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Visual Communities Community Art -Skills-Education- Cultural Community Building

Social, Economic, Employment and Tourism Systems for

Transforming youth and communities.It takes a community to raise a child and a child to rise up our communities.

Wayfinder Mural Arts Program unites artists & communities through a collaborative process to create art that transforms communities & individual lives. Using our

communities as the school and education arena, knowledge is exchanged and skills gained. A Michelle Loughery Murals Initiative

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In the arena of community art, as in our lives, conversation between the community, and the struggles in our communities can only be resolved only by actions, by works of Art and by the people. Community Art translates the need into the action.

CREATES THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE PEOPLE, THE COMMUNITY, THE GOVERNMENT AND THE NATIONAL RESOURCES

Art heals, art unites, and art creates social change. Art makes the community visible. Great art is never silent, can't be ignored, and is a powerful tool for social and economic growth

WAYFINDERVISUAL COMMUNITIES

Loughery Mural Arts Programming was an early practitioner of what is becoming a national trend.

A youth skills driven WAYFINDER art strategy. Through the COMMUNITY ARTS platform, this program is creating educational and pre trades skills training opportunities and making them more relevant to youth’s, artists and communities needs to help the fight against poverty and social exclusion for our youth and seniors.And at the same time, leaving a lasting art legacy in each community while creating new economically and socially strong VISUAL COMMUNITIES.

This strategy identifying social needs in both rural and urban areas and communities, while creating more art spaces and opportunities to train emerging Community Artists. An urban/rural/digital/community program that will develop and extend the practice and understanding of arts-based community development through the processes of creating art, producing events, and developing resource materials and

opportunities for arts-based community development practitioners.

ART is the catalyst for Economical and social change!We create art with others to transform places, individuals, communities and institutions. Through this work, we establish new standards of excellence in the practice of contemporary community art.

Our process empowers artists to be change agents, stimulating dialogue about critical issues, and building bridges of connection and understanding. WAYFINDER is created in service of a larger movement that values equity, fairness and progress across all of society.

We listen with empathetic ears to understand the aspirations of our partners, participants and stakeholders. Through beautiful collaborative art, we provide people with the inspiration, skills and tools to seize their own future. Evaluations are now being used to refine the economic plan by changing lives and opening minds of youth on the move while creating new community art practitioners.This project is serving youth and communities at risk through community art projects and is an investment in our communities for governments, communities, youth and our seniors.

SOCIETAL CHANGEOur children do not know how to enter our community. Our parents taught us community involvement, interaction, social, cultural intergenerational and volunteering opportunities. Our children today are not exposed to these values because families have become more transient and come from a dual working or single working family unit.


Our project teaches our youth these lost skills for both job and life. Not only is this project successful as an educational system for teaching our youth, we are at the same time community economic and tourism drivers.

WHY WAYFINDER ART AND MURALS?

By having the murals on the sides of buildings or on public walls, the mural movement brings art down from the easel, out of the museum and gallery, and away from high socio-economic society, onto public buildings, into the streets, and back to the masses. It is Three-dimensional.

As opposed to gallery art, created for an elite audience for final sale into a private collection, the new public art movement combines art with function, skill building, social programming and is focused on creation of art specifically for the benefit of the entire public. For example, public art can assist in urban design and economic redevelopment by bringing together a diverse group of people together to catalyze economic development by engaging community members and businesses in the transformation

The large scale of most murals turns a viewer from a spectator of the arts into an active participant. In contrast to the viewing of an easel painting, where one needs only stand in front of a work to see it, to view a mural one must move his or her body through space and become a part of the mural in some respect. Murals make a painting three -dimensional. The viewer can see the art from many angles, using an image and architecture to creating space and dimension. It is basically art-estate

for real estate… Making cold buildings into living breathing pieces of life.

I remember when parts of Downtown Vernon were plagued with graffiti and trash and drug dealers on corners, and now some of these areas have become an oasis in the city,” says Loughery.

