On January 29 2022, the DIA team went to support Jenn (our CEO!) with her “Artifacts of Grief” DesignTO Installation, which highlighted the definitions, thoughts and feelings that frontline workers…
When I first started working with DIA as a social researcher for the “A Tale of Two Parks” project, I felt tremendous amounts of anxiety. I had just finished working…
Hey there! Welcome to 2022! We have made it through the Gregorian and Lunar calendar new years and as a team, we are still working on finding our project…
Disclaimer: This is an end-of-year post that is not filled with all our high-hitting impact and success stories like you might expect. I am not listing off all the projects we did that I am proud of and trying to push you to look at them all again. But instead, it is a raw look at how I am feeling at the end of another very hard year, knowing that the hard stuff is far from over.
If you are feeling at all emotionally drained, I recommend you just close this screen now. But if you are feeling like you might have the capacity to take on some emotional baggage, I welcome you to keep reading.
Wherever you are today, I am grateful that you showed up in whatever capacity you have.
Take (self) care,
Jenn
Hello Radiant Human, before you start reading & imagining pt.2 of this blogpost, we encourage you to read pt.1 here to get yourself imagining your day with both Ari and…
I remember first picking up “No Plot, No Problem!” by Chris Baty at an Indigo near my home in 2012. I had just graduated from high school and was spending…
On Friday, September 3rd, 2021, marks the second time Ari and I (Elvin) met as we spent our entire day tabling and building connection together at Dentonia Park. Prior to…
As September 30th approached, I was certain that it was important to me and to our team that we spend time investing in reflecting on our relationship with Indigenous people,…
On Friday, August 13th, 2021, Francisco Rico-Martinez passed away. In this post, we would like to share what Francisco meant to us in his role as a Board Member and…
On June 30th, 2021, our initial funding from Immigration, Refugees, Citizenship Canada (IRCC) for The Stories of Us came to a close. This marks the end of a really significant…