June 4, 2013
Kwentong Bayan is a community based comic book project created in collaboration with Filipina migrant workers in the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP).
Keywords: Art and Culture, comics, Immigrants and Refugees, Women, Workers' Rights, Multimedia, All of Canada
May 24, 2012
The Richmond Low Income Resource Directory has a full list of services for low income people in Richmond.
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, Disability, Family, Foodbanks and Food, Health, Homelessness, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Aid, Legal Assistance, Mental Health, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Violence, Welfare, Women, Workers' Rights, British Columbia, Directories
June 1, 2011
I WAS HERE is a media workshop that puts digital cameras and photoblogging websites into the hands of young parents. Five women, all pregnant or parenting, have been documenting their lives in...
Keywords: Art and Culture, Blogs, Media, Technology, Women, Ontario, Multimedia
June 1, 2011
This is an artists photoblog of homelessness in Toronto.
Keywords: Art and Culture, Blogs, Homelessness, Ontario
June 1, 2011
Poor No More is a new documentary that will take poor Canadians on a journey to see first-hand what is being done here and in other countries to reduce and eliminate poverty. The film and the website...
Keywords: Art and Culture, Media, General resources, Multimedia, All of Canada, International
May 30, 2011
Think NDN is a weekly hour-long radio show on Co-op radio in Vancouver for and by Vancouver's Aboriginal community. Archives of the show are available at Coop Radio's website.
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Media, British Columbia, General resources
May 29, 2011
Gallery Gachet provides artists informed by mental health issues with opportunities to exhibit, curate, perform, read, teach and to develop their leadership skills.
Keywords: Art and Culture, Disability, Mental Health, British Columbia, Organizations
May 29, 2011
The Icarus Project is a non-profit community based website, support network, and underground media project created by and for people struggling with bipolar disorder and other dangerous gifts that...
Keywords: Art and Culture, Mental Health, Technology, Organizations, International
January 7, 2011
MEDIA INDIGENA is an interactive, multimedia magazine dedicated to Indigenous news, views and creative expression.
From the battlefield of politics and policy to the beauty of arts and culture, we...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, indigenous, Technology, Multimedia, All of Canada
August 13, 2010
W2 is a community media arts centre that is trying to provide a framework for artists, residents and community groups to work together, while exploring new cross-cultural and hybrid art forms.
Keywords: Art and Culture, British Columbia, Multimedia, Organizations
May 13, 2010
The Artists' Legal Outreach are a group of volunteer lawyers and law students committed to working with artists and arts organizations. They offer resources, workshops and clinics where artists can...
Keywords: Art and Culture, artists, legal help, Legal Research, British Columbia, Organizations
January 26, 2010
Government of Nunavut - Department of Culture, Language, Elders & Youth, Community Programs Division
The Community Programs branch is the community and organizational development arm of the department. The branch funds and provides hands-on support for the development of programs for Elders and...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, community program funding, Seniors and Elders, Government information, Nunavut
December 16, 2009
Toronto Youth Street Stories (TYSS) grew out of the Youth Pathways Project (YPP) conducted by researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the University of Toronto. A team of...
Keywords: art, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, Homelessness, stories, street-involved youth, Ontario, Multimedia, Reports and documents
December 16, 2009
The Bay Area-based welfareQueens, a project of the POOR News Network, are fighting back against a system that dehumanizes poor mothers—with poetry, theater, and any other media tool they can access.
Keywords: Art and Culture, Welfare, Women, Multimedia, United States
December 16, 2009
The Poor News Network out of the US has a YouTube channel with videos about poor workers, indigenous people and more.
Keywords: Art and Culture, Multimedia, United States
December 16, 2009
Sketch creates art making opportunities for young people who live street-involved and homeless or who are considered to be at risk. Sketch offers studio space, workshops, art exhibition and job...
Keywords: art, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, Homelessness, street youth, street-involved, workshops, Ontario, Programs and courses
December 15, 2009
Digital Photo Artist and social activist, ex-homeless addict in Toronto explores people and places from a unique perspective emphasizing the lifestyle of those forgotten members of our society whose...
Keywords: Art and Culture, Blogs, Ontario
December 9, 2009
By Kim Goldberg
By official estimates, three hundred people live and sleep on the streets of Nanaimo, British Columbia. On any given day, a percentage of these people are barred from a 40-block area...
Keywords: Art and Culture, homelessnes, Homelessness, Nanaimo, poetry, Books, British Columbia
November 20, 2009
A song and music video entitled From Stilettos to Moccasins was developed from the findings of a research project that examined the role of identity and stigma in Aboriginal women's healing from...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, aboriginal women, addictions, Art and Culture, drug use, Health, song, video, Women, Multimedia, All of Canada
September 14, 2009
YkOnline is a blog/site about all things Yellowknife. In short it has reviews, opinions, interviews, rants, photos, news, events, and more. The aim of this site is to provide the reader with...
Keywords: Art and Culture, Blogs, Northwest Territories
May 14, 2009
Settlement Arts is a Toronto-based organization that has been established to use exhibition and education to advance issues of immigration and settlement.
Settlement Arts’ first project is the...
Keywords: Art and Culture, Immigrants and Refugees, General resources, Ontario
April 17, 2009
The 2011 Welcome Home guide (PDF 4 MB) provides a brief overview of the services and supports available in the community that may make the transition to a new home a little easier including how to...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, Education, Family, Foodbanks and Food, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, General resources, Ontario
October 5, 2008
CITIZENShift is the National Film Board of Canada’s participatory Web platform exploring that explores issues such as poverty through films, photography, articles, blogs and podcasts. This social...
Keywords: Art and Culture, Media, General resources, All of Canada, International
October 5, 2008
Solutions from Lived Experiences through Arts-Informed Research is a collaborative effort to build on the work of several community-based, participatory action and/or arts-informed research projects...
Keywords: Art and Culture, Homelessness, General resources, Ontario
