On September 30, 2014, I began my collaboration with Ian Powell at Mountainside Secondary on the INSIDE OUT PROJECT- OWN YOUR JOURNEY, inspired by my hero JR:

MOUNTAINSIDE SECONDARY: Inside Out Project: Own Your Journey
Youth-run initiative using the vehicle of portrait photography and street art to learn life and transferable skills while developing self-empowerment, peer to peer interaction and community connections.
THEMES: Connection and Empowerment
We use TED TALKS to inspire and to induce dialogue and self-reflection around the theme.
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When you try to be yourself there will be people who will put you down. You grow up looking up to people and not knowing who you are and being told what to do and what not to do. We all deal with pain in different ways- some do it in a sad way. Having to live in a world where judging a person we don’t even know is a good way to make yourself feel better, or even judging a person makes ‘cool.’ But in the end we are all on this earth for a reason ans we should all love ourselves the way we are and respect all of our good qualities and get rid of all the negative, cruelty thoughts. – student journal entry
Behind-the-scenes documentary by Parmida Afsahi:
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The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become clear.
– JR
Can art change the world? Maybe… we should change the question: Can art change people’s lives? – JR

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Beautiful work you all good gift to offer to the people teach I enjoyed watching these videos good luck