OASIS SKATEBOARD FACTORY

Why be bored in school? Go to a Skateboard School!

This Toronto District School Board alternative school design program, where students earn high school credits by creating their own brand and running a skateboard business / professional design studio, now offers even more SK8 Entrepreneurship Opportunities & New Courses including SK8 & Art Co-ops, INDIGENOUS SK8 Studies, Physical Arts & Mindful Living...

OASIS SKATEBOARD FACTORY (OSF) "ON THE GRIND": TDSB's ART & ENTREPRENEURSHIP O.G.s since 2006!

*PLEASE NOTE, due to COVID-19 we are not holding our regular Drop-in Info Sessions (every Wednesday at 9AM in the OSF Classroom Room 3, 707 Dundas St. W. during the school year). Students interested in applying to OSF should email craig.morrison@tdsb.on.ca for an Application Package.

UPDATE Registration is on pause due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Please contact Teacher Craig Morrison for more info on registration details and to get an emailed Application Package (craig.morrison@tdsb.on.ca, 416-393-0845). (*Updates on when we will provide application packages and accept new students will be posted here and on our social media).

Upcoming Events & Announcements

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
OSF is actively looking for Creative Youth to join our Student Design Team! *All hour-long, drop-in INFORMATION SESSIONS take place on Wednesdays at 9:00AM sharp in Room 3, Scadding Court Community Centre, 707 Dundas St. West at Bathurst during the school year during scheduled classes (no sessions during exam periods). (Note: Due to space and time constraints, latecomers will have to return for the next scheduled session during the school year) --- Contact Craig at 416-393-0845 or craig.morrison@tdsb.on.ca
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!!!
Fall 2012 Announcement: OSF Teachers have put in a proposal to the TDSB to create a new alternative school. The OSF Storefront School is proposed as a new alternative school based on the success of the Oasis Skateboard Factory reengagement program that will continue to help students explore the connections between Creativity and Entrepreneurship by running our SK8 & Street Art Design Services as a Social Enterprise in a storefront featuring a retail space, gallery and workshop. If you can support us in making our proposal a reality, please contact us!

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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, call the OSF Classroom at 416-393-0845 of drop in to one of our Info Sessions held every Wednesday at 9AM in the classroom during the school year.

craig.morrison@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

OASIS SKATEBOARD FACTORY

Thursday, February 25, 2021

Important Space Update!

Please follow our Quad 3 Student Brands to support these awesome youth designers, skaters & creators!

Zoom sessions this week with our awesome student Teacher candidates: River on Colour Theory & Maysam on Power & Youth

Thanks to @peaceandcotton for offering a zoom Overview of Printing Techniques presentation to our crew of student designers as we start our Quad 3 projects

Welcome to our new student teacher River and welcome back Maysam ! We’re stoked to reopen our classroom with you both on board!

Back in the studio pressing decks and buttons and studying skateboard semiotics...

New OSF sticker decks in stock by student designer Memento Moon

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Saturday, February 13, 2021

We are looking forward to reopening our classroom studio and working with each of our 3 crews in-person at your in-person Classroom Studio Days this week!

Sticker Slap Sheets by OSF student designers for Babes Brigade-Women's Skateboarding

Welcome to Quad 3! Reminder to students to check the announcements on our online OSF SATELLITE STUDIO for new projects. Students have been told their crew number for this new quad’s 3-day rotation

Thursday, February 4, 2021

Monday, February 1, 2021

OSF Sticker Flash Sheets for Babes Brigade-Women's Skateboarding coming soon! (Portrait by Miigwich Longboards )

2 Paws Up 🐾 : Great job on Portfolio Review zoom presentations today OSF Crew 2!

Reminder to check out LAND IS LIFE (poster by Student designer Persephone’s Eye )

Sticker Flash Sheets for Babes Brigade-Women's Skateboarding coming soon from OSF student designers Magic Forte, Hanahaki Pink, Brat Skateboards, Miigwich Longboards & Hysteric Esoteric

OSF Flashback to our very first alternative school Toronto District School Board graduate in 2010 featured in Concrete Wave Magazine

Some of the first OSF student designed decks made with @roarockit technology commissioned by community businesses and organizations back in 2008.... (Magic Pony , Sadie’s Diner, @maniccoffee , @idealcoffee , Triangle Program)

OSF Flashback to the very first board we made for a client in 2008 that helped seed the idea of youth providing design services to the community and learning through entrepreneurship.

Awesome work presented by OSF Crew 1 at their final Quad 2 Portfolio Review over Zoom!

Black Lives Matter OSF SK8 Tote by our awesome student designer Persephone’s Eye

Friday, January 22, 2021

LAND IS LIFE beaded skateboards on display now for public viewing The Public at 58 Landsdowne for DesignTO (OSF INDIG SK8 x AURA)

Saturday, January 16, 2021

A preview of the design process of some branded Buttons for our upcoming OSF Pop Up Shop with @anomaly .... (Instagram @miigwichlongboards @monstraskate @spartanskateboards @jokesmith777 @hanahaki_pink @bedlambloom @worldn3ctar @hystericesoteric @spider_spi.t )

Students are working with teachers remotely in the design process of developing some themed assets for their upcoming OSF Pop Up Shop with @anomaly ..... (Student Brands Instagrams @spider_spi.t @worldn3ctar @miigwichlongboards @hanahaki_pink @hystericesoteric )