Dr. Anndretta's Black Arts & Performance Summer Day Camp

Overview

BLACK ARTS CAMP is a seven-week full-day program with a Black Studies curriculum designed for students in grades Kindergarten through fifth grade. The program centers daily art-making and performance practice. Each Friday, we present what we learned to our families and end the week with a festive celebration.

Our Activities

Each day students work on art and performance projects that help them to learn and understand Black Studies concepts. Each week there is a different thematic focus across the areas of Black Oral Traditions, Chocolate Cities, Music & Murals, African Fables and Black American Legends, Africa Week, and Civil Resistance. The curriculum channels art and performance to help students learn about historical success over adversity, the wealth and richness of the African diaspora, and contemporary tools for building and maintaining our communities.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT

At the conclusion of each week, students present what they created and what they learned to an audience of their family members.

Founder

Anndretta Lyle Wilson, PhD

Dr. Wilson is a tenured associate professor of Black Studies at California State University, East Bay.

She completed her doctoral work at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the School 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.