Victoria Indigenous artist brings hip hop to the healing process – Vernon Morning Star
January 24, 2025
Alex Taylor-McCallum is teaching a course under the Victoria Conservatory of Music
Every Friday at 9:45 a.m., Alex Taylor-McCallum walks into a room at Victoria’s New Roads Therapeutic Recovery Community ready to share his most vulnerable self with a group of men who have struggled with addiction.
He sits in the ‘circle of trust’ and initiates a series of check-ins in which the nine men in the room alternately share their thoughts.
The 32-year-old award-winning artist and advocate of Indigenous culture is facilitating ‘Healing & Story Telling through Hip Hop Lyricism’ at the recovery facility run by Our Place Society.
