This is My City was a twelve month long profect initiated by Arts & Culture of the City of Calgary to facilitate the engagement of homeless citizens in art making. Starting in January 2009, members of the homeless community were provided the opportunity to work with artist mentors to develop their creative voices for expression, public advocacy, and dialogue.
The multidisciplinary program included poetry, performance, personal narrative, drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, and video production. This is My City does not pretend to be a solution to the homeless crisis. Rather, the project intended to enable homeless citizens the chance to speak on their own behalf. 
These pictures depict some of the artwork that people from the DI have created in various workshops through This is My City. A big thank you to all the Mentor Artists and staff at the Arts & Culture Department for participating in these workshops at the DI: Dawn Ford, Jody Williams, Lisa Gayle, Adina Edwards, Cat Schick, Linda Hawke, Douglas R Witt, Eugene Stickland, Mary Swain, Tekoa Predika, Onalea Gibertson, Aviva Zimmerman, Col Cseke, Tomas Jonsson, Eveline Kolijn, Vincent T Joachim, Ian Prinsloo.
