#Creativity! Digital media skills training and #arttherapy for youth ages 19-26 facing barriers to employment. #Vancouver

 

Intersections Media Opportunities for Youth Society that combines film/visual art/life skills for youth 19+ who face barriers to employment.  The main mentor is filmmaker and teacher extraordinaire Fredrik Thorsen, and I am the youth support worker/ art therapist.

Go to: http://www.intersectionsmedia.com/ 

Currently, we are running four 5-week sessions (6 students per session),  the first one started Oct 24.  The student receives minimum wage for the 5 weeks and a session runs Mon-Thurs 9:30 – 5:30 at District 319 (Main and Cordova)

http://www.district319.com

Our current session is up and running and all 6 students are committed and working hard!

If you are a youth aged 19-26, facing barriers to employment, and would love to spend five [paid] weeks learning the ins and outs of film production and creativity, contact me at kthorsen@shaw.ca!  We are filling up session 2 as I write this with a couple of spots available!

We will be doing continuous intakes throughout the year for sessions 2-4 and beyond!

Session 1 Oct 24- Nov 24 √

Session 2 Nov 28 – Dec 15/ Jan 2- 13

Session 3 Jan 23- Feb 23

Session 4 Feb 27- Mar 29

    

See also:

Underway!

Day 2

Week 1

Drawing lesson

Vision Boards

BladeRunners is a Province of British Columbia employment program that helps at-risk youth between ages 15-30 build careers in construction. The Province of British Columbia is the steward of the program and the Aboriginal Community Career Employment Services Society [ACCESS] manages the program.

Week 1 of Intersections Media wrapping up! #arttherapy #atriskyouth

Intersections Media Opportunities For Youth is a non-profit society which offers a variety of skills development programs for at-risk youth [ages 19-26] in the lower mainland who face multiple barriers to employment.

Intersections’ mandate is to help transition at-risk youth into continued education and/or sustainable employment, while reinforcing healthy life-style choices and positive life skills.

We provide workshop and project-based programs that focus on film, video, and visual arts as a means of teaching fundamental life and employment skills.

 

See also:

Underway!

Day 2

BladeRunners is a Province of British Columbia employment program that helps at-risk youth between ages 15-30 build careers in construction. The Province of British Columbia is the steward of the program and the Aboriginal Community Career Employment Services Society [ACCESS] manages the program.

Destiny manifesting. Add to this #streetart inspired mural @YouthCO’s #ToolsForChange art event! #arttherapy

We started this mural in art therapy a few years ago and on July 5, 2011, I dragged it to Kirkstone Park, North Vancouver…

Satisfying!  Our plan is to display and sell the piece with proceeds going to my new youth retail project!  Stay tuned!

The mural was inspired by Doze Green‘s Galeria de la Raza, 1999, as found in the book Street Art San Francisco- Mission Muralismo:

Here’s a photo journey of our interpretation!  Thanks one and all who contributed to the piece!

  

      

It’s almost finished but it needs some more interaction!

So On October 28, 2011, you can add to it!!!

YOUTHCO

HIV and HEP C Community Outreach

INTERACTIVE ART EVENT

TOOLS FOR CHANGE CAMPAIGN LAUNCH PARTY

OCTOBER 28, 2011 7-10 PM

568 SEYMOUR STREET, VANCOUVER BC

AGES 19+

CASH BAR

INTERACTIVE ART STATIONS

facilitated by Katarina Thorsen

I am collaborating with YOUTHCO to provide drawing lessons and sock monkey therapy.  This mural will be on sale at the event  and I will be selling a batch of sock monkeys ($20 each) made by youth and community members in North Vancouver as well to help provide funds for art supplies!

We’re well into day 2 of Intersections Media digital-media training #arttherapy life-skills program!

Intersections Media Opportunities For Youth is a non-profit society which offers a variety of skills development programs for at-risk youth [ages 19-26] in the lower mainland who face multiple barriers to employment.

Intersections’ mandate is to help transition at-risk youth into continued education and/or sustainable employment, while reinforcing healthy life-style choices and positive life skills.

We provide workshop and project-based programs that focus on film, video, and visual arts as a means of teaching fundamental life and employment skills.

Photo by Ivery C.

Photo by Ivery C.

BladeRunners is a Province of British Columbia employment program that helps at-risk youth between ages 15-30 build careers in construction. The Province of British Columbia is the steward of the program and the Aboriginal Community Career Employment Services Society [ACCESS] manages the program.

