12 Favianna speaks about art as a priority in building a community
Jan 26th, 2010 by admin
The downtown eastside neighbourhood of a city, struggling with poverty, drug abuse, violence. The story A young woman grows up in this neighbourhood. She and a group of artists start a successful technology and design collective. They launch a business and help establish a non-profit society. They raise the money to buy an old building and rehabilitate it. It houses their company, a bilingual daycare, a cultural centre, and 16 units of low-income housing. Their efforts are bringing …