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 [...]
Why I came, and why I keep coming back; A Centauri Arts Camp History After the summer of 2000, my very first summer as I camper at Centauri Summer Arts Camp, I returned to school year ready for anything. When asked what I did that summer, I stood on my chair and yelled: “I went [...]
A few days ago, we shared with you the story of Melissa, a camper and then counsellor at Centauri, who discovered a love of Stage Combat while at camp, and went from knowing nothing about it to certifying as an Actor-Combatant. She now hopes to make the art of stage combat her career. Well, Melissa [...]
Meet Mercedes! We have two counsellors this summer joining Centauri for the very first time. You already met Ben... now, we're excited to introduce Mercedes to you all! Mercedes is studying film at the University of Windsor. She is currently producing and directing a short film for her production class, working on a series of [...]
Why not try Something New this Summer? For all of us, the tendency is to stick with things we know. If you're already good at dance, take dance at camp, for example. We fear failure, and- that's only human. But there are few 'safer' places to try something you have never done before than camp. [...]
The pathway from camper to camp counsellor is by no means automatic at Centauri. For most, it begins early, at the age of 15 when campers start to take components of the leadership program, and to accept leadership roles around camp. By the time they are old enough to apply for staff, therefore, a camper [...]
Spotlight on a New Centauri Counsellor! More than 20 experienced counsellors return to Centauri each summer, but we always have a small number who must move on, usually because their university days are over and it's time to get a job! This means we welcome about 5 or 6 new counsellors onto the team each [...]
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 [...]