The Arts Camps program partners the
Alberta Foundation for the Arts with the Alberta Sport,
Recreation, Parks, and Wildlife Foundation (ASRPWF) in providing an arts
component to the Alberta’s Future Leaders (AFL) Program.
This program is based on the
development of partnerships between communities, private enterprise, non-profit
organizations and government agencies. These partnerships share the belief that
sport and recreation can be used as prevention and intervention initiatives to
address the needs of Alberta's indigenous youth.
Arts mentors are hired to form an
arts team to plan and develop a range of arts activities. Each arts team member
is then placed in a designated community for the summer, working alongside other
AFL summer youth workers. The program runs from May 1 to August 31 each year.
The number of participating communities varies, but there are usually a dozen
communities involved in the AFL program each year.
The arts component provides
opportunities for young people to experience and develop their creative
abilities. The arts youth workers act as mentors, helping the participants to
express themselves through a variety of performing and visual arts activities.
Young people are encouraged to get in touch with their individual creative
energies and abilities, and thereby learn new skills, develop strength, build
self-esteem and self-confidence that can be used throughout their
lives.
Arts activities include performing
arts such as mime, acting, storytelling, dance and music as well as mask and
puppet making. Visual arts workshops include painting, drawing, printmaking,
sculpture, collage, clay, photography and crafts.
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