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Call for Participating Artists:
d/Deaf & Hard of Hearing
Collective Practice Project
due October 24, 2025 at 11:59pm ET
Toronto Dance Love-In invites d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing artists with a dedicated and established movement practice to apply to Collective Practice Project (CPP) co-lead by Juan Jaramillo & Cai Glover. A curated group of 4-5 artists will gather to participate both in-person and remotely. Working periods will occur from the end of October to mid December 2025, with a performance opportunity March 2026. Artists will engage in group discussions and embodied research without a defined end result. Individuals will share methods of creation, processes, values, and desires while expanding community connections.
Open Studio
Tuesdays in October & November
October 7, 14, 21 & 28
November 4, 11, 18 & 25
1:00pm - 4:00pm ET
Studio space and time to work on what you're working on. This program facilitates a space to gather and attend to what is emergent, to be social without an agenda, and to be inspired by others around you! Come with nothing but yourself, as you are! $10 for 3 hours of shared studio space at The Railpath Arts Centre!
Over the summer and into the fall, Lara Kramer has been facilitating Collective Practice Project with artists:
ᑮᓯᑯᕽ ᑳᐯᑖᑯᓯᐟ Johnny Morin
Kéïta Fournier-Pelletier
Marcus Merasty
Nimikii Couchie
Samantha Sutherland
This CPP cohort comes together weekly to share methodologies, creation processes, choreography, values, desires, and nurture community connections with fellow Indigenous movement artists. The cohort will continue to work independently on their creation practice through our Residency Program.
They will hold a public closing meeting before the year’s end, so stay tuned for that!
Love-In is a not-for-profit artist-run dance organization based in Tkaronto.
We host an array of programming including in-person and virtual workshops, performances, facilitated talks, collective practices, & our annual Summer Love-In Festival.
read our values + mission statement
Toronto Dance Love-In is thankful to gather on the traditional Indigenous territory of Tkaronto. This is the ancestral and unceded land of the Wyandot people, Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg and Mississaugas of the Credit. We recognize them and any other Nations acknowledged and unacknowledged, recorded and unrecorded as the past, present and future caretakers of this Land. We are grateful to the Elders and Story-keepers who have been telling the story of this Land for generations. At Love-In, we are actively learning how to honour and upkeep the protocols of this territory and live in alignment with the treaties of this region. With these words we honour the Land and its caretakers. We commit to challenging the ongoing injustices and the impact of colonialism by providing spaces that operate from an anti-oppressive, social justice perspective.
