Project SPOTLIGHT

Project SPOTLIGHT is back in person for 2022! This year we supported Cycling Without Age Hamilton-Burlington Chapter, a volunteer-led organization that brings older adults back into the community through free trishaw rides. We donated $20,000 to support their ability to get a 2nd trishaw up in running and invited a team of filmmakers to create promotional videos to help CWA onboard new senior facilities. We also held a free exibitition of their services in historic Unionville to show the York Region what CWA is all about. The CWA Hamilton-Burlingtom team brought their trishaws to us, trained our volunteer pilots and oversaw dozens of rides taking local seniors out down Main Street and the nearby trails.

In 2019, Project SPOTLIGHT joined forces with an additional partner, Across U-hub, to provide an inclusive screening experience to our audiences. We presented two inclusive screenings of Oscar winner, Ruby Yang’s documentary, My Voice, My Life. Inspired by the film, we took this opportunity to introduce the work of Across U-hub, a local community organization focused on the well-being of young people. With the co-presentation by both JBVC and Across U-hub, this movie screening and awareness campaign drew our community’s attention to the struggles commonly shared by East Asian-Canadian families and individuals with physical disabilities. This event not only gave our friends from JBVC and Across U-hub a platform to present their insights on the similarities between the documentary and our own local communities, but also creates the chance for these two charitable partners to interact and serve each other.