From art-based co-creation or engaging with schools, to community advocacy and meaningful acts of Reconciliation and more, the winners of this year’s SFU Student-Community Engagement Competition are putting ideas into action with their community partners.
Posted: Jan 23, 2021 6:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 23
Sheri Pranteau leads a team of Indigenous support workers to help people who are Indigenous and homeless.(Eric Dicaire/CBC)
A large trailer sits in a parking lot behind the Mount Royal Metro station. It s bright and colourful, adding life to a parking lot that is otherwise washed out with snow and construction. Large letters are written on its side: Wapikoni: First Nations travelling audiovisual and creation studio.
Wapikoni is a not-for-profit based in Montreal. They once used the trailer to hold audiovisual workshops for Indigenous youth, but during the pandemic it serves a different purpose. Sheri Pranteau and her team of support workers use it as a home base for the Indigenous Support Workers Project.