

Taking Initiative – Murals and Machines LEAD Day 2
“For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.” Dalai Lama In day 2 of LEAD we all engaged in the process of art making, taking risks, vanquishing personal barriers and learning to take initiative while contributing to and drawing from a community of support. In the AM we collaborated with renowned local Indigenous artist Jerry Whitehead, working with acrylic paints and stenciling on a large canvas mural that captured the LEAD values. Je


A Time to LEAD
“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right.” Henry Ford From February 5th to 9th, 2020, several members of the ARTCi team launched a new arts based leadership program with a class of grade 6/7 students at Britannia Elementary on Vancouver’s East Side. Students were immersed for an entire week in a collaborative program where the guiding principles of Listen Empathize Act & Drive (LEAD) were introduced through the arts. Our goals…to inspire youth to discover