BIG NEWS!!! We have two big pieces of very exciting news! Through COVID we have continued to move this project forward, and our hard work has paid off! We are excited to announce that we have been short-listed for the Roy W. Dean grant offered by From the Heart Productions! AND, we have WON our …
Wondering if anything you’re doing to help matters? Image by Danielle Cooke, used with permission This month I was considering what to write for the blog when this beautifully written post about the small efforts towards change arrived in my inbox. I contacted the author, Jennifer Louden, who has graciously granted her permission for us …
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Trending Google Searches – 2010s ©Simon, Pixabay Today, my partner sent me this video depicting the ‘Top Trending Google Searches in every US state throughout the 2010s’. Give it a watch. Tell me what you notice. My first thought after carefully watching the full eleven-minute video was: “this is why we still have violence against …
Making Change with Rebel.com The wall Rebel.com members & visitors decorated when their board rooms were being built (2019). Really captures the Rebel ethos. ©Rebel.com I never thought of a web development company as a community builder. I mean, most businesses don’t exactly invest themselves in community by personally taking responsibility to convene it. But …
#BLACKLIVESMATTER If you haven’t heard, protests and marches are taking place around the world this week in response to the police murder of George Floyd in the US (read more here), the suspicious death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Canada (read more here), and police violence against Black people in general. The only response I have …
Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists Have you heard of this book? If you’re looking for a crash course on the history of activism that brought us women’s shelters and transition houses in Canada, then this is the book to read! What it’s about: Published in 2017, Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists tells the story behind …
COVID-19 and the possibility of a new future I don’t know about you, but lately, I have been talking to a lot of people about COVID-19, and more specifically, about what COVID-19 means for our world. The question of what things will look like after social distancing ends has been persistently on my mind, so …
OCTEVAW – A Connector in Anti-Violence Activism Before I started working on the smallest steps, I hadn’t really heard about most of the anti-violence organizations in Ottawa. But one organization I had heard of was the Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women (OCTEVAW). If you’re located in Ottawa and you’re trying to figure out …
It Takes A Village This morning I was reading Shoot from the Heart: Successful Filmmaking from a Sundance Rebel by Diane Bell. I’m at the part that talks about financing a short film, and it made me think about how incredibly grateful I am for YOU. Let me explain. A good book for aspiring filmmakers! …
Our final interview with Jade – December 15, 2019 That’s a Wrap!!! I can’t believe it. We have officially wrapped production on the smallest steps. A whole year spent following our four budding activists and on December 15, 2019, we pressed record on our cameras for the last time! But the process of creating this film …