Artists as Changemakers
Date: November 25, 2024
Time: 12noon – 2pm
Location: Online via Zoom — register here
Join us for a discussion about making change through art while embedded in the community. This session will explore what’s working, what isn’t, and current grappling with trying to make the world a more equitable place.
Hosted by Toyin Oladele, an award-winning artist, arts manager and leader with nearly two decades of curation and community engagement experience, this discussion features guest speakers Samuel Obadero and Kelaena Maude.
Samuel Obadero
Samuel Obadero is a lifestyle photographer and experienced stage performer who loves to lend his voice to social issues. He received the new Canadian Artist Award in 2019 after immigrating from Nigeria. Since then, he has curated 4 exhibitions in the city, the latest being the Project Red exhibition at the Central Library where he was Artist in Residence. He is also a Rozsa Arts Management Program (RAMP) graduate where he learned about Transformational Leadership in Arts.
Kelaena Maude
Kelaena Maude works as a community engagement professional with a love for systems thinking and changemaking projects. At the Institute for Community Prosperity/Trico Changemakers Studio at Mount Royal University, you’ll find her working on art for social change projects such as the Artist as Changemaker Program and Art for Social Change Network. Kelaena enjoys connecting with other kindred spirits doing changemaking work and creating pathways to new understanding and action.
This is part of our free online 2024 Equity Town Hall series focusing on the theme Live Action Heroes. Conversations will be led by EDIA heroes who are doing the do — local artist/activists imagining and activating change.
Learn more about the series and register for upcoming sessions here.
