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Neighbourhood Diaries. Stories from where I live. is a social networking process toward a permanent, free one-on-one writing-tutoring centre for children, taught by volunteers from Toronto's writing community. The submission is based on three fundamental assertions: Children need to express more than they need to consume. Writing is a meaning-making learning process, and Neighbourhoods have to be expressed, to be seen. It begins with an experience at the Harbourfront Centre in 2009 that serves to assemble the community for a demonstration of the three assertions and uses the assembled social equity to create a permanent location.

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Robin Uchida, social innovator, strategist
Carolyn White, artist, photographer, designer
Gillian Lind, event coordinator

Commissioned in 2008

To be presented Spring 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.

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