This is a very, very special volume of creative work. It is a
collection of writing and art originating at PARC, a community
centre that offers a safe haven from the harsh realities of the
street and the intolerable conditions of substandard boarding
houses. PARC's membership includes people who are marginalized,
socially-isolated, homeless, suffering addictions, new immigrants,
the working poor and the poverty-stricken. But PARC is more. As one
member states: I appreciate that PARC feeds me when I can't make
ends meet, but, more important, I come to PARC for spiritual
sustenance. Every city has its homeless, socially-isolated,
marginalized people. What is remarkable about PARC in Toronto is
that it has become a hub of astonishing creative energy and an
incubator of literary and artistic talent. Let's Face It documents
and presents publicly that talent. For over twenty years now Hume
Cronyn has been at the center of that literary and artistic
activity. He has nurtured, inspired, assisted, drawn out, the many
creative efforts of the PARC community. His workshops, open
readings and his presence have become an indelible feature of the
PARC scene. He states it best: Workshop: so full of life, so full
of feeling, laughter, bantering, buzzing, burping, writing,
reading, listening, a mountainful of trust. We enter the room, dry
bumbling sticks. We leave the room, ho we leave the room as if we
were floating, the Red Sea has parted for us, we ooze from every
pore the aura of having created. - Hume Cronyn, PARC Writing Room"
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