Community Connections

Scholar’s Choice

Education starts with the parents because children start learning as soon as they are born. A child's developmental years lay the foundation for their performance in school, so parents become that child's first teacher. Not all parents see themselves this way, and fewer still know what resources are available to them to help them educate their young children. That's where Scholar's Choice can help with how children learn, what they read, and what tools and games they engage with.

Scholar's Choice also has teacher resources, classroom materials, classroom supplies, math and language manipulatives, pocket charts, bulletin board paper, classroom decor, educational toys, games, crafts, baby toys, puzzles, storybooks, workbooks, educational helpers for parents, toddler and preschool toys, crafts, child care furniture, cribs, strollers, rest mats, and storage units for child care centres.

Trickster Theatre

Trickster Theatre supports schools and communities in using theatre and technology to explore the world around them. In their main Artist-in-Residency program, they embed a team of professional artists in a school for one week to co-create an original theatrical production with up to 600 actors! Trickster provides all of the curtains, lights, sound, props, and costumes as the school gymnasium or community hall is transformed into a magical theatrical “black box” theatre with every student performing in the final production.

In 40 years of pop-up performances and artist residencies, over 250,000 Albertans have appeared in a Trickster show in almost every community in Alberta from Fort Chipewyan to Fort MacLeod. Based on physical theatre techniques, Trickster’s work with embodied learning and arts-integration has been formally studied by the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. Their findings? Trickster Theatre's programs are powerful interventions for engaging youth.