About Community Outreach
COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM
The Foundation has, over the past 10 years, steadily increased funding for community arts and culture activities and experiences through our Community Outreach program with a focus on youth and the disadvantaged. We are now 2nd in size to the Municipality’s Community Fund. Each year, we reach over 1000 local children and teenagers, either directly or indirectly. Your dollars help our local youngsters of all ages accrue the real benefits associated with their exposure and involvement in arts and culture.
Students from Georgian Bay Community School, Beaver Valley Community School, Admiral Collingwood Elementary School, Home Schooling and First Nations have all participated.
COMMUNITY OUTREACH INITIATIVES
- Covid-19 funding:
- help low-income families afford to replicate classroom setting
- musician performance fees
- virtual recreation and art camps for ages 5-12
- musical instruments for developmental-delayed students
- Georgian Bay Community School: music programs & lessons, GBCS Idol, GBCS Francophone Festival
- Pursuits Film Festival fundraiser for students’ outdoor leadership learning, a 4-credit curriculum program
- Professional Indigenous live theatre performances at Meaford Hall
- Literary Festival including ‘Gotta Keep Reading’ together with the Library
- A John Muir Celebration at the Museum
- Community Amateur theatre – adult and youth
- Summer Camp bursaries; art, music, drama & musical theatre
- Free admission to educational professional theatre for students of all ages, including home schooled
- Earth week film and interactive workshops
- Grey Bruce Youth Film Festival
- Art classes for children on the Autism Spectrum
- Meaford Knights Hockey – fund local singers for the national anthem
- Free theatre admission for developmentally-delayed with Community Living and Events for life Centre
- Meaford Dragons’ Den
- Art Exhibits
- Northbound – Music & Media Show about the Arctic