This group of campers is particularly spirited! On the first evening, we held a Jurassic Park evening program. All the Program Directors were dressed as dinosaurs, and campers had to move between them, finding out as much as they could about them. - such as their favourite song, favourite movie or dance move. Then, the [...]
Tonight at camp, Aaron and Alanna ran their fourth annual Choose-Your-Own-Adventure program, and this year the theme was DRAGONS! Dorms began with a treasure hunt for dragons' eggs, then found themselves creating 'good' and 'evil' dragons with a host of costumes and other items. After that, the entire camp (about 150 dragons in total...) marched [...]
It's the middle of the summer now, and we have a little tradition at Centauri Arts Camp: for one day, half way through the season, regular activities are suspended. We take off to a water park for the afternoon, and conclude the day with a concert! Our special day began with a pyjama breakfast, and [...]
With Session Two now well underway, I took a tour of programs this morning! Our Dancers were choreographing a dance using multicoloured flashlight beams in darkness, which looked spectacular. The Zen of Comedy campers were analysing famous movie clips and discussing how they could use the various styles in their improv work. Mr Hollow's Theatre [...]
Today, WE DEFEATED SMAUG!!! It's true. The day began in the Odyssey Theatre, where a mystical shadow puppet show told the background story to The Hobbit... then all the dorms went out to create their respective kingdoms in Middle Earth. Dorms were each given different creatures - Elves, Hobbits, Giants, Dwarves, Skin Changers, Giant Animals, [...]
The past couple of days have been a whirlwind of excitement here at Centauri Arts Camp. Countermeasure - an award-winning acapella group - came down to Centauri to perform. One of the founding members, JM Erlendson, is a Centauri program director - and twenty years ago, that same person was the first camper ever to [...]
For some utterly mysterious reason, Centauri gets the most spectacular sunsets I have ever seen anywhere, ever. And we get them almost every night. Campers call them 'Centauri Skies' and they have been featured in numerous songs, poems and inspirational speeches over the past twenty summers. In fact, at around 9pm every night, everything pauses. [...]
Thursday, July 3rd was our annual play in a day festival! It began the evening of July 2nd with six campers writing the plays. The next morning, the entire camp set to work on four different productions, with a small group of campers creating skits to tie the plays together and move the camp from [...]
THE FIRST TWENTY FOUR HOURS! Programs are all going well. I took a tour around this morning. Our writers were creating pieces based around the concept of 'fear and awe'. In 'Aliens Invade', groups were learning the correct way to set up a professional tripod, and in the film studio next door, campers were learning [...]
The first day of the summer was greatll! We have a 30 minute arrival period, but most families arrived within a 10 minute block. Our program staff worked exceptionally hard to clear the line, and everyone was very good-natured about it! Within minutes we were singing the camp song in the dining hall and officially [...]