Conservatory Summer Camps
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Connecting and Creating, On Screen and Off
Choose your own adventure this summer and explore performing arts from every angle! Take charge of your creativity and work with friends to create, design and perform in our virtual summer camps!
All camps include collaborative "on screen" work with peers and professional Teaching Artists, as well as project-based work "off screen."
Registration opens Friday, June 5
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Week 3: July 20-24
Morning Program
Choreographers Workshop
Take your dance to the next level! Beginners and advanced dancers will start each day with dance and craft their own choreography with the guidance of professionals. This camp meets M-F from 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and runs for one week, from July 20 - 24.
Ages: 13-18
Tuition: $175
Afternoon Program
Improv Be Like...
Grow your improv skills through fun games and activities! Students will practice thinking on their feet, developing characters and saying yes. The last day will conclude with students showing off some of their favorite games. This camp meets M-F from 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. and runs for one week, July 20 - 24.
Ages: 10-18
Tuition: $160
Week 4: July 27-31
Power Play
Discover how music and theater can advance social justice. Drawing from the Civil Rights Legacy Tour, you will create work that gives voice to your convictions! This camp meets M-F from 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. and runs for one week, July 27 - 31.
Ages: 13-18
Tuition: $160
Week 5: August 3-7
Morning Program
Based on a True Story
Students will create theatrical work based on their own unique experiences and real life stories! This camp meets M-F from 9:30 a.m. - 12:00p.m. and runs for one week, from August 3 - 7.
Ages: 10-18
Tuition: $175
Afternoon Program
Costume Design Mystery Basket!
The costume designer's version of Chopped: Showcase your work as you create unique costumes from a mystery basket of materials each day! Materials will be supplied for all students in advance. This camp meets M-F from 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. and runs for one week, August 3 - 7.
Ages: 13-18
Tuition: $160
Week 6: August 10-14
Morning Program
Based on a True Story
A second section of this program in which students create theatrical work based on their own unique experiences and real life stories! This camp meets M-F from 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and runs for one week, from August 10 - 14.
Ages: 10-18
Tuition: $175
Afternoon Program
Shadow Puppet Theater
Build your own shadow puppets, learn how to activate them, light them and tell stories with them. Materials will be supplied for all students to pick up in advance! This camp meets M-F from 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. and runs for one week, August 10 - 14.
Ages: 10-18
Tuition: $160
In addition to our upcoming Conservatory Camps,Tacoma Arts Live Teaching Artists are proudly serving our community by teaching in Tacoma Public Schools’ Emergency Day Camps. These innovative day camps provide high-quality care and learning for children of essential frontline workers, including hospital staff, first responders, grocery and postal workers, so that their parents can continue to go to work and keep our community safe and strong. Our Teaching Artists are honored to lead arts instruction that is infused with social-emotional learning at three Emergency Day Camp sites.
Further Emergency Day Camp information can be found here
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