Lots going on at Eastside Famiy Place with a focus on summer activities and ideas on how to talk about 'Anti-Racism' with your child. Keep checking the website for the latest information!
A Note About Masks
ESFP has decided to make mask-wearing indoors mandatory for all over the age of 12. For our Backyard Playtime, we also will keep wearing masks because it's not always easy to physically distance. However, for the garden and park activities, masks are optional. Outdoor participants will still have to do their best to follow physical distancing.
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Summertime Fun Programs At a Glance
MORNINGS- OUTDOORS, 10-11:30:
Mondays and Wednesday, Britannia Urban Garden (BUG) Playtime
Tuesdays and Thursdays, Grandview Park Playtime
Limited to 8 families per session
AFTERNOONS- INDOORS, 1:30-2:30:
Tuesdays, Bunny Time (focused on crafts and active play)
Thursdays, Little Chefs cooking fun
Limited to 4 families per session
You will have to register each week for the following week. To receive a weekly email invitation to register, please JOIN our Summertime Fun Mailing List. Feel free to email the students directly too for more info.
Many special guests and activities will be offerend throughout the summer. Here is what is we are organizing so far. (Get on the Summertime Fun Mailing list in link just above to be kept up to date).
SOME OF THE SPECIAL GUESTS AND EVENTS COMING UP:
- Mike's Critters (mobile petting zoo!)
- Mad Science (STEM literacy!)
- Dawn Zoe Simpson will perform children's songs while accompanying herself on the accordion
- Hives for Humanity- beekeeping and honey tasting
- Yoga Buggy
- Tie Dying T-shirts
- Field Trip to Caffe Calabria for free ice cream
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Other Workshops, Groups and On-going Programs
Special Event!
Raising Anti-Racist Children, a Webinar by Angela Ma Brown
August 25, on Zoom, 6:30-8:00 PM
For many families, talking to their kids about race and racism can be difficult. How do I start this conversation? Are they too young for this topic? Should I wait until they are older? What is appropriate for me to say? Will I scare them by talking about this? These are just some of the questions that might discourage families from bringing up this topic with their kids.
Starting these important conversations is one of the first steps to raising anti-racist kids and it is never too early.
Join our free webinar to better understand different forms of racism, how kids learn about race and racism, and how families can start talking to them about it in a safe, inclusive, and supportive way.
This webinar will be facilitated by Angela Ma Brown, an anti-racist educator specializing in the areas of anti-racism, anti-oppression, social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Register via Eventbrite. It's filling up quickly, so if you are interested, please sign up soon.
Our regular programs are running all summer:
COOKING CLASSES - Cook Along with Andrea Potter!
Join Rooted Nutrition's Andrea Potter to make nutritious, tasty plant-based meals in under an hour. You can cook along if you so choose. Ingredients list and recipes are provided in advance. This month's date and time: Friday, July 30, 5-6 PM. We'll be cooking Vegan Black Bean Burgers. Email Gaye to get the registration link.
BACKYARD PLAYTIME
In-person. Continues throughout the summer, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:00-12:00. Come play in our beautiful backyard, featuring a huge sandbox, slide, fort, and natural features to enjoy, as well as push toys, balls, and other toys. Reserve your spot the week before from our main page of our website.
  
OCCASIONAL CHILDCARE - 'Break Time for Mom and Dad!'
Take a break, get some errands done, go for a run or walk... we've got you covered! Offered every Tues and Thurs morning 10-12, and must be pre-booked. To get more details, please email Gisele.
MUMS, DADS, BABIES WEEKLY MEET UP
In-person. For parents and their pre-crawling infants. We'll start with gentle yoga led by local doula and yoga teacher, Melissa Rodrigues, with time for networking after. Bring a yoga mat and blanket/s for your baby. All summer, we plan to meet outside in Grandview Park. (Canceled if raining). By registration only, not a drop in. Email Gaye to register. Mondays, 1:15-2:15.
New! We are planning a series of workshops for new parents on Zoom over the next few months. We created a quick poll for parents of babies under 12 months to help us narrow down the topics. If you are interested in these workshops, fill in the poll please.
TAKE AND MAKE! Craft Kits and Meal Kits
In-person pick up every Friday 9:15-10:45. Receive a craft kit for each child and/or a meal kit. Send an email to be added to the list. We will send you the weekly registration form. (Deadline is Monday 10PM).
FREE COUNSELLING AT ESFP
Registered Clinical Counsellor Krystle Sivorot is offering virtual counselling appointments to ESFP members on Wednesdays. Her practice supports children, youth, and adults struggling with emotional challenges and encourages cultivating the wisdom of the body and mind. Her practice uses breath, movement, and mindfulness to deepen a connection to the body as a resource for well-being and nurturing joy. To book a session, email Krystle. No cost for ESFP members ($20 per year/family, subsidies available upon request).
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Our Live Puppet Show was a Huge Success!
Vancouver Puppet Theatre came to Grandview Park. Thanks to our great summers students for organizing it! Well over 100 people attended this live show. JOIN the Summertime Fun Mailing List to be kept informed of other special events!
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Anti-racism Book Corner
Let's Talk About Race
by Julius Lester, illustrated by Karen Barbour
Appropos to our upcoming workshop, we're highlighting this book available at VPL. Adults unsure of how to begin talking about race will find in these pages a way to tap into the subject. Lester (To Be a Slave) addresses readers as if he is speaking to each in private conversation. He explains his belief that each human being "is a story" and, by appealingly poking fun at himself, he begins to tell his own tale: "I was born on January 27, 1939... (I'm kind of old, huh?)." After sharing a few more details he adds "Oh, there's something else that is part of my story. I'm black. What race are you?" Lester says people sometimes claim, "My race is better than your race" but this isn't true. If we take our skin off - here Barbour (Fire! Fire! Hurry! Hurry!) paints a folk-style tableau of skeletons with cheerful smiles and arms upraised - "I would look just like you, and you would look just like me." Barbour's illustrations, flooded with birds and flowers and brimming with color, provide plenty of visual interest. The artist's recurring tree symbolism underscores Lester's suggestion of a shared human family tree.
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The month's caledar theme is the importance of play. Some suggested activities include: 'collect natural material of all sorts to make a craft or art work.' Or how about 'fill a bin with rocks, dirt, leaves andother materials - close your eyes and use your other senses to feel!' Or, 'dress up and put on a play!'
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Let's Put Feelings First!
... Is a new inititative from the BC Healthy Child Development Alliance recognizing the crucial importance of social and emotional develoment (SED) in the early years. Here's a link to their website, with lots of information and practical ideas on how to foster your child's Social Emotional Development.
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Eastside Family Place is proud of being the Grandview-Woodland community’s 'home away from home' for over 40 years.
Please renew your membership to help us continue our work. Thanks!
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We wish to acknowledge we are on the unceded, traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) , Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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