Telus Donates to the Visual Media Workshop
$15,000 to assist with Princess Margaret Secondary partnership
Telus, having previously donated to Kwantlen Polytechnic University, contributed $15,000 to the institution’s Visual Media Workshop this month.
Katie Warfield, director of the VMW, accepted the donation from Telus on Jan. 13 and is excited about the plans for the money.
The donation will go towards an after-school partnership program with Princess Margaret Secondary called the DigitalLens club, or Digital Literacy Education for Novice Storytellers.
The goal is to “challenge the paradigmatic representation of youth in Surrey,” says Warfield. This 12-week program will challenge 15 students to each produce a digital story about life in Surrey.
This program will go beyond teaching students about digital literacy tools. “Kwantlen will develop ties that may enable future partnerships between the Visual Media Workshop and Princess Margaret,” says Warfield. This fits with KPU’s academic plan to provide experiential learning opportunities. “It is going to be an incredible project with wins all around.”
After this program ends in mid-May there will be an event to screen the creations. Students, Telus, families of participants, the Kwantlen community, and Princess Margaret faculty will be invited to this event to support the students.
In 2014 Telus also funded the Inside Out Prison program with the KPU Foundation.
