What Is CRES?

CRES (Community Radio Education Society) is a charitable, non-profit organization based in Vancouver, BC Coast Salish Territories. CRES runs the MAC (Media Arts Committee) program, the CRET (Community Radio Education Training) program, and other technical, radio and sound art workshops for the purpose of training, education and access.

Objects of the Society

1. To provide through training, classes, workshops and apprenticeship, education in sound art, radio skills, technical skills, community development, and the use of radio and audio for community educational purposes, and to provide facilities for this use;
2. To take steps to make training, classes, workshops and apprenticeships available to people with low income or from economically or socially disadvantaged groups and the opportunity of using these skills as a means of bettering their social and economic condition;
3. To foster the idea of using radio and sound art as an educational tool through co-ordinated work with formal educational institutional and informal educational experiments, and to provide facilities for this use;
4. To innovate and experiment with the methods of sharing information, programming, and sound art for a general listening and participating audience and to provide facilities for adequate distribution of these works;
5. To innovate and experiment with methods of training consistent with community development and of particular interests to people in economically or socially disadvantaged groups;
6. To provide facilities for the production, training, and distribution of sound art and programming consistent with these aims