Beyond Art: SCYAP's Urban Canvas changes young lives, local landscape

Tonia Bird is comfortable surrounded by the paint-splattered, art-covered walls of Saskatoon Community Youth Arts Programming’s (SCYAP) downtown space. It’s a big contrast from how she felt inside her former high school. Anxiety forced her to drop out in Grade 9.
“I felt like I had failed,” she said.
OCT. 3, 2016
Bird joins SCYAP’s Urban Canvas alongside 11 other participants. The 34-week program aims to give youth with barriers to employment and education the