Paperhouse Outreach Collective

Paperhouse Outreach Collective (Paperhouse Outreach), circa 2015, co-founded by Flora Shum, Emily Cook, and Stephanie Taylor, is an artist group designing artist-led programmes rooted in paper, print media, and community building. It is an ad-hoc collective that services 2SLGBTQIAP+, Deaf, Mad, disabled, and BIPOC youth, founded by artists who identify with these priority groups. We are influenced by the history of paper, book, and print as vehicles for the decentralization and dissemination of information.

Paperhouse Outreach introduces youth to these histories and the skills needed to create their own multiples as tools for storytelling and empowerment. Paperhouse Outreach initiatives are designed with knowledgeable, practicing artists from these discriminated-against communities and programme partners with aligning mandates. This is a critical part of our process that reflects the needs of the community.

Paperhouse Outreach Collective pledges to create a safe learning space by:

1. Assisting learners to set and achieve their goal through self-directed educational programming.

2. Employing art educators who are experts of their respective mediums and are strong advocates of equal opportunity for marginalized and discriminated-against identities within Canada.

3. Offering programs designed to encourage participants and facilitators to speak from their own experiences in an inclusive, anti-oppressive, anti-discriminatory, safe space.