As Registration Day approaches, here are some important dates to keep in mind: Thursday 7th November: The 2014 Centauri Arts Camp Website goes LIVE TODAY! Browse our exciting new program selections and make your choices for next summer! Sunday 10th November: Information Sessions: 1pm: Information Session for New and Prospective Families. See photos, meet the [...]
It's Session THREE! Summer is just whirling by and today we welcomed another set of campers for our final two week session of the summer (there is still session four to go, but that's only 8 days long). Again, another terrific group of campers (how do we get such awesome kids? Is it just that [...]
A Sad Farewell to Session One... by Delphine M. (camper session 1, 2013) I've always been struck by how beautiful Centauri Arts Camp sunsets are. When we leave from evening program, a cascade of reds and oranges and even pinks are there to greet us. It's as if Mother Nature herself decided Centauri is such [...]
Session One Has Begun!!!!!! We had a wonderful staff training week (despite terrible thunderstorms) and by last night we were all ready and eager for campers!! This morning we woke to grey skies and then just minutes before our first camper walked on site the clouds parted to reveal a brilliant blue sky. As official [...]
These days, the reasons young people opt out of attending overnight camps can be somewhat worrying, and present new trends and issues that camp directors are doing their best to address. I'm a guest blogger today for Camp Easy - check out my blog on this subject here...http://blog.campeasy.com/ Julie Hartley Camp Director www.centauriartscamp.com
Aaron Alviano: An Interview Aaron Alviano has headed our Fine Art Department at Centauri Arts Camp for 7 years now. It wasn't hard to get his answers to these questions, because he also works with us part time in the camp office! Julie: What is your history at Centauri? Aaron: Unlike many staff, I was [...]
Each summer, Centauri Summer Arts Camp welcomes dozens of brand new campers with enthusiasm and warmth. Like all great summer camps, however, our traditions, and the continued quality of our community atmosphere and programs, depends on those wonderful people who return to us year after year as campers and as staff. One of those people [...]
At Centauri Summer Arts Camp, the campers in the Leaders in Training program (L.I.T) will, at some point, do an inspirational challenge. It’s an opportunity to speak in front of the whole camp. The task is not a small one: inspire us. Yikes. And yet, every summer, sometime 2 or 3 times a day, campers come [...]
Last week, a new camp parent called to ask us a few additional questions about Centauri. One of her questions was: do all your campers want to be arts professionals when they leave school? I told her no, this was absolutely not the case. Many of our campers do go on to successful arts careers, [...]
Many of our campers have had the pleasure of working with artist and teacher Soyeon Kim, who joined our Art Faculty last summer. Well, the wonderful book Soyeon illustrated has now been nominated for a Blue Spruce Award! We extend our hearty congratulations to Soyeon on behalf of you all – we are very, very [...]