OASIS SKATEBOARD FACTORY

Upcoming Events & Announcements

Picture You in the Crew: Student Criteria for Application to join the OSF Student Design Team: ---Looking to be a part of a TDSB alternative school that does only real-world projects? ---Stoked about visual arts, design, street art and skateboard culture? ---Able to learn/work independently and participate as a contributing team member in a community setting? ---16+ years of age? ---Note: Spaces are available for young women in OSF programs promoting women in skateboarding/graffiti. APPLY NOW!!!

GET ON BOARD...Make a Donation as a Community Collaborator!

Now Registering Students!

Bored of Education?...

Skateboard of Education!!!

As of September 2009, Room 3 in the Scadding Court Community Centre will house the Oasis Skateboard Factory reengagement program.

As the first school site in the TDSB and the world fully dedicated to offering all subjects with a skateboard design and street art focus, the Oasis Skateboard Factory helps students earn Gr. 9-12 compulsory & elective high-school credits by running an entrepreneurial business where they learn hands-on to build skateboards, design original custom graphics, work with local artists and community collaborators, market and display their work and have the opportunity to receive an honorarium.

For more info or to apply, contact OSF Teacher Lauren Hortie.

lauren.hortie@tdsb.on.ca

Working with Sponsors & Clients

After creating a portfolio of their own personal designs and mastering the skills required to successfully make their own skateboards, students then look for community or local business partners to sponsor or purchase other skateboards. Students negotiate the design of a street or longboard style board with their sponsor/client and display the results at a local gallery. Students receive an honorarium for their work from the money raised and students participate in a photo opportunity with the sponsor/client when they deliver the finished deck.

Sponsors & Clients of the Oasis Skateboard Factory are supporting at-risk youth to stay in school, earn credits and develop transferable creative, employment and entrepreneurial skills.

Some of our Past Skateboard Sponsors/Clients & Artist Collaboration Boards...

Adrenaline Tattoo & Body Piercing
Art Gallery of Ontario
Atlantic Restaurant
Blessings in a Backpack
Cardinal Skateshop
CJ's Skateboard Park & School
Clay & Paper Theatre
CODE TDOT
Ericsson
Flatface Fingerboards
Function 13
Glory Hole Doughnuts
Grapefruit Moon Cafe
Grind House Cafe
HarbourKIDS (Harbourfront Centre)
Hines Coffee
Hockley Valley Honey
Ideal Coffee
Idle No More
Individual Commissions
Infralink
Lizzie at Speakeasy Tattoo
Longboard Living
Longboarding for Peace
Magic Pony Gallery
Manic Coffee
Mark Titchner
Memorial R.I.P. Boards/Ghost Boards
Model Citizen
Murray's Sandwiches
Music Program @ Oasis
Now Magazine
O's Clothes
Olde World Drywall
Parent Action on Drugs
Playdead Cult
Porchetta Sandwiches
Ride Away Bikes
ROCK (Erin Zimerman)
Rosario Marchese's Office (MPP): Repeal Bill 115
RUNT (Alex Currie)
Sadie's Diner
Sam James Coffee Bar
Saving Gigi Cafe
Show & Tell Gallery
Slick Slack Editting
SLURG (Germany)
SOY (James Gardiner)
The Baitshop
The Beguiling
The Gem
The Henhouse (Bar/Cafe)
The Jonah Group
Toronto Design Offsite Festival
Toronto Police Services
Triangle Program
Village Butcher
William Jamieson Tribal Arts

TBA OSF Community Council 2020-2021

Co-Chairs: Ted Hunter & Norah Jackson, ted@roarockit.com,

norah@roarockit.com, 416-938-4588 (Roarockit Skateboard Company)

Parent/Guardian Rep: Jill Aoki-Barrett, jillaoki@hotmail.com, 416-948-2009

Teacher Advisor & OSF Founding Teacher: Craig Morrison,

craig.morrison@tdsb.on.ca, OSF Classroom: 416-393-0845, Cell: 416-888-0640

OSF Innovations Rep: Lauren Hortie,

lauren.hortie@tdsb.on.ca, Cell: 416-587-2011

OSF INDIG SK8 Community Advisor: TBA

Student Leadership Positions:

Student Council Rep: TBA

Studio Assistant: TBA

Student Nutrition Program Coordinator: TBA

OSF SK8 Team Manager: TBA

Other Positions: TBA

OSF COMMUNITY COUNCIL MEETINGS & EVENTS for 2019/20

All Parents, Students, Community Partners and OSF Supporters are invited to participate in the OSF Community Council. The OSF Community Council’s mandate is to provide a safety net to support our students and to enrich their experience of success in the school and community.

