Tending the Roots: Postcards of Connection

Tending the Roots is a national collective developed by Central Toronto Youth Services’ Families in TRANSition team and agency partners to foster connections and support between professionals, advocates, and activists supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and families. Tending the Roots aims to pool resources and knowledge to support necessary changes inside families and across communities, and provide online opportunities for knowledge sharing, peer mentorship, co-learning, and cross-sector advocacy.

Co-devised by ReDefine Arts and Central Toronto Youth Services, Tending the Roots: Postcards of Connection was a multidisciplinary arts project that featured an online arts-based workshop series. Working with postcards created by Tending the Roots: Postcards of Connection workshop contributors, lead artists Anna Camilleri and Tristan R. Whiston created Digital Postcards – videos, audio compositions, and graphic collages that are featured on the Families in TRANSition website.

Tending the Roots: Postcards of Connection Credits
Project Model Collaborators: Anna Camilleri, Larae Harbour, Anna Mertens, LeeAndra Miller, Alena Peters, AJ Ware, Tristan R. Whiston.
Project Coordinator: AJ Ware
Lead Artists: Anna Camilleri, Tristan R. Whiston
Evaluation: Anna Mertens
Tending the Roots Logo Design: Tariq Sami
Project Support: Megan Wilk
Postcards Activity Kit Book Creator: ReDefine Arts

Tending the Roots Digital Postcards Credits
Co-Creators: Anna Camilleri & Tristan R. Whiston
Audio Composition: Tristan R. Whiston
Video & Graphic Collage Design: Anna Camilleri
Community Contributors: AJ Ware, Danielle Dundas, Lorraine Gale, Luca, Lucy Drake, Simryn Parmar, and many more who wish to remain anonymous.
Recordings provided by members of the Epic Choir
Music: Searching for Clues by Untold Saga, Sailing in Big Waves by A Piano Sailing, Shadows on Water by BlackTrendMusic, Spring by Postcard from Home, Arrows by Solo Piano with Peter John, Once Upon a Time by Maya Belsitzman and Matan Ephrat, Forest by the Sea by Fauna, Finding Gravity by Finding Gravity.