Welcome to Summer Fun in the Arts at HCA!
At HCA, we are deeply committed to providing accessible and engaging art experiences for all children. Our artist-instructors are here not only to teach, but to help students build skills in teamwork, problem solving, and creative thinking.
This year, we are excited to offer families both full and half-day programs that you can mix and match to design your own week of Summer Fun to allow for more exploration of various art forms, or complement other activities. Choose a schedule that works best for you and your family, including single and multi-week options.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
Please refer to our website for a complete list of guidelines for parents/guardians.
LOCATIONS
We have two locations, 98 Hayden Rowe Street and 34 Hayden Rowe Street. Please see online class listings for location details. We will be offering a free walking service for anyone 5th Grade or younger, led by our volunteers for those who sign up for full-day options at our two locations, 98 and 34 Hayden Rowe, a little over ½ mile apart. Students will have time for a supervised lunch at 98 Hayden Rowe between programs.
FOOD & BEVERAGE GUIDELINES
All participants must bring their own beverages, as well as NUT-FREE snacks, and lunch. Supervised lunch/recess is included for full-day participants, who must also bring two snacks. Half-day children should bring at least one snack.
REGISTRATIONS
Please register online at hopartscenter.org, and answer all of the registration questions. Reminders are sent out the Wednesday before for classes starting the following week.
FINANCIAL AID
The Hopkinton Center for the Arts believes the arts are for everyone and thanks to the generosity of the Dora Kishibay Garabedian Scholarship Fund and individual donations to our scholarship fund we are able to assist children, teens, and adults who might not otherwise be able to afford classes. Need-based scholarships are available for HCA classes to residents of Hopkinton and surrounding MetroWest communities. Assistance is awarded on the basis of demonstrated need, motivation, and potential benefit to the student. Please visit our website www. HopArtsCenter.org and fill out our online scholarship form.
WAIVERS
I understand there is a certain amount of reasonable risk of minor injury associated with this program and do not hold the Hopkinton Center of the Arts, Enter Stage Left Theater, or the Town of Hopkinton responsible for any such injuries. A detailed waiver statement available upon registration.
REFUND POLICY
If you wish to cancel a registration: Refunds of program fees will be offered (less a $50 cancellation fee) until May 31st of the current year. No refunds will be given if the cancellation request occurs after May 31st. All cancellation requests must be submitted in writing via email to the Administration Office at info@ hopartscenter.org.
Switching Summer Program weeks:
A $25 switch fee will be accessed for patrons who request to switch the registration of a summer program to a different week (when space allows).
CODE OF CONDUCT
The Hopkinton Center for the Arts is committed to fostering an environment that is free of racism, discrimination, and harassment.
All individuals are treated with respect and dignity, contribute fully, and have equal opportunities.
All persons working or associating with our community of HCA are expected to uphold and abide by this Code of Conduct. All participants are expected to follow the rules established for the safety of all other participants in the program. Your cooperation and support help ensure that everyone has a safe and fun experience. If a participant is unable to meet established behavior expectations, HCA staff will follow procedures outlined on the website, and communicate with both the participant and with a parent/ guardian. The full code of conduct can be found on our website.
SUMMER FUN IN THE ARTS TEEN VOLUNTEER PROGRAM!
We are looking for those interested in working with youth and gaining leadership and teamwork skills to create a vibrant summer community through facilitating fun art activities, games, and an end of the week performance! Partial and full day volunteers are needed. This program is open to rising 9th graders or higher. Apply by April 1, 2025 online. No parent inquiries please. Click Here to Apply.
CLAY CREATIONS: HANDBUILDING
HCA Ceramics Studio:
34 Hayden Rowe Street Suite 304
Register for a full-day with other option at 98 Hayden Rowe and a free walk-up service will be provided for those 5th grade and lower.
Grades 3 to 6 | 12:30 to 3 p.m.
