THE MEETING PLACE

On May 11, 2024, kin + care collective & Stay Golden hosted an evening of art, community, and Scarborough love at…

the meeting place

A photo of a projected screen with "The Meeting Place" projected.

kin + care collective and Stay Golden have been co-dreaming for the past couple of years and we were thrilled to finally host an event together!

A photo of Tyreek (the meeting place MC) looking sideways. Tyreek is wearing a red hat and white shirt. He is pointing towards the camera holding a paper and a microphone on his other hand. His background is some of the artwork made by Hadi and Daisy
A photo of an attendee's hand putting a red dot sticky on the map of Scarborough. The attendee is wearing a black cardigan.
A photo of 7 attendees some sitting and some standing just having a conversation. One is holding a baby and some are leaning towards the table that the 7 of them are surrounding of.

As two Scarborough-based grantees of the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s Youth Opportunities Fund, we know how important community-led, arts-based programming is for our youth.

A close up photo os Veggie Samosas with green dipping sauce that is unfocused. The photo is focused to the label that writes "Veggie Samosas"
A section of the event where names of artists are showcased with their artworks. (Meagen, Hadi and Daisy). The other side of the photo, there are 3 attendees standing in front of another artist's showcase. Their back are towards the camera.

For the past few months, our program, Just Between Us, has been using the arts to explore systemic racism and its impact on the mental health of racialized youth in Scarborough.

A photo of an attendee looking down towards the table with a tablet on top. She is facing towards the table which is set on the left side of the photo, while wearing a headphone connected to the tablet. While watching what's playing in the tablet, sh
A photo of set of questions posted on the black wall. This photo is focuses on the question: "Is it chicken curry or curry chicken? Discuss"
A photo of 4 attendee, 3 of which are sitting on the floor with banig (carpet) and a small table in front of them. The other one is sitting on the chair just on the right side of the photo facing towards the 3 attendees.
A photo of 4 passport looking like books on top of a white table.
A photo of 11 attendees standing against the wall of the artist showcases. They are all seemingly looking towards the front. Some are leaning on the wall and some are standing with their hands clasps in front of them.
A photo of a sign that says "Where are you from?" plus a description on what to do. Beside this sign is stacks of sticky notes and pens.

Our program’s young artists have been busy creating around the themes of community, freedom, care, hope, and the power of our stories.

A photo of a projector showing a video, showing a bit of the attendees' head. All heads are turn towards the projector.
A photo of a hand of an attendee drawing a rainbow and a word "dream" written beside it. There are papers, glue, crayons, and scissors around this big piece of paper.
A photo of attendees sitting on chairs and some at the back standing. Some are clapping their hands and some are looking straight to the front of the event. The camera is capturing mostly their sideviews.
Another photos of 4 attendees sitting on each of their chairs. One of them, sipping a drink from their coffee cup. The all are talking and seemingly having conversations.
A photo of the arts from the artist specifically focused on "Aerelle". One of the attendee is standing in front of Aerelle's arts with their arms cross and head tilted up. Their back are against the camera facing towards the wall of arts.
A photo of projected screen with a person head wrapped in blanket. Some attendees head are also shown all head turned towards the screen and back towards the camera.

Similarly, Stay Golden has been offering writing workshops to Scarborough youth and exploring themes such as connection, disconnection, resilience, and joy.

A photo of an attendee looking towards the wall of the artist's arts. The photo captures Meagan, Aerelle, George wall. She is focused on Meagan's wall. Head tilted up to see all the arts on top of Meagan's name. The camera is towards her side. Her ha
A photo of an attendee wearing a brown shirt, sitting on the chair facing the table with a tablet on top with video showing. He is wearing the headphone connected to the tablet.
A photo of the wall of arts focus on Sun, George and Aerelle's wall. Photo is taken to the side.
A photo of two attendee engage on a conversation together facing each other. Body turn to the side. One is wearing a orange lanyard smiling towards the other wearing a green shirt. At the back of the photo, you can see some attendees either sitting o
A photo of projected screen with the word "unhome" projected. All head are turned towards the screen.
A photo of 3 attendees standing towards Hadi's wall of arts. One of them is Hadi face towards the other two attendees, smiling. Hadi is wearing a green shirt and eyeglass while the other two is wearing a floral dress and brown dress.

Stay Golden proudly celebrated the creative talent of their program’s youth.

A photo of wall with Ella, Niya, Nafisa, Shennel, Theyva's name. Each name is posted on the wall just line up on below each name (chronologically by the name described). In front of the whole there are 3 attendees caught on a conversation together.
A photo of the artist's wall. Focuses on Hadi, Daisy and The Mentors' wall.
A photo of a world map, below of which "Where are you from?". There are different sticky notes posted on some of the parts of the world map.
A photo of parts of Scarborough map. At the bottom of the page "In our Scarborough" is written.

THE MEETING PLACE was a celebration of our youth and our community. Thanks to everyone who joined us!

A photo of 3 attendees standing with their hands on their waist, looking down on the service dog laying on the floor. One of the attendee with green hair is holding the service dog's leash. All three are smiling down to the dog. Their background is t
A photo of a table and 5 chairs facing towards the table. The table also have 8 seemingly passport looking notebooks, with a water bottle of the left sidfe of the table.
A photo fo 3 attendess wearing an orange lanyards all smiling towards the camera. The attendee from the left is wearing a green cardigan with brown undershirt and cream pants, while the attendee in the middle is wearing a black sleeveless shirt with

The MEeting Place

A video highlight of "the meeting place" that took place. Most videos are closer to photos above. Attendees eating food, having conversation, looking at the art wall, watching the projected screen, some videos of performances, the whole decorations and interactive discussions around the event, all in all attendees having fun and interacting.

Thanks to our funders, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Youth Opportunities Fund, Toronto Foundation, Volunteer Toronto, Toronto Arts Council, and the City of Toronto; to Loft & Main for sharing their gorgeous space with us; and to our friends Ziyaad Haniff and Celeste Ceres for the photos and videos above.

That’s all for now but, just between us, we’ve got more in store…👀

Designed by Louise Abrena