Projects
Arts and Crafts Project
Kids’ and youth arts and crafts activity create positive attitudes about differences and boost participants’ self-confidence in their own identities. Diversification of artwork would also increase social and emotional outcomes such as social skills, self-esteem, and attitudes towards others. Engaging kids and youth in productive activities like arts and crafts also deters them from the screen, thereby reducing their screen time, improving mental health of the participants and their parents. With this background milieu, the CRESS Centre has been striving to bring educational and skill development activities for the kids and youth since its inception.
Funded by the Stepping Stone Grant of Calgary Foundation the CRESS Centre in collaboration with the Nepalese Community Society of Calgary has been running arts and crafts sessions for the kids and youth from South Asian origin since July 2023.
Fostering Multiculturalism via Arts and Crafts
Grant Stream of the City of Calgary, this project aims at fostering and promoting multiculturalism in Calgary by engaging kids and youth in multicultural arts sessions. The CRESS Centre in collaboration with the Trellis Society and the Nepalese Community Society of Calgary runs craft sessions by engaging experts and participants from diverse ethnic backgrounds to educate and promote multiculturalism and anti-racism through innovative arts and crafts activities.
While kids and youth got engaged in training sessions, their parents got an opportunity to interact with parents from diverse cultures. This opens an avenue for new friendships while getting to know each other’s culture, thereby increasing the knowledge horizons, and developing respect for each other’s cultures.