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For the first time, Symphony Space expands its signature arts programming to young people with an all new summer camp program. Global Arts Camp (ages 8-11), based on Symphony Space’s acclaimed Curriculum Arts Project (CAP), runs July 6-10 and July 13-17, with dancing, music, storytelling, drama and art. Thalia Kids’ Book Club Camp (ages 9-12) offers the chance for kids to continue the Thalia Kids’ Book Club series discussing popular books with well known authors during the summertime, August 3-7 and August 10-14. (Please see reverse for details.)
Symphony Space has been providing cultural arts services to New York City area schools since 1980. Now, Global Arts Camp offers 20 kids the CAP experience in a fun and stimulating week. Possible workshops led by professional artists include African mask-making, Chinese tumbling and martial arts, Native American dance, American playwriting and acting and Latin American music, among others.
Expanding the popular Thalia Kids’ Book Club, now in its third season of lively discussions between children’s book authors and their fans ages 9-12, Thalia Kids’ Book Club Camp begins in August. 20 avid young readers and writers will have the opportunity to meet with children’s book authors to discuss the authors published work and work-in-progress, be part of a writing workshop, put together a writing portfolio, participate in drama activities, go on book-related field trips and more. The camp will conclude with an informal performance of actors reading camp participants’ writing. In the past, Thalia Kids’ Book Club has featured authors including Rick Riordan, Blue Balliett, Jacqueline Woodson, Brian Selznick, and Cornelia Funke.
When Symphony Space opened its doors in 1978 with its first production, Wall to Wall Bach, it gathered together an eclectic group of musicians, professional and amateur, well-known and emerging. What began as a natural outgrowth of the cultural epicenter that is the Upper West Side, traditionally home to many of the great actors, writers, dancers and musicians of our time, remains a unique melding of world-class artistry with the informality and intimacy of a neighborhood salon.
For more information, please contact Brian Shimkovitz, Krista Williams, or Carla Sacks at Sacks & Co., 212.741.1000.
