The Rest is Up to Us

Curatorium and the Burnaby Art Gallery are pleased to announce the publication of ‘The Rest is Up to Us,’ a collection of essays, poetry, artistic interventions, and reflections asking readers to: 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘦. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦? 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦, […]

PWM Arrivals SeedPool

6 March brought the three-month PWM Arrivals and SeedPool journey to close, and what a ride we had! From November – 1 February, twelve artists joined AD Diane and co-facilitators Julie Tamiko Manning, Aki Matsushita, Nadia Myre, and Lopa Sircar in the Virtual Research Lab, where we deepened our engagement with personal and world histories […]

SeedPool Immersion: Connect. Collaborate. Co-Create.

SeedPool Immersion: Connect. Collaborate. Co-Create. Join Arrivals Legacy Project Artistic Director Diane Roberts, Digital Producer Anju Singh and SeedPool Artist Sharon Brass for an interactive exploration of ALP’s digital SeedPool Gallery. Sunday 22 March, 11am -1:30 pm at The World Art Centre, SFU Program Outline 11:00am Opening Ritual – Setting the Ceremonial space for collaboration […]

Welcome 10 new artists into the SeedPool! 

Adjani PoirierCarolina RodriguezChristine Lee Cyndi CharlemagneDenise OlivaresHajia MaaLaurie-Dumont Bal Mel PickeringSharrae LyonTiernan Cornford Our artists are entering the final phase of our three-month program offered in collaboration with Playwrights Workshop Montreal, which included: the Arrivals Virtual Research Lab, our In-studio Personal Legacy Workshop and SeedPool residency. Thank you to co-facilitators Aki Matsushita, Julie Tamiko Manning, […]

SeedPool Immersion: Connect. Collaborate. Co-Create.

Join Arrivals Legacy Project Artistic Director Diane Roberts, Digital Producer Anju Singh, and SeedPool Artist Sharon Brass for an interactive exploration of ALP’s digital SeedPool Gallery. The SeedPool Gallery exhibits the emerging stories that our SeedPool artists have chosen to share with the world. It’s a space for provocation – a space to connect ideas, […]

RECLAMATION: A Black Arts Gathering

RECLAMATION: A Black Arts Gathering is a series of events for Black creatives and arts workers, centred around live performance presented by the Black Pledge Collective. Join in for over 6 days in Toronto, featuring workshops, performances and hang outs. There are amazing facilitators like Djanet Sears, Diane Roberts and Natasha Eck, Peter Bailey, Janelle […]

The Making of  the MT/AT Toolkit: Reflections from Creation Residency Artists

In December 2024, eight participating artists took part in a reflexive, experiential exploration of themes addressing decolonising partnerships in the arts. The aim of the two-week creation residency was to assemble a toolkit for artists and creative changemakers through the lens of the Arrivals process as a potential tool for decolonisation in the arts. The […]

How to navigate the Moving Together/Arriving Together Toolkit

The Moving Together/Arriving Together (MT/AT) Toolkit is a collaborative, co-created resource that is not about tips, tools and frameworks. Instead, it sets questions in motion to help us reimagine what it really means to decolonise creative partnerships in the arts. It is a reflective, experiential exploration that bears witness to the power of the Arrivals […]

Weaving New Legacies of Knowing

Presented by the Co.ERASGA EXchanges Program: “We are pleased to announce accomplished director, dramaturge, writer and cultural animator Diane Roberts as EXchanges 2025 guest, in collaboration with Arrivals Personal Legacy. This workshop invites you into an exploration of your root cultural voice, rhythm and performance. Through this offering you will be invited to enter an […]

Re:Sound. Re:Awaken. Re:Connect.

Meet the team of brilliant contributors to this webinar! Join three Indigenous matriarchs as they share how an African and Indigenous inspired co-creative process for attuning to the deeper frequencies of their Ancestral memory is awakening within them exciting new ways to source and tell their stories. Date & Time: Saturday, 29 March 2025, 11am […]