Doves of Peace Building on a project that was born in Colombia in 2019, the Doves of Peace project aims to promote peace-building through the arts. Using a canvas dove as the backdrop, this project encourages participants to portray what “peace” and “community” means to them, whether that be through text or image. So far, …
Creative Writing Workshops We foster a safe gathering space for a series of workshops where we allow ourselves to express our innermost feelings and let them flow. The aim of these workshops is to create spaces for conversation but, above all, spaces for using writing as a tool for creative exercise that is simultaneously therapeutic, …
Weaving Community : Crocheting Project Weaving Community, while being a reason to gather in the process of creating crochet mandalas, was also a way to weave networks and conversations, gather in intergenerational groups, and deal with the impacts of winter and isolation due to the pandemic on our mental health. Throughout this project, spending time …
Creative Thinkers: Literacy, Storytelling and Empowerment Through the Arts. By opening ourselves up to investigate our surroundings, we activate our senses, explore the city, and create stories through a variety of artistic expressions. Youth between the ages of 14 and 19 who have migratory experience in their families are invited to build stories collectively over …
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Visual Poetry Youth Photography Project Armed with our cameras and big smiles on our faces, we walk around and explore the city— not only to capture beautiful landscapes and memories, but also to involve the youth participants in conversations about place, identity, migration, and belonging, while discovering visual poetry in our surroundings. Using photography as …
Our World of a Thousand Colours Our World of a Thousand Colours is a mosaic of creativity and imagination— a colour explosion that amuses and entertains while holding space for conversations about a better world. Throughout this program, we generate spaces for children ages 4-11 to learn alongside emerging and professional artists and youth completing …
Our Homes, Our Communities This project sees the creation of virtual and in-person spaces where creative conversations are held and over 100 participants of all ages are invited to identify correlations between their idea of home and that of location, land, and physical structures. These conversations are centred on the participants’ own sense of belonging …
Nights Of Light Activating Toronto’s public space with light, colour, and tradition, this project focuses on paper lanterns— a well-loved tradition across the world. Joined by over 60 seniors, we fostered space for intergenerational conversations while creating around 100 paper lanterns that will be part of various installations across the city. We honour the keepers of …
