GetOut! New Recreation Programs
Most of these programs were developed by youth workers at Vancouver community centres. Many worked closely with GetOut! staff and youth in their communities. Others were entirely initiated and run by youth. Many of these programs also involved partnerships with community groups.
GetOut! is mighty proud to have been involved in these programs - many of which are still going on in some way.
If you are interested, please contact us or the individual community centres to see what's up and how you might get involved.
Fall 2005 / Spring 2006
Chillin' at Sunset
Host Community Centre: Sunset Community Centre
Partners: Immigrant Services Society
Youth Representatives: Farid & Pirouz (MY Circle Youth Action Team)
Chillin' at Sunset is a special youth-initiated and youth-driven program to help connect newcomer youth with buddy support networks and to introduce them to WestCoast Canadian cultural activities such as hiking, cycling on the seawall, waterslides, etc.
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Chillin' on Ice at Killarney (phase two)
Host Community Centre: Killarney Ice Rink
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Chillin' on Ice at Kitsilano
Host Community Centre: Kitsilano Ice Rink
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Get Moving! Girls at Champlain Heights
Host Community Centre: Champlain Heights Community Centre
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Late Nite Pool Parties at Percy Norman (phase two)
Host Community Centre: Percy Norman Pool
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Late Nite Pool Parties at Templeton
Host Community Centre: Templeton Pool
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"MADSkillz" at Britannia
Host Community Centre: Britannia Community Centre
Youth Representative: Geordie
"MADSkillz" is a youth-initiated and youth-driven creation. It is an informal youth economy (a youth bartering system), centred around Commercial Drive, building on the strengths and talents of youth. For example, one youth member can take lessons (let's say, in piano) from a second youth member, who builds (let's say, a table) for a third youth member, and so on... and so on... and so on...
To find out more or to join, please contact organizers, Geordie & his friends, through us at the GetOut! Ideas Factory. The MADSKILLZ Collective website is coming soon, check to see if it's up: www.eastvanderskillz.com.
Reel Youth at Hastings & others
Host Community Centre: Hastings Community Centre and other community centres in East Vancouver
Partners: Kiwassa Neighbourhood House
Youth Representative: Mark
Reel Youth is a youth-initiated program that uses claymation to outreach and engage young people through workshops. It has grown rapidly to involve more and more youth, and has morphed into an annual Youth-made Film Festival in Vancouver that tours throughout BC.
For more information and to get involved, please visit www.reelyouth.ca. Their website is a cool place where you can watch award-winning youth-made films.
Strathcona Youth in Action Mentorship Program (phase two)
Host Community Centre: Strathcona Community Centre
Youth Representative: Stephanie
The Strathcona Youth in Action Mentorship Program is the ongoing evolution of the GetOut! Grants to Youth project by the same name from the spring/summer of 2005. Here, university youth mentor secondary school youth who mentor younger youth through arts, cultural, sport and recreation activities.
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Thunderbird Youth Mural
Host Community Centre: Thunderbird Community Centre
The Thunderbird Youth Mural will be designed and created by local youth to make the centre's youth space more youth-friendly. Youth will work with professional artists in workshops in the community and in the centre.
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Youth Down South at Sunset
Host Community Centre: Sunset Community Centre
Youth Down South involves the creation of 3 interactive websites designed by students from John Oliver Secondary and David Thompson Secondary to deal with youth issues in South Vancouver:
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Youth Week Hip Hop Program at the Roundhouse
Host Community Centre: Roundhouse Community Centre
The Youth Week Hip Hop Program will take place during Youth Week (the first week of May) and will offer a series of hip hop workshops to youth from all over Vancouver's East Side.
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Spring/Summer 2005
GetOut! New Recreation Programs during Spring/Summer 2005 were:
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