Education and Youth

“Remix works because we are working at the root of the problem…we understand it because we live it. Young people in the GTA do not lack talent, drive, intelligence or ideas. What the young people in this city need are outlets, support and resources.”

Gavin Sheppard, Founder of IC Visions and Remix Project Coordinator

Cultural participation and education can support education goals generally and engage youth in socially positive activity that supports their personal and professional development. Educated creative workforces support the development of local creative economies, and youth that are engaged in their communities and see their own cultural expression developed and valued are more likely to either stay in those communities, or return to those communities later in life. Tangible elements of urban form, workspaces, galleries, theatres, cafés, streets and public spaces provide creatives with critical hubs of interaction and support.1

1. Artscape, Spacemaking in Culture-Led Regeneration, p.7