Events and News

June 20-22, 2012, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland Digital Storytelling as a strategic tool for activism and research

The Art of Digital Storytelling: A group of LGBTQ youth share their lived experiences of homelessness Ottawa, Ontario

February 4-5, 2012, Toronto, Ontario Digital Storytelling as an Innovative KTE Tool (I. Alex Abramovich & Sarah Switzer)

What Queer Youth Looks Like Screening of Out on the Street - I. Alex Abramovich and Amy Siegel Saturday January 28, 2012 4-7pm, Kingston, Ontario

In this webinar, we'll hear from Toronto-based researcher Ilona Alex Abramovich, who will discuss what's behind the high incidence of homelessness among LGBTQ young people in Canada, how service providers are responding, and where needs still remain. November 9, 2011 (1:30 PM - 3:00 PM ET)

Episode 16 - Tuesday April 12, 2011 Deb Pearce visits the home of Ilona Alex Abramovich and interviews Alex about art, activism and research!

The U of T Film Festival unspooled a 2+ hour program of all student work on March 23 to a crowd of about 80 people.

Screening of "Out on the Street" Directed by I. Alex Abramovich and Amy Siegel. Sunday May 22, 2011 4.30pm Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, ON.

University of Toronto Film Festival Screening of Out on the Street (2010)
By Alex Abramovich and Amy Siegel
March 23, 2011 9.20pm

HOUSE CALL is a series of community conversations that will travel to different parts of Toronto in an effort to build a diverse movement to create a shelter for homeless LGBT youth in Toronto. Some of these conversation will be hard. Some of these conversations will be full of joy, full of pain, full of memory and full of hope. Some of these conversations will be historic.
Harbord Collegiate Institute
286 Harbord Street
Toronto, ON
Thursday, December 9: 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Universite du Quebec in Montreal Coeur des Sciences 200, rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal Panelist on "Art as Intervention"

Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. October 14-16, 2010. Presentation entitled "LGBTQ Youth Homelessness: A growing epidemic"

Theme: Queering Boundaries @ Revue Cinema

The purpose of this global conference is to provide a forum for psychiatric survivors, mad people, activists, scholars, students, radical professionals, and artists from around the world to come together and share experiences of organizing against psychiatry.

Young, Mad, Queer and Homeless in Toronto
Presentation by Ilona Abramovich

Panel Discussion with Lorraine Barnaby (Health Promoter from SHOUT Clinic), Michelle Le-Claire (Community Leader and Activist), Ilona Abramovich (PhD Student, University of Toronto and Research Coordinator at St. Michael's Hospital) - LGBTQ Homeless Youth in Toronto: Where is the Support? 11am - 12.30pm

Film Screening of "Where is the Support?", Hart House, Toronto.

(Un)conference: Queer Youth Homelessness in Toronto. Presentation and Film Screening. Masaryk-Cowan Community Centre, Parkdale, Toronto.

A fun night of art, music and fundraising! Art created by upcoming and accomplished artists will be for sale. We are also proud to feature outstanding singer/songwriters. Outstanding social justice activist, feminist and excellent speaker Anna Willats will emcee this fun and entertaining night!