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Learn about the style of Chinese painting known as ink and wash painting (shuǐ-mò 水墨). This ancient practice, still alive today, is closely related to calligraphy and was one of the Four Arts practised by Chinese scholars.

Using the beauty of our Chinese Garden as inspiration, students will use special brush pens to create their own ink and wash painting to take home. 

What do culture and tradition mean to you, your family and your community? In this program, students will ponder that question as they learn about the culture and traditions of our Ming Dynasty family home. Then they will discover the stories and folklore surrounding the 2000 year old Dragon Boat festival and its customs that continue to this day.

Many of the ancient practices surrounding the Dragon Boat Festival are to do with avoiding bad luck: the program ends with students creating their own good luck charm.

Combine this program with our Dragon Boat Paddle program, run in partnership with Dragon Boat BC. 

Dragon Tales + Dragon Boat Paddling = $18 + tax per student ($33 for post secondary students)

(K-3) Prior to European colonization, Indigenous peoples got what they needed from the land and water around them. Indigenous people have relied on salmon since the fish became abundant in the Fraser River about 5000-6000 years ago. They used native plants for food, medicine, building materials and more. This program explores the connection between Indigenous people, salmon, and the broader Fraser River Basin. Students experience the movement of salmon, storytelling and oral histories, and the many uses of native plants through an Indigenous perspective.

This program is divided into:

• Introduction to program, centre and rules Outside (5 minutes)
• Read aloud P'ésk'a and the First Salmon Ceremony (20 minutes)
• Stations (20 minutes each)
  • Salmon Life Cycle and Migration (An acting game where students envision themselves as migrating salmon)
  • Build a Plant (Understand traditional Indigenous uses for local plants, and invent a possible new plant)
• Film (Salmon origin traditional Indigenous oral stories) (20 minutes)
• Conclusion (5 minutes)

For more information, visit our website or email us. 

Online booking form here. 

As classes plant and tend vegetables at local community gardens, students learn about soil and composting, discover the needs of plants, and become environmental stewards.  Throughout the series, they will develop an awareness of environmental issues and social responsibiility as they learn about local food security.  Food grown and harvested is donated to local food banks.

This workshop series will be 4 sessions, administered outside, and masks are required for all students.  All workshop supplies will be sanitized after every single presentation.

Explore the life of early Surrey residents and compare it to our lives today. Students move through a virtual museum as they learn about pioneer homes like the Anderson Cabin, natural resources in the Surrey Stories gallery, and how raw wool becomes clothing in the Textile Studio. Students will discover how diverse the community of Surrey is.

Students learn how families kept up the Christmas spirit during WW2 when rations, homemade gifts and family abroad were a reality.