Power Hour: Anti-Oppression for Artists & Cultural Producers 102

Date and Time
Thu, Feb 19, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST

Location
Virtual (Zoom)

This free workshop explores both the challenges and possibilities for artists seeking to navigate cultural institutions and landscapes while maintaining their focus on anti-oppression and social justice based practices.

Participants will reflect on power, cultural supremacy, access, and equity within the context of Canada’s arts and culture spaces. This session is framed through an intersectional and liberatory lens and is open to all learners.

You do not need to have taken part in the previous workshop to participate.

This workshop is funded by the Government of Canada’s Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program (MARP).

DONATE – Your donation helps us support Brampton artists and expand free programming like this.

Accessibility: If you are a Brampton resident who needs assistance or support to participate, such as an ASL interpreter, please get in touch with us at info@bramptonartsorg.ca as soon as possible (minimum of five days in advance) so that we can make the necessary accommodations.

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Workshop Presenter

Rania El Mugammar is a Sudanese Artist, Liberation Educator, Abolitionist, Anti-oppression Consultant , multidisciplinary performer, speaker and published writer. Her work explores reproductive justice, transformative justice and abolition, art as liberation and digital justice.

As a writer, Rania’s work explores themes of identity, womanhood, Blackness, flight, exile, migration, belonging, gender, sexuality and beyond. Rania’s primary mediums are poetry, spoken word and oral storytelling. She is a published poet, storyteller and playwright. Rania is deeply interested in poetic form and the auditory texture of words as well as the visual/aesthetic impact of language and form.

Rania is an experienced anti-oppression, abolition and liberation educator and consultant who is unflinchingly committed to decolonization and freedom as the ultimate goals of her work. She has worked extensively with contemporary arts institutions, STEM based enterprises, media organizations, educational institutions and community/grassroots spaces.