Stride Art Gallery AGM + Call for Board Members
Closing Date of Opportunity: October 28, 2025
Name or Organization: Stride Art Gallery Association
Contact Email: mell@stride.ab.ca
Website: https://www.stride.ab.ca/stride-gallery-annual-general-meeting-2/
Post Content: Stride Gallery Annual General Meeting
October 28th, 2025
6pm MST
via Zoom (Link will be available on social media and our website)
Please join us for our Annual General Meeting on October 28th, 2025 at 6pm MST, taking place on Zoom. Please find the link in our bio to register prior to the meeting. Please let us know if you need any accessibility requirements to participate.
Agenda:
1. Call to Order
2. Approval of 2024 agenda
3. Approval of 2023 AGM minutes
4. Board of Directors Report
5. Staff Report
6. Financial Report of 2024/2025 year
7. Election of 2025/2026 Board of Directors
8. Election of 2025/2026 Board Executives
9. Close
As a member of the community, we welcome you to join Stride’s Membership for a fee of $1.00, allowing you to be a voting member at this Annual General Meeting. You are welcome to obtain your membership prior to the AGM, or at the AGM.
All are welcome, and no membership required to attend the meeting.
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Call for Board Members
Stride Gallery is looking for dedicated individuals to join our Board of Directors. We are currently recruiting three new board members into the organization.
Over the past four years, Stride Gallery has made a transition to an entirely new board of directors. With the help of these new BIPOC board members, we are focusing our efforts on reworking the board model and processes. We require assistance in pursuing our ongoing dismantling of systematic oppression that has been historically present in artist-run centers. To do this, we need to continue onboarding perspectives into Stride Gallery.
We are seeking applications from individuals with an emphasis on BIPOC communities, persons withDisabilities, persons who are in the LGBTQ2S+ community, and people whose perspectives in arts communities have historically not been heard. We are also seeking members who are especially proficient in accounting and financials. Through these new additions, we hope to fill necessary gaps in our organization to strive towards a brighter future. Please note that Stride Gallery is welcoming of applicants with no prior Board experience.
Specific expertise we are looking for include but are not limited to:
•Local artists and emerging arts workers (institutional training not required)
•Knowledge of fund development for non-profit organizations
•Knowledge in studio management and development
•Knowledge of moving organizations and lease negotiations
•Financial proficiency in non-profit organizations
Who we are:
Stride Gallery is located in Moh’kinstsis, Wîcîspa, Guts’ists’i, or what is currently known as Calgary, Alberta within the Treaty 7 region. Our activities on this land have been stewarded and cared for by the Blackfoot Confederacy comprising of the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations, Tsuut’ina First Nation, and theîethka Nakoda Nations comprising of the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations. This land is also home to the Otipemisiwak Métis Government of the Métis Nation within Alberta District 5 and District 6.
We are a non-profit artist-run centre that actively supports contemporary art practices with a focus on local art practices. We believe in art that addresses our current realities with urgency, criticality, and respect through which contemporary art can reintroduce or propose new ways of thinking and being. For these emergent practices, we provide various platforms such as exhibitions, studio residencies, public programs, performances, workshops, publications, and gatherings. Through our programming, we aim to foster community participation and conversations around art.
For more information on the AGM and Call for Board members, please visit our website :
https://www.stride.ab.ca/stride-gallery-annual-general-meeting-2/
or our social media:
@stridegallery