Community Arts Project

Speak Against Racism... In today's society, we are faced with many issues related to diversity and social justice. For my project, my group decided to focus on discrimination around the Ryerson University campus. I believe that discrimination exists in every society, although we cannot eliminate it, we can do our best to reduce the amount of discrimination possible. Living in a multicultural society like Toronto, an issue like discrimination should be reduced. Reducing the amount of racism on campus starts off by a small idea. My group concluded that we cannot eliminate discrimination, so we're taking action to reduce it. To reduce such thing, we need to let people know what is happening around campus and in our society. Our idea is for people to speak out against racism by telling personal stories that relates to racism.  The groups that are involved are the Ryerson Student Union, where they have a Students Against Racism group. Aside from our campus, we would potentially hope to expand to other universities like University of Toronto and other schools. The 'big idea' for my group was creating stickers that consists of famous thinkers speaking out against or about racism. Our sticker has a site where people can go on and the website and post experiences. These stickers will be posted around campus:

References

Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, J.E. (2009). Art and Creative Development for Young Children (6^th Ed.).  Belmont, CA: Delmar.