Rittenhouse: A New Vision
Healing Communities Through Transformative Justice
Current Offerings
We Got This! is a ten session Transformative Justice art-based group for harm reduction workers.
Past Offerings
In 2022 Rittenhouse in partnered with Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre for a ten-week Transformative Justice in the Arts program called "We got this!"
"We got this! Transformative Justice through the Arts" is a multi-disciplinary arts & justice skill-building program for Harm Reduction Peer Workers (HRPW) in South Parkdale. From week to week, this project scaffolds learning in arts skills, creative exploration, storytelling and critical dialogue about community-held transformative justice. The 10 weeks are divided into three sections:
—Critical skill building in transformative justice, conflict, analysis of the carceral and punitive systems and community-centred care.
—Exploring our stories and lived experience with the punitive system via arts-based and —embodied methodologies.
—Imagining and dreaming up of a new world built on abolition and transformative justice via arts-based and embodied practices. We will also explore what embodied community care looks like and feels like.
The overarching goal of this program resounds in the name "We got this!" - a euphemism in low-income & street-involved youth communities to affirm our capacity to deal with challenges together & encourage mutual support. Our aim is for participants to leave with a refined sense of their personal power, an invigorated belief in community-held care strategies and a deep understanding that we will need all our creativity, our artful expressions, our stories and visions to create the collective wellness & liberation we all long for.
The program ends with a showcase of the artistic material created during the 8-10 weeks. Multiple forms of art making will be used, including but not limited to; zines, block printing, writing, storytelling, performance, visual, video etc. Embodied and body-based practices will also be integrated to support care (self-care and community care), a deepened exploration of one's own stories, hopes, identities and more.
"We got this! Transformative Justice through the Arts" is a multi-disciplinary arts & justice skill-building program for Harm Reduction Peer Workers (HRPW) in South Parkdale. From week to week, this project scaffolds learning in arts skills, creative exploration, storytelling and critical dialogue about community-held transformative justice. The 10 weeks are divided into three sections:
—Critical skill building in transformative justice, conflict, analysis of the carceral and punitive systems and community-centred care.
—Exploring our stories and lived experience with the punitive system via arts-based and —embodied methodologies.
—Imagining and dreaming up of a new world built on abolition and transformative justice via arts-based and embodied practices. We will also explore what embodied community care looks like and feels like.
The overarching goal of this program resounds in the name "We got this!" - a euphemism in low-income & street-involved youth communities to affirm our capacity to deal with challenges together & encourage mutual support. Our aim is for participants to leave with a refined sense of their personal power, an invigorated belief in community-held care strategies and a deep understanding that we will need all our creativity, our artful expressions, our stories and visions to create the collective wellness & liberation we all long for.
The program ends with a showcase of the artistic material created during the 8-10 weeks. Multiple forms of art making will be used, including but not limited to; zines, block printing, writing, storytelling, performance, visual, video etc. Embodied and body-based practices will also be integrated to support care (self-care and community care), a deepened exploration of one's own stories, hopes, identities and more.
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Rittenhouse: A New Vision
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