Voices Amplified: Halifax Dance

Jen Briand is a dance instructor and Recreation Therapist, born and raised in Nova Scotia. She is an accredited instructor with many years of experience teaching all ages and abilities. She created the Inclusive Movement Program with Halifax Dance in 2006 and it continues to grow and support dancer…

Voices Amplified: Nourish Nova Scotia

Nourish Nova Scotia is a registered charity that works across the province to inspire and equip young people to learn about food and transform the food systems around them. We work across school and community settings to increase access to nutritious foods, create fun and welcoming spaces for youth…

Voices Amplified: Celebrate Your Curves

Navdeep Parmanand is the founder of Celebrate Your Curves, an inclusive fashion brand that celebrates all body types, abilities, and identities. Passionate about breaking barriers in the fashion industry, Navdeep creates spaces where individuality is honored and diversity is the standard. Beyond fa…

Voices Amplified: Nova Village

Nova Village NS is a welcoming and empowering family hub providing free programs and services supporting the health and wellbeing of families and youth. NVNS provides wrap-around support from prenatal to families with youth up to the age of 19.  NVNS provides a variety of programs, in-person or vi…

Voices Amplified: Halifax Mussels Hockey

The Halifax Mussels are Atlantic Canada’s first 2SLGBTQIA+ and Allies hockey team, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. They focus on teaching adults how to play hockey from the ground up, offering skill-building sessions in a fun, inclusive, and judgment-free setting. No experience? No problem—many play…

Voices Amplified: Disabled Not Dead Society

The Disabled Not Dead Society in a Non-Profit in Halifax, Nova Scotia providing peer support and resources for those with mobility limiting and/or chronic pain disabilities. They are a "For Us, By Us" organization where every member of the board lives with a disability. The Society hosts monthly so…

Voices Amplified: MacPhee Center for Arts

The MacPhee Centre for Creative Learning is a charitable organization in downtown Dartmouth with a mission to foster a vibrant community through world-class art programming. They do this by offering Free after-school and summer art programs to youth ages 12-19, and by bringing together professiona…

Voices Amplified: Alice House

Based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Alice House is a safety, healing and empowerment organization dedicated to providing women, fem-identifying individuals and their children with affordable and confidential safe-housing, counselling and wrap around supports to recover from domestic violence. Alice Ho…

Voices Amplified: ANSMA

ANSMA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the development, promotion and enhancement of African Nova Scotian music, locally, regionally and internationally. While ANSMA has worked predominantly with performers and musicians, the scope of their mandate includes providing support for Black …

Voices Amplified: Oliver's Offerings

Jennifer Giffin is parent to identical twins, Wesley who is earthside, and Oliver, who died unexpectedly about 12 hours after their birth. She knew she needed to contribute in a new way to the landscape of grief support for people facing this type of loss after her own experience with it. She neede…