Center for Community Arts Art camps for kids.
Art camps for children.
Fun things to do in Cape May this summer.
EVENING ART CAMP FOR AGES 6-12
DAILY JULY 1-SEPT. 4, except Tuesdays. CAMP CONGRESS HALL is a new collaboration between Center for Community Arts and Congress Hall. Six evenings a week, parents can have a night on the town while the kids make exciting art works, led by professional artist-teachers. Wednesdays – Mondays, 5:30 – 9:30 p.m., this program includes dinner. For information call CCA at 884-7525; to register, call Congress Hall between 3:00 – 3:55 p.m. to register for that evening at 884-8421.
WEEKLY A.M. ART CAMP FOR AGES 6-9
July 5-8. Kids ages 6-9 will love Center for Community Arts ART CAMP, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week has a different there. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: KITES AND WINGS. Design and create your own kites and winged creatures and then see if they can really fly!
July 11-15. Kids ages 6-9 will love Center for Community Arts ART CAMP, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week has a different there. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: PAPIER MACHE. Explore the messy fun of papier mache while making useful and decorative works of art.
July 18-22. Kids ages 6-9 will love Center for Community Arts ART CAMP, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week has a different there. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: DRAWING & PAINTING FROM NATURE. A hike on the school’s Nature Trail will inspire kids to create amazing drawings and paintings.
July 25-29. Kids ages 6-9 will love Center for Community Arts ART CAMP, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week has a different there. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: TREASURES & JUNK. Everyone has treasures and junk! Bring yours to camp and create unique personal works of art.
August 1-5. Kids ages 6-9 will love Center for Community Arts ART CAMP, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week has a different there. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: PUPPETS. Create a life-sized puppet and write your own puppet show to be performed on Friday.
EVENING ART CAMP FOR AGES 6-12
DAILY JULY 1-SEPT. 4, except Tuesdays. CAMP CONGRESS HALL is a new collaboration between Center for Community Arts and Congress Hall. Six evenings a week, parents can have a night on the town while the kids make exciting art works, led by professional artist-teachers. Wednesdays – Mondays, 5:30 – 9:30 p.m., this program includes dinner. For information call CCA at 884-7525; to register, call Congress Hall between 3:00 – 3:55 p.m. to register for that evening at 884-8421.
WEEKLY A.M. ART CAMP FOR AGES 6-9
July 5-8. Kids ages 6-9 will love Center for Community Arts ART CAMP, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week has a different there. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: KITES AND WINGS. Design and create your own kites and winged creatures and then see if they can really fly!
July 11-15. Kids ages 6-9 will love Center for Community Arts ART CAMP, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week has a different there. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: PAPIER MACHE. Explore the messy fun of papier mache while making useful and decorative works of art.
July 18-22. Kids ages 6-9 will love Center for Community Arts ART CAMP, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week has a different there. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: DRAWING & PAINTING FROM NATURE. A hike on the school’s Nature Trail will inspire kids to create amazing drawings and paintings.
July 25-29. Kids ages 6-9 will love Center for Community Arts ART CAMP, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week has a different there. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: TREASURES & JUNK. Everyone has treasures and junk! Bring yours to camp and create unique personal works of art.
August 1-5. Kids ages 6-9 will love Center for Community Arts ART CAMP, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week has a different there. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: PUPPETS. Create a life-sized puppet and write your own puppet show to be performed on Friday.
SUMMER YAP -- WEEKLY A.M. ART CAMP FOR AGES 10-14
June 27-July 1. Youths ages 10-14 will enjoy Center for Community Arts YAP in the Summer, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week a different medium will be explored. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: MOSAICS. From stepping stones to table tops, explore this ancient art of the Greeks and Romans. Create artwork from small pieces of clay tiles, shells, stones and more.
July 5-8. Youths ages 10-14 will enjoy Center for Community Arts YAP in the Summer, this week Tuesday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week a different medium will be explored. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: PLEIN AIR. Campers will take a bus trip to Cape May Point State Park and a walking trip to the Washington Street Mall to learn to sketch outside, using perspective. They will use pastels and watercolor to capture scenes of Cape May.
July 11-15. Youths ages 10-14 will enjoy Center for Community Arts YAP in the Summer, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week a different medium will be explored. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: BATIK. Explore the age-old technique of batik as it’s been done in Africa, Indonesia and the Ukraine. Campers will create artwork on fabric, paper and eggs!
July 18-22. Youths ages 10-14 will enjoy Center for Community Arts YAP in the Summer, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week a different medium will be explored. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: JEWELRY. Make your own beads and baubles out of a variety of materials and create one-of-a-kind jewelry.
July 25-29. Youths ages 10-14 will enjoy Center for Community Arts YAP in the Summer, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week a different medium will be explored. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: PHOTOGRAPHY. Campers will start this exciting week with a walking tour of Cape May to photograph its unique architecture and gardens. They will create hand tinted photographs, sun prints and use other interesting photographic techniques.
August 1-5. Youths ages 10-14 will enjoy Center for Community Arts YAP in the Summer, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week a different medium will be explored. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: PAPIER MACHE. Campers will enjoy the messy fun of working in papier mache while creating a life-size migrating or shore bird and a colorful mobile.
August 8-12. Youths ages 10-14 will enjoy Center for Community Arts YAP in the Summer, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week a different medium will be explored. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: PRINTMAKING. A walking/sketching tour of Cape May gardens will be campers’ inspiration to carve and print linoleum block prints in two or more colors.
