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We provide the next generation of creative change-makers with unique opportunities to MAKE and SHARE media that matters

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Access To Media Society?

AMES has been investing in the imaginations and skill sets of up-and-coming media artists, digital activists and creative change makers for over two decades.

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Acknowledging our shared territories

AMES is a bi-regional organization. Many of our projects take place on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territories, and that’s where lots of our collaborators and participants hail from too. But the birth place of AMES is the unsurrendered territory of the Penelakut peoples, and other Hul’qumi’num speaking Nations who hold rights and responsibilities in and around the place that’s come to be known as Galiano Island.

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500+

Videos Created

2,000 +

Youth Producers

50,000+

Students Reached

Programs

Stories that move: transforming ourselves and the wider world

DisPLACEment

DisPLACEment centres the stories, creative visions, and perspectives of indigenous and newcomer youth, models peer-education and helps build motivation for change by delving into timely and critical equity issues.

HumanEYES

Bridging Cultures and Generations through arts-based migration and food-focused storytelling

Digital Forage

Digital Forage is a wild-food focused intergenerational digital storytelling program that involves reciprocal knowledge-sharing between Galiano and Penelakut artists, elders, and youth.