The mural movement took root in the United States in the depression in a work program to hire hungry workers. Then again in the late 1960s, known as the “gallery to the streets” movement. With this movement people found murals as essential tools for the expression of their heritage and experience. The creation of murals in the U.S. has largely involved the inclusion of alienated, isolated, inner-city youth in a form of personal expression and team-centered creative creation. The mural movement brings artistically trained professionals together with a working class population and it uses the synergy of this unification to power a completely new form of art: one that comes directly from the people themselves. Today, murals are a highly developed form of art that is rooted in the expression of the values and visions of the working class (This essential inclusion of and respect for the needs and visions of the working class may be the most innovative aspect of the movement

Cities and neighborhoods with social problems are turning to a new source of thought and practice - artists. Some of these interventions stretch traditional conceptions of what makes a work of art.

Over 40 million dollars plus immeasurable lasting spinoffs in economic and marketing benefits to communities by partnering with Wayfinder.


What benefit is experiential based education and "What does trades have to do with art?" Just ask us!


WAYFINDER ART COMPASS - CAMPUS

Online Connections and Directions Self directed learning Your community is your school Employment Skills Pre-trade skills and trades programming Resource career knowledge support Community Art Health and lifestyle Employment links Maternal care Personal Financial skills Poverty and youth food support Passport to Employment Art Entrepreneur Skills New media skills Online gallery and social change platform Digital Community ART Social media interaction life student

support Water and land stewardship knowledge Addiction support knowledge Youth Justice support knowledge Cultural tourism training

A mural helps raise the consciousness level of what the neighborhood could be. People feel … a deep sense of ownership. It’s big, it’s bold, and it’s beautiful it gives people a voice Mural Participant

“My murals are about all generations of people having an effect on their communities, taking responsibility for their visual and physical environment, leaving records of their lives and concerns, and in the process transforming neighborhoods, and making inspiring artists out of the youth of our communities.”

Michelle Loughery

“As beautiful as the mural is, it doesn’tcompare to the beautiful things it hasdone for the community. The MuralProject is a powerful tool. Michelle ishelping to make this community and theworld a better place through the kids andher work.”– JOHNNY REID country music star

WAYFINDER sees the potential art has to teach, train and help focus participants on a strong creative employable life path.This approach blurs the lines among traditional art forms, political activism, community organizing, environmentalism, and community development. Progress - be it social, environmental, or economic - is the goal for a social-practice artist, and it is the process one develops that becomes the work of art. Sometimes, this results in a traditionally conceived art object, sometimes not as the art become the action in the community itself. WAYFINDER ART IN ACTION

For nearly three decades, Michelle Loughery has used art as a tool and a catalyst, a process a strategy, and as an object, by and for people in their own shared community spaces. Through the open, joyful, and freeing place of artistic co-creation, She has galvanized diverse constituencies, given voice to myriad perspectives, altered the built environment, and brought visibility to issues in ways that sparked new directions in perception and policy.

Loughery and her work in the social community art practice for decades is just beginning to have a presence in the vocabularies of scholars, curators, city planners and museum practitioners. It is an exciting time for such a complex way of working and educating youth and communities. Even more exciting, though, is the sense of being part of a community of people around the world who think and act the way team at WAYFINDER does. Who can help contextualize us, learn from us, and inspire new directions in our WAYFINDER Visual Community work.

As VISUAL COMMUNITY CREATORS, we have a wonderful opportunity to celebrate our artists, our citizens, our communities, and our civic leaders - all of whom have worked together to make WAYFINDER successful. What started out

with a small heritage mural in 1990 has grown to include work in schools, universities, with celebrities, downtown revitalization organizations, prisons and in shelters, with young people around the globe. Many social-practice projects have a single name connected to them - a creative genius leading a highly collaborative process. And while there is always the visionary, WAYFINDER social practice has emerged in a different way and through the hard work and knowledge transfer of many, we are creating new community art practitioners to take our vision into the future. Art is a resource and a trade/ employment path as well as a content creating capacity building INDUSTRY.

WAYFINDER is proud to have been working alongside so many creative leaders locally and nationally to create a lasting impact in our communities. We're ready to continue thinking off the wall for the next 25 years and beyond.

Michelle LougheryVISIONARY-ARTISTWAYFINDER CREATOR

Michelle Loughery, Artistic Director, and founder of WAYFINDER has been a driving force for the Loughery Mural Artworks Foundation for 25 years, overseeing its growth from a small rural summer youth program into an agency and onto the provinces largest mural program and a model for community development across the country and around the globe.

