops facilitated, a brief proposal for the two workshops of your choice via this google form here.
Application deadline extended: January 14th, 2022
