Outreach

School Programs (2024/2025)

Rare Earth Outreach's goals include laying the groundwork for providing support to teachers working in areas such as media arts, digital media, photography/filmography, and even theatre and creative writing by providing resources (school units, donated equipment, guest speakers, etc.) that enrich their curriculum through and with enhanced EDI perspectives. This will require efforts to attend Teachers' Conventions and connecting with educators across Canada for program delivery in 2024 and forward.

Targeting primarily Junior and Senior High Schools, our initiatives include:

a) distributing educational materials, providing resources, and delivering program instruction to foster skills development in schools without a budget for instruction in Photographic Arts; and

b) distributing educational materials, providing resources, and delivering program instruction to foster empathy and awareness of EDI issues in schools with well-funded programs in Photographic Arts.

PLEASE NOTE: It is critical that we have the technology and software needed for this initiative, so we encourage you to visit the Re-Usable Equipment page if you have older but still functional cameras and laptops collecting dust in your home or office.

Spring and Summer Camp Programs

Communities facing socioeconomic challenges sit at one end of the spectrum, lacking funding for equipment and instruction in the photographic arts, while communities at the other end of the spectrum lack programming that encourages learners to identify with their privilege and use that to empower others. Rare Earth Outreach's goals with its Summer and Spring Camp programs is to offer quality programming that levels the playing field by incorporating both skills development and EDI awareness. This initiative will require building relationships with community leagues and/or applying to municipally-run local camps.

PLEASE NOTE: It is critical that we have the technology and software needed for this initiative, so we encourage you to visit the Re-Usable Equipment page if you have older but still functional cameras and laptops collecting dust in your home or office.