New Creative Writing Camp for 2015! Discover how to build a fantastical world so compelling a reader will lose themselves in it. Create rounded characters, learn how to make the incredible credible, and develop strategies for constructing flawless plots. In this genre-writing program we will focus specifically on fantasy, though the skills we'll learn apply [...]
Each summer at Centauri Summer Arts Camp, we offer at least 6 programs specifically designed for our visual artists. Some of those programs remain the same each year simply because they are so popular - classic painting programs, digital photography and a combination of painting, drawing and sculpture, for example. But we also try to [...]
We're Offering a New Collaborative Program at Camp Next Summer! "The People Project" will run in session 2, and is an exciting collaboration between our dance, theatre and creative writing departments, at the end of which a full length show will be staged. Campers will explore human interaction, emotion and conflict, using the medium of [...]
Magical Moments at Centauri Summer Arts Camp - Part Five This past summer, we challenged our counsellors to find ways to incorporate magical moments into all their camp activities. At the end of the summer, we asked about some of the specific things they had done with their dorms as a result. Here, in a [...]
Magical Moments at Centauri Arts Camp - Part Four This past summer, we challenged our counsellors to find ways to incorporate magical moments into all their camp activities. At the end of the summer, we asked about some of the specific things they had done with their dorms as a result. Here are some of [...]
Magical Moments at Centauri - Part Three This past summer, we challenged our counsellors to find ways to incorporate magical moments into all their camp activities. At the end of the summer, we asked about some of the specific things they had done with their dorms as a result. Here are a few of their [...]
Magical Moments at Centauri - Part Two This past summer, we challenged our counsellors to find ways to incorporate magical moments into all their camp activities. At the end of the summer, we asked about some of the specific things they had done with their dorms as a result. Here are a few of their [...]
Magical Moments at Centauri Summer Arts Camp - Part One... This year, during Staff Training, our focus was on magical moments, and how often, these days, childhood is so closely supervised and involves so many organised activities, the magic of those early years is disappearing, and needs to be cherished and re-ignited. We challenged our [...]
Our International Tour to England was a Huge Success.... We connected with a youth theatre group and shared workshops. Performed our play in a gorgeous studio theatre in Somerset. Made friends with UK teens. Cooked a meal together in the youth hostel. Hiked the Somerset countryside. Explored the new-age town of Glastonbury. Got a private [...]
A Huge Welcome to Our Session Four Campers! Session Four is a special time at Centauri Arts Camp. It's only eight days, so we pack a whole lot in! All of us have to leave when the session is done, so we make the most of every minute... in program, workshop, camp activities and with [...]