By Lincoln DePradine
Many individuals, whose expertise is in music, dance and different inventive arts, expertise challenges in reaching their full potential due to varied social and financial boundaries.
Amongst these artistes are Black, Indigenous and Individuals of Color (BIPOC). In addition they embrace 2SLGBTQ2IA+ and different equity-deserving teams.
Towards this background, singer Domanique Grant—a recording artiste and Pop-Soul singer—based “The Think about Summit”, which has simply held half one among its 2024 version.
The third annual summit, held over two days final week on Bathurst Road in Toronto, targeted on “digital wellness and monetary empowerment” and offered individuals with “the instruments to unlock creativity, elevate their careers, and reimagine their futures, at no monetary price to them”, stated Grant, whose songs embrace the favored single “Airbrush”.
Her music additionally has been featured in company business campaigns.
“Our imaginative and prescient,” she stated, “is to assist creatives and business develop new neural pathways to reprogram the worry, nervousness and trauma that preserve them caught, in order that they will make their desires a sustainable actuality.”
Final yr, Grant was named by Spotify Canada as a “Ladies in Music Canada Honouree”.
The Think about Summit included musical performances, in addition to periods on using YouTube; a business banking workshop; and an interview with Canadian singer and songwriter Jully Black, who’s a JUNO Award Winner.
Grant described the two-day occasion as an “unique summit”, which “sits on the intersection of wellness, creativity and neuroscience”, and which brings collectively “wellness programming, monetary literacy and mindfulness talks in collaboration with Grammy-nominated and Juno award-winning expertise; thought leaders; and business professionals to empower creatives from marginalized communities”.
Half two of The Think about Summit is scheduled for Thursday, November 21, at Yorkdale Cineplex Theatre, 3401 Dufferin Road. Organizers say they’re anticipating greater than 500 individuals.
