The weather was glorious yesterday as camp filled with our third session campers! We have a full camp again, and by mid afternoon all was peaceful, with dorm groups getting to know each other, and campers spending their first hours in their arts programs. We had a lively BBQ outdoors, our first flagpole of the [...]
Twice per session, our program directors take a day off, and we replace the regular schedule with something special. One festival each session is always arts-related, and that was the Classics Fest last week. The other festival is pure fun – and today that’s Westworld! Campers are spending the day in a wild-west themed amusement [...]
This morning, campers enjoyed a well-deserved sleep-in after an exciting Classics Fest yesterday. Today also marked the start of mini-sessions, where campers choose an afternoon arts elective that they will do for the next three days. Selections included creating a TV show pilot with Mandy, working on a Michael Jackson medley with Sarah-Jane, building marionettes [...]
We have a full camp this session so arrival day was busy!! At the same time as 100 families checked in at our welcome tent, we had a bus full of campers arriving from Toronto, and campers flying in from Korea, India, China, Switzerland, England and France – it was a busy day for us [...]
This morning started off gray and cool, but despite the weather, there was a palpable energy and excitement all around camp. That’s because today is Dress Rehearsal day, and all the campers and staff get to see and celebrate the culmination of everyone’s hard work. Performances began with Melissa’s Stage Combat program, who transported us [...]
In our experience, it is always helpful for families to be able to plan ahead! With this in mind, we have set our dates already for summer 2018. We won’t know for sure which programs will run in each session until early September, but for now, here are our session dates for next year: Session [...]
It is 1pm on a beautiful, sunny day at Centauri, and everyone is busy creating. I took a stroll around camp this morning to have a better look at everything going on in programs. I sat in the shade of the Poet Tree with Blair’s Screenwriting program, and listened to a lively discussion about the [...]
Once a session, campers have an opportunity to take the same workshop for three days, giving them the chance to dive deeper into an art form, explore a different interest, or work with a new instructor. This session we have mini-sessions in everything from screenwriting to set design and singing to social justice theatre. In [...]
Play-in-a-Day is an annual tradition at Centauri Arts Camp, going back 17 years. Campers are placed in theatre troupes and can choose whether to write, direct, act, design, write songs, dance, play music or choreograph. The writers create their one-act plays the night before, production meetings happen in the morning and by lunchtime everyone is [...]
Yesterday, we welcomed campers to camp from all across Canada and from countries far and near, including France, Mexico, Qatar, China, the USA and Antigua. It was a beautiful day – glorious sunshine, a light breeze and hot (but not scorching) temperatures. Campers spent an introductory period r in program, had a chance to get [...]