If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many pictures does it take
to understand just one word: homelessness?
Homelessness -- Solutions from Lived Experiences
through Arts-Informed Research
A collaborative initiative to put forward and take action on the
knowledge gained from eight arts-informed, community-based,
participatory research studies in Toronto.
Join us on October 1, 2008 to launch our exhibit and help move our
recommendations forward:
Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Time: 9:30 am - 1:00pm
Location: Toronto Metro Hall (Rotunda)
55 John Street, Toronto, M5V 3C6
Agenda:
9:30 AM ? Mingling/Coffee
10:00 AM ? Opening Ceremony with Aboriginal Elder
10:30 AM -- Launch of Policy Report & Speakers' Panel
(Peer researchers involved in the projects)
Moderator: Angela Robertson, Executive Director, Sistering ? A Woman's Place
11:30AM-1:00PM ? Exhibit and Light Lunch
(artists and researchers will be present)
** The exhibit will be on display from
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 to Friday, October 3, 2008.
The following projects will be present:
* a day in the life: Stories and Photographs of Health and
Homelessness in Toronto
* asleep in Toronto
* Coming Together: Homeless Women, Housing and Social Support
* Count Us In! Inclusion and Homeless Women in Downtown East Toronto
* I WAS HERE
* The Street Health Report 2007
* Street Health Stories
* Struggles, Strengths and Solutions: Exploring Food Security with
Young Aboriginal Moms
** (Please see the end of the message for links to the website of each
project)
These projects were conducted by peer researchers, community agencies
and academics working with people with experiences of homelessness.
Together, these works represent an important body of evidence on the
lived experiences of homelessness, which is innovative and locally
defined.
For more information, please contact Professor Izumi Sakamoto (Lead
researcher; Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of
Toronto) at (416)946-8224, or email: [log in to unmask]
Homelessness - Solutions from Lived Experiences through Arts-Informed
Research has been generously funded by the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Wellesley
Institute, and Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (University of
Toronto).
Supporting organizations include: University of Toronto
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, Ryerson University School of
Social Work, York University Critical Disability Studies, Regent Park
Community Health Centre, Street Health, Ontario Women's Health
Network, The Wellesley Institute, Sistering ? A Woman's Place, St.
Michael's Hospital, and the National Film Board of Canada
Filmmaker-in-Residence Programme.
Websites for the eight research projects on display:
* A Day in the Life: Stories and Photographs of Health and
Homelessness in Toronto
<
http://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/events/documents/ADayintheLife-PostertextNov.222006.doc
>
* asleep in Toronto <
http://anagraphia.blogspot.com/2007/05/asleep-in-toronto.html>
* Coming Together: Homeless Women, Housing and Social Support <
http://www.socialwork.utoronto.ca/aswri> (under "Projects")
* Count Us In! Inclusion and Homeless Women in Downtown East Toronto <
http://www.owhn.on.ca/Count_Us_In_Final.pdf>
* I WAS HERE < http://www.nfb.ca/filmmakerinresidence/blog/?page_id=9>
* The Street Health Report2007 <
http://www.streethealth.ca/Downloads/SHReport2007.pdf>
* Street Health Stories < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-omQ5rr3GUk>
* Struggles, Strengths and Solutions: Exploring Food Security with
Young Aboriginal Moms
< http://www.ryerson.ca/foodsecurity/Cyndy%20Baskin%20Summary%20Report.pdf >
Project website, www.artsandhomeless.com will be launched on October 1.
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