Amnesty International Toronto’s Project: Urban Canvas (Summer 2010)

photograph by Susan Ashukian

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ARTICLE 13: Everyone has the right to freedom of movement.

Amnesty International, AI Toronto (AITO) Project : Urban Canvas

“The goal of the project is to create 30 murals, in the GTA, that depict each of the 30 human rights Articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The project engages mural artists, local community projects and young people who, together, help raise public awareness about human rights issues worldwide.” – Elena Dumitru, Toronto Regional Development Coordinator, Amnesty International. urbancanvas@aito.ca

“Mural 13 Artist: Arts Etobicoke’s mission is to engage all people in West Toronto with the arts and artists in their own community. The organization fosters and sustains local arts activities by involving special and diverse audiences, it increases accessibility of the arts for residents of Etobicoke, and it creates broad community awareness of local arts organizations and artists through collaboration with community partners.

Dionne Brand, City of Toronto Poet Laureate, is the author of the poem for Arts Etobicoke’s mural. Click here to download the poem from Article 13’s Mural.

Susan Rowe Harrison is the designer of Arts Etobicoke’s mural.

William Lazos is the painter of the wall.”

painter William Lazo, photo by Susan Ashukian

Also, here is a video clip from one of last year’s murals, Article 2: Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in [the] Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.”