ADVENTURE KIOWA and KIOWA U - 2 unique opportunties in "An ideal summer camp for ALL campers!" Camp Kiowa offers, boys and girls, ages 6-17, learning opportunities that stimulate both the mind and body. Through professional instruction, unique enrichment programs, and recreational activities, campers enjoy a fun and creative summer of discovery on a beautiful college campus and a state-of-the-art adventure camp.

Activities include Digital Art & Photography, LEGO Robotics, Cooking, Art & Sculpture, Rock Climbing, Drama, Tennis, Golf, Swimming, Yoga, Dance, Basketball, Archery, Team Building, Leadership, Science, Nature, Creative Writing, and more!

Camp Kiowa morning program allows your child an in-depth exploration of a specific area of interest, while the afternoon activities provides campers with an introduction to a variety of new experiences and challenges. Engaging teachers and counselors work directly with your children. Campers will explore new activities and develop new interests; they may discover passions that will enrich them for a lifetime. Our encouraging environment offers children the opportunity to build character, self-confidence, independence, and strong relationships. Diverse sports and fun field trips round out the camp’s activities. Learn more, meet the directors, and apply online at www.campkiowa.com.

UNLEASH YOUR CREATIVE SPIRIT

BOARDING OPTIONS
Every summer, students from across the country flock to central Texas for a one-of-a-kind performing arts experience. Texas Arts Project has quickly become a proven leader in the world of performing arts education. Outstanding teaching, direction, and performance experiences enhance skill, encourage cooperative work, and nurture self-confidence.

Senior Camp runs June 6-June 27, 2010. Campers between the ages of 13 and 18 study all areas of theatre and film, but concentrate in an area of their choosing: Acting, Filmmaking, Musical Theatre and Technical Theatre/Design.

Advanced Camp runs June 6 - July 2, 2010. Senior Campers may apply for the Advanced Program, an extension of the Senior Camp for the serious student wishing to study Acting or Musical Theatre at the collegiate level. Campers integrate with the Senior Camp for three weeks with the addition of an advanced week following camp. There is an option to apply for the Week-long Advanced College Prep Camp only.

Junior Camps, for ages 9-12, focus on singing, acting and dancing. Structured classes combined with an intense rehearsal process and a lot of fun, make the Junior Camp a wonderful experience for the young artist. Broadway style songs and dances are rehearsed and performed at the end of the week. Session 1 (Beg-Int) runs June 13-19, 2010 and Session 2 (Int-Adv) runs June 20-26, 2010

Texas Arts Project is not your ordinary summer camp. While we enjoy many standard camp activities, the real excitement comes when campers discover the joy of creation and the thrill of performance. Outstanding teaching, direction, and performance experiences enhance skill, encourage cooperative work, and nurture self-confidence. St. Stephens' faculty, college professors and regional and national working artists join together as we strive for excellence through an artistic program where students are actively encouraged to find the place where process meets product.

DAY OPTIONS
Texas Arts Project also offers day camp options providing campers the opportunity to engage in week-long camps for performing and visual arts. Led by professional artists and educators, camps emphasize nurturing the imagination and creativity of each camper.

The Youth Art Camp for ages 5-10 runs June 7-11. Campers explore the creative process with a variety of different media ranging from drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking. Activites include building kaleidoscopes, puppets, sunprints,mobiles and more.

The Ceramics Camp is for ages 12-17 and runs June 7-11. Campers enjoy wheel throwing and trimming. Focus deeply on sculptural projects of choice such as plates, bowls, mugs or candlesticks. Projects may utilize slab method or coil method. Several types of firing will be used including the Raku method.

The Youth Musical Theatre Camp for ages 5-10 runs June 7-11, 2010. Campers take classes in Dance, Voice and Acting culminating in a short musical revue at the end of the week. Classes are fun and challenging providing a wonderful introduction to Broadway musicals or a fun extension of previous study.

LOCATION
TAP is located at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, a 428-acre campus near Austin in the beautiful Texas Hill Country, offering breath-taking views and state-of-the-art facilities. The arts facilities include the Helm Fine Arts Center featuring the Temple Family Theatre, a 410-seat performance venue and proscenium stage; the Scanlon Art Gallery; two fully equipped art studios; a 100-seat recital hall; and an open-air portico overlooking Lake Austin.

In addition to Helm, the campus boasts Hines Hall Theatre and Quin Studio, two additional rehearsal/ performance spaces as well as the Clayton dance studio.

Trinity Valley Summer Drama Workshop offers one session of 3 week intensive theatre camp that affords students from all over the state an opportunity to strengthen skill relating to theatre, acting or technical.

Students must choose ONE area: ACTING or TECHNICAL theatre. Students will stay on campus in dorms and will be cast in one of the five productions. Students who choose the acting route are cast in a model UIL One-Act play by one of the state's leading directors. They will keep a regimented schedule: morning classes in acting, dance and movement, mime, voice, etc. Afternoons are geared to technical rehearsals and actual rehearsals of the shows. Students who choose to work with the technical aspects of theatre will work with the design and technical staff in learning various skills related to this part of theatre: focusing lights, running sound cues, stage management, etc. SOcial events are planned for the students once a week.

Eligible students will receive 3 hours of college credit upon completion of the camp.

Theatrikids Original Rock Musical Comedy Sensation, "How To Be a Rockstar" is a Hit! Check out Theatrikids' Summer Camp Line-up, which includes a mini-version of 'Rockstar,'featuring the class in a music video, a Red-Carpet-Roll-Out Premiere of the in-class made short film for the "On The Big Screen" Camp, and other Exciting Camps including:
Shakespeare For Kids, Once Upon a Fairy Tale, Pirates! Lost at Sea, and I Love Musicals which features Broadway Hits you'll recognize as your old favorites.

Two One-Week Acting Workshops

Dates: July 11-July 19th & July 25-August 2
Location: Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, TX
Students will live on the Kilgore College Campus

Daily classes from 8:30 AM–5:30 PM
Subjects include:
1. Audition Techniques: How to choose the right monologue, basic headshot information and a "how to" for resumes, marketing yourself, and discovering what roles fit you.
2. Stage Combat: Learn a choreographed fight with rapier swords, daggers, and more.
3. Musical Theatre: Finding your vocal range, choosing a song, vocal exercises and techniques.
4. Voice and Speech: Breath support, pitch, control, posture, diction, dialects, and vocal warm ups for the actor
5. Movement: In movement class you will discover how to refocus the pre-audition jitters into a positive energy. It is applied to recovering freedom of movement, impulse control and attention to poise.
6. Classical and Contemporary Scene Work: Students will rehearse scenes and monologues from period pieces such as Shakespeare and modern works as well like Tennessee Williams and Sam Shepard.
7. Shakespearean Text: Become more familiar with the text of Shakespeare. You will be comfortable and confident speaking Shakespearean language.

Students will get to see all of Texas Shakespeare Festival 2009 Season:
Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Moliere’s Tartuffe, the musical She Loves Me and our children’s show Rumpelstiltskin

Camp Broadway Bound is Broadway Bounds Summer musical theatre day-camp. This camp is a safe, non-competitive environment designed to awaken the creative spirit and imagination through acting, music, dance, and performance.

The camps meet Monday through Friday either 9:00am to 1:00pm or 1:30pm - 5:30pm, for 1 week as students prepare to present a showcase presentation for family and friends.

Camp apprentices love being "immersed" in theatre, while they are involved in every aspect of the production from learning lines, music and dance steps, to creating costumes, props, and staging their showcase.