Vision:  to connect young people with the community and local artists establishing lasting connections, through the medium of surfboard building and surf art.

Goal: to provide youth on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia, who have limited access to art and recreation opportunities, with the equipment, skills and community connections they require to maintain long-lasting involvement in art and recreation activities. The project will use art-based opportunities (surfboard building, design and painting) to bring youth, members of the surfing community and local artists and board shapers together. Participants will each create their own surfboard and will collaborate in creating  a community surfboard (to later be auctioned at the project's closing beach party). Additionally, a surf mentorship program pairing local "expert" surfers with the project participants will support the development of long-lasting partnerships in board building and surfing development.

LISTEN TO THIS: Copy this link into your browser to listen to a CBC Radio (Mainstreet) report on this project: http://www.cbc.ca/mainstreetns/ Scroll down to Recent Interviews and select "Surf's up" and so is the cost of buying a board. Blair Sanderson checks out a unique program on the Eastern shore that helps teenagers build their own."

Project Coordinator: Amy Schwartz, Executive Director
Nova Scotia Sea School www.seaschool.org info@seaschool.org

Patrick Bannister: Co-facilitator and Surfboard Shaper
John Furness: Co- facilitator and  graphic designer ,hobby surf board shaper, surf art

Timeline: 3 weeks in July 2009