Dear Parents, Campers and Potential New Families Though summer remains many weeks away, we are writing to reassure you that Centauri is closely monitoring the current COVID-19 pandemic, and making all necessary adaptations as the situation unfolds. We are closely following daily updates from all relevant organisations, including Public Health Ontario, the WHO, Health Canada [...]
Important Fall Dates 2018 Here are all the important dates for your diary! Monday 24 September Courses at the Centauri Arts Academy begin! Book space before this date! www.artsacademy.ca Friday 2 November Our 2018 website goes live! Choose your programs for next summer. centauriartscamp.com Saturday 17 November REGISTRATION OPENS FOR RETURNING CAMPERS FOR CAMP 2018 [...]
All our specialist programs are now underway for session 1, and there are incredible things happening all over camp. Yesterday, a camper explained to me with enthusiasm the challenge they had been given in Film Production. They watched movie clips in which a character’s emotion was conveyed through the way a scene was shot, while [...]
Session One began yesterday – on Canada Day – as we waited excitedly for 130 new and returning campers! We picked up a record number of campers from the airport, flying in from China, Mexico, France, Spain, UAE, Belgium, Singapore and many other countries. Within an hour, all our arrivals were settled in their dorms [...]
The weather was glorious yesterday as camp filled with our third session campers! We have a full camp again, and by mid afternoon all was peaceful, with dorm groups getting to know each other, and campers spending their first hours in their arts programs. We had a lively BBQ outdoors, our first flagpole of the [...]
This morning, campers enjoyed a well-deserved sleep-in after an exciting Classics Fest yesterday. Today also marked the start of mini-sessions, where campers choose an afternoon arts elective that they will do for the next three days. Selections included creating a TV show pilot with Mandy, working on a Michael Jackson medley with Sarah-Jane, building marionettes [...]
We have a full camp this session so arrival day was busy!! At the same time as 100 families checked in at our welcome tent, we had a bus full of campers arriving from Toronto, and campers flying in from Korea, India, China, Switzerland, England and France – it was a busy day for us [...]
This morning started off gray and cool, but despite the weather, there was a palpable energy and excitement all around camp. That’s because today is Dress Rehearsal day, and all the campers and staff get to see and celebrate the culmination of everyone’s hard work. Performances began with Melissa’s Stage Combat program, who transported us [...]
Last week, most members of our Senior Staff Team took time out from their regular year-round schedules to attend the Ontario Camps Association annual conference here in Toronto. We took workshops in everything from health and safety to mental health at summer camp, and from staff training and evaluation to leadership techniques. It was an [...]
My Ten Best Reads of 2013 This blog entry is for every camper, Arts Academy participant, staff member or parent who loves to read. Here are my 'ten best reads' of 2013... send me yours, and I'll post them! Just a minor caveat before starting the list: nothing I recommend here has lengthy content that [...]