With the holidays approaching, gifts are on many people’s minds and I know that the vast majority of our campers and arts academy students are eager readers. They probably devour books like the Harry Potter series and the Hunger Games trilogy without any prompting. But how do you encourage a gifted young reader to look [...]
We are now accepting registrations for summer camp 2019! Choose from over 40 arts programs in Writing, Dance, Fine Art, Digital Art, Music, Musical Theatre, Stage Combat, Acting and ArtsQuest: Multi-Arts Adventures! Campers select an arts "major" to participate in for 4 hours daily, then also choose elective workshops each afternoon in arts, sports or [...]
Centauri Summer Arts Camp is ideally located just 1.5 hours from Toronto, and in the middle of the beautiful Niagara Region. Increasingly, we’re hear that families from further afield choose to combine their child’s camp experience with a family vacation. If you are thinking of staying nearby and enjoying some of what the region has [...]
Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with the actor Ely Henry, who was a camper with us from 2003-2008. Ely began his career as an stand up comedian, actor and writer in Toronto, before moving down to Los Angeles in 2012. Since then, he has had recurring roles on Suburgatory and Twisted, a lead [...]
Important Fall Dates 2018 Here are all the important dates for your diary! Monday 24 September Courses at the Centauri Arts Academy begin! Book space before this date! www.artsacademy.ca Friday 2 November Our 2018 website goes live! Choose your programs for next summer. centauriartscamp.com Saturday 17 November REGISTRATION OPENS FOR RETURNING CAMPERS FOR CAMP 2018 [...]
The Centauri Summer Arts Camp tour to England offered me more than I could have hoped for. When my parents and I first discussed the tour, I was so excited. England has always been somewhere I wanted to visit, and Centauri was a community I loved, filled with people that I never failed to get [...]
Festivals are very important at Centauri – not only because they allow campers a break from the daily schedule and a chance to have fun and be creative in a whole new way: festivals bond dorms and create community like nothing else. Yesterday was our Indian “Festival of Festivals” and it achieved all these things. [...]
It’s a special day at camp today, and everyone is abuzz with excitement. The monarchists have shockingly risen up against the president, and forced all the other citizens into hiding. What will happen next? We are midway through our second festival day of the session, The Democratic Republic of King. Unlike many of our other [...]
Campers on our leadership programs face a number of challenges each summer, one of the most daunting being the ‘Inspiration Challenge’. This is a speech to be given in front of the entire camp during lunch or flagpole, which inspires all other campers to think about something important and take action in some way. It’s [...]
Creating a bonded community at Centauri is as important to us as the arts programs we are known for. Young people flourish when they have a sense of belonging – the feeling that they matter to others, and their contribution is valued; the knowledge that they can be who they truly are, and that person [...]