This is My Cecil - Calgary, Alberta, 2009
This Is My Cecil was a project developed through the City of Calgary’s “This is my City” initiative, where artists worked in mentoring capacities with Calgarians accessing the shelter system. Recent narratives around the Cecil have predominantly been negative, focusing on it as a site of criminal activity, of contagent poverty, a blackhole of property value and roadblock to urban growth and development. A series of Zine making workshops were held at the Drop In Shelter, inviting participants to build their own narratives from –and in response- to the media narratives about the Cecil Hotel.
This Is My Cecil was a project developed through the City of Calgary’s “This is my City” initiative, where artists worked in mentoring capacities with Calgarians accessing the shelter system. Recent narratives around the Cecil have predominantly been negative, focusing on it as a site of criminal activity, of contagent poverty, a blackhole of property value and roadblock to urban growth and development. A series of Zine making workshops were held at the Drop In Shelter, inviting participants to build their own narratives from –and in response- to the media narratives about the Cecil Hotel.