Summer Multicultural Arts Camp

 

 
A unique program of cultural study through the arts, including drum, dance, drama, art, language, games, sports and martial arts from around the world, with funding assistance from Metro-Nashville Arts Commission, Tennessee Arts Commission, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Nashville Predators Foundation and The Love Everybody Fund of the Community Foundation
  
 

CAMP DIRECTOR - ELLEN GILBERT
MUSIC DIRECTOR - SHANNON HOLLAND
PROGRAM DIRECTOR - ROSA McMILLIAN
ART DIRECTOR - LYDIA ABSAR
SPANISH & ARTS - CHARLIE GILBERT
CAMP COUNSELOR - BAKARI SMITH

with a host of diverse teaching and performing artists
Registering now for 2012

Camp 2011 was a great success. All of us look forward to next summer. Special thanks to all of our teachers, teaching artists, and volunteer camp counselors.

LITTLE EAGLE ACADEMY CHINESE CULTURE CAMP - 2012
Information from xiaolu_shu@yahoo.com
Weekly sessions June 4 - June 29; 9am - 5 pm - $200/wk

To register online for either camp, click link at bottom of page and indicate name of camp for which you are registering.

  
             

Our Summer Multicultural Arts Camp is an extension of our school outreach program, Passport to Understanding. Through weekly sessions targeting specific cultures, camp participants will be introduced to dance, drum, art, language, games and sports from around the world. Students will become familiar with the sights, sounds, tastes, arts and traditions of a multitude of cultures, with frequent pauses for dialogue and reflection on the similarities of our diverse human family.

 

Cultural arts will be explored from

  • Burundi
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Cuba
  • Hawai'i
  • India
  • Ireland
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Mexico
  • Middle East
  • Native America
  • North Africa
  • Peru
  • Polynesia (Samoa,Tahiti, New Zealand)
  • Spain
  • West Africa (Guinea, Ghana, Mali and Senegal)

Special guest artists from Mexico, Peru and Guinea

 

  

Summer 2012 - Sessions & Fees

  1. June 4 - 8
  2. June 11 - 15
  3. June 18 - 22
  4. June 25 - 29
  5. July 5 - 6 - By invitation (drummers only)
  6. July 9 - 13
  7. July 16 - 20
  8. July 23 - 27

$25 nonrefundable registration fee
$150 per week (9am-4pm)
$125 per week for members
$25 per week per child for aftercare
Field trip fees vary each week

Intergenerational camp
for grades 2 - 12
Made possible with support from the Love Everybody Fund of the Community Foundation, the Tennessee Arts Commission and
The Nashville Predators Foundation

Camp Showcase - July 27 - 6 pm

 
             
 
     
                         
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