Under Loughery’s direction, the Mural Arts Pre- trades Program has created over 300 works of public art and numerous large- scale projects through innovative collaborations with community -based organizations, city agencies, non-profits, schools, the private sector and Federal and Provincial Governments and numerous philanthropies. Over 5000 at risk youth, seniors and community individuals have spent time on the wall with Loughery.


Using a P4 partnership model, Loughery has raised millions of dollars for communities and organizations Nationally and Globally. Note able to mention are the City of Vernon, BC Mural Program, the Walk of Stars Mural Program and the internationally known Route 66 Mural City in the USA.

Loughery, a young artist and administrator of a local Arts Council was initially hired help create an arts and culture base in her hometown of Sparwood BC. Initially, Dan Sawatsky of the Chemainus Murals Fame was hired to create three murals of the history of the area and Loughery’s watching of the process her passion for murals was born. Loughery soon recognized the engagement of the youth and the community in the process as she created her first 4500 square foot mural. The rest is history. Loughery completed a 13 mural project and created her signature Pre-trades Passport to Employment Youth Mural Program and packed her brushes and moved to the Okanagan where she created the well known 27 Historic Mural Program in Vernon, British Columbia. Using pre-trade skills, heritage and youth, Loughery’s program was the catalyst for over 6 million dollars in funding. The program was also the funding catalyst for the City of Vernon’s Downtown revitalization project. Michelle received the BC Achievement Award and the Canadian Innovative Community Award in 2005 for the Vernon Project.

In Vernon BC, a graffiti crisis plaguing the city, Loughery reached out to graffiti writing youth to help turn their destructive energies into creative ones. In the process, she recognized the raw artistic talent among the graffiti writers as she began to provide opportunities for them to channel their creative forces into mural making. The murals themselves transformed the city into an Award winning Cultural and Heritage tourism Destination. In 2009 the Mural Program was reorganized in a partnership with the BC Government into WAYFINDER and Loughery was put in place as its artistic director, at which time a non profit charity called Loughery Mural Art works

was established to raise funds and provide support to the BC Wide program.

In the years since, Loughery has connected the process of mural creation to a multitude of community and public connection and bridging outcomes. In partnership with a range of city agencies, she has developed innovative and rigorous art education, restorative justice, and behavioral health programs serving young people, youth and adult offenders, and individuals suffering from trauma, mental illness and addiction. These programs have made it possible for thousands to experience and witness the power of art to connect young people to their communities and to opportunities for their futures, to break the cycle of crime and violence, and to bring about healing in individuals and communities affected by behavioral health disorders.

In addition to developing innovative programs, Loughery has overseen a series of increasingly complex, ambitious, and award-winning community art projects, including The Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame/Merritt Walk of Stars Mural Project, September 11 Memorial Mural Project and the Route 66 Mural City Project. Catalyzing economic development by engaging community members and businesses in the transformation of their communities. Sought after nationally and internationally as an expert on community transformation through art, Loughery has received numerous awards and grants for her work.

“I entered the Mural Project into aworld of social and emotional support,an environment that encouraged andsupported my redevelopment, structureda proper social attitude, and drew me outfrom my shield of social separation.”

– SHANE mural crew participant–

“This job taught me about teamwork,the mural crew became like family andI learned how to become reliable and agood team player.”– SHELLY mural crew participan


LOUGHERY MURAL ARTWORKS FOUNDATION

MISSION STATEMENT

We create art with others to transform places, individuals, communities and institutions. Through this work, we establish new standards of excellence in the practice of contemporary community art.Our process empowers artists and youth to be change action agents, story collectors, storytellers, stimulating dialogue about critical issues, and building bridges of connection and understanding. Our work is based in service of a larger movement that values equity, fairness and inclusion across all of society.

We listen to our partners and participants. And through collaborative contemporary community art, we provide people with the inspiration and tools to seize their own future.

WAYFINDER DNA-MANTRA

ART IS IN OUR DNA…COMMUNITY ART creates three-dimensional spaces in our communities and connects us all

When we create art with each other and for each other, the force of life can triumph.

ART breathes life into our youth and our communities

Visual Story CollectionThe power of narrative drives our lives. Stories well told will shine transformative light into dark corners. Youth and Elders will exchange knowledge and communities and people at risk will become visible.

