Announcing!
"TAKE MY WORD FOR IT!"
Creative Writing & Art
Summer Camp 2010
Paper
& Palette: Exploring your writer and artist self
Do you love to write?
(or
maybe you would like writing more if you could just come up with some cool
ideas?)
Do you love to make art?
(or maybe you would
like art more if you could learn to use some new materials?)
Come join us this
summer and explore your writer and artist self!
This
year we're in the
East Bay and in San Francisco!
What we'll be up to:
We'll spend half of
each day with paper and pencil, immersing ourselves in words. The other half of
the day we'll work with pastels, charcoals, watercolors (and more!), immersing
ourselves in visual art.
Plus, we'll read writing by well-known authors, look at art by famous artists
and have fun drawing, writing, editing, painting, snacking, erasing, gabbing,
reading stories, as well as admiring and sharing our work.
When &
Where ?
East
Bay
Camp will be held
at the spacious and beautiful Classroom Matters,
a tutoring center
in Berkeley, 2436 Sacramento Street (at Dwight).
Who?
Our East Bay camp
is an all-girl camp. Campers should be going into 3rd, 4th and 5th grade in
Fall 2010.
2010
East Bay Sessions
(All camp days are
from 9 am - 4 pm.)
SESSION A (2 weeks)
June 21- July 2
SESSION B (1 week)
July 5 - July 9
SESSION C (2 weeks)
July 12 - 23
San
Francisco
Who?
Our San Francisco
camp is for boys and girls into 3rd, 4th and 5th grade in Fall 2010.
Where & When?
Camp will be held
at the spacious and beautiful CCE Painting Studio, in the Glen Park
neighborhood of San Francisco.
2010
San Francisco Sessions
Half - day sessions
are 2 - 5:30 Full day session is from 9 - 4.
SESSION A (1
week, half-day) June 21st – 25th
SESSION B (1 week,
full-day) June 28th – July 2nd
SESSION C (1 week,
half-day) July 5th – July 9th
How much?
East
Bay
Sessions A and C
$650. per 2 week, full-day session,
plus a $20
materials fee,
$670. total
Session B
$325. for 1 week, full day session
plus a $20 materials fee,
$345.
total
San
Francisco
Sessions A and C
Half day, 2:00 –
5:30
$170 per one week
session
plus $30 materials
fee
$200. total
Session B
Full
day session, 9:00 – 4:00
$350 for 1 week,
plus $30 materials fee
$380. total
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Teaching art this
summer is artist, Angela Baker, who has a Bachelor of Fine Art from the
Columbus College of Art and Design, with an emphasis in painting and drawing.
Since 2001 Angela has been teaching both in-school and after school visual art
classes with established San Francisco arts organizations such as
Leap…imagination in Learning, ArtSpan and the San Francisco Arts Education
Project. Angela
is also an exhibiting painter whose work has been showcased in group and solo
shows in Budapest, San Francisco and New York.
Teaching writing this summer is Sondra Hall, the founder and
director of "Take My Word For It!" Sondra designed an innovative
curriculum to teach creative writing to kids in after school programs and in
community settings. "Take My Word For It!" 's program is now in seven
schools in the San Francisco Bay area.
To Register:
Click here to request a registration
form.
Discounts:
Come to camp with a friend or a sibling and you each receive
10% off!
Sign up a pair of campers at the same time, and pay in full
by May 1, 2010 and each camper receives 10% off the camp
fee. (The materials fee stays the same.)
Who we are: “Take My Word
For It!" is a Bay area creative writing program that encourages
kids to have a grand old time, as well as feel safe and supported while they
grow as writers. We have been leading students on word
expeditions for five years in after school programs and community settings.
Kids have been writing with us at Los Perales; Bay Farm; Thornhill, Chabot and
Kaiser Elementary in the East Bay, and Miraloma Elementary in San Francisco. We
have also been turning kids on to writing at 826 Valencia; Book Passage; 18
Reasons and Classroom Matters.
In
2010 we began teaching women seeking refuge from homelessness and domestic
violence at Mary Elizabeth Inn, in San Francisco.
"Take My Word For
It!" was founded
by Sondra Freundlich-Hall, a writer and parent who believes in the power of the
written word to transform. You can reach her at sondra@takemywordforit.net.
