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 September 25 – 27, 2025 at the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, Manitoba, for a historic collaboration between the Canadian Art Therapy Association and Ontario Expressive Arts Therapy Association in their first shared conference, co-hosted by the WHEAT Institute. Together we will take-action Dreaming us Forward: Co-creating Belonging through the Healing Arts.
At this meeting place of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, and also OEATA’s first ever conference, we will gather and network across arts therapy disciplines to cross fertilize 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 multiple social and natural crises.
You will experience five interactive keynote sessions, a diverse array of workshops, and a one-day pre-conference outing to the Métis community of St. Laurent, Manitoba, wherein Métis art therapists and Grandmothers, Louise Lamothe and Chris Larsen, will provide leadership. Through our program, we will build a sense of community, responsibility, and action on the five key conference themes of Amplify Indigenous, 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 it’s 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, and a strengthened sense of community. You won’t want to miss it!
Call 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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