Ottawa C13 RISE centers youth education and digital storytelling through learning more about governance and financial security. Governance and financial security encompass the overarching topics of housing, employment, transit, and food security. This in-person event will feature the opportunity for youth to network and attend a panel discussion to hear from local leaders in youth governance. The event will be filmed and archived on C13’s website which will house photos from the event, youth resources, and information on how to get connected to the partner organizations participating. The achieved video will feature testimonials, short interviews, clips from the panel discussion, and highlight the partners present.

In addition to the in-person event, there will be a digital storytelling contest and a short form writing contest. To assist creators wanting to enter, Ottawa C13 RISE will host a virtual digital storytelling workshop prior to the deadline featuring an experienced digital storyteller.

Embrace the chill, share the warmth: Touching on topics like outdoor activities, seasonal food, and crafting, the Winter Wisdom Workshop invites young people in Ottawa to an evening of creating community connections and learning skills that can help us through the city's coldest (and longest!) season.

This event will comprise of crafts, guest speakers, workshops, and discussion groups.

A downtown community garden lunch and learn for local youth to come out and learn about how to garden in their homes or volunteer in any of the Ottawa community gardens.

The project is centered on the Three C’s: Connection, Community, and Culture. You can mark your calendars for the website launch date on Wednesday, December 8.

OurShelves 613 is an inclusive book club that seeks to educate and encourage individuals to broaden their reading habits and remove barriers that keep community members from reaching their full potential.

Unlearning Journey is a digital non-linear zine, focusing on marginalized voices expressing their gender journeys through a variety of multimedia art.

As a collective artistic archive, this platform is a way to reclaim our narratives & truths as well as connecting local (Ottawa-based) artists and storytellers with our larger communities to inspire pleasurable connections and collaborations.

Through a facilitated writing workshop (closed for BIPOC) (“Reroot”) as well as an open community showcase (“Revival”), this project encourages participants to vision a future together that supports & prioritizes the healing and recovery of BIPOC communities, lands, and knowledge.

Through hands-on workshops, folks learned practical and accessible skills (ie. gardening & cooking) they can continue building and sharing beyond this community project.

You Are Community is a youth-led project that pairs newcomer or refugee youth with the Ottawa Hub Ambassadors for a day of service where the pairs volunteer together, eat together, and learn together.