This summer we're thrilled to collaborate with Girls on the Go to bring a "Take My Word For It!" creative writing focus to 3 Berkeley camp sessions in July and August! Campers will be travelling with pencils in hand drawing their writing inspiration from their adventures.
Monday July 15: We will begin our morning with a writing workshop in Oakland. Afterward get ready to rock climb at the Great Western Power Company.
Tuesday July 16: First we’ll take a Precita Eyes Mural Tour in San Francisco. After we work up an appetite, we’ll enjoy some Papusas.
Wednesday July 17: Our second writing workshop for the week will take place in Berkeley then we’re off to San Franisco where we will eat lunch and have some ice-skating fun.
Thursday July 18: Swim Day at Lake Anza, Tilden Park, Berkeley. We will take an incredible hike from the bus stop down into the park.
Friday July 19: We will head to Playland-Not-At-The-Beach in El Cerrito for some carnival and arcade games. Then we will have our last writing workshop for the week in Berkeley.
Girls on the Go offers field trip camps in the Bay Area camp where girls can explore, learn, and share in a fun, respectful environment. Campers learn about travelling by bus and BART and see a variety of Bay Area locations!
June 18th - June 22nd (1 week) M-F, 9:00-12:15, Kids ages 8 - 12
We're going to re-imagine beloved fairytales using food as a central theme. Of course, to do that we'll be eating food and learning to use metaphor, simile and other writing tools to write about all things edible.
Location: 18 Reasons, 3674 18th Street, in the Misson District
Cost: $250 per camper, 10% discount to children of 18 Reasons members, 10% off for each sibling registrant. Tuition includes a journal and pen and snacks.
Parents who want to register for Piedmont camps can do so through their online catalogue at http://www.ci.piedmont.ca.us/recreation/catalog.shtml * Tuition includes a journal and pen, snacks and for full day camps, art materials.
* Please note, the catalogue prices are not correct. When you click into their registration software you'll see the correct prices.
Do you have an appetite for writing? Then come join us for Peanut Butter and the Pen – our unique food writing class for kids. We'll taste food, read excerpts from some of literature's greatest writing in praise of food, and explore tantalizing ways to describe all things edible. Then we'll write love letters to our favorite foods, food mysteries and more!
What is to become of the hand written letter? We’ll practice the (almost lost) art of letter writing, make mail art, have fun with rubber-stamping and then mail our creations to strange and distant lands.
Come in with a notebook, a pencil and your imagination and leave with an original children’s book. We’ll learn the building blocks for creating an engaging story for younger readers (K – 2), and after exploring different illustration techniques, create original illustrations.
Brushing up on writing mechanics should never be boring! Take our Dangling Modifier Dare and join our Participle Parade. Our take on commas and conjunctions will tickle your funny bone and leave you wanting more!
Using art and creative writing we'll explore flight – flights of fancy, the flight of the bumble bee, the first airplane flight, space flight, the flight of Cupid’s arrow, and more. Come fly with us!
What is our camp day like?
Half day camps:
We'll spend each day with paper and pencil, immersing ourselves in words centered around the camp theme. Our writing activities are designed to spark kids' imaginations and include solo and collaborative writing projects. Camp culminates in a reading and art exhibit for parents and friends at the end of the week. Plus, we'll read writing by well-known authors, edit, painting, snack, erase, gab, read stories, as well as admire and share our work.
Full day camps:
We'll spend half of each day with paper and pencil, immersing ourselves in words centered around the camp theme. Our writing activities are designed to spark kids' imaginations and include solo and collaborative writing projects. The other half of the day we'll interpret that same theme using visual art, exploring a range of mediums. Camp culminates in a reading and art exhibit for parents and friends at the end of the week.
Plus, we'll read writing by well-known authors, look at art by famous artists and have fun drawing, writing, editing, painting, snacking, erasing, gabbing, reading stories, as well as admiring and sharing our work.
