Community Programs

Community schools are natural centres for activity in neighbourhoods and can play a key role in improving outcomes for communities.

LTCES offers regular community drop-in programming, workshops, and events, providing safe and accessible points of connection for community members.

We are continually building community partner relationships and providing joint programs such as the Repair Café, Earth Day Free Store, and Community Connections Day.

We are working to build connections to place and land through use of the Roy Stewart Morrison Forest and our Community School Garden and Outdoor Hub.


Winter 2025 Programs

Thursday Drop-In Gym Nights

Thursdays 6-8pm

January 16 – March 13, 2025

Community Gym Nights are a fun and positive way to practice skills, get your daily dose of physical activity and spend time with neighbours and friends.
 
Facilitators will plan different activities with input from participants. All ages and skill levels are welcome. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult.
 
This is a free community program; donations are appreciated.
 
Facilitated by Peatr Lorian and Tom Skinner.
 
This program is a collaboration between LTCES and Courtenay Elementary Community School Society.
 
 

Thursday Drop-In Art Nights

Thursdays 6-8pm

January 16 – March 13, 2025

Connect over creativity at Lake Trail Community School! Drop-in Community Art Nights provide a positive space to make arts and crafts together. No prior art-making experience necessary.
There will be lots of supplies on hand and new projects presented each week by the facilitators. Or you can bring your own projects and work in the company of others.
 
This is a free community program; donations are appreciated.
 
Facilitated by Larissa McLean, Patricia Cribb-Baskin, and Noah Crowder. 
 
This program is a collaboration between LTCES and Comox Valley Arts (CV/A).

Thursday Drop-In Board Game Nights

Thursdays 6-8pm

January 16 – March 13, 2025

Drop-in Community Board Games Night is a fun way to connect with neighbours and friends. Facilitator Sam Kanters will bring a variety of board games, ranging from games for beginners to advanced gamers, or you can bring your own.

 
All ages and skill levels are welcome. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. This is a free community program; donations are appreciated.
 
Facilitator Sam Kanters

Conscious Dance

Thursdays 7-8pm

First Thursday of every month:

Jan.16, Feb. 6, and March 6, 2025

When the world gets to be too much, we dance our grief, worries, rage and love for the world, to support ourselves in the spirit of wild hope and community.
 
Very lightly facilitated ~ 40-50 minutes of music, to reconnect and resource our bodies and beings for the challenges of these perilous times.
Lake Trail School drama room, Courtenay BC, unceded territory of the peoples known today as K’omoks First Nation
Thursdays are community drop-in night, so you will walk in past other activities, turn right after the library, and be welcomed to the private space of the drama room.
 
No charge, but please consider making a donation to a local or global organization doing good work on climate, reconciliation, environmental justice or social justice if you are able.
 
Adults and mature youth of any gender welcome.
 
Facilitated by Alison Fox
 

Finding Our Footing

Mondays, 6:30 – 8:15pm
 
January 20 – March 10, 2025 
 
Strengthening our ties to Earth, community, and purpose while we face the state of the world.
 
The Work that Reconnects, developed by Joanna Macy and others, is a highly effective process for facing what is happening in the world while also staying well and connecting with others who share love for this planet.
 
Facilitated by Célia Laval, Registered Clinical Counsellor, Alison Fox of Response-Ability Dance and Kazimea Sokil of Resonance Arts Counselling is a 7 week series held on the traditional unceded territory of the Pentlatch, Sahtloot, Sasitla, Ieeksun and XaXe First Nations.
 
Our intention is to support a vital, engaged and connected community to face the local and global challenges of our times, by offering spaces to resource ourselves collaboratively.
 
Each week, this course will focus on one of the steps of the decolonized spiral of the Work that Reconnects. These topics include gratitude, personal awareness, social awareness, honouring our pain, seeing with new eyes, finding liberation and taking action.
We will reconnect to self, each other and the world through a variety of activities including discussion, writing activities, creative arts, embodiment practices, ritual and song.
 
 
Fees:
Solidarity Rate: $70 This rate is for folks who live in fiscal discomfort or uncertainty, or otherwise lack access to financial resources.
 
Full Rate: $140 This rate reflects what it costs to run our program so that we can continue offering a solidarity rate, scholarship, and work exchanges.
 
Redistribution Rate: $300 This rate is for community members who have access to structural wealth such as a stable job, investment income, or inherited wealth, and are able to pay a higher rate to support the participation of folks who pay at the solidarity rate.
Some full scholarships are available as well.
 

 

 

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