Olé, olé, olé, olé!!! Yesterday evening we had the delicious treat of a Brazilian banquet. Campers came into a beautifully decorated dining hall ready to celebrate all aspects of Brazilian culture. During dinner we feasted on traditional food such as yucca chips, Brazilian barbeque and amazing coconut and chocolate candies. While we ate the dancers [...]
What's a DOOT, you ask? It's a dinner where each of us, in dorm groups, Do Our Own Thing. Imagine the chaos of 16 different mini themed suppers all going on at once! One of our boys' dorms held a baby shower during dinner. The G1s were pop stars, and their counsellors played agents, linked [...]
Ten Reasons Why I LOVE my job Julie Hartley Camp Director My friends back home in Toronto are somewhat mystified by me. Why do I do the job I do? It's hard. Certainly never nine to five. In the summer, Craig and I start work just after seven, and rarely finish before 11pm. We are [...]
Yesterday we held one of our big summer festivals! Normal activities were suspended for the day and after a sleep-in, campers chose from several 'classic' projects to join for the day. Here's a list of the projects we offered, with exhibitions and performances at the end of the day. Try to guess which project your [...]
This group of campers is particularly spirited! On the first evening, we held a Jurassic Park evening program. All the Program Directors were dressed as dinosaurs, and campers had to move between them, finding out as much as they could about them. - such as their favourite song, favourite movie or dance move. Then, the [...]
Tonight at camp, Aaron and Alanna ran their fourth annual Choose-Your-Own-Adventure program, and this year the theme was DRAGONS! Dorms began with a treasure hunt for dragons' eggs, then found themselves creating 'good' and 'evil' dragons with a host of costumes and other items. After that, the entire camp (about 150 dragons in total...) marched [...]
It's the middle of the summer now, and we have a little tradition at Centauri Arts Camp: for one day, half way through the season, regular activities are suspended. We take off to a water park for the afternoon, and conclude the day with a concert! Our special day began with a pyjama breakfast, and [...]
With Session Two now well underway, I took a tour of programs this morning! Our Dancers were choreographing a dance using multicoloured flashlight beams in darkness, which looked spectacular. The Zen of Comedy campers were analysing famous movie clips and discussing how they could use the various styles in their improv work. Mr Hollow's Theatre [...]
Today, WE DEFEATED SMAUG!!! It's true. The day began in the Odyssey Theatre, where a mystical shadow puppet show told the background story to The Hobbit... then all the dorms went out to create their respective kingdoms in Middle Earth. Dorms were each given different creatures - Elves, Hobbits, Giants, Dwarves, Skin Changers, Giant Animals, [...]
The past couple of days have been a whirlwind of excitement here at Centauri Arts Camp. Countermeasure - an award-winning acapella group - came down to Centauri to perform. One of the founding members, JM Erlendson, is a Centauri program director - and twenty years ago, that same person was the first camper ever to [...]