For the last month, members of the Downtown Eastside Power of Women group have been sharing their stories about hope, struggle, love and resistance in the Downtown Eastside on the Vancouver Media...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Women, British Columbia
The Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group will publishing stories collected from their "In Our Own Voices" project throughout the month of June. Check their website for a new story every Monday,...
Art and Culture, Women, British Columbia
The Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group is launching the In Our Own Voices writing project in June 2011. After a six-week period of intensive writing, we are ready to share our stories about hope...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Women, British Columbia
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.
Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Media, British Columbia
Gallery Gachet provides artists informed by mental health issues with opportunities to exhibit, curate, perform, read, teach and to develop their leadership skills.
Art and Culture, Disability, Mental Health, British Columbia
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.
Art and Culture, British Columbia
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...
Art and Culture, artists, legal help, Legal Research, British Columbia
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...
Art and Culture, homelessnes, Homelessness, Nanaimo, poetry, British Columbia
The Tyee has put together a stunning photo essay on homelessness in Vancouver and struggle for affordable housing over the past two years. They also put together a panel of experts to assess...
Art and Culture, Government Policy, Homelessness, photo essay, British Columbia
Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, British Columbia
A slideshow of the second annual Poverty Olympics by Blackbird.
Art and Culture, Homelessness, Organizing, British Columbia
More than 50 pieces of art created by professional artists and community members, including ex-residents are on exhibit on the boarded up windows of the Little Mountain Housing complex. The Little...
Art and Culture, Government Policy, Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
PIVOT 2008 Downtown Eastside Portrait Calendar: Hope in the Shadows - For the past couple of years the PIVOT Legal Society has handed out free disposable black and white cameras to residents of the...
Art and Culture, British Columbia
A book of life stories of seven women who have triumphed over addiction, poverty, and illness in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in BC. George Ryga...
Art and Culture, Women, British Columbia
An SFU graduate student has created a game that puts the player in the role of a homeless woman. The game involves moving the woman around a simple map trying to forage for bottles and items to sell...
Art and Culture, British Columbia
Located in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Pivot is a non-profit legal advocacy organization that focuses its efforts strategically to address the legal and human rights challenges commonly faced by...
Art and Culture, British Columbia
A new play by anti-poverty author and activist Sheila Baxter (Still Raising Hell, A Child is Not a Toy) is being performed in Vancouver May 6th and 7th. The Death in a Dumpster: A Passion Play for...
Art and Culture, Homelessness, British Columbia
