This page will be updated with the latest Gallery resources to support learning around Diversity & Inclusion.
- Cian Knights, AGO’s Manager of Diversity & Inclusion: DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility) Overview – presented to volunteers on October 3, 2023.
Linked, HERE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SQnCLwzpRm2UeYaqHNYLYuNQu4beAyHR/view?usp=sharing
- Introduction to Diversity and Inclusion
Speaker: Letecia Rose, Principal Consultant – Skill Market
This introductory session frames the AGO vision/mission/values within diversity and inclusion, and unpacks terminology and key concepts that are often misunderstood to create shared understanding:
- Multiculturalism
- Diversity
- Inclusion
- Equality and equity
- Accessibility
- Racism
When prompted, please enter the Access Passcode: AGODandI#1
- Raising Awareness: Anti-Racism 101 – Moving from ‘Not Racist’ to ‘Anti Racist’
Speaker: Letecia Rose, Principal Consultant – Skill Market
This session examines how systemic racism in Canada has led to inequities that negatively impact Black and BIPOC individually, interpersonally, institutionally and systemically. Some key concepts include:
- Microaggressions
- Power
- Privilege
- Intersectionality
- Oppression
- Overt vs covert racism
Access Passcode: AGOd&i2
- Raising Awareness: Anishnaabe Philosophy and Land
Speakers: Wanda Nanabush, AGO Curator of Indigenous Art & Dr. Duke Redbird, Elder, Activist,Educator, and Artist
The third session in this series explores Anishinaabe philosophy and land. Participants will learn about Indigenous issues through art in the AGO collection and how Indigenous artists are influencing the present and past ways of looking and being on the land. By acknowledging the continuing impact of settler colonialism on Indigenous communities, we can learn about the effects of colonization and notions of decolonization in a museum and beyond.
Access Passcode: AGOD&I3!
- Anti-Semitism Awareness Seminar
Speaker: Dara Solomon, Executive Director of the Ontario Jewish Archives and the Toronto Holocaust Museum with Stephan Jost, AGO Director & CEO. Introduced by Oliver Weisdorf, People Division
With a successful history of working in art museums and heritage institutions in Canada and the US, Dara is a storyteller, strategic administrator, fundraiser, and team builder. She is currently leading the team developing the new Toronto Holocaust Museum. The Toronto Holocaust Museum is set to open in spring 2023 and the beginning of this webinar focuses on that. Near the end of the presentation, in the helpful Q& A, Director Stephan Jost brings the conversation back to the AGO.
Passcode: n*J.*s36 (write this passcode down before clicking on the link above, or copy and paste – passcode need to be exact to access the link!)