TORONTO COMMUNITY PROGRAMS (CURRENT)

City of Toronto - Park and Recreation Programs

In partnership with the City of Toronto’s Parks and Recreation Culture Shock Toronto (CSTO) has facilitated after school programming for local youth at various community centers across the city, including Secord and the St. Lawrence Community Centre.

Professional Development Workshops for Teachers

Culture Shock Toronto (CSTO) has worked with many professional teacher organizations, such as the AECEO (Early Childhood Educators), TDSB, York Professional Care and Education , to train educators and child-care workers to utilize dance in their programming. CSTO’s workshops provide meaningful pedagogical links and practical tools, like games and choreography, for the educators to use immediately in their professional practice. CSTO’s dancers have also presented at Additional Qualification (AQ) courses.

In-Class Workshops for GTA School Boards

In partnership with local school boards in and around Toronto, including the TDSB and TCDSB, Culture Shock Toronto (CSTO) has led in-class sessions, which fulfill curricular expectations related to Dance and Physical Education. Schools include Crescent Town ES (TDSB), Gordon A. Brown MS (TDSB), St. Columba Catholic School(TCDSB).

YMCA Camps and Centers

Culture Shock Toronto (CSTO) continues their partnership with the YMCA by instructing many dance-based and hip hop workshops for children of all ages, from pre-school to high school aged youth, at many seasonal day camps, as well as afterschool programs run by the YMCA.

YMCA Play It Forward Program – Mississauga, Richmond Hill

In partnership with the YMCA, Culture Shock Toronto (CSTO) continues to train youth, from 16 and 18 years old, to become dance facilitators who, in turn develop dance-based programs for children in their communities. This pay-it-forward program initiative has been made possible through the YMCA organization and their sponsors and allows youth to become mentors in their own community. Culture Shock’s involvement is to develop the youth’s leadership skills and provide the tools necessary to become dance facilitators, which include musicality, athleticism, and choreography. The youth are then given the opportunity to play it forward and develop their own programs for their younger peers.

 

TORONTO COMMUNITY PROGRAMS (PAST)