Happy Pride Month Everyone!

It's a great time to read this article posted three years ago about the 2016 pride parade! Are you down to show your pride this year?

http://culturelinkyouth.blogspot.com/2016/07/pride-parade-2016.html

Come join our program every Thursday from 4 pm - 6 pm at the CultureLink Children & Youth Centre! We will have fun, meet new people, and address issues that matter!

CultureLink's Youth in Artegration, Sankofa and Youth in Arts collaborated with Afrobeatz in creating an African-Derived dancing workshop for Black History month. 

The children and youth were given a quick history lesson on the history of Afrobeatz and they had the opportunity show off their dance skills with a specialized facilitator.

Sankofa Youth - Laser Tag

March break has been a busy time for CultureLink Youth. Sankofa youth teamed off in a friendly game of laser tag at Playtime Bowl and Entertainment. 

Team Red vs Team Green 💪

 Tough Talk before the game starts 👏

 Team Red Leader Chante - she doesn't look worried

 From left to right: Rocio & Liz (Birthday Girl)

 Team Green Leader - Jerome

Saleema is ready

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Janeila & Julisa - Team Red 

Why is this the only group photo we have 😢 

Youth in Arts and Sankofa

Some of our youth extracting what "race" means to them.

Our youth adding their input!

The wonderful facilitators working with our Sankofa youth!

Incredible discussions taking place.

Our youth explaining what "social media" means to them.

Everyone adding their input to different categories.

More discussing!

Great conversation taking place about Public Service Announcements. 

Thanks for everything!

Youth in Arts and Sankofa get to Play Team Games!

Youth in Arts and Sankofa Youth Drop-In participated in team games and activities. Youth were divided into teams of four and were challenged to complete different tasks and games (like Jenga, Checkers, etc.) and score the highest points using team work. Great job, everyone!

Team "Cardi" were extremely anxious communicating with their team member to pull out the right wooden piece before the whole structure collapsed!

One of our youth extremely calm as he perfected his turn!

Yohana, Hassan and Abdi working together to come up with different words  for their trivia round!

Bralin, Carlos, Walid and Diana working together to come up with words for our Categories Word Game. Amazing thinking and team skills, everyone!

 Are you interested in joining "Youth in Arts" or "Sankofa Youth Drop-In"? If so, please contact Nour Abu-Shaaban by email at nabushaaban@culturelink.ca or Zarina Butt at zbutt@culturelink.ca.

Youth in Arts and Sankofa Go To the House of VR

On Thursday night, Youth in Arts and Sankofa had the opportunity to try out Virtual Reality games! The House of VR is a central hub of VR/AR in Toronto by creating the coolest VR lounge in the city for youth!

Some of our youth watching videos in their own private theatre.

Our wonderful participants.

Liu, Whitney, Sawsan and Ana posing by the beautiful mural!

   

Taking a break from all of the games.

Our participants listening to the instructions for the gaming hubs. Great job, everyone!

The cool set-up!

Some youth taking a pizza break.

 Are you interested in joining? Contact Zarina Butt or Nour Abu-Shaaban by email at:

Zarina Butt- zbutt@culturelink.ca
Nour Abu-Shaaban- nabushaaban@culturelink.ca

Global Roots Year-End Harvest Party

The end of October marks the end of the amazing Global Roots program. This is an intergenerational program that is put on by The Stop Community Food Centre and the participants from three amazing CultureLink programs: Sankofa Youth, Youth in Action and the Seniors Program. This week we celebrated an amazing year of fun and hard work with our Harvest Party. We enjoyed fantastic pot-luck food, games (apple-bobbing and a pinata) , music and the company of all of our wonderful participants. 

Thank you so much to our participants, our volunteers and all the staff involved in making this year with Global Roots such a success. At events like this we truly see the community that is built during these programs and we are looking forward to next year when we will see everyone again!

Sankofa Multicultural Club - Halloween Baking Party!!

The Multicultural Club celebrated Halloween yesterday by creating spooky pizza's and tasty rice krispy squares. 

Posing with a Snapchat filter

 Ready to cook

 Working on their scary pizza

The girls making rice crispy squares

The Multicultural Club is a collaboration between the ESL teachers, CultureLink's Sankofa Youth Programs & WEST Neighbourhood House.