Pre trade, Life and Employment Skills based Art Actioners and Practitioners.We use art to leverage skills and self-confidence. The wall is the boss and the teacher, the team, well we are the community art practitioners who let the wall teach the skills necessary for life. Many Pre trade skills are experienced during a mural creation process. This leads to JOBS…and an entry into the Labour Force. Which then helps youth get training and jobs, and that means money. And we teach youth how to deal with that too.

InclusiveIt's simple. We work in conspiring inclusive teams that infiltrate communities with art. Everything we do is by and for the community. There's no "I" in mural.

It is not about the Paint!!!!!!!What we do is deceptively complex. What drives us is the opportunity to help life triumph over the forces of despair. We just happen to be good at painting murals. And yes safety is first…fun well that is first too.

Make Promises and Keep ThemWe're an energetic bunch. When we walk into a room, we walk in ready to make great things happen. And when we say we will, we will.


Art Is An Economic Engine and an Industry!This is not art for art's sake. Our institutional wisdom and intellectual property have value, add value, and are valuable. There's no shame in earning fair compensation for unique professional expertise. Art is a huge economic generator globally and it is time for it to be recognized as such.

Wow!! This is Fun!Yes!!!! WAYFINDER MURALS is a stage and the community our audience…and yes we're having a very good time. And No we aren’t finished yet!

Wayfinder Community Art Practitioners and Actioners - Education, and Community PracticeWelcome to our new, socially oriented Art + employment SKILLS Education program at WAYFINDER-Art in Action. This innovative community art practitioner program explores the intersections between contemporary community artistic practice, pre- trade, employment and healthy life based skills theory, digital and new media and social activism. We are looking for students who are interested in envisioning new ways that artists, educators, designers, community organizers, and social activists can work together, and within community-based settings to propose critical interventions that inspire dialogue and catalyze social change through the arts COLLABORATE-Work with practicing internationally recognized artists in community-based settings.

Connect to CommunitiesThis

program supports artists and other publicly situated activists to connect visual strategies with the needs of a community. Students learn from artists who do socially engaged work, examining how art and design can open dialogue about a community’s history, culture, and social needs. Drawing on community organizing strategies and artistic activism, students are directly involved in putting ideas generated with the community into practice. This hand-on approach leads to a capstone project, which provides an opportunity to design and implement a community-based art project that allows for social transformation. In this program students assume major roles in changing the social, cultural, political, and economic landscape through their artistic practice. This interdisciplinary program prepares students to work within community-based settings, museums, or broader public and civic contexts to initiate social change through the arts. This program does not lead to certification for teaching.

One-Year Program with Small Classes

Classes are small and personal attention is given to each student throughout the duration of program, from initial advisement through completion of the WAYFINDER Masters final project. The program can be completed in 6 or 12 months, as a full-time or part time student

Enrollment programs serves individuals interested in socially engaged art that want to work outside of or in collaboration with traditional venues). Students come from a wide variety of backgrounds, community-based organizations, social activism, and a variety of education and socio economic multicultural contexts.


WAYFINDER Curriculum Core Program Modules

Module 1: Contemporary Artistic Practice this module addresses the expanding field of community arts practice in the Canada and internationally. Students are engaged with the art and ideas of artists working in the public as well as with the history of visual artistic practice including political/activist, public, and performance-artists working today and to opportunities to learn from artists who have engaged with public audiences through socially driven, community-based projects.

What are the historical precedents for artists working in the public sphere and what are the possibilities and challenges of public work today?

In contemporary art, what is the spectrum of artistic practice that attempts to engage and involve public audiences?

What new models and tools for art-based interventions are possible today?

Module 2: Educational TheoryProviding a firm grounding in educational theory, the program envisions the artist/educator as one who is able to apply pedagogical practices to diverse artistic endeavors. Students will consider educational theory in public, community-based, informal and virtual/media-based contexts, as well as from domestic and international perspectives.

In what ways can education—within a school or classroom context, as well as beyond—be considered a form of public pedagogy?

What are the developmental, social, and

political implications of education as a public act?

What are current theories in education that support the idea of teaching as a public act as well as an artistic act?

In what ways do educational and artistic practice intersect in their use of pedagogical strategies?

