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Behind the Lens: What Media Arts Production Shares with Live Casino Studios
May 15, 2020
Media arts practitioners understand better than most what it takes to capture genuine human interaction on camera.
Our project
Memory Witness and Hope brought together francophone and anglophone survivors of Ontario's large institutions to share stories and learn new media arts skills.
The Memory Witness and Hope project has now concluded. Here you will find the resources created through our project. You can also access these resources in our Resources section.
Our resources
Illustrated Story
The Rideau Regional Centre: I Remember — by Robert Concordia
Participant sites
- Doug Marr
- Marcel Giroux
- Harry LaRocque
- Maurice Villeneuve
Lesson Plans
- FR/ENIntroduction — Memory Witness and Hope: A Unit of Study
- FR/ENLesson 1: Memory — History of Ontario's Institutions for People with Intellectual Disabilities
- FR/ENLesson 2: Witness — Learning from Survivors' Stories
- FR/ENLesson 3: Hope — Learning from the Past: Justice, Not Apologies
- FR/ENLesson 4: Take Action — Towards an Anti-Ableist Future
- ToolKWL Chart
- ToolAnti-Ableist Initiative
- ToolAnti-Ableist Initiative — Rubric
Latest Posts
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Bilingual Identity: Living Between Two Languages After the Institutions
March 2020
Being a francophone survivor in Ontario adds a particular dimension to the institutional experience — one of language and cultural identity.
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Finding Community After the Institutions Closed
February 2020
Building genuine community bonds outside of institutional walls is both a challenge and a triumph — one that survivors navigate every day.
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A heartfelt thank you to Lester B. Pearson High School
January 2020
Memory Witness and Hope is grateful to the students and teachers at Lester B. Pearson Catholic High School in Ottawa for hosting Robert and Natalie.