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Maine Arts Camp’s Specialty Week
Years in the making, and it's finally here!
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Dates: Saturday, July 30 to Saturday, August 6, 2011
Price: $1250.
Specialty Week is an exciting offering available to campers who attend either of
our 2-week sessions, or who stay for the full 4-week session. It is an add-on week,
so campers are already comfortable in the camp setting and ready for something new,
challenging and focused.
Launched in summer 2010, Specialty Week allows older campers (11-15
year olds, plus 16-year-olds who are returning campers) to focus on two activities,
one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Each activity runs for 2 1/2 hours.
With 15 hours in each activity, campers are able to increase their skill level in
areas of interest and also try some new activities not offered during our regular
2-week camp sessions.
Unlike our 2-week sessions, which can take up to about 125 campers, we limit Specialty
Week to 60-70 campers. Along with our talented and experienced staff members that
stay for Specialty Week, we also bring in a few professionals who are only available
during that week. Please see the "Meet our Staff" page on our website for bios on
all our staff.
If your child is serious about any one of the activities we're offering during Specialty
Week, this is the perfect opportunity to let him/her really blossom in that area.
It is possible to sign up for Specialty Week after you've enrolled in a 2 or 4-week
session if there's still room.
Each summer brings new exciting activities to our 2-week sessions, as well as to
Specialty Week. After we finish hiring our summer staff, we post the activity options
for the summer, usually in late winter. During Specialty Week, we will have many
options in the visual arts, as well as in dance, cooking, photography, videography,
and possibly theatre and kayaking/canoeing.
2011 Specialty Week Activities:
Visual Arts
Glass Exploration
Sculpture
Plein Air Painting
Metal Jewelry
Pottery
Culinary Arts
Let's Have a Party!
Theater/Videography
Performance Fusion |
Dance
Modern/Jazz Choreography
Photography
Black & White Darkroom
Videography
Hollywood,
Unity Style!
Theater
Sketch, Comedy Performance Lab |
Sample Schedule:
- Breakfast
- 9:00 am – 11:30 am: Morning Activity
- Lunch
- Rest Period
- 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Afternoon Activity
- 4:15 pm -- 5:30 pm: Elective (individual sports & other options)
- Dinner
- Evening Activity
Camper Testimonials
"I just wanted to say that I thought Specialty week was AMAZING! It was so much
fun! The classes were small, and the outcome of each class was just incredible.
Also, I really enjoyed the little amount of campers and counselors there were. It
allowed me to get even closer to people that I couldn't during the regular sessions.
The smaller amount of people made the camp seem even more like a family. Specialty
week was definitely a great way to end the camp season, and since I have aged out
of camp now, a great way to end my time at camp. I will miss Maine Arts Camp a lot."
Zoe W., Lexington, MA
"I really enjoyed Specialty Week this year - it was even better than I expected! I
loved how it was smaller than the regular sessions and the classes were also much
smaller. We had a lot of help from our teacher and also had a lot of time. Definitely
keep Plein Air Painting!"
Sofia E., Cambridge, MA
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