Annual Report 2017
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ART TRANSFORMS Annual Report 2017 1 ART 1 ART T R A NSFORMS 2017 NSFORMS SKETCH is about the... Imaginations fueled Radical Art of Skills and Knowledge developed Young People, Entrepreneurship and To Transform Lives and Activism flamed communities Community built Creativity celebrated SKETCH is a twenty-one-year community-engaged arts initiative for diverse young people, ages 16-29, coming from across Canada, who are living homeless and on the margins, navigating poverty. 3 ART 3 ART T R A 35000 NSFORMS 2017 NSFORMS YOUTH EXPERIENCE 29% HOMelessNess IN A YEAR IDENTIFY AS LGBTQ 28% 54% BELONG TO ARE CHRONIcally 32% racIALIZED HOMeless ARE IN TRANSITION OUT OF COMMUNITIES HOMelessNess “We need to address homelessness on all levels... Homelessness of the Body Homelessness of the Mind Homelessness of the Heart 31% Homelessness of the Spirit” - Dr. Marie Wilson, Truth and ARE FIrst NatIONS, Reconciliation Commissioner METIS OR INUIT 10% NEWCOMers National Youth Homelessness Survey 2016 Divided City: Life in Canada’s Child Poverty Capital Report 2016 5 ART 5 ART T R A NSFORMS 2017 NSFORMS SKETCH 2017 INDIVIDUals PROGRAMS 1318 Visual Arts VISITS Movement Arts Music and 10405 Recording Arts Culinary Arts IMPACT NEW Media Arts Industrial Arts 879 Spoken Word Community Arts actIVITIES 57 7 ART 7 ART T R A NSFORMS 2017 NSFORMS PARTICIPATION 888 Discover “SKETCH came into my life at a time when Creativity, Community and the Arts I was feeling very lost. Some people, they go down a path of violence, some people lock themselves off from society. 1030 For me, I just wrote, art was my healing Develop space. Like without it, I honestly don’t Skills and Knowledge in Arts even think I’d be here right now.” Workshops and Projects - Dynesti, Musician and Entertainer 529 Launch into Arts Leadership, Enterprise and Career Development Activities 9 ART 9 ART T R A NSFORMS 2017 NSFORMS DEMOGRAPHICS For youth who chose to identify ETHNICITY 16% First Nations GENDER 9% Latin American 51% Female 7% Asian 41% Male 6% Newcomer 9% Trans 6% South-East Asian 12% Two Spirit/ 5% Middle Eastern Gender Fluid/ Nonconforming; 4% South Asian 37% African/Caribbean 4% Other 2% 30% European East Asian EMPLOYMENT SCHOOLING 36% Unemployed 68% Not In School 31% Employed 32% In School 24% Underemployed 18% Self-Employed 11 ART 11 ART T R A NSFORMS 2017 NSFORMS SUPPORT ELEMENTS LEADERSHIP 156 Youth paid to lead 5658 workshops and projects Meals Created $217,916 345 Income to Youth leading Referrals workshops, special 30-40 projects or internships Partners per Quarter $32,696 Generated for Sectors include: Community Arts, Health including Dental, performance, art sales, Housing and Support-Shelters, Mental Health, Addictions Counselling, Employment, Legal, Violence Against Women showcases, commissions sector, Food Security, Education and Training. 13 ART 13 ART T R ANISHINAABE A NSFORMS 2017 NSFORMS MENTORSHIP COMMUNITY SPIRIT DANCERS RaiNBOW’s ODE PRIDE IN SCARBOROUGH 335 POWER TO Youth in Arts Career Development GIRLS CANVAS 27 SUNSET Youth Leading Projects ARTS SERVICE MENTORSHIP 13 PLATFORM LIFTED Projects on Arts Mentorship Platform BY SIRENS PURPOSE $ 723,628 VOID in grants raised by Young People STREET VOICES MOONLIGHT LOST IS TOOLBOX FOUND More info at sketch.ca 15 ART 15 ART T R A NSFORMS 2017 NSFORMS STRATEGIC Platform A COLLABORATIONS Acting Out Arts Lab Opportunities for a new Equity, Art and Community generation of artists A Way Home Toronto HOP-C CUE YSI $22,050 Supporting 35 Individual Artists “At SKETCH, I was able to work on opened Margin of Eras Gallery music and develop skills as a social service worker, doing outreach stuff, Artreach program planning and learning a lot $300,000 about anti-oppression practices.” Supporting 33 - Oddane, Rapper, singer–songwriter and Community Arts Projects Youth Worker See more on sketch.ca 17 ART 17 ART T R A NSFORMS 2017 NSFORMS SPECIAL PROJECTS COMMUNICATIONS 7530 Weave and Mend Facebook 4700 Public art instatllation creation with Twitter female-identifying young people on impacts of colonial and gender-based violence Element of HE 2310 Instagram (Know Man’s Land) 3 Arts exploration with healthy masculinity of Million racialized young men Impressions Trans ID Clinic 199 Legal support to obtain/replace ID and Linkedin modify gender markers KNO-MO Media Partners: Knowledge Mobilization: Arts-based research on SKETCH’s draft Theory Traffik Group Indie 88 of Change KG&A DX3 GRIP Canada Rocks 19 ART 19 ART T R A NSFORMS 2017 NSFORMS RESOURCES $723,628 Includes government funds raised by young people or for young people for projects on the Arts Mentorship Platform. Revenue Expenses $2,922,702 $2,914,198 43% Government = $1,394,643 Ontario Trillium Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Employment and Social Development Canada, 76% $2,210,978 Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport, T.O. Employment and Social Program = Services, Toronto Urban Health Fund 11% Resource Development = $332,102 