Conference
Join CATA-ACAT & OEATA in their first shared Conference 2025!
Dreaming us Forward: Co-creating Belonging through the Healing Arts
September 25-27, 2025
The Fort Garry Hotel
222 Broadway, Winnipeg, MB.
R3C 0R3
In-Person Event
Join us to be part of a very special collaboration between the Canadian Art Therapy Association and Ontario Expressive Arts Therapy Association in their first shared conference, co-hosted by the WHEAT Institute. This year’s conference will be held on September 25 - 27, 2025, at the Fort Garry Hotel, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The theme for this year’s conference is Dreaming us Forward: Co-creating Belonging through the Healing Arts. We will host a diverse array of participants from the creative and expressive arts therapies and anticipate registration of upwards of 300 people from across Canada and the US.
At this meeting place of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, we will gather and network across arts therapy disciplines to cross pollinate and grow our understanding of our work as key to personal and social transformation. We will amplify awareness of artists as community leaders and healers ready to support, challenge, and transform a world facing social and natural crises.
Attendees will experience four interactive keynote sessions, a diverse array of breakout sessions, and a one-day pre-conference outing to the Métis community of St. Laurent, Manitoba. Through our program, we will build a sense of community, responsibility, and action on the five key conference themes of Amplify Indigenous Voices, Decolonize, Welcome, Sustain and Unite.
As for fun, we’ll dance the night away to the Mardi Gras sounds of the Dirty Catfish Brass Band Friday evening and celebrate Nuit Blanche with the City of Winnipeg, in its most expansive and unique, outdoor art party of the year. Drop in to the national Human Rights Museum next door at the Forks or head down the street to the Winnipeg Art Gallery WAG- Qaumajuq, home to the largest collection of contemporary Inuit art in the world.
Join us for ideas, inspiration, new friends, and a strengthened sense community. We’ll launch each morning with an inspiring dance lesson and have many opportunities to create and celebrate the arts. You won’t want to miss it.
Yours truly,
CATA/OEATA 2025 Conference Co-Chairs
Darci Adam, WHEAT Institute
Terri Roberton, OEATA
Tammy Reynolds, CATA
Stephanie Scott, WHEAT InstituteCall for presentations are now open until April 25th! Please scroll down for submission form
BOOK YOUR STAY!
Accommodations:
Fort Garry Hotel
222 Broadway
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 0R3
Phone: 1-204-942-8251 or 1-800-665-8088Reservation Deadline: Monday, August 25, 2025
Group Rate: $199.00 plus taxes / per night
Conference Questions? Please contact our event manager:
Sheri Domenico – Event Manager
E: sheri.domenico@outlook.com
P: 204-881-0337
We hope to see you in Winnipeg in September 2025!
Call for conference presentations are open until Friday, April 25th, 2025.
Click below to submit your presentation proposal!
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