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DotD Hits the Streets Around Vancouver!
This poster,
entirely designed by Gladstone Student Kian Mousavi, is currently on display
in Bus Shelters all over Vancouver for the month of April. These
advertising spaces were awarded to Drive on the Drive through
the City of Vancouver's Office of Cultural Affairs, with a value of
$50,000.00 – a fantastic opportunity for local youth to access high profile
and extremely valuable advertising space to show off their amazing artistic
and graphic design talent! Keep your eye out for it, and join us for our
April 27th Celebration in Grandview Park!
Drive on the Drive
(DotD)
is a two-year social responsibility pilot project.
It will support teachers and students to use curriculum and service based
activities to get students involved in the Commercial Drive community, in
addition to the community surrounding each school. The overall goal of this
initiative is to make community and school involvement a valued part of
education, and to thus strengthen the relationships between the schools and the
surrounding community.
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In 2005, Drive on the Drive took place through a series of events
between April 27 and May 8, a time period that was also part of International
Youth Week. These events provided a very visible and positive flow of
energy into the Commercial Drive corridor. Included in the events during Youth
Week was a May 4th interschool celebration in Grandview Park from 1-6 pm,
that had free food, hip-hoppers, rock bands, theatre and other types of
entertainment.
Gladstone is home base for this project, but other
partner schools for this project are Van Tech and
Templeton
Secondary schools and certain elementary schools attached to the
secondary schools involved. There are over 27 classes involved in total!
