Looking for ways to use the arts in HIV peer education? You have come to the right place! The following videos and resources were created by an amazing team of Empower youth participants to inspire other youth to take action in their own communities.
These videos were collectively visioned, scripted, and filmed by Empower, and friends. Click the link below, and check them out! Please feel free to share to friends, partners, lovers, colleagues, and family members.
Empower has created a series of print resources. Click the links below to download the bulletins.
- Digital Storytelling for HIV prevention
- Arts-Based Facilitation
- Peer Education
- Empower: Our Program Model
Performing OUT sex positivity with Drag and Burlesque from Empower Project
Using Spoken Word in HIV Prevention Workshops: Poetry as Expression from Empower Project
What’s cookin’?: How to Facilitate HIV, Sexual Health or Harm Reduction Workshops for Youth from Empower Project
Behind the Scenes: Empower Youth Interviews from Empower Project
Behind the Scenes: Community Artist Interviews from Empower Project
We are thankful for the support of an amazing group of community artists who helped us move our visions into reality: Hisayo Horie; Mahlikah Aweri, Dainty Smith, and Rosa Mindreau. We would like acknowledge the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Laidlaw Foundation, and the Ontario Arts Council for supporting this project.