Prince Albert Saskatchewan is a city of 40,000 that struggles with economic and social difficulties common to larger urban centres, such as serious shelter & housing issues. Common Weal North developed the Shelter Project to engage community members in creative actions and discussion about issues of homelessness and housing. September 19, 2009 Montreal artists ATSA; Annie Roy & Pierre Allard came to Prince Albert to give a presentation to community members about ATSA’s artistic responses to homelessness in Montreal. Pierre and Annie create urban interventions: installations, performances and realistic stagings bearing witness to social issues.

A Teen’s Memory is a photojournalism project that took place in spring 2010 in partnership with the Prince Albert YWCA Aboriginal Youth Support Services. The teen participants used photography to explore their relationship to ‘home’ under the mentorship of photographer Eugene Capay and artist Michel Boutin. Eugene also went with residents of the Our House shelter to visit and photograph outdoor sites used by homeless individuals in Prince Albert. The photos by Eugene and participants were exhibited at the John V. Hicks Gallery and the Alfred Jenkins Field House in Prince Albert.