Explorations
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To celebrate Women’s History Month, our bookclub, in partnership with @concordiauniversity @coop.bookstore, will be doing a live reading and art activism workshop on Our House is On Fire by Jeanette Winter. Get inspired by the journey of a brave girl leading the call to save the planet Join us next Wednesday on Facebook Live at 4:00PM EST. for a live reading and a fun workshop! The reading workshop will be led by Ayan Yusuf Karshe, Concordia’s Co-Op Executive Director, and Rana Liu, Explorations’ Community Development Officer and educator.

Thank you so much to Montreal Families for writing about Explorations Intergenerational Creative Writing Program! This is a FREE program for ALL to join! You can register today at explorationslearning.com

Explorations is proud to be partnering with @recreotherapy_ ! Our two educators, Christian and Adam, will be teaching Recreotherapy’s ACES Community Group. Swipe to see the schedule! Recreotherapy is a social enterprise that provides an innovative approach to service delivery highlighting the impact of meaningful and purposeful activities and experiences for optimal living and aging. At Recreotherapy, we design, implement and evaluate programs, services, events and products..., provide education and training, collaborate in applied research, and coach and consult with health care teams to integrate principles of therapeutic recreation into their regular practice. Our social mission is to enhance optimal living and aging, advocate for the profession of recreation therapy, provide student learning opportunities and jobs for new grads, and to ultimately change the narrative of disability, aging, dementia and caregiving. Thank you Recreotherapy for all that you do!

Happy International Women’s Day Today is a day to spread awareness about women empowerment, women’s rights and gender equality. Explorations is proud to be providing equal learning opportunities to young girls and leadership opportunities to female educators, as well as partnering with incredible organizations. Today, we are highlighting some of the great female-led organizations we are working with:... 1. @divaday.ca 2. @womeninengineering 3. @womenon_therise 4. @imaginationlibrary 5. @connectedcanadians Here’s to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.

One of our favourite activities at Explorations is the art of stained glass. Learning the intricacies of the art form all the while designing their own pieces, our campers have the chance to be fully immersed in the world of stained glass. This is just one of the many extraordinary learning activities Explorations teaches at our Summer Camp! ... Curious to learn more about our Summer Camp? Head over to explorationslearning.com/summer-camp

Today on #BellLetsTalk Explorations joins all Canadians in raising awareness and combating stigma around mental illness. Every person deserves physical and emotional safety at all times, a safe environment to learn, to take risks, and to grow. Emotional safety is achieved when it is embraced and championed by our entire community. As an educational charity, Explorations has the responsibility to ensure a safe environment to our learners, educators and staff.... If you or a loved one wants help, head over to letstalk.bell.ca/en/get-help To read more about Explorations’ five Principles of Learning at Explorations: https://bit.ly/3j234tB

In partnership with Concordia's Co-op Bookstore, a live reading reading of Joanna Ho's Eyes that Kiss in the Corners.

Battle it out to discover who is the greatest chess master of all time! Join Explorations’ Chess Club hosted by Ellis Steinberg, every Wednesday online from 5:15-6:15PM. Best part? It’s only $5 per session! Monthly tournaments, friendly practice and chess lessons from a real life chess wizard, Ellis! This is a virtual Chess Club open to grades 4 to 6. ... You can register today on our website at explorationslearning.com

Looking for fun engaging virtual activities for your children? Explorations to the rescue! From DJing to Coding, Explorations has a wide variety of online classes for your young learner! Our Session 2 of Winter Camp runs from January 4 to 8, 2021. Find out more on our website at explorationslearning.com/winter-camp

Explorations is proud to announce our partnership with ER4ALL, a nonprofit organization in Ghana. Explorations will be collaborating with ER4ALL to provide creative writing and reading programs to enrich their students’ English skills. Education Redefined for All (ER4ALL) is a community-based NGO in Prampram, Ghana that aims to provide quality education for elementary school students in Ghanaian Public schools. Education Redefined for All provides tutoring services to stud...ents and creates opportunities for parents to be actively engaged in the education of their children. We also help school drop-outs learn a trade of their choice in order to create employment for themselves and other people in their communities. At ER4ALL, we believe that education has the power to positively transform lives and communities. We look forward to building this partnership to provide more learning opportunities to youth around the world

On behalf of the whole team at Explorations, we wanted to say thank you! Thanks to you, our community of learners, we had the opportunity to continue our mission to connect, inspire and empower learners and educators. Here's a look back at some highlights of Explorations in 2020! Thank you so much for joining Explorations this year! 2020 gave us a lot of new lessons and learning curves. We look back at all the growth and resilience of our community of learners and educators,... and are forever grateful to your support. From our family to yours, we wish you all a safe and healthy holiday season. Best, Explorations Team

As part of their year end celebration, Tactico is hosting a virtual chess tournament free to enter!Our very own Ellis Steinberg, chess educator at Explorations, is part of this incredible event! Up to $2,000 in cash prizes and international chess master and several of Canada’s best players will be participating at the tournament tonight! Register free here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/tactico-year-end-chess-tourname... Starting at 6:30PM, you can watch the live stream here: https://m.twitch.tv/tacticotwitch/profile

Our goal in 2021 is to read more And what better way to start than to share this challenge with you To kick off the new year, Explorations is partnering with @concordiauniversity @coop.bookstore for a monthly free read-along series online! Our first book is Eyes that Kiss in the Corners by @joannahowrites A great book to start the New Year and gear up for the Lunar New Year Join us next Wednesday on Facebook Live at 4:00PM EST. for a live reading and a fun workshop! ... The reading workshop will be led by Ayan Yusuf Karshe, Concordia’s Co-Op Executive Director, and Rana Liu, Explorations’ Community Development Officer and educator.

We had such a blast teaching the children of Bienvenue à NDG Daycare last week! What a fun way to celebrate the holiday spirit all together! Our educator Amber brought the festive cheer to the daycare of Bienvenue à NDG with her art workshop last week, where they made stockings and snowmen. Big thank you to Sara Enfance Bndg and the whole team! We are so grateful for our partnership! ... Did you know that the Bienvenue à NDG Daycare are recipients of the Dolly Parton's Imagination Library? Their families receive free books every month! Thank you again and here's to having a safe and healthy holiday!

Reminder everybody! Set your calendars, tonight December 9th is the premiere date of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library documentary entitled: The Library That Dolly Built. The Library That Dolly Built, directed and produced by journalism professor and director of Land Grant Films Nick Geidner, and narrated by Danica McKellar, goes behind the scenes of Dolly Parton’s literacy-focused non-profit, Imagination Library, to show how one of the most famous and beloved performe...rs in the world has developed an efficient and effective program for spreading the love of reading. We are now at $1,400! Only $600 from our fundraising goal! Please visit our page to donate today to help provide up to 100 kids with free books from birth to age five in partnership with Dolly Parton’s @imaginationlibrary. Every $45 we raise can make this possible for another reader! explorationslearning.com/imaginationlibrary