05/02/2025
The countdown continues to the Design Victoria conversation this weekend! Here’s another teaser introduction of our panelists to get you excited.
Todays feature: Paulina Grainger, ICA Manager of Arts, Equity and Community Engagement
Paulina was born in Tanzania, East Africa. She immigrated to Canada 22 years ago, after working as a TV & Radio Producer for International Advertising Agencies in Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Sri Lanka. She is a community organizer & activist, an Equity Facilitator, an arts administrator, an actor, a storyteller, and producer. From 2003-2011 she worked as the General Manager of PUENTE Theatre, a Victoria-based multicultural theatre company. She has worked at the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria since 2012. Her innovative work using art-based practices to explore critical social issues around equity, justice, diversity & inclusion brought provincial recognition when she was bestowed with the BC Multiculturalism Award in 2016. Paulina’s lived experience as a mixed race, immigrant woman of colour, with deep connection to community, and broad knowledge of the many systemic barriers faced by refugees, immigrants, and newcomers to Canada, continuously informs her work. In 2020, she developed ICA’s Equity Training Program “Tools for Equity” an anti-racism program that addresses racial disparities and employment barriers faced by communities of colour as a way to support businesses and organizations in promoting cultures of inclusion, closing racial gaps, and maximizing anti-racist impacts in the workplace.
This quote by Terry Tempest Williams resonates with her deeply, “I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create & change culture.”
Don’t miss out on hearing this professional’s take on the topic of spaces and community. Book your ticket at Design Victoria’s website today!
