Sylvia Nowak

Sylvia Nowak is a Toronto-based activist, documentary maker and artist, with an interest in (re-)working archival and found materials. She holds a BFA in Photography and is completing her MFA in Documentary Media, where she produced 206 Carlton a short archival-based film exploring racism and resistance in the city of Toronto, through focusing on one address, one house. She is a research assistant for the Alternative Toronto project, a community archive and historical map of Toronto’s alternative cultures, scenes and spaces of the 1980s and early 1990s.