Call for applicants for the Board of Directors of La Centrale galerie Powerhouse

Montréal, September 22, 2020

Call for applicants for the Board of Directors of La Centrale galerie Powerhouse

La Centrale is recruiting new members for its Board of Directors. We are looking for artists and/or cultural workers who want to join a feminist arts community and who are comfortable in non-hierarchical structures. Interested applicants will need to be elected at the Annual General Meeting the October, 28, 2020.

La Centrale is an artist-run centre dedicated to the dissemination and development of multidisciplinary feminist practices and is committed to supporting artists who are underrepresented in dominant cultural establishments at different stages of their careers. Its programming dialogues with feminisms and supports intersectionality.

La Centrale wishes to represent a diversity of voices in its structure and in its programming. To this end, an independant equity audit was conducted in 2018. La Centrale welcomes artists from different marginalized and under-represented communities to apply (Indigenous, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+, formerly incarcerated person, etc.).

Interested? Send us a biography and a letter of interest (250 words maximum) outlining the reasons why you want to get involved at La Centrale, your understanding of a horizontal structure, and your interest in feminisms at administration@lacentrale.org. The biographies received before October 20, 2020, will be included in the presentation at the AGM, those who have not sent their applications before this date will be able to present themselves spontaneously.

Applicants will need to present themselves to La Centrale’s membership at the October, 28, 2020 Annual General Meeting, during which the new board members will be voted on.

Please note that to become involved in the CA you must be a member of La Centrale. You will find the information to become a member of La Centrale here: https://www.lacentrale.org/en/devenir-membre/.All queries regarding La Centrale’s structure and the roles/responsibilities of the Board of Directors can be addressed to: administration@lacentrale.org.

La Centrale's team and the board of directors