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Welcome to the Official One Community Web site!

This site was set up to inform, organize and engage youth on issues of human rights by promoting One Community events that celebrate positive youth initiatives.

Site last updated February 6th, 2001. Please click for a list of updates.

Please send us feedback at onecommunity@hotmail.com

Mission Statement

• To eliminate racism from our communities
• To work together to form a stronger community
• To promote dignity for ourselves and others
• To celebrate community and our participation in it
• To act responsibly and with commitment in upholding peace, equality and justice to all

 - Cardinal Newman Catholic High School, One Community Initiative

Brief Background

Since 1986, Significant Music®™ has combined music instruction with printing and publishing services for a variety of groups and projects. Beginning in 1995, a number of arts based programs and initiatives aimed at publicly celebrating positive youth, were designed, developed and introduced in co-operation with Det. Dino Doria, Toronto Police (Hate/Crime Unit).

Significant Music®™ has contributed its Music Library as both a resource and a framework for young students to build, develop and share highly personal experiences of artistic expression in a very public way.

In 1996, two dependent events co-sponsored by Toronto Police and City of Toronto (Access and Equity Unit) were held to inform the public and encourage youth that we can remain silent no longer on issues which compromise dignity, justice, racial harmony and community.

The first event, at Metro Hall, incorporated Dance, Drama, Art, Music and Spoken Word. A second, witnessed young piano students from across Southern Ontario competing for scholarships at Paramount Canada's Wonderland.

In subsequent years, these projects and programs have successfully expanded in forum and in scope. Through existing co-sponsorships, and with the valuable contributions made by volunteers and supporters, the efforts of students have been recognized as they set out to achieve the following program goals:

1. To work together to form a stronger community.

2. To promote dignity for themselves and for others through the elimination of racism.

3. To participate, and celebrate, the many positive initiatives undertaken by today's youth through Music, Art, Dance, Drama, and Spoken Word.

On February 14, 1998, its "...In Tacit Understanding..." program by Ennio A. Paola, Music Educator/Composer/Director of Music, was lauded with a Roy C. Hill Award from the Canadian Teachers' Federation, "in recognition of the initiative and professional enterprise displayed in the development and successful application of an important educational innovation". Such awards has caused this program to flourish as a leading, worldwide educational forum devoted to inform, organize and engage youth in issues of human rights. Through this arts showcase, a supportive and positive learning environment is created, in which performers and young artists develop communication and leadership potential.

Based on an ever changing and evolving musical format, young people produce submissions through effective art, dance, drama, music and spoken word presentations that help foster human understanding, for the betterment of all mankind.