Introductory Vancouver Parkour Photo Filmmaking Kids Day Camp: 5-day

**Level up your skills and make your own parkour film**

This an introductory parkour/filmmaking day camp experience! Come for the Parkour, stay for a colourful and action-packed variety of life, movement and self-expression skills including:

Parkour moves: (rolls, jumps, vaults and more). Difficulty scaled to match the experience level of any learner.
Parkour philosophy & Healthy Risk Management principles: learn what the phrase Once is Never means and understand the ideas that make Parkour a discipline, not an extreme sport.
Sports photography and guerilla filmmaking: including cinematography, storyboarding & editing, sports photography and guerilla filmmaking. We provide all of the filmmaking gear needed.
Urban navigation, transit safety & street smarts: kids love self-propelled travel, Skytrains, maps and exploration. We train our students to be more safe, engaged and street-smart when moving through the city!
Stunts & stage combat: go full-Ninja while learning how to add parkour moves into throwing, dodging, props and more.
Urban art and local culture: Parkour is an urban art. How does the culture of Parkour merge with music, local street art, cinema and more? Let’s find out and in the process deepen our appreciation for Vancouver.
Wellness and sustainable training: from Spa Day at the pool to finding the fun in warm-ups, we train smart and teach them how.

All the Best Parkour Spots!

We lead hundreds of days per year of outdoor learning in Metro Van. After visiting many parkour spots, we’ve selected our favourites.

University of British Columbia (UBC) has an endless variety of parkour spots, tons of public amenities and awesome museums (yes we’re doing a whale & dinosaur skeleton tour).
Rocky Point Park is surprisingly easy to access from our drop-off spot (we use our Skytrain rides for planning, group discussion and film pre and post-production). It is home to Rotary Trials Bike Park: one of THE best parkour spots in all of Metro Vancouver, completely rain-proof and… it’s right next to Rocky Point Ice Cream!
Hastings Park is one of Vancouver’s custom-built outdoor public parkour parks and is connected to Leeside Skate Park, one of BC's most iconic skate parks and a super inspiring place to learn about urban and street art.
Hillcrest Centre has it all when it comes to the pool essentials (private changing stalls, lazy river, diving boards, cafe, conference rooms, a library…) but the area has many other attractions including Reilly Park (which has a garden and a Zip Line), Queen Elizabeth Park (massive with beautiful forests & fields) and even a Frisbee Golf Course.
Downtown Vancouver: ah yes, downtown… we have so many favourite parkour spots downtown. However, we’ve moved increasingly away from downtown Vancouver in recent years as we prefer quieter environments in the friendliest areas of town.

DATES (Mon–Fri, 8:30–3:30)
Intro day: July 2, 2025 - open invite to meet instructors for one-hour sessions to get your kid ready for their experience.
Week 1: July 07– 11
Week 2: July 14–18
Week 3: July 21–25
Week 4: July 28–Aug 01

PRICE: $699.00 + GST (Deposit: $200.00 + GST)
Includes: Skilled parkour instructors, parkour safety equipment, film & photography equipment, daily photos.

AGES (Co-ed): Junior (5–7), Senior (8–12)

PRIMARY DROP-OFF & PICK-UP
Olympic Village Station 8:30 / 3:30

SECONDARY DROP-OFF & PICK-UP OPTIONS
Waterfront Station* 8:00 / 4:00
Bridgeport Station* 8:00 / 4:00
Brentwood Station* 7:30 / 4:30
*Available based on parent interest. Contact us if you would like an instructor to meet your kid(s) at a secondary drop-off and ride the Skytrain to Douglas Park.

More info: office@firesideadventures.ca

A young boy showing his parkour skill by vaulting a handrail

A word on Parkour Photo Filmmaking from Liam “Barnsy” Barnes

Hi! I’m the Director of both Fireside Adventures and Vancouver Outdoor School. My skillset includes leading multi-week wilderness expeditions in BC & Yukon, delivering day programming through an experiential lens, working intensively with neurodivergent youth, and designing curricula that integrate healthy screen use, healthy risk & climate change education into a wide array of educational programs.

Parkour Photo Filmmaking is a special camp - we have continually worked on this curriculum for five years throughout our summer, spring and mid-year Fieldschool programs. This year I’ll be overseeing a team of skilled outdoor parkour & experiential educational instructors including Dani Mikolela.

Defining healthy screen use

The ‘world of screens’ is a landscape that our kids inhabit… often more than we’d like them too! At Fireside Adventures, we treat the digital world the same as we treat the wilderness: there are certain skills that kids need to develop in order to navigate it safely.

We incorporate filmmaking so our learners gain the ability to use their screens for creative, productive purposes that could change their lives for the better. We closely mentor them around ‘screen conduct’ and carefully moderate the amount of screen time they get (for instance, none in the first few days).

100% of our programming is delivered using our iPads so that kids can have a safe, ‘walled garden’ digital experience while using the same film production apps they can access at home for free.

Bringing healthy risk back to learning

Did you know that kids who fall from the jungle gym are eleven times less likely to develop a fear of heights as adults?

Parkour is the practice of overcoming obstacles. Every step of the way, we combine risk analysis (should I do this?) with self-awareness (am I able to do this?) to create success.

This sounds pretty simple, but if our students can master risk management, they will make better decisions for the rest of their lives.

Parkour is not a daredevil sport. Our motto is once is never. This means we value control, repetition and longevity, not crazy once-in-a-lifetime stunts.