Our programs engage youth in personally and socially transformative storytelling using digital media, artistic collaboration, and peer facilitation.
This is a paid, hands-on mentorship and leadership opportunity for 2–3 cultural workers to co-create transformative projects, rethink arts governance, and help shape the future of a nearly 30-year-old radical nonprofit rooted in anti-oppression and creative justice.
Our latest interactive learning resource takes a creative approach to cultivating caring, inclusive, and accountable communities.
Our workshops are designed to engage students in meaningful dialogue and learning at the intersections of race, class, sexual orientation, and gender.
AMES boosts the imaginations and skillsets of young digital activists and creative change-makers by providing them with unique opportunities to MAKE and SHARE meaningful media.
Our media-making intensives provide young people with open and supportive spaces to reflect on the issues affecting their lives, develop concrete skills, and produce creative work that prompts courageous conversations.
Crossroads team members Deblekha, Neffy, and Nova engaged educators from around the province at the BCTF’s Social Justice Educators Conference held at …
We know it’s been a minute since we last caught up, but rest assured, our silence has been the result of some …
In May, AMES selected the art awardees for the ChARTing Change Contest! See more about the six chosen below!
During our initial research interviews, mentors and facilitators shared what they’d learned about Community Digital Storytelling (CDS), based on their years of experience.
Community Digital Storytelling grows out of our experiences in the world, shared as stories. Our strategy, as mentors developing new approaches to storytelling, is to create and hold open a receptive and welcoming space.
Doing this work in community (when safer spaces are created and held) tends to accelerate the process of individual healing, but it also activates …