*** Meeting #1 at 7PM at OSF Open House: Thursday October 17, 6-8pm in the OSF Classroom (Room 3, 707 Dundas St. W.) ***

Meeting #2: Tuesday November 5 at Roarockit 880 Millwood 7-9pm,

Meeting #3: Tuesday December 10 at Roarockit 880 Millwood 7-9pm,

Sem 1 Pop-Up Shop: Friday January 24, 7-9PM at Anomaly 46 Spadina Suite 200

Meeting #4: Tuesday February 11 at Roarockit 880 Millwood 7-9pm,

Meeting #5: Tuesday March 10 at Roarockit 880 Millwood 7-9pm,

10 Year Skateboard Show Opening Reception: Wednesday April 8, 7-9PM at Gladstone Hotel Sponsored by Roarockit

Meeting #6: Tuesday May 5 at Roarockit 880 Millwood 7-9pm

alt9 Art Show Reception & Pop Up Shop: Thursday May 28, 7-9PM at Xpace Cultural Centre 303 Landsdowne

GRADUATION BBQ / Sem 2 Pop Up Shop & Community Celebration: Friday June 12, 6-8PM at Anomaly 46 Spadina Suite 200

TBA OSF STAFF & ADMINISTRATION 2020-2021

*Craig Morrison, Program Founder & Full-time Teacher

*Lauran Hortie, Full-time Teacher

*Krista Peterson, Itinerant Resource Teacher

*Noel Rozentels, Child & Youth Counselor

* Jody St. Hillaire, Mental Health Nurse

*Sondra Zammit, Social Worker

*Kristin Blanchard, Oasis Office Administrator

*Jeffrey White, Oasis Curriculum Leader

*Yvette Duffy & Michael Gurgol, Vice-Principals

*Rizwana Jafri, Principal

*Peter Chang, Superintendent: (LN30)

*Stephanie Donaldson, Trustee (Ward 9)

*Carlene Jackson, Interim Director TDSB

OASIS SKATEBOARD FACTORY

Monday, September 29, 2014

Ryan from Longboard Living checks in on our progress in preparation for the OSF Product Launch Oct. 9 at his shop

Friday, September 26, 2014

Serious Stain!

A visit from one of the Australian founders of MOVEMBER (OSF will be designing fundraiser boards to promote men's physical & mental health)

An OSF original Symmetrical Freeride in process: OSF Product Launch at Longboard Living Oct. 9

Thursday, September 25, 2014

OSF School = Awesome: MANDATORY ICE CREAM BREAKS!

OSF "Mandatory Ice Cream Break" after a hard work day in school/studio

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Thank you to the OSF Community for all the fundraising last year: students are stoked to have our own acetate printer to help make more screenprinted boards this year ...can't wait to see this final Downhill deck!

An OSF RAT KING design for a street deck (OSF Product Launch at Longboard Living Oct. 9)

Nice woodworking on this pool deck (OSF Product Launch at Longboard Living Oct. 9)!

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

A critical interview by OSF Teachers about alternative schools as innovators:

Our new OCADU intern Matt gets a lesson from students on how to press a board

Juan racing in OSF black

Monday, September 22, 2014

The OSF Huddle: some serious skateboard shaping collaboration & concentration happening in our school today!

Pump? SUPERPUMP!: trying out new and improved Roarockit products while we pump out fresh pressed boards on a Monday

Diving deep into the design of a pool deck (Student engagement on a Monday morning at OSF school)

Michael the publisher of CONCRETE WAVE magazine talks to the OSF class about Longboarding for Peace

This box in the mail from our friends at LOADED will mean "Get On Board" Morning Attendance & Professionalism Student Awards!

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Introducing the 2014 OSF Student Design Team..."RAT KING: Youth are REVOLTING" Week 1 Video Project

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Tent at MANIFESTO: OSF x Champstiles x Roarockit = DIY TO!

Spraypaint safety & board painting techniques workshop with ROCK

All hands on deck: pressing a symmetrical Freeride prototype for our product launch Oct 9 (OSF x Longboard Living)

Friday, September 19, 2014

Come by the OSF table at MANIFESTO and say hi to our new crew (Saturday Sept. 20, Yonge & Dundas Square, 12-7)

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Ted Hunter in the Roarockit warehouse encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit of our new OSF student design team

Roarockit skateboard veneers being cut during demo for OSF

Thank you ROAROCKIT for hosting a welcome back OSF Students lunch & orientation to their warehouse today!