Art City in St. James Town submitted some photos to ArtBridges from a great project their community arts organization did recently. If you have photos and a story to share about an interesting community arts project, please send them in to us at info@artbridges.ca. By sharing stories, others may be inspired!
« During Fall 2013, the Red Slam Collective worked with Art City students leading a series of Urban Art workshops called Da Jump Off, which is connected to the Medicine Wheel teachings. Using their own words and experiences, the children explored the creation story in the 4 Directions of the Medicine Wheel through four urban art mediums: Graffiti Writing, B-boying, Beat Making and MC’ing.
Every session begins with the Sharing Circle and honoring the 4 Directions, and smudging with one of the four sacred medicines. After 11 weeks of workshops the four stories produced through the four mediums were then interwoven into a final showcase for friends, family and community members at the Wellesley Community Centre.
The Da Jump Off project was funded by the Community Projects Grant from the Toronto Arts Council. »
-post and photos submitted by Julia Girmenia; photos by Gillian Foster — Art City in St. James Town
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