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CUYR is tackling inequalities experienced by young people
The Centre for Urban Youth Research is a hub for critical and justice-oriented youth scholars, activists, and community organizations working towards the expansion of social justice for young people who are most marginalized under contemporary capitalism.
Project: Humanity supporting youth & artists through COVID-19
P:H's COVID-19 Artist Partnership Program (CAPP). provides essential support to youth in shelters by pairing participants with artists for weekly 1:1 online mentorship sessions in a discipline of their choosing.
Tiny Tuna Big Bee: motivating climate action through music
Introducing our friends Bebe, Oona and Tutu of homegrown Toronto band ‘Tiny Tuna Big Bee’, all 12 years old and writing music as a call to action about climate change.
"Without youth theatre, I would never have won the Booker prize"
Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker prize (2019) explores how acting onstage helped her discover her creativity, away from class and racial division.
Artists for Real Climate Action
Artists for Real Climate Action is a non-partisan, ever-growing collection of actors, filmmakers, writers, musicians, playwrights, graphic designers, directors, and digital marketing folks all sounding the alarm over our climate crisis
Upcoming Talks
- October 2, 2020: Dr. Gallagher will give a keynote address on art and youth well-being at the upcoming virtual 2020 Child Conference for the Departments of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Family Medicine, hosted by the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University.
- November 14, 2020: Dr. Gallagher will deliver a lecture on "Understanding Youth and Social Inequality" at the 9th International Convention on Education Studies, hosted by EdukCircle in the Philippines.
- February, 2021: Dr. Gallagher will be the keynote speaker at the Special Visual Forum on Community Engaged Research in a Time of Crises, hosted by the Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERi) at Simon Fraser University.
- TBD 2021: Dr. Gallagher will present the keynote address at the 4th ELTE Workshop for Arts Education, Live the Culture - Play, Arts Education and Science (Budapest, Hungary)
Latest News
How do young people imagine the next year?
The first Dinner and a Show kicks off with the premier screening of FINDING RADICAL HOPE, which focuses on Dr. Kathleen Gallagher’s remarkable study in drama classrooms -- the inspiration behind Towards Youth, the Project: Humanity/Crow’s Theatre co-production from 2019.
After coronavirus: Global youth reveal that the social value of art has never mattered more
In this new article, Dr. Gallagher issues a call to action in response to an "unprecedented moment for intergenerational justice" emerging from the coronavirus pandemic - and the critical role of the arts, if we are to seize it.
Radical Hope & Youth Citizenry Research Event
Dr. Gallagher discussed her international, multi-sited and collaborative research project (Youth, Theatre, Radical Hope and the Ethical Imaginary: an intercultural investigation of drama pedagogy, performance and civic engagement) with the lead researcher from the Coventry site, Dr. Rachel Turner-King. Chaired by Professor Jonothon Neelands.
New Book Alert!
This book explores the affective and relational lives of young people in diverse urban spaces. By following the trajectories of diverse young people as they creatively work through multiple and unfolding global crises, it asks how arts-based methodologies might answer the question: How do we stand in relation to others, those nearby and those at greater distances?