Each year, the Centre for Community Learning & Development brings together immigrant women to participate in a community leadership development program called the Immigrant Women’s Integration Project. The women come from different cultural and geographic communities, some having just immigrated within the last 3 months, others settled for years in Toronto. While there are similarities between their neighbourhoods, the communities have different needs, cultural identities, histories, and geographies. Through Neighbourhoods Story Project, CDS and audio artist Reena Katz worked with IWIP participants to create an interactive storymap of Toronto using digital storytelling, audio art and photography as tools for immigrant women from across Toronto to explore community and identity.

This project was funded by the Toronto Arts Council and The Ontario Arts Council.

Have a look around the Neighbourhoods Storymap; the red place markers are photographs, the green place markers are audio portraits, and the blue place markers are digital stories.


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