Module 3: Social Activism overlaying the artistic and educational modules is a focus on social activism and community engagement. Coursework will explore the politics of working in local, global, and virtual contexts. Within this module students will learn about methods of engagement from educational and artistic practice in order to inform social practice.

• What are interventionist strategies that engage and mobilize community members to enable social transformation?

• What are the politics and possibilities of community formation?

• What role can artists, community organizers & organizations, and activists play in community-based work and empowerment?

• What kinds of pedagogical practices support meaningful social engagement in relation to local and global contexts?

WAYFINDER ElectivesStudents also choose elective courses from across the COMPASS-CAMPUSS to customize their certificate focus and experiences.


VISUAL COMMUNITY ProjectsWorking under the supervision of the Program Director and a faculty mentor, students will design and implement a community-based project informed by their individual art practice, their core and elective coursework, and the cultural or organizational context in which they will be working. In collaboration with community based cultural and educational organizations, students will be encouraged to use different methodologies that combine intuition, social, conceptual, and cultural ways of knowing and being in order to develop and implement an art project that allows for social transformation.

VISUAL COMMUNITIESArt is in our DNA

Generative art based on personal data has to be the most relevant depiction of the times we are living in. This is the age of algorithms, data visualization, and everything private made public. WAYFINDER promotes to see this data interpreted in completely painterly ways in our communities and education systems. Using architecture as art galleries. Using art as a tool for communication, reconciliation, social change, environmental preservation and economic sustainability.

Contact with strangers is inevitable with community art.

People look up while walking down the sidewalk. Mural art helps you

open up to contact with yourself and strangers and to conversation.

Community art from the youth – of what their country looks like and what they

want it to look like and what they see for the future. From the seniors – What their

country looked likeFrom the community – What their country

looks like now and how best to move forward

Community tool kits Resource consulting and Visual Community support and knowledge [email protected]

Social Media – give the youth a voiceUsing their cell phones Youth can collect and tell stories. Driven to a website that will form the largest collection of stories and art


Cultural Tourism StrategiesEssential Services delivery with training strategies and community engagement and inclusion.

Sponsorship Opportunities

C3/P4 Social Enterprise PartnershipsCSR Plan Partnerships

First Nation Liaison- Partnership and Relationship building consulting.

ContactwayfinderCanada@shaw.

PAST PARTNERS

Province of British ColumbiaJCP/SKILLS LINK/CHALLENGE BCGovernment of CanadaEmbrace BCElizabeth Greenshields FoundationNational Crime PreventionRoute 66 AssociationsFirst Nations Steering committeeBlade runnersCity of VernonCity of MerrittCanadian Country Music AssociationCommunity Economic Development InitiativeBC Arts CouncilBC Heritage TrustCanadian First World War Internment Recognition FundUBCSFUNicola Valley Institute of TechnologyNicola Tribal AssociationAmerican Educators Research AssociationCanadian Internment Recognition FundCity of SurreyCity of VernonCritical Thinking Consortium

*Nicola Valley Institute of Technology offers Wayfinder Pre trade skills Passport to Employment * Vancouver Island University is in discussion to offer Wayfinder Community Art Practitioner Program*Past program administration for 7 years has now created programs for Skills BC

Michelle Loughery WAYFINDER AwardsNesika Multicultural Award Nomination 2014, Okanagan Art Educator 2013 BC Achievement 2005, Innovative Communities 2005

WAYFNDER VISUAL COMMUNITIES


Benefits Labour Market Training Creates Jobs Creates tourism strategies Provides Visual Community Toolkits and support to communities Education

