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Some sing in the shower (well, let’s face it, the acoustics are pretty darn good in there). Some hum away as they focus on a hobby or...

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...

Larissa’s Journey is a blog series that we hope will offer insight and understanding into the lives of one of the young people in the...

Larissa’s Journey is a blog series that we hope will offer insight and understanding into the lives of one of the young people in the...

Larissa’s Journey is a blog series that we hope will offer insight and understanding into the lives of one of the young people in the...

Larissa’s Journey is a blog series that we hope will offer insight and understanding into the lives of one of the young people in the...

Larissa’s Journey is a blog series that we hope will offer insight and understanding into the lives of one of the young people in the...

Larissa’s Journey is a blog series that we hope will offer insight and understanding into the lives of one of the young people in the...

Larissa’s Journey is a blog series that we hope will offer insight and understanding into the lives of one of the young people in the...

Larissa’s Journey is a blog series that we hope will offer insight and understanding into the lives of one of the young people in the...

The poem was heart wrenching, it really struck a chord. It talks about a young man’s struggle, his pain with life and how he finally...

Minus 27 degrees Celsius – windchill made it to minus 30s. Apart from the emotional weight of moving Innercity Arts to donated Dymon...

Later that evening, my young street outreach partner and I met 52 street friends. They represented all facets of this diverse culture;...

On July 21-23, thirty-five stone carvers gathered on Ottawa’s historic Sparks Street for the Canadian Stone Carving Festival. Each was...

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the...

You and I don’t know each other – but I felt a connection with you.

Here, let the National Learning Community on Youth Homelessness say it best: “Youth homelessness has existed in Canada for decades;...

The kids are gearing up for a big art project in May using t-shirts. We got a bunch of ‘practice’ t-shirts in from Value Village for them...

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