The Source Farm Foundation

The Source Farm Foundation is the outreach arm of the Source Farm EcoVillage in St. Thomas Parish, Jamaica.  The Foundation is a community economic development incubator that builds collaborative partnerships to develop environmentally sound and sustainable solutions.  Our work is based in a whole systems ecological design approach called Permaculture....

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Colored Conventions Project

The Colored Conventions Project (CCP) is a scholarly and community research project dedicated to bringing the seven decades-long history of nineteenth-century Black organizing to digital life. Mirroring the collective nature of the nineteenth-century Colored Conventions, CCP uses innovative, inclusive models and partnerships to locate, transcribe, and archive the documentary record...

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CINEMA POLITICA

CINEMA POLITICA is a Montreal-based media arts, non-profit network of community and campus locals that screen independent political film and video by Canadian and international artists throughout Canada and abroad. We believe in the power of art to not only entertain but to engage, inform, inspire, and provoke social change. Cinema...

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Organizing Equality International Conference

Organizing Equality is a major international conference hosted by members of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University, and will take place at Museum London between the 24th and 26th of March 2017. This conference is bringing academics, artists and activists together from around the globe to...

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Eritrean Oral Poetry – A portrayal of history

Solomon Tsehaye is Eritrea’s pre-eminent oral historian, language and cultural scholar. Working in transnational collaboration with him and his colleagues, I am helping to develop funding, institutional resources, appropriate expertise and digital infrastructures to advance the story collection from Tigrinya-speaking elders who are the depositories of the history and culture....

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North Side Hip Hop Archive

Northside Hip Hop Archive is a digital collection of Canadian hip hop history and culture founded by Dr. Mark V. Campbell. Inspired by his “Bigger Than Hip Hop” radio show that aired for two decades on CHRY 105.5 in North York, this project seeks to redress the historic undervaluing of...

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Ali Mustafa Memorial Collective

The Ali Mustafa Memorial Collective is a volunteer-based group that was established shortly after the death of Canadian photographer, journalist, and activist, Ali Mustafa on March 9, 2014. The core aim of the Collective is to honour, preserve and celebrate Ali’s life and work as a “peoples’ journalist,” by providing an annual award...

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Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club

The mission of the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club is to provide a safe and positive space for women and trans people to explore the sport of boxing. The women’s program is tailored to members. Individuals come into the program with their own goals, it may be to get into better...

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Sudan Studies Association

The Sudan Studies Association (SSA) is an independent professional society founded in the United States in 1981. Membership is open to scholars, teachers, students, and others with interest in the Sudan. The Association exists primarily to promote Sudanese studies and scholarship. It maintains a cooperative relationship with the Institute of...

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