with LA River Arts
WHEN: July 11-15/ 10am – 3pm
LOCATION: ART IN THE PARK
5568 Via Marisol Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Fun, discovery and camaraderie fill each day at LA River Arts Camp.
Welcoming ages 5 – 11
Register for one, two or all three weeks:
Registration is though LA River Arts
Location: 5568 Via Marisol, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Schedule:
10:00 camper start time (campers can be dropped off as early as 9:30)
12:30 lunch
3:30 camper end time – pick up 3:15-3:30 (campers picked up after 3:30 who are not enrolled in aftercare will be charged the daily aftercare rate).
AfterCare: Supervised care from 3:30 – 5:30pm each day for $150/week.
Financial Aid: Camp is for everyone! Families in need of financial aid please inquire with our Camp Director: camp@lariverarts.org
LA RIVER ARTS Camp at the beautiful and shady Hermon Park along the Arroyo Seco in NELA. Campers explore different ecologies and regenerative art strategies side-by-side with teaching artists to create art in collaboration with Nature, the River and the other humans and more-than-humans at the park.
For more information on the camp, please see below:
Our summer camp headquarters are at Art in the Park, a full-service community arts center that was built in the 1920s. It is a unique gem amongst the City of Los Angeles Rec & Parks facilities. It has a shaded veranda, two bathrooms, a music room, a project space and a community space — and is surrounded by mature sycamores! A large new outdoor play structure is there for supervised bursts of all-out monkey-business during snack times, lunch time and after care.
Camp days will include:
- Gathering and connection games as campers arrive and we get to know each other
- An excursion to the Arroyo to look for critters, learn native plant names and gather building supplies (salvageable, safe debris)
- Cleaning up our river treasures and working together to transform them into art
- Learning how to connect things together using minimal tools and biodegradable resources like rattan fibers
- Working in small groups to draw and write about what we sense and learn along the river
- Creating word banks to draw from for individual poetry books
- Drawing our discoveries as a way of close observation – then using these as part of our poetry books
- Book-making and assembly
- Movement and collective games
- Clean-up and settling/ reflecting on our daily discoveries
Pack a lunch, snacks, and don’t forget their water bottle!
QUESTIONS? Please contact camp@lariverarts.org