Having attended last year's conference as a guest, I was thrilled to be invited to speak at this years event. Thom Ernst, recently of Saturday Night at the Movies on TVO, mediated much of Saturday's proceedings. Here, Suzanne Smoke, Aboriginal Cultural Coordinator / curator at Georgina Arts Center and Gallery, speaks movingly on various related topics. Devon Ostrom (in green) Co-Founder of the Beatiful City Campain, spoke about his program's inititives. In my own talk, which took an overview of art and social activism, touched on the work of John Ruskin, specifically, On Art and Life (1886), which, though written at the time of the Industrial Revolution, addresses many of the issues we confront today.