Gigi Grant

Gigi Grant is an artist, project leader, and community organizer activating beauty and creation to bring forward social change.

About

Major Projects:

163 Queen East Health Justice Hub
Leading SPRE Development and Community Hub for HIV+ and Displaced Peoples

Unity Kitchen Toronto
Developing a Street Level Resource Center for Houseless Peoples in Downtown Toronto

Church of the Holy Trinity
Renewing the identity and legacy of a 180 year old church dedicated to social justice

Prisoners’ Justice and Support
Building justice, compassion and alternatives to incarceration through community development and arts creation.

Toronto Homeless Memorial
Leading Toronto’s monthly community ritual and advocacy pillar remembering the lives of houseless peoples.

Interventions, installations and Publications:

Festival of Shelter
Unity Recycled Textile Printing
Voices of Women For Peace Service
Disappearing Space Poster
Jane Doe Wheatpaste
Memorial Tiles
175 Anniversary Book and Collages
Service Bulletins
Encampment Wreath
Ascension Poem and Photos
An Anarchist Response to HIV/HCV Design
HIV Criminalization Advocacy

Artworks

Toronto Homeless Memorial

Every second Tuesday of the month, Toronto’s Homeless Memorial host a memorial event to celebrate the lives and relationships of people who have died on the streets. Now a digital monument, an in person service, and broadcast online, this memorial is one of the few places where the names of houseless, poor and disenfranchised people can be spoken and rememembered in their passing. The memorial serves as a gathering place for advocacy and action on social housing, harm reduction and an end to the criminalization of the poor. It an era where the expected outcome for poor people is exclusion and death, this memorial carves a physical space out of this dire reality. It shouts loudly the human life behind each name, honouring the child, parent, friend, lover, companion in each- and challenges us to act to protect our shared humanity. 




Toronto Homeless Memorial Website
Video Archive

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