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Red Pepper Spectacle Arts co-creates and facilitates multidisciplinary collaborative art engagement cross-culturally and primarily within the Native community. We work inter-generationally with social services agencies, community organizations, municipalities, band councils, neighborhoods, and other arts organizations towards greater social justice, accessibility, and equality in cultural production. We pursue the highest standard in artistic practice and work to create an environment where all skill levels have access and opportunity to achieve significant results and create success with a wide variety of media.

Through public screenings, hands-on workshops, interactive panel discussions, and public forums, our mission is to involve youth in actively viewing and discussing professionally made films; expose youth to new ideas and cultural perspectives; offer high-quality cinematic entertainment outside the mainstream; explore issues that are important to youth; engage youth in discussions with filmmakers about their work; increase understanding of the art and craft of filmmaking; and promote the production and presentation of high quality independent films for youth.

Operating since 1990, Regent Park Youth Media Arts Centre is a community driven, not-for-profit organization located in Regent Park, Toronto. The organization is motivated by the belief that participatory media practices can play a vital role in building and sustaining healthy communities. Regent Park Focus serves as a Community New Media, Radio, and Television Arts Broadcasting Centre dedicated to best practices in training and mentorship of youth in radio and television broadcasting and digital arts.

Rexdale Youth For Change is a youth-led non-profit organization whose mission is to create awareness and engage the youth of Rexdale socially and politically, through the integration of education, arts and activism.

Roadside Theater’s mission is to enlist the power of theater, music, media, education, and other arts:

• To document, disseminate, and revitalize the lasting traditions and contemporary creativity of Appalachia;
• To tell stories the commercial cultural industries don’t tell, challenging stereotypes with Appalachian voices and visions;
• To support communities’ efforts to achieve justice and equity and solve their own problems in their own ways;
• To celebrate cultural diversity as a positive social value; and
• To participate in regional, national, and global dialogue toward these ends.

Saathi is a non-profit organization that believes in valuing women in terms of self-independence and motivation and empowers womanhood to an all new level. It paves out a stress free path to relieve a woman from her daily routine and enter into this zone of happiness and self-satisfaction. 

Saint James Music Academy is a free afterschool program that teaches classical music to children and youth who live in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES), most of whom live in low-income families. The DTES is a vibrant community and yet also struggles with significant social problems, including high unemployment, poor living conditions, crime, and substance abuse. Children who are exposed to these conditions are vulnerable to these social realities. We believe it is crucial that the needs of these children and youth be met with creative and new possibilities.