WE OUT HERE: Short Documentary

Apr. 30–Oct. 29, 2025

During the months of June and July 2025, we will be mentoring and working with marginalized youth in the City of Edmonton to create a short documentary regarding the harsh realities they face on a daily basis with a specific focus on the challenges they experience pursuing music on a serious note. The documentary will include interviews, clips of live performances and commentary from established hip-hop artists with lived experience.

Key Impact Area: Providing music education to youth in the justice system, storytelling through documentary filmmaking.

Follow the Creating Hope Society and the making of WE OUT HERE: A Short Documentary here: creatinghopesociety.ca Facebook Instagram

About The Creating Hope Society

The Creating Hope Society (CHS) is an Indigenous accredited and charitable non-profit organization incorporated on March 3, 2006. Since its inception, Creating Hope Society’s mission has been to focus on breaking the cycle of Indigenous children entering the Child Welfare System. CHS’ vision is to provide client-focused services that help Indigenous families navigate their involvement with Alberta’s Child and Family Services with a goal of seeing fewer children coming into care.

Vision
A safe and just society for all Indigenous Peoples.

Mission Statement
We create hope for positive change, mend hearts, and contribute to reconciliation through healing the impacts of intergenerational trauma and reconnecting with culture and community.

Contact

Email: info@westanthem.com

Alberta spans five treaty territories and eight Métis settlements. Like their ancestors, many Indigenous individuals and families make their homes across the prairies, including the Blackfoot Confederacy – Kainai, Piikani, and Siksika – the Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, Stoney Nakoda, and the Tsuu T’ina Nation. The Métis People of Alberta include the Six Regions of the Métis Nation of Alberta. Many First Nations, Métis, and Inuit, both from here and as visitors from elsewhere, have helped care for these lands for generations. We recognize they have traditions and relationships to the land far outstretching the arrival of settlers.

We are extremely grateful for these lands on which we reside, work, and play. We make this acknowledgement as an act of gratitude and reconciliation. While championing the arts in Calgary and across Alberta, we intend for our work to contribute to the valuing of traditional art forms and result in greater opportunity for the creative Indigenous talent who walk these lands today.