o Jobs Skillso Life Skills

Employs local youth Creates multicultural understanding and awareness Assists local youth at risk Builds leadership in youth Gives youth and seniors a sense of place Is life changing for youth Educates our youth in social, cultural, and economics Provides critical thinking skills for youth Builds goodwill and pride in the community Assists in lowering graffiti and crime Stunning Global Art Provides mass input to evoke change and promotes community buy in Brings together seniors and youth (inclusion) Land and water stewardship themed art – educates and preserves environment Provides funding and a social and economic plan toolkit for a communities. Creates a sense of space, imaging – cultural spaces Provides information – Wayfinding markers Cross cultural exchange (on the street) creates community conversations First Nations Cultural Art creation and promotion Business and entrepreneur skill building Fosters community /corporate and Government partnerships( C3 partnerships) Boosts the local economy (i.e.: tourism, cultural tourism, funding) Improves the visual appearance of the urban environment Enhances the image of the community Has a social/cultural value Gives the community a cultural identity Has created an awakening – increasing the interest in history/human rights etc Schools are now using the murals as an interactive form of education Free cultural activity and draw for tourism Allows the community to tap into major Federal government grants Is a small investment with huge rewards for the City, residents and youth Build local economy Marketing – Social Media marketing merchandising Maintains a tourism inventory for communities and Canada Social media and social change through art, music, celebrities Using Art as an industry for economic and social change.


Wayfinder-VISUAL COMMUNITY Consulting Fundraising Proposal Writing Funding research Project Administration Marketing Promotion Education

o Lesson Plans Website

o Social Media/digital art murals

Speaking Circuit – Motivational/How to create a public arts program in your communityTeach Youth Entrepreneurial SkillsCommunity PresentationsPresentations to Government bodiesMarketingTeach Communities

- Modules in training- Step by step process- How to be successful - Cultural Community Development Plan

Teaching a new model to non profitsMapping – chain of non profitsDevelop generic procedures/policies applicable to most organizationsConnect non profits

EducationDevelop a school curriculum using art

o Lesson planso Vinyl wall project in schools (blank or offer a picture on the vinyl to correspond to

the curriculum they are studying.

Contact Stacey Phinnemore (250) 679-3881Contact: Michelle Loughery [email protected] (250 )558 8380

www.wayfinderartinaction.cawww.michelleloughery.org

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Kaleidoscope Canada 2017Digital Art Multi community living art Mural

ART IS POWER for change

Thirty years after Michelle Loughery Wayfinder Mural Arts beginnings as a summer youth art in the park program, it has evolved into an internationally recognized leader in community based public art and a leading expert in mural-making , art education, employment skills, content creating and art economic community development social enterprise. This legacy reflects Loughery Mural Artworks mission to create art that transforms public spaces and individual lives and asserts our fundamental belief that art is an industry, life health and skills essential service.

As we usher in our 25th Anniversary this fall, we plan to celebrate in typical Mural Arts style by diving head first into the work we love through groundbreaking programs and projects with local talents and world-renowned artists. The capstone projects planned for our anniversary year are perfect examples of how our work has evolved from traditional community murals into a complex but integrated paradigm of socially engaged art and creative place making.

We are excited to place these new projects within our larger body of work, painting a picture of

our long-term commitment to Canada to use art for renewal and social change.

The Vision: Kaleidoscope Canada Social Imagery Project

The vision of the Kaleidoscope Canada Social Imagery Project is to develop collaborative forms of artwork that represent the voices of a community. Wayfinder Kaleidoscope Canada Social Imagery Projects are based on the concept that community goes beyond the actual place that individuals live, but rather includes the world at large, which can be reached virtually through social media/networking mediums. Kaleidoscope Canada Social Imagery Project are created through the engagement of the community through open dialogue where ideas become part of the artwork as soon as they arise, and where community members can openly challenge and encourage the ideas of others; and in doing so, the Projects become dynamic, real-time and live pieces of artwork that inspire discussion, enlightenment and encourage social change.


The Process:

The Art Pieces:Each Kaleidoscope Canadian Social Imagery Youth Projects is based on a central piece of artwork theme “ Inclusion and Reconciliation- Kaleidoscope 2017.” The imagery on the digital artwork will be inspired by an element of the human condition that currently affects all in Canada and/or which has historically affected all ie. First Nations, poverty, freedom of expression, children/youth rights, human rights, racism, genocide, war etc. Each Social Imagery art piece will be displayed in a public space in a designated community. T

The video screen will display live feed from the Wayfinder Social Imagery website where community members can login to a specific Social Imagery project from Facebook, twitter and/or other social media locations. Target community members will be able to utilize technologies such as tablets, smart phones and other similar devices as methods to access the Social Imagery website to download content and/or to look at the art piece/s. Community members will be invited to express their insights, views and also be encouraged to challenge the ideas of others. ‘ART Expressions’ displayed may include photographs, poems, phrases, short clip videos, photographs of art works etc. etc. These Expressions can be downloaded on to the Social Imagery website and will be displayed in a rotational basis on the video screen. The art piece will be displayed online so that it is accessible to everyone at all times. Thus, visitors to both the physical location of the art piece and ‘virtual’ visitors to the website will be able to experience the Social Imagery Project in ‘real time’. These Expressions will be displayed live on the video screen at the location of the artwork – creating a dynamic and live piece of artwork created by all those who participate in the dialogue.

