In addition to cooking classes, Common Threads also offers a summer camp with lessons in dance, organic gardening, and cultural traditions. As part of its cultural program, the organization brings low-income and at-risk youth out of their neighborhood on field trips to cultural events. On a trip to see Explore’s screening of The Arctic at the Chicago International Film Festival, Charles Annenberg Weingarten gets some clever questions from his young audience and encourages them to "never stop learning."