Creative Facilitation Camp

East End Arts is a Local Arts Service Organization (LASO) created to serve the east end of Toronto.East End Arts is dedicated to its mandate to unite, inspire, and enhance the communities of east Toronto with the transformative power of the arts.

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Join us for a series of workshops to take your creative facilitation practice online, and gain other valuable skills to support your work.


This year Creative Facilitation Camp (like everything) is going to pivot to the online world! Presented by East End Arts and Scarborough Arts, in collaboration with Partners in Youth Empowerment, Digital Main Street, and Community Impact Consulting (Parul Pandya), Creative Facilitation Camp 2021 is a three-day professional development series which supports artists, arts facilitators, and arts &amp; culture workers in their creative facilitation skills. Over the course of three days, participants will learn how to:<ul><li>Create safe and welcoming spaces for participants from all backgrounds;</li><li>Better understand the terminology used in Anti-Oppressive and Anti-Racist work;</li><li>Master the technology used for online workshops; </li><li>Allow the creativity of your participants to flourish;</li><li>Build trust between you and your participants;</li><li>Build confidence and feel empowered as a creative facilitator;</li><li>Develop creative ways to transform your art and cultural practice into an engaging workshop and/or learning opportunity for community members;</li><li>And more important, how to do it all ONLINE! You will learn advanced techniques for using Zoom to create powerful online experiences. You’ll also get a chance to learn about Digital Main Street, an exciting program that will help you create a website and ecommerce platform to support your art practice!</li></ul>WHO IS CFC FOR?This year’s Creative Facilitation Camp is for anyone who is wondering how to make magic happen in a digital space. This program is ideal for:<ul><li>Artists who have participated in previous versions of CFC in person, and those who already have a baseline of understanding how to facilitate workshops;</li><li>Artists who are looking to develop into arts facilitators and educators, or practicing arts facilitators who are looking to improve their current skills and take their creative facilitation to the next level online;</li><li>Arts &amp; cultural workers who are looking to improve their professional facilitation skills for working with groups of people (community consultations, stakeholder groups, youth, etc.).</li><li>Why learn Creative Facilitation? It’s simple: revenue. By learning to better facilitate classes and workshops, you can leverage your art practice into a whole new revenue stream!</li></ul>CAMP SCHEDULE &amp; CURRICULUM<ul><li>Friday February 26, 3pm - Welcome &amp; Flag Raising Ceremony (it’s camp, after all)</li><li>Friday February 26, 3:15pm - Applying Anti-Oppression with Parul Pandya, Community Impact Non-Profit Consulting</li><li>Saturday February 27, 11am - Session 1, Facilitating Online Workshops with PYE Global</li><li>Saturday February 27, 2:30pm - Digital Main Street - How to Increase your Arts-Based Business Presence Online &amp; include Ecommerce Platforms</li><li>Sunday February 28, 11am - Session 2, Facilitating Online Workshops with PYE Global</li><li>The curriculum of Creative Facilitation Camp for 2021 is primarily based on “How to Lead Engaging and Interactive Online Programs” developed by PYE Global. </li></ul><h2>“It was such a safe space to explore our creativity and ideas in a supportive environment. It expanded my idea of what facilitation could look like.” - CFC Participant, 2019</h2>During the PYE Global portions of this camp, participants will:<ul><li>Gain a toolbox of 20 virtual activities that promote creativity, social emotional learning and group cohesion;</li><li>Learn strategies for building community and connection;</li><li>Learn to facilitate creative and multi-layered activities;</li><li>Maximize collaboration using whiteboards, annotation and advanced Google tools;</li><li>Unlock the surprising potential of breakout rooms;</li><li>Share slides, video and music seamlessly;</li><li>Learn ways to engage even your quietest participants;</li><li>Customize your Zoom system to fit the needs of your program;</li><li>Set up speakers, panels, fishbowl conversations and online performances;</li><li>Understand how to create an effective team to produce your program;</li><li>Troubleshoot tech challenges with fellow learners.</li></ul>To learn more, visit https://eastendarts.ca/creative-facilitation-camp-2021/

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