Oasis Lunch Gets Depressing

Oasis history students prepare a lunch based on recipes from the Great Depression. On the menu, a 'beef' casserole that was mostly beans and a cake with no butter, milk or eggs. The lunch filled our stomachs, but made us thankful for more contemporary ingredients- like garlic! 

Oasis Winter/Spring Semester Info Sessions Announced!

Are you interested in attending Oasis for the Winter/Spring semester? In order to enroll or just to check out the school, you must attend an info session. Our next series of info sessions are....

Thursday Dec 8th, 1:45
Thursday Dec 15, 1:45
Thursday Jan 12, 1:45

Students must bring a ceredit counseling summary, birth certificate, health card and proof of address (phone or utility bill etc..). Latecomers will not be admitted.

Oasis is located at 20 Brant St, near King and Spadina on the 3rd floor.

More Night of Dread Pictures

This Halloween Oasis students created puppets on the theme of Environmental Apocolypse for Dufferin Grove Park's annual Night of Dread festivities. Each puppet represents a fear about the envrionment and was made entirely out of cardboard, newspaper tape and tape. A lot of tape.

Oasis Haunts Night of Dread!

Check out our work for Night of Dread at Dufferin Grove Park. Our polar bear and evil mouse strutt their stuff on Bloor Street. More photos to come!
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Oasis Does Nuit Blanche!

It's a Stick Up!

 

Sat. Oct 1st marks the 6th annual Nuit Blanche, a free all night contemporary art event that turns Toronto's streets into an art gallery from 7pm to 7am. It also marks Oasis Alternative's Arts & Social Justice Program and Oasis Skateboard Factory's first exhibit as an offical Nuit Blanche event. Students will be creating an installation and displaying their work alongside world renowned street artists as part of the International Adhesive Arts Expo. Visitors will have the opporunity to create stickers, swap with famous artists and Oasis students and see Oasis student sticker series based on the theme of education reform. The event is free and open to all ages, hosted by print studio The Baitshop, 358 Dufferin St, Suite 117.

For more information visit:

http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/

Oasis Fall Registration is Closed

Oasis Arts and Social Change Program has filled all available spots for the 2011 fall semester. If you are still interested in applying to our program, we encourage you to call back in October to see if any spots have opened. In February 2012 there will be plenty of spots available for the spring semester.

If you are still seeking a school for this fall, the following schools are still accepting students.

Contact Alternative School
Grades 9 -12
http://www.tdsb.on.ca/schools/index.asp?schno=5589

 

West End Alternative School

Grades 10-12

http://www.tdsb.on.ca/schools/index.asp?schno=5569

Triangle Program

Grades 9-12 for LGBTQ youth

http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/triangle/mission.html

Oasis- Back to Cool

It's back to school for Oasis Alternative Arts and Social Change Program. Orientation for new and returning students starts at 11:00pm, Thursday Sept 8th. If you are interested in enrolling at Oasis, it's not too late. Info sessions will be held:

Wed Sept 7th, 9:00 am
Thurs Sept 8th, 9:00 am
Tues Sept 13th, 9:00 am
Thurs Sept 15th, 9:00 am

You will need to bring your credit counselling sheet from your previous school and id. Don't be late! The sessions will start on time and late comers won't be admitted