Project Archive
Let’s Talk About Death… With Radical Care
In this collaboration between Radical Care and the Death Conversation Game, we delved into questions that often remain unspoken, fostering a collective exploration of vulnerability, creativity, and connection while talking about death through art making.
Meeting Place
Community portrait and printmaking workshop where participants gathered to connect, share, and create, bringing their personal stories to life in a way that highlighted the neighbourhood.
Art Rise Collective
Are you an artist or creative seeking a community that inspires deep reflection and collaboration? Join the Art Rise Collective!
Neighbourhood Organizing Update
Check out all the things that the Neighbourhood Organizing crew has been upto over the years!
Dig Up The Dirt
This was a pop-up event hosted by Neighbourhood Organizers to deepen our connection to local plants that have a "bad reputation."
Fellow Fest
The Social Media Fellowship is a program that empowers participants to become skilled content creators. This summer, to celebrate the end of the fellows’ residency, the Fellowship held its first-ever performing arts event.
Break the Beat
This workshop is where participants of all ages and abilities explored the four elements of hip-hop, and learned from masters in the field!
Taking Care
What is care? How do we actively shape our relationship to each other and what form does it take? How do we give and receive care? These were some of the questions were pondered through a community art project at Connect Fest 2024.
Elephant in the Room
Learn about the Neighbourhood Organizers latest prototype that aims to address distrust for difference at a neighbourhood level.
Festival of Flourishing
The Festival of Flourishing was a day filled with art, creativity and co-creation! It celebrated the launch of posAbilities Strategic Vision 2028 - of Good and Full Lives, for Everyone.
Radical Care
Radical Care is an interactive, immersive experience hosted by community based artist Aaniya Asrani in partnership with Curiko at Alternatives Gallery.
Adaptive Dance
Artist in Residence, Kelly Riccardi, a professional hip-hop dancer, created a series of accessible videos to introduce hip hop to persons with disabilities.
Murals Without Walls
A two-part project offering free low-barrier digital studio workshops, and a supported application process for the juried selection of 4 artists who produced small-scale murals for display at the Vancouver Mural Festival.
Neighbourhood Organizer
Neighbourhood organizing is a prototype that explores how to build connection to people and places in local neighbourhoods. It tries to find and engage the hard to reach, bridge social capital, and connect people across differences and divides.
Connecting During COVID
In this fieldwork course at Emily Carr University, students were invited to imagine and explore a series of virtual and place-based interactions in their own neighbourhoods.
Making Visible
Using the medium of photography to get to know people with disabilities, Galen documents lives and personalities. He thinks creating and sharing intimate portraits of people could be a step towards building bridges between the disability community and the rest of the world through increased visibility.
Personality Portraits
Identity is at the heart of BoBae Kim’s Artist-in-Residence project. A series of literal and abstract portraits of individuals she’s worked with capture both their outward appearance and inner personality. At first glance, it’s easy enough to see the link between identity and a portrait series. However, for BoBae, the project is also about reclaiming her identity as an artist.
Spirituality, Art and Community
A partnership with Outsiders and Others and Christ Church Cathedral resulted in a pop-up gallery in the windows of the cathedral during the month of April 2021.
Spoken Word
What happens when you bring diverse poets together and ask them to co-create some spoken word poetry together?
Community Collage
What does a community art project look like during the COVID-19 pandemic? It’s a question that Nadia Galvan is still grappling with.