Ripples of Impact: A look at PACTcon 2025

June 4, 2025

PACTcon 2025 took place May 20-24, 2025 in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Thank you to our hosts, attendees, speakers and partners for making this an unforgettable few days of collaboration and connection!

Welcome Remarks

Michael J. Bobbitt - Mass Culture, Keynote Speaker

Michael J. Bobbitt's remarks - PDF

Kathryn Westoll, PACT Board President

Kathryn Westoll's remarks - PDF

Kathryn Westoll's remarks - Word

Brad Lepp, PACT Executive Director

Brad Lepp's remarks - PDF

Brad Lepp's remarks - Word

Schedule

View schedule - PDF

View schedule - Word

Resources

Ripples of Impact

Two Planks and a Passion shares their Statement of Principles that states and emphasizes a value driven board that was adopted by their board in 2021.

Statement of Principles

CoastArts is the umbrella for both The Ross Creek Centre for the Arts and Two Planks and a Passion Theatre, and is dedicated to life-long learning in and through the arts.

We affirm that as a board and membership dedicated to this Organization, which seeks to unite people and communities through cultural expression, creativity, and education, we have a heightened responsibility to hold ourselves accountable to our community.

We commit to listening, learning, and acting for reconciliation, equity, justice, and freedom in our work as stewards of the CoastArts Association. This includes a specific commitment (but is not limited to) to anti-racism, Indigenous reconciliation, and climate action.

Further, we commit to engaging our community and each other with a joyful spirit of collaboration to continue to build and maintain a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization.

Our decisions and actions as a board and membership will be guided by and made in reference to this statement.

Accepted at the AGM, 2021

The Same but Different - Federal Advocacy 2.0

Session hosted by PAA.

The Same but Different - Federal Advocacy 2.0 Presentation Slides - PDF

PACTcon Reflections

Links from PACTcon Reflections sessions hosted by Kenji Maeda & Kevin Matthew Wong.

The Bus Analogy

Towards Braiding by Elwood Jimmy and Vanessa Andreotti

Navigating Polarities

Vectorworks for set design resource

Link to the Vectorworks uses in set design - link here

Pitch Party Master Doc

View the list of projects pitched, with names of companies and contact points - PDF

Ground Floor presents Introduction to Transformative Mediation

Presentation by Richard Lam of Ground Floor on conflict mediation slides - PDF

Introduction to Equitable Theatre Criticism

Created by Dr. Karen Fricker, Adjunct Professor, Department of Dramatic Arts, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Nathaniel Hanula-James, theatre artist & dramaturg, and Jose Solís, MA Cultural Theory & Criticism, view the free online resource, structured in 6 modules at the link here!

Thank you to our PACTcon 2025 Partners & Travel Subsidy donors!

Partners

Thank you to our PACTcon 2025 Partners! We appreciate all of your support. We couldn't have done it without you.

Travel Subsidy Donors

Each year, the generosity of PACT members allows us to provide a number of travel subsidies to help folks with limited travel budgets attend PACTcon, our annual gathering.

This year, 25 people were provided support to attend PACTcon 2025 in Halifax!