Abstract
The following is a review of three arts-based research projects developed to mobilize knowledge in understandable ways for diverse populations regarding the stories of people who are homeless. All three projects were carried out in Canada – each with a different focus. The first research project created a film – Walking Through Wonderland (2010) - that captured the daily lived experiences of many street youths, such as being unable to find places to sleep, as well as not having food, or access to health care and social services, particularly for mental health care. Additionally, the film highlighted that many youths had become homeless because of major family trauma. The second research project created a Book of Images (2018) that visually portrayed the stories regarding housing stability among young people – in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Toronto, Ontario – who had previously experienced homelessness. The third research project created an arts-based film production, Homelessness During the Pandemic (2022), with visual images and classical, almost haunting, music for the background to illustrate the experiences of homelessness during the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) in two communities of Nova Scotia –Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM) and Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM).
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