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LJI Journalist Name

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LJI Partner Name

Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre

Region

Ontario

Community

Regent Park (TO)

For this period I am including Gabriel Meissner's impact statement. Grabriel has been with Focus now for several years, at first as a placement student, and then and until now as both a part-time and full-time staff. By Gabreiel Meissner

Covering News for Regent Park TV has slowly drawn me into the Regent Park, Neighbourhood, and made me aware of the importance of community. Coming from the small ‘city’ of Waterloo, I never felt like I belonged to a community. I remember watching the TV series Gilmore Girls, which depicted an idyllic (and to my standards at the time, unrealistic) town called Stars Hollow. It’s a place where everyone knows each other, you see everyone’s quirks, everyone shops at the same grocery store, everyone attends the town hall meetings, everyone openly states their opinions without being shy… Stars Hollow is not far from what exists here. Working at Focus Media Arts has let me see the initiatives that ground Regent Park: programs that care for and educate children, programs that encourage cultural entrepreneurship, programs that help the less-fortunate find employment, all with a backbone to see an improvement in peoples’ living conditions. A village raises a child - having a strong and loud community will imbue the next generation with the knowledge of their rights and an understanding of solidarity. My time here has made me realize that a strong community is not a luxury, it’s a necessity. This video of the Marci Ien Community BBQ is my favourite example of the community celebrating and having fun.

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