mission statement
Toronto Dance Community Love-In is a not-for-profit artist-run dance organization based in Tkaronto. The organization hosts an array of programming including drop-in sessions, live performances, facilitated talks, collective practices, and our annual Summer Love-In Festival in various spaces across the city and online. By connecting, supporting and welcoming artists locally and abroad, Love-In provides a platform for sharing radical approaches in dance education and creative practice.
Since 2009, our organization has been motivated by a mandate to uphold generosity, respect and love. We were founded to foster connection in the communities we serve, providing open form access to dance training. Today, 16 years later, our mandate remains focused on principles of providing barrier free inclusive access to dance and dance experiences in Tsi Tkaronto. We are expanding the vision of what we do/offer to meet the growing needs of the current landscape.
values
Love-In strives to create equitable, inclusive environments in all of our programming. We celebrate the diverse intersections represented in our communities, artists, and participants. We work to integrate anti-oppressive practices and disability justice frameworks into all levels of engagements. Love-In urges participants to unpack and consider their complicity in white supremacy, coloniality, patriarchy, cissexism and capitalistic structures.
Love-In is committed to our continual education and to having a real impact on social justice and radical change. Our organization can be counted on to continuously elevate, engage, be accountable to, and take the lead from the voices of Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, Trans, d/Deaf, and Disabled community members we collaborate with. Discriminatory acts, language, gestures, behavior, racism, transphobia, homophobia, microaggressions, xenophobia, anti-semitism, ableism, audism, sexism, misogyny and harassment of any form will not be tolerated at any of our events.