To support the event and promote the arts in our community.
Students help other student clubs to regroup post COVID
Residents of a Calgary Housing complex and their supporters introduce their peers and other neighbours to the space they built for community belonging
Activities to build community and introduce services available in the neighbourhood
Art-making sessions to rebuild connections between local seniors and their neighbours
Calgary Seniors’ Resource Society (CSRS) has experienced a fair amount of internal transformation in the past year, including the retirement of the long-term executive director. CSRS has also experienced a significant increase in demand for services as the pandemic and recent housing crisis have had a major impact on low income seniors. This transformation and rapid growth led to a full review of current policies and procedures. The modernization of financial systems will not only allow for more efficient, accurate, and timely financial reports, it will also improve capacity for current and expected future growth of the organization.
Circle of Wisdom Elders and Seniors Centre is to serve the Calgary Indigenous Elders and seniors by providing wrap around support services: advocacy, system navigation, traditional teachings, ceremony, all are essential to providing prevention services to our seniors. Essential needs, interpersonal relationship development and engagement to reduce isolation and increase social inclusion, supports with healing and well being allow our seniors to heal from life traumas and by their healing support and strengthen community. The uniqueness of our Indigenous Elders seniors is the complexities of intergenerational trauma, residential school experiences.
Contemporary Calgary is seeking support to increase the accessibility of “Resistance and Respiration,” an upcoming exhibition featuring the work of 15 artists with disabilities. To make this exhibition suitable for people with visual or auditory impairments, Contemporary Calgary will offer audio descriptions of the works of art as well as curatorial tours that include ASL translation.
Contemporary Calgary will track the uptake on these services and will use this data to inform future accessibility choices. If there is a known demand for these services, Contemporary Calgary will try to incorporate them or additional services into all its future exhibitions.
To mark the 10th year of PCHS Calgary, the organization is seeking to conduct a guided needs assessment. This assessment will offer the necessary expertise and insights to maintain and develop practical programs effectively. The purpose of this assessment is twofold: to enhance PCHS Calgary’s internal and external capabilities and current programming and to address the specific needs of the South Asian community, ensuring no replication of existing services. PCHS Calgary’s scope is broadening, and its goal is to merge the evaluations of it’s past decade’s programming with this needs assessment. By doing so, PCHS Calgary aims to construct a supportive and valuable programming framework.