“Happyness is a great mess, in the process of finding yourself.” – LIZ #arttherapy #youthatrisk

 

Digital media training/ #arttherapy life skills program getting underway at Intersections Media!

Intersections Media Opportunities For Youth is a non-profit society which offers a variety of skills development programs for at-risk youth in the lower mainland who face multiple barriers to employment.

Intersections’ mandate is to help transition at-risk youth into continued education and/or sustainable employment, while reinforcing healthy life-style choices and positive life skills.

We provide workshop and project-based programs that focus on film, video, and visual arts as a means of teaching fundamental life and employment skills.

Key instructor: Fredrik Thorsen

Art therapist/ youth support worker: Katarina Thorsen

 

First day includes ice-breaking sock monkey session!

 

Intersections Media is made possible through generous funding from BLADERUNNERS

BladeRunners is a Province of British Columbia employment program that helps at-risk youth between ages 15-30 build careers in construction. The Province of British Columbia is the steward of the program and the Aboriginal Community Career Employment Services Society [ACCESS] manages the program.

Creativity galore as sock monkeys are shared in the 6 Degrees of Creativity e-course with @arttxalliance!

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR THE 6-PART ART THERAPY E-COURSE [which includes sock monkey therapy]  AND REGISTRATION RUNS THROUGH TO DECEMBER 1!  COURSE ACCESS NOW OPEN!

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Students are posting their results!  Take a look at the latest!

Photo by Andria

I have always loved sock monkeys and I am now nearly retirement age.  I have asked for sock monkeys for gifts and I have given them as gifts.  I have never made one, but was so excited to hear about this workshop!  It is a complete mystery to me as to why they are so beloved.  They are cute, if not adorable.  They incorporate a piece of ourselves in them (the socks).  They are whimsical.  They are soft.  They can be thrown around without damage!  They are floppy.  They seem like someone that you can always trust to be your friend! – Lisbeth

Suzanne’s (the brown is by her boyfriend!):

   

Suzanne suggested during last Sunday’s chat that we should have a sock monkey swap– wouldn’t that be wonderful? – Gretchen

Lani’s 

Kat is telling the truth when she says that you will never look at a pair of socks the same again!  - Gretchen

Gretchen's

This post is dedicated to Gretchen Miller! Thank you Gretchen for making 6 Degrees of Creativity a reality!

 

Sock monkey therapy and catchup with superstar, Liz! #arttherapy #youthatrisk

Thanks to SOCKSMITH DESIGN for their incredible donation of socks for my youth awhile back!  I have been distributing the cornucopia over the past few months, and just gave two large piles to two students, including Liz.  It was great to spend the afternoon with her and two other students, sewing and chatting, venting and laughing.

She made the most adorable sock elephant.

"Hey guys!"

 

Full Grade 9 credits! Woohoo!

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR THE 6-PART ART THERAPY E-COURSE[which includes sock monkey therapy]  AND REGISTRATION RUNS THROUGH TO DECEMBER 1!  COURSE ACCESS NOW OPEN!

Results coming in from sock monkey therapy in the 6 Degrees of Creativity e-course with @arttxalliance!

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR THE 6-PART ART THERAPY E-COURSE [which includes sock monkey therapy]  AND REGISTRATION RUNS THROUGH TO DECEMBER 1!  COURSE ACCESS NOW OPEN!

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Students are starting to post their results!  Take a look at these!

Many thanks for sharing sock monkeys Kat. Georgie Girl (my first ever sock monkey) and I loved it. There will be many more to come and hopefully I can share the love with my community really soon. –  Amanda

 

This weekend was Thanksgiving in Canada. We had a big family dinner, and afterward, the guests left, and family stayed and we made sock monkeys together, working, laughing and sewing a sock monkey family… We had a wonderful time connecting , and the next day we made even more. I am taking the supplies to the Young offenders facility in Whitehorse, and we are going to make some there too.We made even more , but they had already gone to loving homes before  the photo was taken. – Andria

‘Skeletor’ sock monkey, painting in the sun, colors galore! Must be #arttherapy Friday! #youthart

Be sure to check out my interactive art event Oct 28th for YouthCo. Click on image for more info!

Alicia Love's piece will be part of the YouthCo interactive art event where participants will add to the artwork!