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Kids and Cultures Family Camp
Kids and Cultures Family Camp will be held August 10 to 12, 2009, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa.
Family Camp is for children in grades 1 to 8 and their parents. This is not a "drop off the kids and chat with the other parents" type of camp. The activities are designed for families to work, learn, and have fun together!
Take part in two activities each morning. Scroll down for descriptions of the sessions and instructor bios.
Monday, August 10
Drumming for Peace
3D Clay Painting (India)
Tuesday, August 11
Capoeira (Brazil)
3D Clay Painting (India)
Wednesday, August 12
How to Make an Apple Pie and Travel the World
Global Games
Session descriptions and instructor bios:
Instructor: Heidi Beth Wert, MSW/DMT, has 30 years experience in human service, counseling, nursing, mentoring, and theater/performance work. A graduate of Hunter College NYC, she is dually certified as a Masters level Social Worker and Dance/Movement Therapist. Heidi is co-founder of Drumming for Peace, co-founder of HeadsUp Lancaster (Helping Empower and Develop Students Unleashing Potential), and former member of the drumming ensemble Commit No Violence. Heidi has performed at peace vigils, schools, theaters, colleges, schools seminaries, festivals, special needs camps, martial arts studios, and with Co-Motion Theater, Independent Eye, Pennsylvania Academy of Music, and for Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Heidi is the Kids Capoeira instructor for PA Capoeira.
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This is a sample frame made with the 3D Indian art style. Clay painting - "the art of bringing imagination to life" - is three-dimensional artwork. In this mode of painting, clay is molded on a canvas or a wooden frame to one's imagination. Once clay is molded to one's imagination on the base, the picture is filled with oil or acrylic colors. This art can be used to make wall hangings, picture frames, memory planks, or whatever one can imagine.
During this camp, you will decorate a picture frame (4"x6") with clay painting. You will learn how to mold clay on the picture frame with beautiful designs and then color them. After the two-day process, you can fill the frame with the photo of your choice. Consider bringing your camera to take a photo of you making your frame, or with you and the instructor.
Instructor: Rachana Jhunjhunwala was born in India, and now makes her home in Lancaster, Pa., where she teaches traditional Indian art. "Painting has been my passion ever since my childhood. I was always fascinated by and believed in the magic of art. I started teaching and doing artwork in India at a very young age. Artwork, both teaching and doing, provides me with all the happiness and satisfaction."
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Drumming for Peace is designed to teach children drumming as a way of peacemaking and an alternative to violence using practical and active learning methods, while having a slammin' good time!
This program will engage participants in the principles of cooperation, mutual respect, community building, cross-cultural learning, personal discipline, and presentation of self as practiced in this art form.
Capoeira
Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art developed by African slaves, incorporating elements of music (including singing in Portuguese and playing traditional instruments), acrobatics, and creative expression. It's more than a fight, it's more than a dance! You've got to experience it to understand it!
The program will engage participants in the principles of cooperation, mutual respect, community building, cross cultural learning, personal discipline and presentation of self as practiced in this art form.
Instructor: Heidi Beth Wert, MSW/DMT, has 30 years experience in human service, counseling, nursing, mentoring, and theater/performance work. A graduate of Hunter College NYC, she is dually certified as a Masters level Social Worker and Dance/Movement Therapist. Heidi is co-founder of Drumming for Peace, co-founder of HeadsUp Lancaster (Helping Empower and Develop Students Unleashing Potential), and former member of the drumming ensemble Commit No Violence. Heidi has performed at peace vigils, schools, theaters, colleges, schools seminaries, festivals, special needs camps, martial arts studios, and with Co-Motion Theater, Independent Eye, Pennsylvania Academy of Music, and for Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Heidi is the Kids Capoeira instructor for PA Capoeira.
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How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
Based on the children's book, How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, by Marjorie Pricement, this session will take participants around the world and back again in time for dessert. Together we will learn about countries where the ingredients might come from and participate in an interactive culinary demonstration/teaching workshop.
All families will receive:
• a sample taste of pie
• all ingredients for making their own pies in class, including homemade pastry crust
• recipe cards to take home
Instructor: Patty Hegberg is first and foremost a mom who is passionate about reading and cooking with her kids. Out of that has grown another passion...to create meaningful parent/child experiences in order to enrich and strengthen family relationships. Thus, she started Treasured Times story time/cooking demonstrations with her family in early 2007.
In a Treasured Times show, parents and children can enjoy great stories together, learn some fun food facts, take virtual tours of food-related locations, participate in interactive culinary demonstrations, sample some snacks and take home a recipe or two to try. Sound like fun? That's the goal! Remember, our children are our greatest treasures. We need to make time for our treasures...and treasure those times!
Ms. Hegberg graduated from Towson State University in 1988 with a B.A. in Geography and Environmental Planning. She homeschools her two children and is currently working on a Treasured Times cookbook and website. Patty regularly hosts a story time for 12- to 18-month-old children and their parents, Babies and Books, at the Guthrie Memorial Library in Hanover, Pa., as well as literature-based cooking demonstrations for adults.
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Global Games
How do kids around the world have fun? Find out in Global Games, a creative collection of indoor-and-outdoor-and-active-and-calm-and-large-group-and-individual games from six continents. Participants will make-and-take at least one game.
For the past few years, Global Games has been a highlight of Kids and Cultures Camp, which is just for kids. This is a chance for kids and parents to play, learn, sweat, strategize, and have fun together!
Instructors: Timm and Kristina Wenger are co-founders of Kids and Cultures.
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Registration
Early registration (by June 30)--$120 per child, $80 for each additional child in the same family, $0 for one parent or guardian per child to attend (the cost for an additional adult is $50).
Regular registration (July 1 to 31, if room)--$150 per child, $120 for each additional child in the same family, $0 for one parent or guardian per child to attend (the cost for an additional adult is $75).
Click here for our easy online Registration.
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