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The Crossing Communities Art Project advocates the use of the imagination and culture as a means to share stories, histories, experiences, identities, and values. We bring together people from diverse backgrounds to exchange and create networks of friendship to work towards social and economic transformation. |
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CROSSING COMMUNITIES ART PROJECT NEWSCrossing Communities is traveling to Montreal March 8 - 11Speak Out and Screening of Short Videos from lookinginspeakingout.com
Workshops with Stella
Artist Jessica MacCormack and musician Rae Spoon in partnership with Crossing Communities Art Project will be holding 4 days of video and sound workshops with members of Stella and presenting the work at the Speak Out and Screening at the NFB Cinerobotheque on March 11, 7:30pm.
Stella: Created in 1995 through the initiative of a handful of sex-workers, public-health researchers and sympathizers Stella provides support and information to sex-workers so that they may live in safety and with dignity and sensitizes and educates the public about sex work and the realities faced by sex workers. Stella fights discrimination against sex workers and promotes the decriminalization of sex work. Stella favours empowerment and solidarity by and amongst sex workers, and is committed to the idea that each person has a place in society, and human rights worth defending.  lookinginspeakingout.com is up and running! Check it out.LookingInSpeakingOut.com is a space to look in and speak out about social issues like, the sex trade, self-harm, addictions, HIV, violence, suicide, being transgendered, and women's rights. Crossing Communities collectively creates the content of the site together with women and girls whose voices are rarely heard locally or globally. Crossing
Communities in Nepal
 During
May and June Crossing Communities Art Project traveled to Nepal to
conduct video and photography workshops in partnership with Women
Foundation Nepal as Crossing Communities’ first international
partnership. Artist Rosalie Favell and Crossing Communities
staff, Edith Regier, Alison Davis, Stephanie Scott and Nicole Shimenok
spent three weeks working with Nepali women to produce video work that
will be included in www.LookingInSpeakingOut.com our new interactive
website set to launch fall 2009. Visit our flickr account to see more
pictures.
Pictures
of Self-Harm
This
20
minute video was
produced over a 5 year period. Women
who self-harm are the main protagonists, in the video they are both
interviewees and documentary artists in search of an understanding of
their own self-harming behaviour and society’s response.
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