Past Projects

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.

A series of interviews with youth who display independence through subjects including: mental health, education, community work, and life skills

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.

Through a series of workshops, YOUth Rise engaged participants on the topic of social inclusion to build mutual awareness and understanding. Art was incorporated to allow participants to express and document social inclusion and exclusion.