Summer 2023 | Ages 5-12 | June 20 - July 28 | 8:30 - 5:30 | View Park, Los Angeles
2023 Curriculum & Activity Overview
1. Black Oral Traditions | Tue June 20 - Fri Jun 23
Project: Poetry and Hip-Hop Performance
(Note: Mon June 19 is a federal holiday)
- Spoken Word artist-in-residence
- Hearing and learning poetry, rap, and short stories
- Learning strategies for dynamic communication and empathy
- Collaborating to memorize Black-authored poems
- Collaborating to create student-authored poems
- Learning corresponding gestures and movement
- Skill Development: public speaking
- Making/designing bespoke T-shirts
2. Chocolate Cities | Mon June 26 - Fri Jun 30
Project: Urban Design Physical Model
- Collaborating to build a city (foam board structures)
- Each student contributes 2 structures
- Learning about historic Chocolate Cities
- Learning about Black elected city officials
- Creating candidates, holding elections, and voting for city officials
- Playing the “circulate the dollar game”
- Learning how to start a business
- Field trip to visit local Black businesses
3. Music & Murals | Mon July 3, Wed 5 - Fri 7
Project: Street Dance, Graffiti, and Public Art
- Visual artist-in-residence
- Dance artist-in-residence
- Listening to and learning about Black music genres over time
- Learning social dances that correspond to respective music styles
- Performing dance routines
- Participating in dance lines / battles
- Contributing to sections of a class mural
- Field Trip to see Los Angeles murals
4. Fables and Legends | Mon July 10 - Fri July 14
Project: Theatrical Production
- Theater / Dance artist-in-residence
- Hearing and learning African fables & Black-authored short stories
- Adapting and performing stories for staged presentation
- Creating masks and costumes
- Learning choreography / movement / staging / blocking
- Emphasis on ethics and empathy
- Soft skill development: kindness and conflict resolution
5. Africa Week | Mon July 17 - Fri 21
Project: Visual Art and Book Making
- Visual artist-in-residence
- Each day, each student pairs with a peer to research an African country
- Listening to music specific to each country or region
- Viewing fabrics and fashion specific to each country or region
- Creating original art elements to contribute to a collage for that country
- Compiling student art into a single book on Africa
- Original student art available for auction, proceeds to camp
6. Rhythm and Resistance | Mon July 24 - Fri July 28
Project: Parades and Protest
- Music artist-in-residence
- Learning and practicing Black choral/choir music and embodied percussion
- Learning and practicing Freedom Songs
- Hearing and participating in a drum circle
- Researching contemporary causes for equity and equality
- Creating signs and banners to march for respective causes
- Learning about public expressions of Black joy (ie: parades)
- Learning about marches for justice over time
- Walkable Field trip / Parade to Leimert Park with banners and signs
"Still I Rise"
by Maya Angelou
Register and Enroll for Summer 2023
1. Register
2. Payment / Plan
2. Payment / Plan
Get started with one $25 fee per family. We will add each child as an applicant and invite your family to enroll. Registration is nonrefundable.
2. Payment / Plan
2. Payment / Plan
2. Payment / Plan
You can pay camp fees upfront (*financing available), or with customized installments, and/or apply for financial aid.
3. Enroll
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3. Enroll
Complete family contact and enrollment forms using Brightwheel by June 1, 2023.
Note: Enrollment is only guaranteed with payment or an active payment plan while spaces remain.
Camp Fees
Fees & Payment Schedule
The weekly tuition fee per child is $300. After May 26, sibling discounts are only available as scholarships and considered on a case by case basis. We will generate invoices upon registration. Tuition is due 2 weeks before each session.
Full Payment / Financing
The registration fee is waived or credited for families who pay-in-full, choose a financing, or begin a payment plan by May 26th.
*Financing options through Affirm or Klarna are displayed at checkout. Those who choose a financing option at checkout will have completed all payments to the Camp and will make payments directly to the financing processor.
Scholarships
Families can indicate if they would like to apply for a scholarship with the registration form. We expect to raise funds through the month of May and award scholarships in the order that requests have been made.
Payment-in-Full and Financing
Fundraising Campaign Begins in May
This year we will be fundraising with a fiscal sponsor with 501(c)3 status to provide scholarships and to fund artists-in-residence. If you are interested in fundraising updates please join the mailing list.
Ways to Help
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Art Supplies and Field Trips for 1 Student
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1 Week Enrollment for 1 Student
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6 weeks enrollment for 1 Student
Founder
Anndretta Lyle Wilson, PhD
Dr. Wilson is an assistant professor of Black Feminisms and Community Engagement at California State University, East Bay.
She completed her doctoral work at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the department of Theater, Film and Television earning her degree in Performance Studies with an emphasis in African Diaspora studies.
She is completing a book manuscript that traces transnational song as labor in the life of Marion Williams, a US State Department performer and Kennedy Center Honoree.
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