About me:
This project was started by a group of UBC students tired of seeing hateful and oppressive graffiti scrawled on surfaces around campus. A university campus is a home, a place of work, a study space, a social space and much more. The environment should be comfortable, supportive and inspiring to those who use it. Through this project, we hope to achieve three goals:
1) First of all we want to raise awareness about the existence of this kind of graffiti and the fact that something can be done about it. We have noticed that while many people have observed it around, many people are reluctant to speak out against it, or admit to how it makes them feel. We hope to break the silence surrounding written and visual hate 'language' on our campus and in doing so, start moving towards eliminating it.
2) Secondly, after seeking out and documenting examples of hate graffiti, we plan to submit them to the various campus resources committed to keeping UBC free of this kind of discrimination. Our Plant Operations and Campus Security offices have policies on ensuring that once a report is submitted with a location of the graffiti, they are dedicated to ensuring its timely removal, and we plan on holding them to it! We also hope to simplify this process by giving the UBC community a contact point and by clarifying the university's policies and procedures for these measures.
3) Finally, we want to begin creating a new kind of environment for our campus - the one that we feel our community should be experiencing. That's where this website comes in! We are working on a multimedia, interactive art project for anyone to contribute to; we are looking for poetry, words of wisdom, drawings, photographs and other images, collages, comments and any other positive and creative pieces that you may have to take us in the right direction.
-We hope to end up with several large art collages to install in various parts of campus, as well as ongoing clean-up and awareness work, and a continuing ..-forum for submissions, comments and ideas.
(Please note that this project is focused on exposing and combatting a specific form of graffiti which we find to be particularly hurtful and hateful. We are primarily concerned with a specific kind of graffiti which has a detrimental impact on the campus environment.)
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Who I'd like to meet: anyone who is interested in the project and would like to help, contribute, get more information or find out how to start a similar project in their own community.
send us a message here or email us at:
positivegraffitiproject@gmail.com
we are also working on a website and hope to have it up shortly.
thanks for your interest and support!
