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Since January 2010, community media artists Jennifer LaFontaine and Emmy Pantin have been artists in residence at a community health centre. The Four Villages Community Health Centre provides services across a large area of west-end Toronto including the Junction, Swansea, Roncesvalles, and Bloor West Village neighbourhoods. By promoting healthy living, preventing illness and supporting a healthy community, they offer everyone the tools they need to improve their health. And what better tool for people to improve their health than art?
Short workshops that included photography exercises, audio recording, storytelling and making paper mandalas were offered to already existing programs. Two digital storytelling workshops blending creative writing, oral history, and digital video production were offered to staff and clients.
To read more about the project, and see some of the art and digital stories that was made, check out the Journeys to Health blog.
On November 5-7, 2010 Motivate Canada and CAAWS, the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity, brought together community program leaders and youth involved with Motivate Canada’s Active Circle initiative and CAAWS’ Aboriginal On the Move project for a digital storytelling workshop. The Active Circle supports Aboriginal youth and communities to become vibrant, active and healthy through sport and recreation. CAAWS’ Aboriginal On the Move project supports the development and implementation of sport and physical activity programs for Aboriginal girls and young women. Participants, who came from a variety of communities across Canada, were asked to share a story about the impact of sport and physical activity in their life, the life of someone they know, or in their community. The result was a collection of stories that speak to the power of sport and physical activity in how we define ourselves and create our community.
by Amber by Chase by Christina by Justin by Keisha by Lisa Marie by Lovenia by Serena by Serene by Shayla by Shelly
