An “Artist Mentorship Program” funded by HCF focused on supporting poets, musicians, writers and artists who were newcomers to Canada.  Among its activities, the program helps artists access tools and materials basic supplies and gain exposure to their work, while at the same time helping to promote immigrant art and culture to Canadian multicultural society.

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HCF appreciates your interest in our website and respects the privacy of every individual who visits this site. We want you to understand our practices on gathering information from visitors to this site and the uses we make of that information.

This site does not automatically gather personal information from you, such as your name, phone number, or e-mail address. The only information HCF obtains pertaining to you as a visitor to this site is:

• Information which is voluntarily supplied by you by way of direct contact by you by email, completing a form or by other means. This information may be used for the purpose that it was provided e.g. to contact you about your feedback. If you have submitted personal information through this website and would now like that information deleted from our records, please contact us.
• Generic information about who visits this site which does not reveal a visitor's identity but provides us information such as to the visitor's domain name, which pages a visitor visits on our site, how much time is spent on the site, the pages from which the visitor visits our site. This information is only used to evaluate and improve our site. We make no attempt to link theses addresses with the identity of individuals visiting our site, unless an attempt to damage the site has been detected.

Any personal information that you choose to provide to us is protected under HCF's Privacy Policy and Practices. HCF does not sell or disclose individually identifiable information obtained online about the visitors to its site unless a visitor specifically authorizes such disclosure or such disclosure is required by law.

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Unless we expressly state otherwise, a link to a website from our site is not an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship or affiliation with respect to such site, its owner or providers.

Please be aware that HCF is not responsible for the privacy practices employed by third party sites. When leaving www.hcf.on.ca, we recommend that check the privacy policy of the site that you are visiting before providing personal information.

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While we believe the site content is accurate when placed on this website, it is provided on an "as is" basis and is subject to change and updating at any time without prior notice. No warranty, representation, condition or guarantee of any kind whether implied, express, statutory or otherwise is given in respect to site content.

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