We Are Building Advocacy in the Community

Wellness knows no privilege and must include anti-oppression work. Yet, in reality, a lot of wellness services are often not available or easily accessible to our more vulnerable and marginalized groups within our community. Wellness must also include intersectionality! A term coined by Kimberle Crenshaw that means that many of these communities are faced with adversities within systems of oppression that may include race, class, gender and socio-economics.

We are changing that.

Wellness is integral to all of us – we do not believe that it is exclusive for certain social classes, privileges, races, or any other socioeconomic constructs we have created as a society. Wellness should be accessible to all, as real life tools to promote happiness and longevity are embedded in wellness.

We are committed to developing programs and workshops from an informed lens that has lasting and long term impacts within communities that need it the most.

Browse our Advocacy Portfolio below, and, if you’re looking to volunteer, sponsor, donate, or collaborate contact us to get started.

The Creative Community Mission

To ignite public spaces with the stories of PoC using ART.

WAYS TO HELP

Contact us to Donate Money, Donate Resources, Donate Your Time, and/or Collaborate and Partner With Us.

Creative Community Pilot

We were the recipients of an IMPACT Ajax Grant in 2017. This project was in Partnership with Community Development Council of Durham.

This 6-week project included art making processes for newcomer families facilitated by Jothi Creative Wellness with The Ajax Newcomer Centre and Community Development Council of Durham. A final exhibition included artwork created by Jothi, newcomers, and Indigenous Artists Chief Lady Bird and Aura was showcased at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery from Dec. 7 - Jan. 7 2017.