Only if you can pay the exhorbitant fee of 40$ Canadian / week(flexible depending on income levels/refugee status, ofc), so that we can fund more yoga, farming, and graffiti workshops while paying our workers above minimum wage!
We had a notorious graffiti writer come in and do an 'art class' with the kids, that fell on the day we were being monitored by the city lol. Like, had active cases & investigations against him notorious. Apparently, the inspectors liked the workshop though.
After the graffiti workshop, you'd see like half the kids designing tags, or overhear stuff like "Some people say graffiti is a bad thing, but I think it's good actually!"
I wonder what that camp is like now tho. It was amenable to being out-of-the-ordinary before me and my co-director started to run it, but I wonder how much things stayed the way they were from that period, as everything is very dependent on who is bothering to program the activities and hire people(and of course we were very pro hiring gay/trans/activist types).
Yeah, even by camp standards, we were essentially, or sometimes literally, charging people nothing so their parents could find work in the province and start adapting to the place before going to school. I recall jogging by a sign for an 'affordable' camp in college that had its own soccer fields and pool, yet were charging more per week than we'd charge for a whole season.
But we were geared to low income/refugee families. I think we had like 10-15 languages spoken at camp. It's where I started to learn russian and mandarin. :lenin-pensive: :mao-clap:
Though I will say, our camp wasn't in Toronto. We had a fair amount of ontarian counsellors shocked at how little we charged and what we could do with it all.
Only if you can pay the exhorbitant fee of 40$ Canadian / week(flexible depending on income levels/refugee status, ofc), so that we can fund more yoga, farming, and graffiti workshops while paying our workers above minimum wage!
We had a notorious graffiti writer come in and do an 'art class' with the kids, that fell on the day we were being monitored by the city lol. Like, had active cases & investigations against him notorious. Apparently, the inspectors liked the workshop though.
After the graffiti workshop, you'd see like half the kids designing tags, or overhear stuff like "Some people say graffiti is a bad thing, but I think it's good actually!"
I wonder what that camp is like now tho. It was amenable to being out-of-the-ordinary before me and my co-director started to run it, but I wonder how much things stayed the way they were from that period, as everything is very dependent on who is bothering to program the activities and hire people(and of course we were very pro hiring gay/trans/activist types).
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Yeah, even by camp standards, we were essentially, or sometimes literally, charging people nothing so their parents could find work in the province and start adapting to the place before going to school. I recall jogging by a sign for an 'affordable' camp in college that had its own soccer fields and pool, yet were charging more per week than we'd charge for a whole season.
But we were geared to low income/refugee families. I think we had like 10-15 languages spoken at camp. It's where I started to learn russian and mandarin. :lenin-pensive: :mao-clap:
Though I will say, our camp wasn't in Toronto. We had a fair amount of ontarian counsellors shocked at how little we charged and what we could do with it all.