GetOut! Community Partnership Grant Projects
In most of these projects, youth helped to lead. Some were also initiated by youth. These projects also partnered up community groups that hadn't worked together before. GetOut! is mighty proud to have been involved in these projects and is pleased to announce that many are still going on in some way.
If you are interested, please contact us or the individual organizations to see what's up and if it is possible to get involved.
Fall 2005 / Spring 2006
Activating Social Change through Art
Partners: Check Your Head and the Sierra Youth Coalition
Activating Social Change Through Art utilizes the creative tools of interactive storytelling, mapping and collage to engage and inspire Vancouver youth around specific issues of social change. The project involves a series of youth facilitated workshops and the development of a drop-in arts studio.
DAY-Break
Partners: World Peace Forum Society and YouLead
Developing Action-oriented Youth to BREAK through barriers and get involved in personal and social change for global peace. DAY-Break is a art project that serves as a vehicle through which youth will be engaged to express themselves towards creating various forms of art that promote a culture of peace.
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Paddles Up! Youth on the Water
Partners: False Creek Community Centre Association and the False Creek Racing Association
Paddles Up! will be a free outdoor boating festival in summer 2006 put on by False Creek Community Center's youth group for youth from all over the city. The festival will get a large and diverse group of youth into FCCC's kayaks, canoes, dragon boats and outriggers and out on to "the creek".
More soon ›››
Urban Rites of Passage
Partners: Knowledgeable Aboriginal Youth Association (KAYA) and Pacific Association of Women
The Urban Rights of Passage Ceremony is an Indigenous ceremonial practice (an acknowledgement of accepting new responsibilities) for young people to transcend from adolescence in the community into a place of taking on the responsibilities of adulthood.
Voices of the DTES
Partners: Portland Hotel Society, Vancouver Moving Theatre and Projections
Voices of the DTES involved street-involved youth in the documenting, filming and editing of the Downtown Eastside Festival as community journalists under the mentorship of professional film-makers and videographers.
More soon ›››
Spring/Summer 2005
Badminton Program: Training for Youth Coaching at Elementary and Secondary Schools
Partners: Grandview Community Center Association and Van Tech Hub
The Badminton Program gives secondary students in the area the opportunity to develop their Badminton skills and through the involvement of a skilled badminton instructor, learn how to teach the skills to other students.
The Friendship Underground Project
Partners: Knowledgeable Aboriginal Youth Association and Warriors Against Violence Society
The Friendship Underground Project offers workshops on the creative elements of hip hop culture including two for breakdancing, and others reflecting other elements of hip hop including graffiti, creative writing, spoken word, hip hop dance and turntabling to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal youth in the East Vancouver neighbourhoods.
Get Out Girls! - The South Vancouver Youth Outreach Program
Partners: VIRSA, John Oliver S. S. Community Schools Team
The Get Out Girls! program is aimed specifically for girls by girls. The program is for all girls and will be all inclusive; however Indo-Canadian participants will be specifically targeted due to the large population of this cultural group in South Vancouver and the lack of dedicated services for them.
Multi-Cultural Youth Soccer
Partners: Riley Park Community Centre and the Immigrant Services Society
Youth Representatives: Farid & Pirouz
Multi-Cultural Youth Soccer is a youth-initiated and youth-driven program for male and female youth from any background to play the highly global sport of soccer.
open i : Digital Filmaking Project by Youth with Disabilities
Partners: Pacific Cinematheque Education Department and G.F. Strong Youth Programmes, Pacific/Yukon Studio of the NFB/Access NFB
Open i is an innovative youth-mentored digital filmmaking program for youth with disabilities between the ages of 14 and 24.
Our Community Story
Partners: Hastings Community Association, Media Un-Defined Collective, Kiwassa Neighbourhood House - Hastings Community Centre
Our Community Story is a community public art project that will engage youth and elders in the Hastings/Sunrise Neighbourhood in an oral history process. Through artistic processes youth recover and document what remains of the area’s living history: the history remembered by the community’s inhabitants.
Outside the Box - A documentary on the value of non-traditional educational experiences
Partners: Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House and Vancouver Technical Secondary School
Outside the Box produced a documentary on the value of non-traditional educational experiences - such as drama, as a tool for community engagement, social activism, media relations and citizenship skill development produced by students, mentored by film professionals.
Y 57: Youth in 57 Minutes
Sponsors: Kinex Youth Initiative of the Self-Help Resource Association of BC, Vancouver Cooperative Radio, Knowledgeable Aboriginal Youth Association, The Teen Centre from Britannia Community Centre
The Y 57: Youth in 57 Minutes project assisted youth who are inactive or who feel under represented by mainstream media to become involved in a regular radio program.
Youth Arts and Media Gallery: Broadway Youth Resource Centre
Sponsor: Pacific Community Resources and Brenda Carr Studio
The Youth Arts and Media Gallery project has two major components; to transform the current boardroom of the Broadway Youth Resource Centre into a youth-based and youth-driven visual arts gallery; and to create a series of outdoor murals.
Youth to Youth - Teaching World Music Through the Oral Tradition
Sponsor: Britannia World Music/Britannia Secondary and Britannia World Music/Britannia Community Centre
In Youth to Youth - Teaching World Music Through the Oral Tradition offered Zimbabwean Marimba and Afro Cuban Percussion Classes in schools and community centres to be taught by six advanced youth instructors.
YouthCo Puppet Theatre Project
Sponsor: The Gathering Place Community Centre and YouthCo AIDS Society
The YouthCo Puppet Theare Project worked with street-involved youth to produce twelve puppets, a puppet stage, and write six scripts for six 15-20 minute performances. This was facilitated in conjunction with the YouthCo AIDS Society Theatre group, The Gathering Place and artist Gloria Hole.
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