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Neighbourhood Diaries: Stories from where I live is a social networking intiative that provides a free and permanent one-on-one writing and tutoring centre for children, with mentoring by volunteers from Toronto's art and writing communities.

The submission is based on three fundamental assertions:

Children have a natural need to express rather than consume.
The creative process plays a critical role in legitimizing a project's meaning as well as enhances sociability.
Neighbourhoods have to be expressed, to be seen.

Neighbourhood expressions begin with an experience at Harbourfront Centre in 2010 by assembling Toronto's creative community to collaborate with children from nine community centres throughout the city.

For more information on the exhibition component of Neighbourhood Diaries: Stories from where I live, click here.

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Creators (Toronto):

Robin Uchida, Carolyn White and Gillian Lind.

With assistance from:

Visual Artists: Gwen MacGregor (Art Lead), Lewis Nicholson (Art Lead), Sarindar Dhaliwal, Catherine MacIntosh, Liz Knox, Catherine Heard, Jen Hutton, Tanya Read, Graham Jarrett, Ed Pien, Shawna Reiter

Writers: Kate Barris, Lisa Pasold, Stephanie Mclellan, Brooke Lockyer, Lauren Kirshner, Liz Haines, Marina Hess, Jaya Karsemeyer, Jim Adams, Lisa Nackan, Kirsten McMahon

Organizations: Writers Guild of Canada (Film, television, radio & new media production), Playwrights Guild of Canada, 826NYC, 826 National (based in San Francisco at the 826 Valencia offices), Story Planet

Neighbourhood Diaries is brought to you by the children at the following Community Centres: Jane and Finch Boys and Girls Club, ArtHeart Community Art Centre, Parkdale Community Centre, Harbourfront Community Centre, St. Alban’s Boys and Girls Club (Annex), Boys and Girls Club of Weston-Mount Dennis, Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre, 519 Community Centre, Ralph Thornton Centre

Commissioned in 2008

Exhibition component presented
April 10 – June 13, 2010

Fresh Ground new works is made possible by the generosity of several major individual donors who have actively assisted in the creation of new Canadian artworks: Peter Allen, Lionel F. Conacher and Joan Dea, Margaret and Jim Fleck, John Kazanjian and Susan Soloway, Michael and Sonja Koerner, Judy and Wil Matthews, George E. Myhal, and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the J.P. Bickell Foundation.