Teaching art for our full day camps this summer are two artists, Angela Baker, and Laurie Croft.
Angela has a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Columbus College of Art and Design, with an emphasis in painting and drawing. Since 2001 Angela has been teaching both in-school and after school visual art classes with established San Francisco arts organizations such as Leap…imagination in Learning, ArtSpan and the San Francisco Arts Education Project. Angela is also an exhibiting painter whose work has been showcased in group and solo shows in Budapest, San Francisco and New York.
Laurie is an artist and art instructor at MOCHA (Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland) teaching classroom field trips and off-site Community Workshops curriculum and craft projects based on California Visual Arts standards. She was the designer of Flying Colors Ceramics sold nationally and commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum to produce jewelry based on their permanent collection. Laurie has a BFA in painting from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and is currently taking Early Childhood Development classes at Merritt College.
Creative writing will be taught by our wonderful instructors. Their bios are here.
INFO ON OUR CREATIVE WRITING & ART SUMMER CAMPS 2012
“Take My Word For It!” is offering our East Bay summer camps through Piedmont Parks and Rec.* this year.
We are currently working out additional locations in the East Bay as well as San Francisco, so please stay tuned!
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*Parents who want to register for Piedmont camps can do so through their online catalogue at http://www.ci.piedmont.ca.us/recreation/catalog.shtml. Their 2012 catalogue will be available soon.
Here’s a preview of our Creative Writing Camp Adventures
Do you have an appetite for writing? Then come join us for Peanut Butter and the Pen – our unique food writing class for kids. We’ll taste food, read excerpts from some of literature’s greatest writing in praise of food, and explore tantalizing ways to describe all things edible. Then we’ll write love letters to our favorite foods, food mysteries and more!
Brushing up on writing mechanics should never be boring! Take our Dangling Modifier Dare and join our Participle Parade. Our take on commas and conjunctions will tickle your funny bone and leave you wanting more!
What is to become of the hand written letter? We’ll practice the (almost lost) art of letter writing, make mail art, have fun with rubber-stamping and then mail our creations to strange and distant lands.
Using art and creative writing we’ll explore flight – flights of fancy, the flight of the bumble bee, the first airplane flight, space flight, the flight of Cupid’s arrow, and more. Come fly with us!
Come in with a notebook, a pencil and your imagination and leave with an original children’s book. We’ll learn the building blocks for creating an engaging story for younger readers (K – 2), and after exploring different illustration techniques, create original illustrations.
Ever wonder how writers get their ideas? In this workshop we’ll explore the art of found inspiration. We’re going to scavenge for words, collect phrases, and hunt for hidden ideas in unusual places. We’ll create original poems and stories using what we’ve collected. Using found and recycled materials we’ll also make art that transforms trash into treasure!
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Camps at Classroom Matters, 2436 Sacramento St. in Berkeley
July 30 - August 3 (1 week) M-F, 9:00-4:00 Kids ages 8 - 12
What is to become of the hand written letter? We’ll practice the (almost lost) art of letter writing, make mail art, have fun with rubber-stamping and then mail our creations to strange and distant lands.
Come in with a notebook, a pencil and your imagination and leave with an original children’s book. We’ll learn the building blocks for creating an engaging story for younger readers (K – 2), and after exploring different illustration techniques, create original illustrations.
Cost: $350 per camper for 9 am - 4 pm. After- care until 5pm for $25 extra per week. Tuition includes a journal and pen, snacks and art materials.
There have been numerous inquiries about our summer camp schedule. We are busy firming up all of the details so it's in the works and we will have specific details available soon.
In the meantime, please send an e-mail to admin@takemywordforit.net indicating:
- the name of your child
- his or her age
- whether you are interested in our East Bay or San Francisco-based camps
- what time frame and length of camp you're looking for (1st week of July, all day; third week of June, 1/2 day, etc.)
