All Nations Healin’ Thru Artz (ANHTA) was featured in Regina newspaper, Leader Post. In the story, ANHTA founder, Monica Fogel, shares the troubled past that inspired her to reach out to Regina’s at-risk youth, many of which live in North Central, an area that was once declared “Canada’s worst neighbourhood” by Macleans magazine.

The unique after-school youth program combines life skills and cultural teachings with hip hop dance, theatre, photography and filmmaking… “We’re not here to be a saviour. We can’t change their lives for them. But we can give them opportunities to see another avenue to go down instead of always thinking one way all the time,” Fogel said. (from Leader Post, read the full article here)

Also in the article is Eagleclaw Thom, a new media instructor at the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology who has just started teaching documentary film-making and photography to the ANHTA youth.

“It gets them out of the situation they are in. We have supper together before class and chat and discuss the happenings of what has been going on in their lives and try to make sense of it in a way that helps…” (from Leader Post, read the full article here)

All Nations Healin’ Thru Artz is having their 6th Annual Talent Show Fundraiser featuring ANHTA dancers on April 17th at the Regina Performing Arts Centre. Click here for more info.

Posted with permission from Monica Fogel
Read All Nations Healin’ Thru Artz profile on ArtBridges’ Community-Engaged Arts Directory and Map.