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 [...]
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 [...]
We now have almost all our staff for this coming summer, but we are still looking to hire for the following two positions: Health Care Assistant This 8-week live-in position would ideally suit a student nurse with a love of summer camp! The candidate will spend half their time assisting our camp nurse in the [...]
This annual festival is one of the most-anticipated of our summer camp calendar, and this year it was held in session 3. Campers are arranged into theatre troupes, with everyone choosing whether they act, write, direct, design, dance, choreograph, sing, write music or play instruments. The entire day is led by our campers with staff [...]
Have you ever wondered what kinds of workshops our campers choose from in the afternoons? If so, read on! Our workshops are always announced at breakfast, with the staff members running them offering a 10 second pitch or demonstration. Campers hand in a first and second choice workshop from a list of 10-12 options. Most [...]