ABOUT CREATIVE LAND BASED LEARNING
About Creative Land Based Learning
Students will spend time outdoors creating and hearing stories inspired by Caravan Farm Theatre’s 80 acres of field and forest. They will also learn about Caravan Farm Theatre’s history, the stories we tell our audiences and get a behind the scenes look at how we create our shows.
Activities include:
- Listening to a recording of Secwépemc storyteller Kenthen Thomas tell the story of Coyote Rock, in the shadow of Coyote Rock.
- Time in the forest developing stories inspired by the environment and Caravan Farm Theatre’s plays before sharing those stories with each other.
- An introduction to how Caravan Farm Theatre creates our unique style of outdoor theatre that includes use of performers, music, masks, spectacle and even horses.
Curriculum Connections:
- English Language Arts
- Storytelling (composition and oral language)
- First Peoples storytelling and oral traditions
- Arts Education
- Learn about and reflect on creative process
- Express feelings, ideas, and experiences in creative ways
- Explore identity, place, culture, and belonging through arts experiences
- Traditional and contemporary Aboriginal arts and arts-making processes
About the Field Trip Experience
- Ideal for students in grades 3-6.
- Available Wednesday – Friday between 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. from Apr 30- June 5, 2025.
- Cost -$8/student. Teachers and chaperones complimentary.
- Available for classes or combined classes between 10 and 40 students.
- Overall experience lasts 2 hours. This includes the time spent walking between activities.
- The walking trails are groomed but not paved so students must be prepared for a nature walk through fields and forest and dress for the weather.
- Lots of parking for buses and space for students to eat lunch and discuss the experience onsite, if desired.
About Audio Land Walks
An immersive binaural audio experience, the Audio Land Walk offers unique, spellbinding audio creations that leads the listener on a 45-60 minute walk through 80 acres of field and forest
The walk, All My Relations by Kenthen Thomas, was created by Salmon Arm based Secwepemc storyteller and is purpose-built to guide the listener through the land: a meditation on storytelling, culture, the natural world and an experiment in the soundscape of storytelling.
Each participant is given headphones and a digital audio player. They listen to the story unfold as they follow signed, maintained paths through fields and forest.
Why Audio Land Walks?
A solo yet social experience. Students experience the story in their own headphones but walk alongside each other experiencing the landscape and narrative together.
Weaving immersive technology with an immersion in the natural world invites new perspectives on how we see and hear the world around us.
Enhances connection to the natural world. These narrative nature walks get students moving through the outdoors which is good for mental and physical health and promotes well being.
About the Field Trip Experience
- Ideal for students in grades 6-12.
- Available Wednesday-Friday between 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. from April 30 – June 5, 2025
- Cost – $10/student. Teachers and chaperones complimentary.
- Available for classes or combined classes between 10 and 40 students.
- Study Guide available for teachers to use before and after the Field Trip.
- Overall experience lasts 90 minutes. The walks are up to 60 minutes and the additional time includes getting set up with the headsets.
- The walking trails are groomed but not paved so students must be prepared for a nature walk through fields and forest and dress for the weather.
- Lots of parking for buses and space for students to eat lunch and discuss the experience onsite.
About the Story
All My Relations by Kenthen Thomas
Storyteller Kenthen Thomas shares his teachings received from present day elders, ancestors and mentors. A journey of connection, sewing together Stepetkwll or Legends That Teach, traditional stories of the Secwepemc peoples; Kenthen will also share his own personal stories that impart insight into who he is as a Secwépemc and also how those stories reflect back on all of our lives. Underscored by Susep Soule’s beautiful original and traditional songs. This experience delves into the story, memory and the connectivity of the land we walk on.
Curriculum Connections:
Social Studies – Indigenous cultures, BC First Peoples and Contemporary Indigenous Studies
Arts Education – Drama, Theatre Production and Media Arts
English Language Arts – Creative Writing, Literary Studies, Spoken Language and New Media
Applied Design, Skills and Technologies – Media Design
Feedback from Kalamalka Secondary School students:
“It was relaxing, and we got to see into another culture.”
“I liked being outside and learning about the place we were walking around on.”
“I liked that we all got to do it together but also by ourselves at the same time.”
For more information or to book a Field Trip, please contact Vicki Stroich, Artistic & Environmental Programs Manager at [email protected]
P: 250 546 8500 ext. 200
