HADC – Tamil Archive Project

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Healing Arts Dinner Circle

is an arts + dinner series taking place at different locations in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) from March 2020-2021. Conversations exploring feelings and making space for joy alongside experiences of violence, migration, war, poverty, intergenerational conflicts, and other impacting trauma is how we hope to practise communal care.

We are holding this series to bring together trauma informed communities

and to celebrate the work of racialized women and non-binary artists, and learn how we do communal care over a meal.
At the end of the series, we hope to share what we have learned
about existing and new communal care practices from different neighbourhoods that have enabled them to honour, survive,
and thrive beyond past and ongoing trauma.

We are taking a nomadic approach by holding our programming across
the city

in various under resourced neighbourhoods in the GTA and thereby addressing accessibility issues to arts events.

We recognize that most racialized women and non-binary people not only reside in underresourced neighbourhoods but also lack representation in the arts and culture sector. By inviting artists who can speak to the themes of the dinner series, we hope to highlight how individuals and communities have documented their joy and struggles.

HADC envisions change in the arts and culture sector

by prioritizing racialized women and non-binary youth under 25 in its programming and audience. We use a collaborative approach to supporting growth of self, each other, and local communities

Meet the team