Rockstars of the Street - DOAP Team Mini Documentary
Channel: Neil Reid
Date: 24/07/2020

Amanda Siebert and I made this video in 2014 for a contest at school that fell apart and never happened. It's been sitting on Vimeo for years and anytime I share it with someone, they ask why I don't put it on YouTube.

So now I'm putting it on YouTube.

We were not paid to make this video. We made it because it was a subject that seized our attentions while we were in trade school trying to become journalists. 

By the way, Amanda turned out to be a pretty dope journalist and author so look her up if you at all care about cannabis, mental health and addictions, natural psychedelic therapies. I'm not being paid to promote her either. She's just a friend and a good human.

After graduating, I did not become a journalist, but ended up working for the DOAP Team as well as the shelter, detox center, and housing buildings that were operated by the Calgary Alpha House Society. I have since transitioned to the disabilities sector, but mental health in general and how it affects our communities at micro and macro levels is something that matters very much to me.

So even though this is old and many other similar videos are out there with more experience and expertise behind them, I feel like ours is special and opens a compelling window into a section of society that I think a lot of people have only really observed superficially. Maybe it can serve to inform a broader perspective somewhere.