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“HumanEYES” underway in 10 lower mainland classrooms
Thanks to support from the United Way of Lower Mainland , the BC Arts Council and the Vancouver Board of Education, 10 elementary classes in the lower mainland are currently participating in HumanEYES.
HumanEYES is an arts-based initiative that highlights the diverse life experiences and migration stories in Vancouver classrooms, and ultimately encourages us to see and more deeply appreciate each other’s humanity.
Over the course of 5-7 workshops each participating class will have the opportunity to celebrate diversity, gain basic tools to identify and challenge discriminatory and exclusionary practices and contribute to a class-wide creative collaboration that encourages inter-generational, inter-cultural and inter-neighbourhood storytelling and relationship-building.
HumanEYES will culminate in a public event that will celebrate the completed works that all project participants, supporters and ‘extended-family-storytellers’ will be invited to attend.
Stay tuned for more updates about this exciting initiative involving up to 300 Vancouver School Board students and families!
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YouthMADE: Media Arts Diversity Education – Workshops that MOVE
YouthMADE is a media arts production and outreach program that inspires those who have experienced racism and discrimination to become creative agents of change.
A dynamic example of peer education in action, YouthMADE brings young people to the ‘front of the classroom’ through a series of interactive youth-facilitated workshops that incorporate the core values of the project: Creativity, Critical Analysis and Compassion.
Using the power of youth-voice and digital storytelling to speak directly to youth,YouthMADE workshops give young people an opportunity to generate conversations that are meaningful and relevant to them.
Thanks to the generous financial support provided by the project sponsors, the YouthMADE workshops are being made available for free.
