Camp Overview
Camp Overview
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CAMP OVERVIEW
CAMP OVERVIEW
*Rosemont Community Interfaith Coalition has planned five interactive weeks of arts and character-building activities for rising 3rd-6th graders* this summer. The camp will meet Monday-Thursday** July 10-August 10 at Katherine Johnson Global Academy in the Rosemont Neighborhood. Children will all build their character and self-esteem by strengthening their virtues, expressing themselves through arts and activities that reinforce cooperation and help them learn how to improving our communities. In addition, all children will benefit from learning about diverse ancient and recent spiritual resources and principles critical to becoming a source of positivity. Interactions with local youth and adult artists and artivists (art + activism) who will share their talents skills from creative writing and drama to music and crafts, participate in field trips, master classes and hands-on artwork. Our program will cultivate the capacity of children and youth to be agents of change for themselves and in their communities. Our combination of artmaking, cultural learning, service and FUN will promote self-confidence, self-regulation, love for our common African heritage, acceptance of differences, peaceful and creative problem-solving skills and leadership skills.
* Approximately ages 8 - 12
**Baltimore City Public School Sites are only available for use 4 days per week.
Registration
Registration
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Dates
Dates
Monday-Thursday July 10-August 10
NOTE: Baltimore City School Facilities are closed on Fridays
Location:
Location:
Katherine Johnson Global Academy
1101 Braddish Avenue
Baltimore, MD, 21216
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Arts, Artivism and Art Studios
Arts, Artivism and Art Studios
Each Day, Children will have the opportunity to use the arts to express the weekly theme and ideas discussed each morning. Then they will have two Art Studios where they can focus on different arts activities. Every week, Artists and Activists, often youth and young adults, will share their talents and stories, sometimes guiding them in art-making. Activities selected that use beautiful, natural materials to help remind us to care for our natural resources and reduce waste and pollution.
We are recruiting Youthworks participants who love the arts and want to work in a happy, nurturing environment for their summer work experience. If you know of young artists and art lovers participating in Youthworks, encourage them to apply to be connected with our camp.
Schedule Overview
Schedule Overview
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Week One
Week One
During the first week, staff and campers will participate in fun getting to know you exercises and learn about peaceful communication through the Virtues Project (tm) Strategies, develop camp agreements, bond with their pods (5 young people working with a Youthworker weekly) and groups (20 young people) guided by an adult and older Youthworker serving as co-coordintors to help guide the younger Youthworkers and their pods.
Weekly Theme: "I"
Our theme for week focuses on ourselves, what we need to do be be committed to peace, helping others, loving ourselves and knowing outselves. This ifts with the training that each camper and staff will receive, learning the language of virtues and how to guide, compliment, and solve disagreements without violence and harm, whether physical, verbal or psychological.
Weeks Two through Five
Weeks Two through Five
During the next four weeks, young people focus on the remaining four themes:
Week 2: You -- we will talk about friendliness, respect, honoring one another and address the impact of teasing, bullying and backbiting on peaceful interactions.
Week 3: We -- we will focus on how to build healthy relationships with family, friends and in the future, with colleagues, coworkers, roommates and partners. We'll explore acceptance, tolerance, unity and oneness and consider issues around consent and responsibility, trustworthiness and fidelity: my word is bond!
Week 4: Neighborhood -- we will think and learn about ways to strengthen the places where we live and consider through the arts how to build our communities.
Week 5: World -- we will discuss humanity's needs, our global connectedness, teh environment and our individual and collective power to make the world a better place.
Knowing Ourselves: Honoring our African Cultural Origins
Knowing Ourselves: Honoring our African Cultural Origins
We live in a society which has embedded discord and conflict over peacefulness and harmony. African Americans have born the brunt of demonization and those same tools are used to discount our brothers and sisters around the world of all backgrounds. In Rosemont, where the population is 99% African American, it is important that the unified faith practitioners remind our children that they are loved, full of honor, nobility and creative potential. Their skin, hair and features are beautiful, their potential enhanced, not diminished by their origins, and our collective oneness is an invitation to proudly contribute all that we are to society. This is information all of our children in all of our communities, cultures and appearances need to know, but it is life-giving to those who are classified as Black...and Brown and Indigenous. Our camp will uplift the rich heritage that comes with their diverse cultures and colors, from ebony to cream.
Character Development and Spiritual Nurture
Character Development and Spiritual Nurture
Image copyright the Virtues Project International Association
Instrumental Music
Dance
Visual Arts
Hand Crafts
Drama
Creative Writing
Singing
Artivism
And We desire to show favour to those who were brought low in the land, and to make them spiritual leaders among men, and to make of them Our heirs. -- HHPM, Qur’an 28:5
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