ART EXPLORATION #10 - Community Arts Project

Speak Against Racism:

Our Logo

We are a group of students passionate to make a difference on the social issue of racism.
Mission
Our objective is raise awareness about racism and racial stereotypes going on in our society. We have proposed a project that may be of interest to stakeholders and students to reduce racism on campus as well as raising awareness for the services available in their community. We have created this interactive online community for people to share, comment, and give advice and support on experiences of racism as well as a list of online resources to seek help.
Purpose
A healthy growing community involves the well-being of its people – to have mutual respect for on another regardless of race. Therefore it is most important for each individual to reflect that we all come from different backgrounds and all have a different story to tell.
With the existence of racism still evidently around in our society today, despite the efforts of fighting against it for many years in the history, we continue to live in an environment where main causes of racism are not reflected by humanity. The social world continues to fed on stereotypes, lack mutual respect from various race and ethnicity groups because of unfamiliarity of the nature of its differing cultures from their own or simply selfishness.
As students, the Ryerson Campus is our most immediate community. We want to invite students, teachers and their families within the community to involve themselves in our ultimate goal to make the environment we live in a better place.
Vision
What can we do next other after our awareness is raised about this social issue? Our ultimate objective is to take the next step from simply raising awareness and advocate for others by bringing possible sources of solutions to support those who may encounter forms of racism, whether it be from the cause of stereotypes, unfamiliarity, environmental factors or selfishness of humanity.
Taking Action

Our Big Idea - In action

Our creation of SPEAK AGAINST RACISM stickers is our first step to raising awareness that racism still exist in our world today. In several urban elements around campus, stickers with a quotation from famous thinkers are placed, inviting to a reflection about issues on racism.
On the sticker, there is a website in which individuals can have access to a place to share, vent and outsource their emotions and feelings anonymously on the web about this social issue. This is a place where students, teachers, parents or anyone in the community can SPEAK AGAINST RACISM and express their shady views of this social issue in the perspective of each individual who has a want or need to share.
Join Us
Everyone has a story. From hearing about one’s story, this puts us in the position to consider their viewpoint. We believe that each individual has a right to SPEAK AGAINST RACISM and share their story. The individual self only knows best how they feel in their skin.


“You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view – until you climb into their skin and walked around it.”