Impact Stories

React, Recreate, Revision (RRR) elevates artists as leaders in social change, using art as a form of knowledge production. It challenges extractive research, advocating for ethical, community-driven approaches that amplify racialized and marginalized voices.

Learning thrives in mutual exchange, yet traditional hierarchies and rigid facilitation often create exclusion. Many feel out of place in conventional learning environments, where facilitators are expected to remain neutral.

Lifted by Purpose, a trauma-informed arts enterprise, researched the challenges faced by grassroots leaders in Toronto. Using surveys, focus groups, and interviews, the study highlighted the personal strain these leaders endure due to limited resources and operational funding.

Behind the Bars led by A Toronto Mans Reflection (ATMF) with collaborating organizations was a research project and interactive art exhibit of incarcerated racialized mans’ reflections sharing what’s needed for our communities to be safer.