{"id":4796,"date":"2016-05-26T15:50:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T19:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=4796"},"modified":"2016-09-15T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:05:06","slug":"creative-learning-is-focus-of-e-towns-first-camp-artworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2016\/05\/26\/creative-learning-is-focus-of-e-towns-first-camp-artworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative learning is focus of E-town\u2019s first \u2018Camp ArtWorks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CampArtWorks.logo4.outlined\"<\/a>Jesse Waters<\/a> envisions an experience in which students come together at Elizabethtown College<\/a> to learn something completely different, while keeping a focus on humanities-based education, in an atmosphere that is creative and fun.<\/p>\n

The students, this time around, however, are high school-age.<\/p>\n

This summer marks the first Camp ArtWorks<\/a> at Elizabethtown College. Headed up by Waters, director of the College\u2019s Bowers Writers House<\/a>, he wishes to share an experience based in the arts and their interconnectedness to one another.<\/p>\n

The five-day, four-night all-inclusive camp is designed with 14 to 17 year olds in mind, offering a creative atmosphere, while, at the same time giving a taste of what it\u2019s like to be on a college campus.<\/p>\n

Though the College already has music camps, Camp ArtWorks explores areas that are a bit different. Participants will delve into fiction, nonfiction and poetry writing, as well as storytelling; there will be stage action workshops; theatre design with E-town\u2019s associate professor of theatre; and theatre movement with a professional stage choreographer and an introduction to acting with Elizabethtown College\u2019s director of theatre and dance.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudents will get to learn about theatre and creative writing (from) professionals in the fields, while getting an introduction to the E-town College campus and getting to know E-town College alumni in the process,\u201d said Richard Wolf-Spencer<\/a>, associate professor of theatre, who will be leading the Camp\u2019s stagecraft and theatrical design sessions.<\/p>\n

Though many of the regional summer theatre programs are day camps, Elizabethtown College has the ability to offer a 24-hour program,\u00a0he said.\u00a0\u201cThe camp is designed to afford an experience in theatre and creative writing, which is unique to the area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also unique is the inclusion of alumni mentors, graduates of Elizabethtown from 2011 through 2016 who were involved in the arts.<\/p>\n

The professionals and experts leading the workshops have decades of experience in their fields. Dan Burke, who will present the sessions in stage action basics, for instance, is a theatre\u2019s resident fight director. He has choreographed hundreds of stage fights from NYC to south-central Pennsylvania and is certified as an actor\/combatant by The Society of American Fight Directors. In addition, Kristin Pontz, who will instruct sessions in theatre movement, teaches dance at Elizabethtown College. She has worked as a choreographer, a dance instructor and is director of various regional dance troupes including nearby EPAC.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want them to have creative time and the opportunity to talk with a professional,\u201d said Waters of the Camp ArtWorks participants. \u201cI\u2019d like them to leave here with an enlightened sense of their own possibilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want them to say \u2018I didn\u2019t realize\u2019 or to see a connection between experiences they might already have had\u2014the applicability of writing and theatre. But, most significantly, I want them to have fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campers will arrive on campus Monday June 27; their final day is Friday, July 1.<\/p>\n

With the cost of other regional sleep-over camps ranging from $500 to $1,200, the Camp ArtWorks price tag set at $389, it\u2019s a good deal, said Waters. So far, teens have signed up from Harrisburg, Elizabethtown and Lancaster, he said, noting that he hopes to draw interest from Baltimore and Philadelphia, as well.<\/p>\n

Spaces are still available; registration deadline is Monday, May 30<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Waters said plans are already taking shape for summer 2017, with the addition of future sessions in painting, sculpture and printmaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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