The Coming Together Project is an arts-based community research project exploring how women and transwomen who are marginally housed build support networks with each other in order to survive.
Art and Culture, Homelessness, Women, Ontario
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...
art, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, Homelessness, stories, street-involved youth, Ontario
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...
art, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, Homelessness, street youth, street-involved, workshops, Ontario
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...
Art and Culture, Ontario
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...
Art and Culture, Immigrants and Refugees, Ontario
Art and Culture, community-based research, environmental health, Health, Poverty Research, urban poverty, Ontario
The 2009 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...
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, Ontario
http://www.nfb.ca/iwashere - 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...
Art and Culture, Homelessness, Women, Ontario
http://anagraphia.blogspot.com/ - This is an artists photoblog of homelessness in Toronto.
Art and Culture, Homelessness, Ontario
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...
Art and Culture, Homelessness, Ontario
This video is based on interviews with leading members of OCAP including John Clarke and Gaetan Heroux, as well as footage of actions organized by the group in the last few years. Judy Koch has...
Art and Culture, Organizing, Ontario
