2020 Summer Camps Moving Online
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ASC welcomes guest instructors Faith Anaya, Chris James, and Shalisha Thomas to teach four of its 2020 summer camps. All of ASC’s 2020 summer camps will be he held online as ASC continues its social distancing protocols during the COVID-19 epidemic.
Camp programming Includes Slam Poetry, Cooking, arts, TheatRE, STEAM
Students code computer programs from scratch during ASC’s STEAM summer camp in 2019. The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas is moving its 2020 summer camps online.
The Arts & Science Center is moving its 2020 summer camps online. The move is to help keep students and staff safe while allowing ASC to continue to support and provide for the community during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.
Registration is open now, and the first camps begin Monday, June 15. Scholarships are available for those who qualify. Visit the Summer Camp page for full camp descriptions and registration.
“ASC’s remote instructions will allow campers to unlock their creativity when they join our virtual camps from home,” said Public Programs Coordinator Shakeelah Rahmaan.
The virtual camps — Art I & II, Theatre, Theatre Jr, Slam Poetry, CrEATe Lab, and STEAM — will be led online by talented instructors who will teach and guide campers in discussion, interactions, and project-based activities.
The camps are one week long, except for Theatre, which is two weeks. Each camp class is short to better suit young attention spans; each camp meets for an hour a day except for Theatre Jr, which is 30 minutes a day.
New camp instructors include Pine Bluff High School art teacher Shalisha Thomas, who is leading Art Camp I and Art Camp II. Thomas curates the annual Pine Bluff High School Art Exhibition at ASC, now on view in a virtual exhibition.
Spoken-word artist, educator, and arts community leader Chris James returns to ASC to lead a slam poetry camp for ages 10-17. James led free, open-to-the public slam poetry workshops at ASC in January and February, along with similar workshops for high school students. Like the workshops, the camp is made possible by an Arts in Education (AIE) After-School/Summer Residency grant from the Arkansas Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
CrEATe Lab , ASC’s nutritious cooking program that launched earlier this year, is being offered as a summer camp for ages 10-17. Faith Anaya and the staff of her cooking school Kids Cook! provide their food expertise. The program is made possible by grants from the Blue & You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas and the Pine Bluff Area Community Foundation, an affiliate of Arkansas Community Foundation.
