CAN YOU TELL WHO I AM ?
CAN YOU TELL WHO I AM ?
“Can You Tell Who I Am?”
Is a story-telling project that aims to build bridges between Indigenous and Newcomer youth by Highlighting the commonality among youth where they can relate to one another and build a sense of allyship and support among each other and promote the knowledge of anti-racism and advocacy.
Project description
“Can You Tell Who I Am?” is a story-telling project that aims to build bridges between Indigenous and newcomer youth by Highlighting the commonality among the youth where they can relate to one another and build a sense of allyship and support among each other and promote the knowledge of anti-racism and advocacy.
The project was over 12 weeks, with a session or two every week covering a variety of themes such as anti-racism, discrimination, human rights, Indigenous issues, intersectionality and Identity and culture sharing. - These sessions included discussions, engagement activities, and guest speakers.
By the end of the project the participants were divided into a group of 4-5 youth to write a one story based on the community of their lived experiences as a story of one person, the story of five people was written as one story one person. Once the stories were written the participants recorded their stories as podcasts.
The project aims to help the participants and the audience to relate one to another. A showcase event was hosted on July 9, 2024, the event included the stories, guest speakers, youth speeches, and overall information about the project, and giving away the shirt that was designed by the youth.
The idea of one story that combines multiple groups of people's stories showed the commonality in the lived experiences that the Indigenous and newcomer youth share with each other despite how unique each group and person is. These shared experiences were facing racism, discrimination, colonization, and intersectionality. This experience allowed the youth to learn about each other, especially the challenges and injustices they face.
The youth who participated in the first series of the storytelling were from a variety of different communities and backgrounds Ojibwe, Métis, Muslim Syrian, Kurdish, Somali, Anishinaabe, Congolese, Afghani, Cree, Ukrainian, Yazidi. Without these youth effort and contribution these projects could not be succeeded.
The project will develop a toolkit to demonstrate this project as an activity to bring people from different walks and lived experiences together through writing and sharing their stories.