23% Foundations = $661,053 13% Operations = $371,118 11% Corporate = $321,466 5% Individuals = $144,144 5% Fundraising = $130,906 5% Social Enterprise = $133,092 4% Other = $137,398 Audited statements available at sketch.ca 21 ART 21 ART T R A NSFORMS 2017 NSFORMS Skratch Oddane It was challenging, you know? The typical story of being homeless and not having resources or Growing up as a native youth in Edmonton, there’s a opportunities and having issues at home. But I lot of violence and drugs and all these types of things. always found that the art — music was a place For me, I kind of grew up similar but I’ve always had art where I felt happy. or hip hop to fall back on or people that I knew who were into it. I kept hearing about SKETCH because I used to be in a shelter. My native art is inspired by traditional native art but I also like to incorporate graffiti style into it. So I use Now I think my music is at a point where I’m like spray paint and markers and I try to make the colours wow, I can’t believe I created that you know? more vibrant. There’s something about colour that With the help of my community and the help of just fills my soul. people, I can’t believe I’m at this point. It’s going to transform my life in so many ways. SKETCH definitely has helped me in a lot of ways. It’s definitely helping me become more aware of certain Oddane Taylor is a singer-songwriter and a youth worker things and helping me become a better leader. And I in Toronto. couldn’t ask for anything more. Witness more stories of young people at Sketch in the SKRATCH is a graffitti artist and musician in Toronto Art Transforms video series available at: Sketch.ca/arttransforms 23 ART 23 ART T R A NSFORMS 2017 NSFORMS FUNDING THROUGH GRANTS CORPORATE PARNTERS AND DONORS SKETCH acknowledges the generous funding Corporate Partners support of the following: Forrec LTD GRIP Limited The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation S.W.I.F.T. Government The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation The Drake Canada Council for the Arts The Kensington Foundation Employment and Social Development Canada The Law Foundation of Ontario Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture & Sport The Slaight Family Foundation Corporate Donors Love By Lynzie (Ontario 150 Partnership Program) Traction for Good Anonymous (in memory of Guy O’Sullivan) Lucidia Inc. Ontario Arts Council United Way of Toronto & York Region Architect Films Inc. (in memory of Guy O’Sullivan) Lumicrest Lighting Solutions Ontario Trillium Foundation Williams Wilson Sherport Foundation Blue Ant Media (in memory of Guy O’Sullivan) Marble Trend Ltd. Toronto Arts Council Willowool Foundation Bolverk Construction Inc. Meridian Credit Union Limited Toronto Employment and Social Services Camp Brand Goods OMERS Ventures Investment Management Toronto Urban Health Fund Corporate Canadian Manda Group Reliable Corporation City of Toronto, Access, Equity and Human Rights CIBC Codes Pro-Media (in memory of Guy O’Sullivan) Salesforce.com Canada Corporation Great West Life, London Life, and Canada Life Coveo Sleepenvie Inc. Foundations Green Shield Canada Designstead Studio Munge Symcor on behalf of Tom Chapman Atkinson Foundation Telus Community Fund Dillon Consulting Limited TD Bank Audrey S. Helleyer Charitable Foundation TD Bank Forward Public Affairs Inc. Temple Dance V Productions Limited (in memory of Averbach Family Foundation George Brown College Rick McVicar) CAMH Foundation Geranium The Phoenix Concert Theatre Community Foundations of Canada GTA Rollergirls Uppercase Productions (in memory of Guy O’Sullivan) George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation Guru Animation Studio Urban Outfitters Hal Jackman Foundation Horseshoe Tavern Johansen-Larsen Foundation Hudson College Kiwanis Club of Toronto Foundation Indie 88 Mackenzie Investments Charitable Foundation Ink & Water Tattoo Inc. R. Howard Webster Foundation INSIGHT BIG BROTHER CANADA LTD (in memory of Rick McVicar) RBC Foundation Insight Production Company LTD (in memory of Rick McVicar) Robert Kerr Foundation Klick Inc. SOCAN Foundation Liberation Practice International (LPI) Local 4400 CUPE 25 ART 25 ART ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE T R A NSFORMS 2017 NSFORMS CHAIR’S MESSAGE PHYLLIS NOvak JAMEY HUBBS Paint splashing, clay thrown and moulded, pencils and As a learning organization that grows with young charcoals etching on surfaces. Ink printing new signs and artists, we continue to evolve a “Theory of Change” to symbols. Keys clicking in digital formations of films, poems guide our efforts. Among a year of exciting activities and story. Beats, strings, and vocals vibrating through hallways prompting sways, jumps and shimmies. Saws and and young people leading highly creative projects, we hammers keep our rhythms. celebrate with CUE who opened The Margin of Eras Gallery dedicated to showcasing the work of new Feet brushing across dance floors, arms outstretched, spins generation artists who live and work at the margins.