WEBINAR | Centering Creative and Community Voices: Lessons From a Civic Revitalization Initiative

Community Engagement, Ontario, Homepage Resources, Urban, Duncan Field

This webinar recording features a conversation with David Carey and Sam Carter-Shamai of Toronto’s The Bentway, an organization that works to re-imagine the public space opportunities beneath Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway.

During the conversation, host Duncan Field spoke to our guests about The Bentway project, as well as approaches for engaging and centering creative and community voices, and the challenges and opportunities that come from the intersection of various roles – that of community engagement facilitators, curators, and social innovators.

For an overview of topics and questions discussed during the conversation, please see the description posted under the video on YouTube, found by clicking "View the Recording."

Speakers:

Duncan Field, Tamarack Institute
Jaime Stief, Tamarack Institute
David Carey, The Bentway
Sam Carter-Shamai, The Bentway

Deepen Your Learning:

Dive into the Index of Community Engagement Techniques
Learn more about Making the Case for Arts-Based Engagement

Tamarack Institute

By Tamarack Institute

The Tamarack Institute is a connected force of more than 40,000 engaged practitioners and policymakers who work collaboratively to advance positive community change. Learn more here

Ending Poverty Pathways Course

Join Vibrant Communities' Natasha Pei, Manager of Cities, in this new five-module course. Topics include Ending Working Poverty, Governments and Communities Ending Poverty, and Big Ideas for Ending Poverty.

Through this course, you'll be guided through reflective questions and exercises that will help you make the most of the course materials and content. This course is designed to help you learn at your own pace as you advocate for and advance high-impact ending poverty pathways in your community.