Special Events
LIFE is Good Welcomes You!
The conference is a great opportunity to find inspiration and support from other unschoolers, but it can also be a bit intimidating for newcomers. If you’re new to the conference this year, we’d like to connect you with other newcomers as well as seasoned conference goers. We have a team of welcome volunteers who act as a more personal point of contact and help those new to the conference (and maybe even new to unschooling) get the most out of the experience.
Our volunteers are here to provide a warm welcome and are available to connect with you before the conference, answer your questions, give you a tour of the conference space, introduce you to others at the conference, and bring you into the LIFE is Good family.
If you would like to connect with our welcome volunteers (and we hope you do!) please contact Chrissie Korolsky at chrissiekorolsky@gmail.com.
Talent Show
On Friday night we will be hosting the famous LiG Talent Show for all interested conference attendees. It doesn’t need to be fancy, just something you’d like to share with our audience. Musicians, singers, poets, dancers, avant garde acts of all kinds and ages … we support everyone in the Talent Show. We will have a microphone, keyboard, CD player and hook ups for digital music players available. Please sign up on Thursday or Friday. Acts should be limited to 3 minutes so we can fit everyone in who wants to perform.
Cosplay Day - Friday
Do you have a favorite character or thing from a movie, TV show, book, anime, manga, genre, video or computer game that you enjoy dressing up as or want to dress up as? Yes?? Then let us walk around in costume for the day and show off our love for these characters/things. This is not a funshop. It is just another day at the conference where people can randomly walk around in costume and look awesome!
Better-than-Prom Extravaganza
If it’s Saturday night, then it must be time for the Better-than-Prom Extravaganza! BTPE is a dance tailored for teens (but all ages are welcome). Make the most of this un-prom opportunity: bring a date, wear fancy clothes or crazy costumes, rent a limo, go out to dinner, and so on. We’ll fire up the Better-than-Prom Playlist and dance until we drop (or until midnight, whichever comes first).
Note: We will be playing only family friendly music from 8:00-9:00. After 9:00 the Better-than-Prom Playlist will contain uncensored favorite songs chosen by teen unschoolers.
Fairy Godparents
Here’s your chance to bring a little joy and *magic* to someone’s weekend. Everyone who wants to participate will fill out a form, turn it in to the coordinator and pick up a sheet with a different participant’s information. Now once you have that name you MUST remember it. You can keep it in your pocket if need be. If you don’t know who this person is, ask people you DO know to find out. But do it stealthily! Once you know your Fairy God Child you can do anything you want for them as long as it’s kind and makes them feel good inside. You can make signs to hang in public places that say how wonderful they are, give them a random (consensual) hug “just for the fun of it”, ask someone to play or sing a song for them, write them a letter, make some kind of special food for them or leave them a small gift in their Fairy Godparent mailbox. Whatever you do make sure you do it without them knowing it’s you—and be creative!! And at the end of the weekend you can choose to tell your Fairy Godchild who you are or have them wonder forever.
And, please, if you put your name into the bucket and draw one, please participate. No one wants to be neglected by their Fairy Godparent!
UNtrepreneurial Fair
Unschoolers are often budding entrepreneurs! We provide space and a time for displaying and selling goods during the LIFE is Good UNtrepreneurial Fair, open on Friday and Saturday evenings 6-8pm. This gives everyone an opportunity to sell their wares together. It also gives shoppers a set time to know when the shops are open for business!
Picnic in the Park!
Stay through Monday and enjoy more time with friends at the post-conference picnic at Esther Short Park in downtown Vancouver. Bring a picnic lunch, play games, play music, wind down and get all those hugs in before taking off.
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