Collaboratively Exploring the Arts for Equity and Reconciliation in Healthcare.
Arts for Equity is a research program that explores the arts as a way of healing, disrupting, learning, and sharing for reconciliation and equity in healthcare.
About us
We are a team committed to collaborative research between Indigenous peoples and settlers to advance arts-based responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action. Inspired by these calls, we are forging new pathways to reconciliation in healthcare through Indigenous-settler collaborations and novel arts-based approaches.
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable”
– Cesar A. Cruz
Our Projects
Our projects involve the following four arts-based approaches for reconciliation and health equity. We are grateful to Health Research BC for a Scholar Award which provides support for this research program.
Healing
Art & Spirituality
Exploring the Arts as Culturally Safe Healing Practices
Art & Spirituality Blog
Community of Practice
Partners
Land Acknowledgement
The Arts for Equity Team, led by Dr. Kendra Rieger at Trinity Western University, gratefully acknowledges that the land we live, work, play, and create on is located on the traditional, ancestral, unceded, territory of the Stó:lō people. We acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past, and dedicate ourselves to move forward in partnership with Indigenous peoples in a spirit of reconciliation. We also promise that any research we engage in connected to Indigenous peoples will be involve Indigenous leadership and governance and follow Indigenous research principles, including OCAP®.