KiteWorks is an ad hoc, not-for-profit collective that believes art can work to build stronger communities and bring about meaningful social change. With your help, KiteWorks aims to coordinate an interdisciplinary community arts festival in Parkdale called KiteSite: Ronces-dale / Park-valles scheduled for the first weekend of April 2009.
Our workshop series invites community members to explore local history through storytelling and arts-based activities. By sharing stories about local history and community development, KiteWorks hopes to spark dialogue about local issues that resonate among Parkdale's residents. This dialogue will then inform the collaborative creation of artworks that speak to these issues.
Committed to community engagement, KiteWorks strives to impart the value of community custodianship, teaching how small actions can make big differences and be catalysts for meaningful social change. KiteWorks believes that our responsibility to our local community and our immediate environment is directly linked to our sense of allegiance to place. By celebrating stories of local history and social justice, KiteWorks hopes to honor a diversity of neighbourhood experience and affiliation.
Arts-based workshops will be held at the High Park Library in the Community Room on Mondays from 6.15-8.00 p.m. on the following dates:
January 19
January 26
February 2
February 9
February 23
March 2
March 9
March 16
March 23
March 30
Be Involved!
Be Inspired!
