From 2019-2026, Moving Target worked with Manitoba Harm Reduction Network (MHRN) on a theatre/video process that resulted in 4 videos. It has been a great honour to work and learn with MHRN staff and the peer volunteers (people who use drugs or have used drugs, and who promote safer drug-use practices and safety-based drug policies).
Together with filmmaker Julie Epp, and with guidance from Elder Albert McLeod and Knowledge Keeper Jeannie White Bird, and with support from Manitoba Arts Council and the Winnipeg Foundation, we have created a series of harm reduction videos called Imagining Safety.
Here are the three latest videos, Imagining Safety: Winnipeg, Imagining Safety in Northern Manitoba, and Imagining Safety: Selkirk.
Content warnings: drug use, toxic drug crisis.
We invite you to share these videos widely.
Also, I studied this process, with a focus on the first workshop that eventually led to the creation of Imagining Safety: Winnipeg for my Master’s thesis in Peace and Conflict Studies, which is titled, Imagining Safety: the peacebuilding potential of Theatre for Living techniques. You can read it here:
Imagining Safety follows on the success of our first video, Peer Voices (2023). Same content warnings: drug use, toxic drug crisis. We invite you to share it widely.
And if you want even more information about this project, here is the final report from our original workshops in 2020:
