Stories

Upcoming
Arts for Social Change

Love Letters from the Diaspora

A small festival of love stories from different cultures, celebrating the folklore, songs, and rituals of love across diasporic communities.

Upcoming
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Intergenerational Play, in Seniors' Homes

A series of workshops where the youngest and the oldest in our communities make things together and present them.

Third Culture Futures
Arts for Social Change

Third Culture Futures

A three-day overnight residency for newcomer, immigrant, and third-culture youth to create original artwork with mentorship by professional artists, culminating in a public showcase.

Beyond the Postcard
Arts for Social Change

Beyond the Postcard: Untold Stories of Cuba

A small multimedia production co-produced with Hebert Poll Gutierrez, surfacing the systemic injustice that Cubans live with every day, the realities tourists never see and postcards never show.

Bridges
Arts for Social Change

Bridges

Five workshops (henna, sensory storytelling, hip hop, alcohol ink, mosaic lamps) designed to help newcomer and immigrant participants feel embedded in the fabric of the city.

Ringette in the mountains
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Ringette in the Mountains

A first-of-its-kind ringette program delivered in remote mountain communities with a majority female cohort, alongside mental health education.

Trauma-aware care, in teacher education
Mental Health & Well-Being

Trauma-Aware Care, in Teacher Education

Training practicing educators across two teacher-education universities in trauma-aware care: the foundations, the daily practice, and practical strategies to make their classrooms more responsive to their diverse students' needs.

Mental health in slum-based schools
Mental Health & Well-Being

Aawaaz: Mental Health in Slum Schools

Programs in under-resourced schools, where mental health literacy met daily classroom realities, and where the children, often, became the teachers.