Conclusion of pilot project
After some significant administrative changes, the KL&S board has been working diligently to review, streamline, and stabilize the programming offered by the organization. WordLabs was launched as a pilot project in April, 2025. It has been decided that the pilot will not continue into a second year.
WordLabs was created with the vision of bringing writers in our community together to learn from one another, share ideas, and nurture a lifelong love of literacy. The feedback from participants and instructors we had during the past year has been a testament to the impact this type of programming can have.
I want to extend my gratitude to the instructors, participants, and supporters who made WordLabs possible. It has been a pleasure to watch aspiring writers explore and develop over the course of the program.
Thank you for being part of the WordLabs story.
Our Funders
LAnd Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that WordLabs and Kingston Literacy & Skills (KL&S) operates as an uninvited guest upon the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Anishinabek Nation and Huron-Wendat peoples. We are grateful to be able to work, learn, and teach on these lands.
To acknowledge this traditional territory is to recognize its long history, one predating the establishment of the earliest European colonies. It is also to recognize this territory’s significance for the Indigenous Peoples who lived, and continue to live, upon it and whose practices and spiritualities were and are tied to this land.
KL&S joins the community in remembering the victims and honouring the survivors of residential schools across Turtle Island. We extend our sympathies to Indigenous communities affected by this tragedy. This serves as a stark reminder of the need to recognize our troubled past and present and is an urgent reminder for all Canadians to work towards truth and reconciliation. We pledge that within our mission of education that we will share and acknowledge Indigenous stories and identities.