Oasis Arts & Social Change Program

Monday, November 1, 2010

Night of Dred

On Saturday night October 30, the puppets that ASC visual arts students worked on during the month come to life at Night Of Dred at Dufferin Grove. http://www.blogto.com/city/2010/11/night_of_dread_2010/

Student Take to the Streets with Thriller

Getting Ready for the performance - A little makeup and hair please...

Now if we can only remember the moves...

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

A couple of weeks before Hallowe'en, ASC students learn, rehearse, and prepare to perform thriller at Much Music, Dundas Square, and Old City Hall. Among the fans taking pictures and hooting and hollering were community council members, parents, and fans - including veejay Sarah Taylor.

Parents get into the act

A random zombie fan

Monday, October 25, 2010

Visual Arts at Oasis

"Obey Oasis"

Using Shepard Fairey's Obey Giant street art project for inspiration, Oasis students created stencil self-portraits in the Fairey style with their own choice of text. Now these posters are circulating across Canada, with the help of friends of Oasis. Above are our students' faces sighted in Winnipeg Man. Keep your eyes peeled for more photos to come!

Thursday, October 21, 2010

WE HAVE THE CREATIVITY, WE NEED THE TECHNOLOGY: OASIS VIDEO SUBMISSION FOR BEST BUY AWARD

Oasis Best In-show on Youtube

A student works on a prop for the video

Oasis staff and students created a two-minute video to submit to Best Buy for a $20,000.00 award for technology. This video is a creative representation about why our school should win the award. Sit back, relax and enjoy this clever piece of work.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Visual Artist Julian Calleros Talks about the Day of the Dead

Students learn about the Mexican tradition "Day of the Dead" in preparation for Toronto's Night Of Dred. Visual Arts students will be creating enormous puppets and masks for the celebration.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Integrated & Visual Arts

Students are creating art pieces that will be used in their video submission to the Best Buy competition for new technology. Recipients of the award receive $20,000 for technology.

Equity Diversity Social Justice Course

EDSJ students create visual representations of their "village" - who supports them and who doesn't!

ASC Staff: A Small but MIghty Team

Anita Court is our fabulolus Office Administrator. She knows a lot about a lot and it's her job to know. Students and staff alike look to Anita as a confidante and problem solver for anything from getting the bathroom key from a locked bathroom to finding a band-aid for a cut to taking care of a busted printer to putting together the Superintentdent's package and tracking attendance. Anita is the glue that binds the three satellite locations of Oasis.
Jane Fonseca is the Guidance/Phys Ed and Science teacher. She has been working at Oasis for the last six years. She went to school at York University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in the Specialized Honours degree in Kinesiology and Health Science. She also received her Massage Therapy Diploma and at one time was a Registered Massage Therapist (no jokes or massages please). She completed her initial teacher education at York University, Parkdale campus with a focus on Equity and Social Justice. She is always up for a friendly challenge…game on!
Joseph Ghassibe is our fearless leader, CL of Oasis. He has worked in mainstream schools in Australia and Canada. He has worked in alternative programs and other alternative schools. Oasis is, by far, his favourite :-) We are a community, a family and a home. He is proud to be here!
Martin Van de Ven - Our Music and Math Guru has a Masters in composition from U of T and took calculus for entertainment during his undergrad. He has spent much of his adult life as a freelance clarinettist, composer and musical director. Working for local theatre companies such as Jumblies Theatre he has created many works for mixed ensembles composed of amateur, professional and untrained musicians. Recent compositions include a 5 part work for the Toronto Children's Chorus. He performs with Toronto based Balkan/Klezmer band “Beyond the Pale”. He loves helping people find their inner musician, as an added bonus, at OASIS he gets to do the same with Math. Before signing up with OASIS Martin was the Jazz teacher at Earl Haig secondary.