The Call for Participation to the 2025 IA National Gathering Providing Passage: Practicing the Worlds We Want is now open. Organized in partnership with New Mexico State University and a local steering committee, the 2025 IA National Gathering will be held in Las Cruces, New Mexico on October 3-5, 2025.
We invite proposals that reflect on the ways we provide passage for one another, create havens for safety, and practice connective ways of being together that fortify us for the journey ahead. We especially welcome attention to how art making, creative culture, performance, storytelling, and testimonios provide passage for mutual understanding and collective liberation, and make it possible to move towards the seemingly impossible.
Read the full Call for Participation to learn more about proposal formats and submission instructions.
Submissions are due June 30, 2025.
Attend a virtual information session with IA Staff on May 28 to ask questions and learn more.
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