{"id":9580,"date":"2017-09-15T20:08:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/?p=9580\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T20:08:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T20:08:08","slug":"westjets-gift-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/westjets-gift-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"WestJet&#8217;s Gift of Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, BGC Canada is celebrating 10 years with WestJet.<\/p>\n<p>To highlight our incredible 10-year partnership with WestJet Cares for Kids, we created a video that tells the story of flying for the first time, an experience that many of our Club youth experience every year, thanks to WestJet.<\/p>\n<p>The video follows Legacy, a youth from the Indigenous Initiatives program at BGC Calgary, and her new friends Zack, Janelle, and James from BGC Red Deer &#038; District Club, on a flight to Ottawa. They were just a few of the young people who were able to attend our 2017 National Youth Conference thanks to WestJet Cares for Kids.<\/p>\n<p>To date, the video has been viewed over 150,000 times!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/232491391?portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check out some of these behind-the-scenes photos:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9591 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W07.jpg\" alt=\"Filming Legacy on a longboard for our WestJet video\" width=\"600\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W07.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W07-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W07-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9587 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ05.jpg\" alt=\"Wing of a WestJet plane, flying\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ05.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ05-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ05-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u25b2(photo credit: Conor M &#8211; BGC Calgary, Indigenous Initiatives)\u25b2<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9588 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ06.jpg\" alt=\"Youth holding a Welcome to Get Loud 2017 sign at the Ottawa airport\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ06.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ06-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ06-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9585 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ03.jpg\" alt=\"Filming the youth from our WestJet video\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ03.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ03-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ03-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9586 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ04.jpg\" alt=\"Youth greeting each other at the Ottawa airport\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ04.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ04-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9584 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ02.jpg\" alt=\"Youth and staff from Boys and Girls Clubs of Calgary, Indigenous Initiatives\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ02.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/WJ02-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, BGC Canada is celebrating 10 years with WestJet. To highlight our incredible 10-year partnership with WestJet Cares for Kids, we created a video that tells the story of flying for the first time, an experience that many of our Club youth experience every year, thanks to WestJet. The video follows Legacy, a youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bgc-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}