I've worked in the Regent Park Community
for a few years now and it is like my second home. In the beginning, I was
afraid to enter this community from the messages I was getting from my peers
and the media. However, I have met so many talented youth and people in this
evolving community. Amidst the current revitalization, ongoing gun violence and
deaths of young people, the youth aim to speak up using their creativity in the
arts and voice their views on what their home in Regent Park means to them.
Many inspirational Canadians in the media have taken time out of their schedule to visit and
be motivational speakers in the Regent Park community for the youth including;
reporter Dwight Drummond who came from an ‘at risk’ community himself, rapper
Solitair, Degrassi actors Sam Earle and Jahmil French and recently Grammy Award
and Juno Award winning super star Nelly Furtado. I was the only local community reporter
who was able to squeeze in a question for Nelly, who attended a Regent Park
community event and had a surprise for longtime resident and poet, Mustafa
Ahmed.
to see
what Nelly has to say about the Regent Park community and hear what a few youth
in the community have to say in their own words how they are using their
talents to send a message to all misconceptions and the people who stereotype
and label the Regent Park Community.
Thank you Isaac Mbikay, Fatima Animer, Shebah
Dominique Toussaint and Mustafa Ahmed
for participating.
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