Art Build for Housing Justice

Join community leaders with 150+ years of lived experiences of homelessness to explore solutions to homelessness through conversation & art.

By The Housing Justice Project Team

Date and time

Sat, Nov 16, 2024 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM PST

Location

588 Burnside Rd E

588 Burnside Road East Victoria, BC V8T 2X7 Canada

Agenda

Untitled agenda

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

DOORS OPEN: Come early, grab coffee and snacks, socialize

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Stories and Solutions by The Housing Justice Project

Team members from The Housing Justice Project will share stories of homelessness and snippets from our recent research which assessed the options available to people trying to escape, survive, or rec...

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Introductions

We will lead a light-hearted exercise for you to introduce yourself to others in the room. Don't worry, there will be no awkward duck-quacking or corporate energizers.

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Chat and Make Art

Alex Taylor-McCallum

Alex Taylor-McCallum will introduce his design and vision for the art we will co-create together. In small groups, participants (that's you!) will discuss this and the big takeaways from presentat...

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

WRAP -UP & NEXT STEPS (Hugs and High Fives - with consent, of course)

About this event

Event lasts 3 hours 30 minutes

Join us for an Art Build for Housing Justice at the BCGEU community room!

Work with Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw & Nuu-Cha-Nulth artist Alex Taylor-McCallum and The Housing Justice Project—members with over 150 years of lived experience with homelessness—to explore the challenges and solutions to homelessness in Victoria, straight from those who have lived it.

Bring the kids! A dedicated children's art corner, led by two facilitators, will be available.

Together, we'll create great conversation and a collaborative art piece to share with our community.

SNACKS! GOOD PEOPLE! ART! FUN! LAUGHTER!

Organized by

The Housing Justice Project Team

We have 156 years lived experiences with homelessness.

We have survived and escaped all forms of homelessness. We are Indigenous, we are racialized, we are settlers, we are women, we are men, we are non-binary, we live with disabilities, we are seniors and we are young.

Many of us are not far enough away from our experience of homelessness to have survived it. Many of us live in fear of becoming homeless again because of the lack of safe affordable homes in our community. We hold space for those currently experiencing homelessness and for those who did not survive homelessness.