Diva Girls' Blog Post - February 4th, 2019 (UofT Collaboration)

Regent Park Focus is partnering with the Youth, Arts, and Engagement Program at the University of Toronto to produce a media product that is based on the community. This is the second session.

This session the girls offered a tour to the students and staff at UofT. They took them to places they usually hang out at, these being the Regent Park Community Centre and Daniels Spectrum. They then showed the group parts of the community that had been revitalized and explained how it now works in the community.
                                                                           

After returning back to focus, they worked on an ice breaker. This ice breaker was one where the group had to create a paper airplane, write their names and 2 questions they had for the finder. They then threw it around in the room and had to search for the owner of the plane and answer the question.
                             

Aditi, the professor of the program, then talked about the evolution of hip-hop and what it did to help empower communities, she gave some examples and then talked about the media project that was to come and asked the group to start brainstorming on issues they wanted to address.


The next session will be one where a guest speaker from Washington Post will talk about what she does and how to initiate change in a community.

Amna Quaid Azam