"TAKE MY WORD FOR IT!" Creative Writing & Art Summer Camp 2010
Paper
& Palette: Exploring your writer and artist self
Do you love to write? (or
maybe you would like writing more if you could just come up with some cool
ideas?) Do you love to make art?
(or maybe you would
like art more if you could learn to use some new materials?)
Come join us this
summer and explore your writer and artist self!
This
year we're in the
East Bay and in San Francisco!
What we'll be up to:
We'll spend half of
each day with paper and pencil, immersing ourselves in words. The other half of
the day we'll work with pastels, charcoals, watercolors (and more!), immersing
ourselves in visual art.
Plus, we'll read writing by well-known authors, look at art by famous artists
and have fun drawing, writing, editing, painting, snacking, erasing, gabbing,
reading stories, as well as admiring and sharing our work.
When &
Where ?
East
Bay
Camp will be held
at the spacious and beautiful Classroom Matters,
a tutoring center
in Berkeley, 2436 Sacramento Street (at Dwight).
Who?
Our East Bay camp
is an all-girl camp. Campers should be going into 3rd, 4th and 5th grade in
Fall 2010.
2010
East Bay Sessions
(All camp days are
from 9 am - 4 pm.)
SESSION A (2 weeks)
June 21- July 2
SESSION B (1 week)
July 5 - July 9
SESSION C (2 weeks)
July 12 - 23
San
Francisco
Who?
Our San Francisco
camp is for boys and girls into 3rd, 4th and 5th grade in Fall 2010.
Where & When?
Camp will be held
at the spacious and beautiful CCE Painting Studio, in the Glen Park
neighborhood of San Francisco.
2010
San Francisco Sessions
Half - day sessions
are 2 - 5:30 Full day session is from 9 - 4.
SESSION A (1
week, half-day) June 21st – 25th
SESSION B (1 week,
full-day) June 28th – July 2nd
SESSION C (1 week,
half-day) July 5th – July 9th
How much?
East
Bay Sessions A and C $650. per 2 week, full-day session,
plus a $20
materials fee, $670. total
Session B $325. for 1 week, full day session plus a $20 materials fee, $345.
total
Teaching art this
summer is artist,Angela Baker, who has a Bachelor of Fine Art from the
Columbus College of Art and Design, with an emphasis in painting and drawing.
Since 2001 Angela has been teaching both in-school and after school visual art
classes with established San Francisco arts organizations such as
Leap…imagination in Learning, ArtSpan and the San Francisco Arts Education
Project. Angela
is also an exhibiting painter whose work has been showcased in group and solo
shows in Budapest, San Francisco and New York.
Teaching writing this summer is Sondra Hall, the founder and
director of "Take My Word For It!" Sondra designed an innovative
curriculum to teach creative writing to kids in after school programs and in
community settings. "Take My Word For It!" 's program is now in seven
schools in the San Francisco Bay area.
To Register: Click here to request a registration
form. Discounts: Come to camp with a friend or a sibling and you each receive
10% off!
Sign up a pair of campers at the same time, and pay in full
by May 1, 2010 and each camper receives 10% offthe camp
fee. (The materials fee stays the same.)
Who we are:“Take My Word
For It!" is a Bay area creative writing program that encourages
kids to have a grand old time, as well as feel safe and supported while they
grow as writers. We have been leading students onword
expeditions for five years in after school programs and community settings.
Kids have been writing with us at Los Perales; Bay Farm; Thornhill, Chabot and
Kaiser Elementary in the East Bay, and Miraloma Elementary in San Francisco. We
have also been turning kids on to writing at 826 Valencia; Book Passage; 18
Reasons and Classroom Matters.
In
2010 we began teaching women seeking refuge from homelessness and domestic
violence at Mary Elizabeth Inn, in San Francisco.
"Take My Word For
It!"was founded
by Sondra Freundlich-Hall, a writer and parent who believes in the power of the
written word to transform. You can reach her at sondra@takemywordforit.net.
