How to Make Work in a World on Fire? Strategies for Survival in Troubling Times.
The world is loosening at the seams. Old certainties—shibboleths once whispered as truth—crack and collapse. Ghosts we thought buried return with new names and older wounds.
In this haunted hour, what does it take to create? How do artists and writers intervene when the ground gives way beneath us? How might we think otherwise—feel otherwise—amid the ruins?
We live inside systems that extract, exhaust, and erase. And yet, even here—especially here—artists persist beyond reason. To gather. To listen. To risk.
What does it mean to be an artist in this present hour? When the air is thick with crisis. When the future feels uncertain or foreclosed. How do we keep creating?
Moderated by Khelsilem, Preeti Dhaliwal, and Khari Wendell McLelland, this annual Artist Roundtable invites racialized artists and cultural organizers to reflect on what it means to make work in troubled times. It brings together those who aren’t just reacting to a crisis, but working through it.
Testing new forms. Practicing refusal. Risking new solidarities. Opening small cracks in the inertia of the world as it is. Join us for a conversation that is part gathering, part witness, part rallying cry. Come as you are.
This event is open to all self-identified racialized artists and cultural organizers.
Date: Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
Doors: 12:00 p.m
Show: 3:00 p.m
Accessibility Info
This venue is wheelchair accessible. There are gender neutral, accessible bathrooms onsite. For more comprehensive accessibility information see: 221A Accessibility Page