Regional Route Mapping
Schoolyard Arrival
Interactive Theatre
Action Circles
Crews plot human-scale routes along secondary highways and rail trails, connecting rural hamlets, reserves, and urban centres without support vehicles.
Cyclists roll directly onto school grounds on loaded rigs, immediately turning transit gear into an open-air demonstration of low-carbon mobility.
An all-school assembly play breaks down consumer supply chains using hand-painted puppets, physical comedy, and peer-to-peer personal narratives.
Classroom-sized outdoor break-outs convert assembly excitement into concrete local commitments around daily food choices, mending, and cycling routes.
Hands-on classroom sessions
Ethical Consumer Choices
Students audit classroom supply chains, deconstruct garment lifecycles, and practice practical mending skills with needle, thread, and scrap denim.
Regional Food Systems
An interactive exploration of food transport and soil stewardship, centered around bulk meal prep on camp stoves and seasonal Canadian crops.
Everyday Bicycle Mechanics
Greasy hands-on workshops covering flat fixes, brake tuning, and chain care so students gain the agency to use active transit daily.
Dispatches from past host schools
Our students spent three weeks organizing bike-bus commutes after the Otesha crew rolled into our courtyard. It sparked lasting habits.
Mark Tremblay, Secondary Science Teacher, Sudbury
The theatre performance bypassed teenage cynicism completely. Hearing from twenty-year-olds who actually pedalled here carried immense weight.
Sarah Jenkins, Student Council Advisor, Peterborough
No corporate slides or guilt. Just real youth showing that living lightly is a practical, joyous collective adventure.
David Chen, High School Principal, Kingston
Crew routing opens six months before departure. Confirm your dates early to ensure your school is on the regional corridor.