The fourth season of our popular school group programs run from mid-April to the end of June, 2014. The standard week-long camp is offered in both French Immersion and English but may be customized to accomodate limited time and financial realities. Teachers and chaperones need only get the students to Galiano Island (1st stop out [...]
It is not too late to register for our fall weeklong Media Intensive Program, October 14-19, 2013. Students can choose dramatic video production or documentary video production. You will work in a small team (3-4 members) and produce a finished film in 6 days. DSLR chip cameras, Zoom audio recording, Premier Pro editing software and [...]
Now is the time to get in early for Spring Break courses running March 17-22 & March 24-29, 2014. A special advanced Director’s course is offered March 17-29. There is a 25% discount up until mid-night December 31st. This will be the first course of GIFTS 20th season. Both weeks are open to youth with [...]
GIFTS was recently featured in two UBC studies by Dr. Kit Grauer. Dr. Grauer and her colleagues studied GIFTS’ model of learning by doing, concluding that “the value of [GIFTS and other such institutions] is in the lessons they offer for creating a democratic place where the curriculum and pedagogy foster communication, collaboration, and collective [...]
