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Larissa volunteering at the 2017 festival Every year, the Canadian Stone Carving Festival raises funds for Innercity Arts. Many young...

“Mandalas are an ancient artistic technique used in many cultures around the world as an aid to understanding who we are as individuals...

Every year, Innercity Arts holds a Christmas party for all of the youth in the program. It’s a special night, when both the older and...

You may remember that back in January, Innercity Arts had to leave our much loved art space. The room that had been our home for 3 years...

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Listen this morning as Executive Director, Ken MacLaren, shares the latest news about the Ministry’s most pressing need: Office Space....

One of these uniquely complex stories involve a gentleman by the name of ‘Jim.’ I have been blessed with the opportunity to help him as...

Life is like that at times and people somehow seem to end up in the dark recesses of memory and disappear behind the urgency of the lives...

I was reminded of this recently when a former client called us from Toronto. She and her husband had been struggling with serious...

But we never got around to throwing it away so it just sat in the corner of the art room. No one ever used the old couch, unless they...

Several months later I am sitting in a coffee shop and who comes over out of the blue, but my new street friend. He tells me how his life...

I have been asked if we had the following items from different people who have come to our door at different times. Things like: pens,...

One chilly Sunday afternoon early in April our team crossed Dalhousie Street at Rideau. There in front of a popular cafe, amidst the...

One day a woman came to our door. She explained that she was a single mother with a baby and a toddler at home. She asked me if we had...

Yet he was not cared for in the same way as he was made, left with many stains of abandonment and abuse. Over time, alcohol, depression...

Listen this morning as Executive Director, Ken MacLaren, shares the latest news about the Ministry’s most pressing need: Office Space....

It was the end of the day at our drop-in and I was getting ready to clean up the Foot Care Station. I had been there for four hours,...

And yet, they are all there with the same message: “I want your attention.” The reward in the discovery of a “blur” is like a box waiting...

Beth comes every Wednesday all the way from the outskirts of Ottawa to the downtown core, where she has been volunteering at the Office...

In our conversations, Stu openly admits to being a heroin addict. He is very pragmatic – almost absolute – in his resolve to continue on...