busy days

"Armed with a shoestring budget and cameras that eventually had to be held together by elastic bands, a group of homeless men and women set out to document their first hand experiences in Toronto." So says Liz Worth in the latest edition of spacing magazine. I will post pictures of our cameras soon.

Fred and me have been busy of late. Talked about the work at Project Read in Parkdale during the EcoArts Media Festival and at the Hepatitis C Workshop at the College Street United Church - and just had a piece about the work come out in reconstruction. We also showed work in the OCAP event at the Gladstone.
There is also good news on the housing front and that is that the provincial government has freed up almost $400 million dollars in federal funding for housing. See the posts at the Wellesley Institute for the full story on Bill C-48.
The sad news right now is that we will not be presenting our thinking about this work and this work at the American Educational Research Association in April as I was not able to find any support money to bring us there. On the upside we will be presenting it at the CCPH (Community-Campus Partnerships for Health) conference in April and we are starting recruitment for in/vulnerabilities.
We are engaged in multiple conversations with many partners and it feels like the work is having a far-reaching effect. The conversations are at a larger social level and more intimate, person-to-person.