The uploading of Expressions to the art piece may be safeguarded through a password protective measure that is only accessible to the targeted community via the Social Imagery Project website. Whether or not specific Projects are censored in this manner will depend on partners needs and preferences. A downloadable lesson art plan will be available on the theme of Reconciliation. Our gift to Canada for her 150th birthday

The Collaborative Process:

The method for collaboration on Kaleidoscope Canadian Social Imagery Youth Project will depend on the scope of the community members the project is trying to engage. Invitations to be part of the collaborative process and/or become part of target community will be determined as the Project develops and partners/stakeholders are identified. The process for sending invitations may include: newspaper and online advertising, invitations to specific organizations/groups, online invitations via websites etc.. Once a collaborative group has been determined, youth project collaboration may include social media, blogging, online meetings (ie. skype, Illuminate etc.), face-to-face meetings etc. The collaboration will allow the


participating students, community, artists, teachers and the targeted community and other stakeholders to determine the message and theme of the art piece as well as it will set the stage for the dialogue and expressive messages that the targeted community will add to the art piece.

Youth Engagement:

The Kaleidoscope Canadian Social Imagery Youth Projects are based on the premise that social media offers an optimal platform for youth engagement, discussion and motivation. This premise is based on current studies such as those by the Kaiser Foundation which reports that (social) media are among the most influential forces in the lives of young people today, who spend more time with it - 7.5 hours a day, 7 days a week - than with most other activities.

(http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/8010.pdf)

Furthermore, social media sites allow youth to accomplish online many of the tasks that are important to them offline: staying connected with friends and family, making new friends, sharing pictures, and exchanging ideas. Social media participation also can offer young people deeper benefits that extend into their view of self, community, and the world, including:

1. Opportunities for community engagement through raising money for charity and volunteering for local events, including political and philanthropic events;

2. Enhancement of individual and collective creativity through development and sharing of artistic and musical endeavors;

3. Growth of ideas from the creation of blogs, podcasts, videos, and apps;

4. Expansion of one's online connections through shared interests to include others from more diverse backgrounds (such communication is an important step for all adolescents and affords the opportunity for respect, tolerance, and increased discourse about personal and global issues); and

5. Fostering of one's individual identity and unique social skills.


http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/8010.pdf

My people will sleep for 100 years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.” Louis Riel

A Canadian National Mural Project will be created by international MASTER MURALIST and internee descendant, MICHELLE LOUGHERY, with her crew of Sunflower Artists in the communities with internment stories and people that hold these stories live. Why tell this Story?We are creating a place of learning for youth and communities through artistic action and conversation. Using a historic storytelling mural project we will pay tribute to the immigrant people that formed this country, while examining past human wrongs and creating a place to form human right. Muraling defines a sense of place while encouraging human striving to become better citizens and individuals while building human potential.

This cross country conversation will create positive national change of cultural vitality, well-being, economy, citizenship and human striving.. The project will commemorate trials of interment and journey through to the national celebration of the 150th Birthday of Canada in 2017

The arts are the living soul of humanity. Through them, our aspirations, our imaginative spirit, creativity, our values and our voice is spread, like a canvas, upon the ever-expanding horizon of our collective consciousness. In observing our past, sometimes uncomfortable, truths about who we are illuminate little known facets of our existence and promote human striving and potential building. Blaming others gives an individual’s power away. This project is not about blame it is about the celebration of the survivor along the reconciliation path. This is based on a national conversation and wisdom story collection. This is a powerful tool to unite all nationalities in Canada to heal and learn that it is not a single race issue but a humanity issue. We can plant the seeds of change for all nationalities


including First nation Peoples that it did not happen to them alone. And that through story telling we can plant the seeds of change so that it will never happen again

Be part of our emerging canvas!

Using our communities as an educational skills path

to employment and life success for the individual and the community.

