Clayton Windatt: Right Before the Storm & Articulating the Dream

221A is pleased to host Artist Clayton Windatt for a day of arts community discussion, strategization, and visioning. As an advocate for labour rights and equitable compensation within the cultural sector, Clayton promotes “Cultural Security” as a strategic framework.

Right Before the Storm: A Discussion for Arts & Culture Groups

(Wednesday, August 5, 2:00-5:00PM) 

“Right Before the Storm” is a sectoral discussion for artist community groups, collectives, and artist-run centres–a space for those who understand the failures of prevailing structures and also creative and cultural exchange as a vital methodology for navigating unforeseen futures together. Join Clayton in a critical discussion on marginalization, activism, contemporary arts boundaries, and dedicating time to troublemakers. Our objective is to strategize, forge alliances, and build collective capacity to move beyond dialogue and into the mechanics of aligning artistic labour with our various crises. We recognize that the “storm” is not a singular event or occurrence, and we weather a continuous shift in our realities. Let us learn how to move, create, and persist together.

Articulating the Dream: A Community Manifestos Workshop

(Wednesday, August 5, 6:00-8:00PM) 

What transformations would a better Vancouver require? What does a future built on communal care look like? How can communities come together to better support each other, and how can the government do better? If this place could be anything, what would change? 

Join us for a community workshop, where participants will draft declarations towards a healing city and render visions of a collaborative future built on communal care and ecological restoration. This workshop allows an opportunity for us to find common ground in our shared hopes for the future. After the workshop, declarations will be documented and embedded onto dioramas for Clayton’s upcoming project, micro-contexts, ensuring that community voice is literally built into the architecture.

Light refreshments will be served at both events. 

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Clayton Windatt is an arts administrator, multi-disciplinary artist, curator and community arts activator based in Sturgeon Falls, Ontario. They view arts funding as critical infrastructure and prioritizes critical discourse for social stability and community cohesion. Serving as the Executive Director of the Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference (ARCA), Clayton holds a Master’s Degree in Design for Health from OCAD University, alongside a BA in Fine Art and a Graphic Design certification.

Cover photo by Clayton Windatt. 

Ce projet est financé par le gouvernement du Canada.