An Interview with Our First Storyteller: Moluk
#DearSoU is a time capsule that contains artifacts from the life and times of The Stories of Us (SoU). SoU is a project of the Department of Imaginary Affairs, that…
Practice: Holding Multiple Truths
And you, Ma - so fair you would "pass" for white, like the time we were in the Sears department store and the blond clerk, bending down to stroke my…
Practice: The Gratitude Balm
In a sector that often operates project to project, grant to grant, one of the things that helps us stay grounded in who we are and why we do what…
The Case For Quotes
If you are one of our 235 Instagram followers (or, more realistically, one of the 8 people who regularly likes our posts), you’ll know how much we center direct quotes…
#thisisimaginationatwork – Instalment #22 – June 2020
Collins Dictionary has an uncharacteristically conversational definition of “day of reckoning”: If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people…
#thisisimaginationatwork – Instalment #18 February 2020
It’s been about 5 months since I last wrote, and I’m sensing a distinct shift, in The Stories of Us program, if not the entire Department of Imaginary Affairs. I’ve…
#thisisimaginationatwork – Instalment #14 September 2019
A year ago today, I started as Program Manager of The Stories of Us program at the DIA. Naturally, hitting the one-year mark prompts some reflection, particularly on how the…
#thisisimaginationatwork – Instalment #13 July 2019
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to facilitate our first ever The Stories of Us workshop series for youth. We partnered with the Immigrant Youth Centre at CICS Markham…
#thisisimaginationatwork – Installment #10 May 2019
We are catching up on all our reflections. Mathura has been a busy bee the last few months getting our multi-workshop pilot tested and refining our curriculum to meet the…
#thisisimaginationatwork Instalment #6 – December 2018
This month has been one of surrendering to the chaos and appreciating it for what it has provided: opportunities to learn by doing. Since our last update, we’ve conducted Stories of Us workshops with five organizations, reaching a total of 136 participants, and unearthing stories from far and wide.