“Just as she often looks at the rough andblemished walls of unattractive buildingsand sees potential for beauty, she looksat people that others shy away from andsees the potential for something goodand lasting. She uses her artist skillsand her words of encouragement andgives these kids a chance to discover thatthey truly have the potential for goodthings and meaningful lives. They areliterally redrawing the portraits of theirlives, with the clear tones of hope forthe future. They’ve upgraded from their


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Government has morefunds for more servicesCreates more deliveryof skills/education/social/arts/culture/health/new media/First Nation and Immigrant inclusionand community building programs

Wayfinder Createsmore Art Actionersand Practicioners..more Visual Communities

Community usestoolkit and knowledgetransfer to gain economic social and cultural plan

Corporationsgain partnershipssocial license and skilled workers

WAYFINDER

WAYFINDER P4 Partnership CompassUsing our communties as a classroom- teaching skillsto youth and communities

*more skills- create jobsSocial Enterprise*social and economic driver*educational transformation*hands-on learning

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Merritt/Nicola Valley Cultural Connection Direction Centre

Merritt is experiencing an incomplete Tourism Model; the missing training and community components does not allow the community and area to capitalize on the 18,000 vehicles / day traveling through the region nor the ability to build itself as a destination. Inclusion of Community DNA is a key factor as it creates an Authentic / Experiential Tourism experience that is being craved and sought after by local, regional, national and international markets; while training for both the community and individuals develops human capacity and social intelligence that support healthy environments and sustainability. As in education, tourism has to look to new models that create more opportunities and partnerships to create economic and social growth to help sustain essential services.

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Vision:

To create a central British Columbia gateway destination that has an employment skills, First Nation, tourism, art, music and culture based sustainability teaching plan. Based on the four highway directions that all meet in Merritt The four (or six) directions are based on the principle that life is a circle and that the four directions stand for North, South, East and West with Mother Earth being down and Father Sky being above; giving six directions. Merritt has a strong First Nation Culture and this direction gathering place has the potential to become a Gateway that will offer economic and social strength to the area and to the Province.

The Centre will offer a National and Global First Nation Cultural digital gallery and a regional First Nation artifact showcase as well as the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame. The gateway will offer digital and human to human global cultural tourism information while offering the Wayfinder employment and community connection skills model to train youth in


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tourism, hospitality, new media, entrepreneur and pre trade skills. A multi cultural music festival will be a strong component, offering daily music/ art digital screen programming to tourists on a year round basis as well as a yearly event. This allows for story telling and celebrity endorsement power. The center will utilize Wayfinder pre-trade skills strategies for the building of the Gateway as well in the sustainability plan, utilizing the Gateway as an online and location training place.

The plan will create jobs and transform the community into a strategic skills based destination complete with a Cultural ( First Nation and Immigrant) Conference Centre/Theme hotel/Theme based mini golf/Theme restaurant/New Media hub.

Boulder Art Medicine Wheel- Created out of huge boulders –painted with ancient images

Gyroscope-Community Cultural Art- piece of a direction theme that is an experience based turnable piece of art as a direction tourist experience. Digital tourist information will be offed from codes on art piece.

Social Screen on exterior and interior of buildings – offering music, cultural and artistic viewings

Values: To foster a healthy, engaged community in the Merritt Region – as a destination and Provincial and Global Draw economic/environmental/cultural tourism/social – through a well designed, maintained, and promoted cultural center connecting people, culture, and landscape; and to do so through collaboration, stewardship, fiscal responsibility, and economic development and skills and pre trade training.

Mission: The purpose of Merritt CMCGN is to develop, operate, maintain, and promote a Cultural Center Gateway throughout the Nicola Valley region in the Province of British Columbia for educational, artistic, social, recreational, economic, environmental and trade and employment skills training benefit to the public, and to do so collaboratively through community partnerships

Enterprising Non-Profit for Sustainability

(Waysfinder P4 Private|Public|non-Profit Partnership)

1. Regional, Provincial and Global Collaboration

2. Cultural Collaborations

3. Skills and Pre trade skills learning

4. Experience Tourism Development –tourist and social media presence


5. Capital Projects and Capital Art training Projects

6. Alliance Operations/with national cultural and country music partnerships


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