Explore the art of children's theater in this fun and playful week-long camp! Students will engage in performance in a playful and low pressure format where the focus is on imagination and exploration as well as learning acting warm-ups and theater games to help spark the creative spirit and inspire confidence on the stage. Campers will work with our theater professionals to create a series of scenes and/or a short play with dialogue, singing, and dancing throughout the week, culminating in an end of the week performance for friends and family. If your child has ever wanted to try theater, or if conventional youth theater feels too high pressure, this is the perfect way for them to dive into theater arts in a developmentally appropriate, fun and easy way!

Join us for a weeklong unarmed stage combat intensive taught by a highly skilled professional with years of training! Students will learn principles of unarmed stage combat choreography, with a focus on technical execution and the character motivation underlying each hit. Every student will end the week demonstrating a brief fight set to a scene in a final showcase. This is a fantastic form of enrichment for theater kids & looks great on a theater resume, but also just fun for any teen interested in how fights are done on stage & film!

Join us for a week of fun, imagination & art for kids who love fairies! Campers will get to create their own fairy world through a variety of crafts, games, creative writing and art projects while making friends and playing make believe. Each day we’ll do a different fairy themed major project that campers get to take home with them and the week will end with a fairy themed costume tea party complete with fairy snacks. Each day starts with a creative drawing challenge and ends with a meet and greet with one of our 30+ live exotic animals!

Join us for a brand new camp for tweens & teens looking for new forms of creative expression! Fantastic for artists of all levels, journaling is a great way to document your life, develop art skills, and process thoughts, feelings and experiences. Each day students will learn a different technique to keeping a daily sketchbook. We will explore observational drawing and collage with found and collected materials. Students will also use their sketchbook to create a stand alone piece at the end of the week. Students can include writing if this is an interest of theirs as well as paints and colored pencils. The possibilities are endless and students can customize their experience to their interests and needs! Students will walk away with an understanding of a variety of methods of journaling to give them the skills needed to continue on their own!

Get a crash course in theater arts with this 2 week summer camp style drama intensive! Students will put on a vignette style play from start to finish in just 2 weeks. Learn acting skills, how to memorize lines effectively, explore both comedy and drama and experience the power of performing live on stage. This show consists of multiple short 10-15 minute plays that fit together to create one larger show. Informal auditions will take place on the first day of the program, and the rest of the 2 week experience will be acting exercises, scene rehearsals and a collaborative process of building the show, with a weekend of full scale performances on stage at The Santa Cruz Actors Theater at the end of the 2nd week. Everyone will be cast in at least one major role, some may also be cast in multiple roles to fill ensemble roles in certain shows. This is collaborative theater at its finest for students of all experience levels! A century's worth of sibling squabbles is boiled down into ten vignettes in this era-hopping tribute to family. Each short play explores a distinct facet of brother and sisterhood, from fights over who caused mom and dad to split (1985 - I'm Pretty Sure This Is Your Fault) to daring escape plots that only two sisters could pull off (1922 - Very Very Cold Feet). No matter the decade, audiences will see themselves in these ten distinct shorts about the undeniable bond between siblings through the ages.

Let the magic of the redwood forest inspire your creativity in this exciting new camp that combines art, imagination and nature appreciation! Explore the many ecosystems of the Henry Cowell State Park while learning about a variety of fantasy creatures and making art based on them: Build fairy houses, invent your own cryptids and more! Each day starts with a fantasy drawing warm up challenge, includes art, games and creative journaling through the lenses of mythology and lore, and ends with play time at the river!

Get a crash course in theater arts with this 2 week summer camp style drama intensive! Students will put on a vignette style play from start to finish in just 2 weeks. Learn acting skills, how to memorize lines effectively, explore both comedy and drama and experience the power of performing live on stage. This show consists of multiple short 10-15 minute plays that fit together to create one larger show. Informal auditions will take place on the first day of the program, and the rest of the 2 week experience will be acting exercises, scene rehearsals and a collaborative process of building the show, with a weekend of full scale performances on stage at The Santa Cruz Actors Theater at the end of the 2nd week. Everyone will be cast in at least one major role, some may also be cast in multiple roles to fill ensemble roles in certain shows. This is collaborative theater at its finest for students of all experience levels. A century's worth of sibling squabbles is boiled down into ten vignettes in this era-hopping tribute to family. Each short play explores a distinct facet of brother and sisterhood, from fights over who caused mom and dad to split (1985 - I'm Pretty Sure This Is Your Fault) to daring escape plots that only two sisters could pull off (1922 - Very Very Cold Feet). No matter the decade, audiences will see themselves in these ten distinct shorts about the undeniable bond between siblings through the ages!

Pokemon Art Camp is a fun-filled week of Pokemon art activities! Each camper will create a Pokeball Terrarium with their own Pokemon friend inside! Campers will be given Pokemon drawing challenges that inspire them to create their own unique Pokemon-themed artwork. By the end of the week the campers will have created their own Pokemon Gym, decided what type of trainer they will become and “captured'' different Pokemon in their Pokedex! At the end of each camp, students will get to meet a live animal from our studio!

Join us for an eco-friendly week of fun and learning for the end of summer in this new camp! Create arts and crafts using recycled materials, explore science experiments about sustainability and play games to understand concepts like climate change. Each day of camp will start with a creative drawing challenge, include time for free play, and will end with a meet and greet with a live animal from our studio!