August 15-19. Youths ages 10-14 will enjoy Center for Community Arts YAP in the Summer, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Led by professional artist-teachers, each week a different medium will be explored. Register by calling 884-7525. This week: PUPPETS. Make your own puppets from finger puppets to marionettes and learn the art of puppeteering.
ACTING CLASSES
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ARTS AND CAPE MAY STAGE PRESENT
ACTING CLASSES FOR YOUTH AGES 11-15
Patti Chambers of Center for Community Arts (CCA) and Jessica Perich of Cape May Stage (CMS) will teach a youth acting class for ages 11-15 on Tuesday and Thursdays, from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m., July 5 – August 4, in the auditorium of Cape May Elementary School. The fee is $85 for ten sessions. The class will include physical and vocal exercises, improvisations and other theater games, and work on scenes, poems and monologues. No experience is necessary. For registration information, call 884-7525.
Patti Chambers is a local actress who has worked with both CMS and East Lynne Theater Company, as well as teaching summer arts camp for Community Outreach Dance Network (CODN). She has taught adult movement workshops for CCA and CODN, and most recently has been leading after-school theater workshops at Wildwood Junior High School. She will appear in September in East Lynne Theater Company’s production of “Rain.”
Chambers started her performance training with dance, later trained in acting with the Washington Theater Lab and Arena Stage in Washington ,DC, and studied acting with Madeleine Thornton Sherwood and Wynn Handman in New York City. She has performed professionally on stage, and in film and television, including a one-woman show she also wrote, “Pink Ladies Trip,” that was presented in NYC and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She recently performed in “Honey and Boyd,” a play in NYC, and acted opposite Diane Lane in the film, “My New Gun,”. Patti writes, performs and enjoys doing original work.
Jessica Perich is currently the Education Outreach Coordinator for Cape May Stage (CMS). For the CMS-in-Residence Program, she has worked with several communities including Lower Township at the R.M. Teitelman Middle School on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; the Family Week Project: From Page to Stage (without Regard to Age!) on playwriting in Cape May, and with Glenwood Elementary in Wildwood, devising and performing "The Great Kapok Tree."
Jessica has previously worked with theatres along the East Coast. She performed and taught Shakespeare with the Orlando Shakespeare Festival. She has worked with The Knowledge Project in New York, teaching and directing Shakespeare to 5th grade classes in the Bronx, for which the company received an outreach work award. Her workshops on creative dramatics and classical texts were given in London public schools and an Irish Youth theatre. Jessica also served as a teaching artist for The McCarter Theatre in Princeton. This summer catch Ms. Perich in "The Last Five Years" at Cape May Stage.
CCA is a multicultural educational organization whose arts and humanities programs foster creativity, community building and appreciation for the rich diversity of our world. For further information, see www.centerforcommunityarts.org. Cape May Stage is a performance-oriented theatre company that places emphasis on acting, directing and playwriting excellence. For further information, see www.capemaystage.com. This program is made possible in part by grants from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and many generous businesses and individuals.
ACTING CLASSES FOR YOUTH AGES 11-15
Patti Chambers of Center for Community Arts (CCA) and Jessica Perich of Cape May Stage (CMS) will teach a youth acting class for ages 11-15 on Tuesday and Thursdays, from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m., July 5 – August 4, in the auditorium of Cape May Elementary School. The fee is $85 for ten sessions. The class will include physical and vocal exercises, improvisations and other theater games, and work on scenes, poems and monologues. No experience is necessary. For registration information, call 884-7525.
Patti Chambers is a local actress who has worked with both CMS and East Lynne Theater Company, as well as teaching summer arts camp for Community Outreach Dance Network (CODN). She has taught adult movement workshops for CCA and CODN, and most recently has been leading after-school theater workshops at Wildwood Junior High School. She will appear in September in East Lynne Theater Company’s production of “Rain.”
Chambers started her performance training with dance, later trained in acting with the Washington Theater Lab and Arena Stage in Washington ,DC, and studied acting with Madeleine Thornton Sherwood and Wynn Handman in New York City. She has performed professionally on stage, and in film and television, including a one-woman show she also wrote, “Pink Ladies Trip,” that was presented in NYC and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She recently performed in “Honey and Boyd,” a play in NYC, and acted opposite Diane Lane in the film, “My New Gun,”. Patti writes, performs and enjoys doing original work.
Jessica Perich is currently the Education Outreach Coordinator for Cape May Stage (CMS). For the CMS-in-Residence Program, she has worked with several communities including Lower Township at the R.M. Teitelman Middle School on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; the Family Week Project: From Page to Stage (without Regard to Age!) on playwriting in Cape May, and with Glenwood Elementary in Wildwood, devising and performing "The Great Kapok Tree."
Jessica has previously worked with theatres along the East Coast. She performed and taught Shakespeare with the Orlando Shakespeare Festival. She has worked with The Knowledge Project in New York, teaching and directing Shakespeare to 5th grade classes in the Bronx, for which the company received an outreach work award. Her workshops on creative dramatics and classical texts were given in London public schools and an Irish Youth theatre. Jessica also served as a teaching artist for The McCarter Theatre in Princeton. This summer catch Ms. Perich in "The Last Five Years" at Cape May Stage.
CCA is a multicultural educational organization whose arts and humanities programs foster creativity, community building and appreciation for the rich diversity of our world. For further information, see www.centerforcommunityarts.org. Cape May Stage is a performance-oriented theatre company that places emphasis on acting, directing and playwriting excellence. For further information, see www.capemaystage.com. This program is made possible in part by grants from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and many generous businesses and individuals.