Tuition: $315 | Insider Plus: $299.25
Instructors: Kim Lopes (weeks 1–4)
Cheska Komissar (Weeks 5 & 6)
Use your imagination and get your hands dirty with clay! We’ll make functional and fun objects by learning hand-building techniques, including slab, coil, and pinching. Everyone will get the chance to make and decorate items of their own design that will be glazed and fired.*
Week 1: June 30–July 3 (Mon–Thurs)
Week 2: July 7–July 11
Week 3: July 14–July 18
Week 4: July 21–July 25
Week 5: July 28–August 1
Week 6: August 4–August 8
WHEEL THROWING FOUNDATIONS
Grades 7 to 12 | 9:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Tuition: $315 | Insider Plus: $299.25
Instructor: Mary Lou McKeen
Get your hands dirty in this hands-on week of pottery! Beginners will explore wheel-throwing skills such as wedging clay, centering, forming vessels, and glazing; more experienced potters will focus on making complex forms. Everyone will work on creating functional pottery forms and learn about working in the HCA’s Ceramics Studio.*
Week 2: July 7–July 11
Week 4: July 21–July 25
Week 6: August 4–August 8
TEEN WHEEL THROWING: ALL LEVELS
Grades 9 to 12 | 9 a.m. to 12 Noon
Tuition: $625 | Insider Plus: $593.75
Instructor: Hana Reilly
*Students will be notified when finished work is ready for pick-up (usually 4 to 6 weeks after class). Week 1 tuition is prorated for a 4-day week.
This mixed-level class provides inspiration and community as everyone receives instruction based on skill level. Beginners will learn basic techniques such as wedging clay, centering, forming vessels, and glazing, while more experienced potters will work on more advanced forms and hone in on their styles.*
Thursdays | July 10 to August 28
HCA Dance Studio: 34 Hayden Rowe Street Suite 302
Register for a full-day with other option at 98 Hayden Rowe and a free walk-up service will be provided for those 5th grade and lower.
DANCE ADVENTURE:
STORY TO STAGE
12:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Tuition: $275 | Insider Plus: $261.25
Instructor: HCA Dance Instructors
For kids who love dance, music, acting and crafts! We’ll celebrate beloved stories as we learn how to perform the story through dance set to music. Explore musical theater inspired jazz, ballet, hip hop, crafts, and games that explore acting and improvisation. The week will inspire an appreciation for dance and end in an informal performance for family and friends to attend.
No dance experience required for grades K to 2, weeks 1 and 4. Weeks 5 and 6 are designed for grades 3 to 6 with experience. Focus will be on ballet, jazz, hip-hop and more!
Week 1: June 30–July 3 (Mon–Thurs) (K to 2)
Week 4: July 21–July 25 (K to 2)
Week 5: July 28–August 1 (Grades 3 to 6)
Week 6: August 4–August 8 (Grades 3 to 6)
DANCE WORKSHOP
Grades 7 to 12 | 12:30 to 5:30 p.m.
One Week: Tuition: $460 | Insider Plus: $437
Both Weeks: Tuition: $874 | Insider Plus: $830.30
Instructor: HCA Dance Instructors
Spend your afternoon immersed in dance with lessons in ballet, pointe/pre pointe, jazz, contemporary, character, hip hop, conditioning, Thai bodywork, anatomy for dancers, choreography and more. We’ll focus on technique, artistry, and expression as we learn repertoire and experiment with student choreography. Come explore dance in a fun and welcoming environment. This is designed as a two-week program, but you may opt to participate in just one week.
Week 2: July 7–July 11
Week 3: July 14–July 18
CHOREOGRAPHERS WORKSHOP
Grades 6 to 12 | 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Tuition: $460 | Insider Plus: $437
Instructor: HCA Dance Instructors
Week 1 tuition is prorated for a 4-day week.
Calling all movers interested in creating a choreographic production as well as movers interested in enhancing their artistry and ability to collaborate as a performer! The week will combine a variety of approaches to dance making and provide a range of opportunities to practice skills by crafting dance in solo and group forms, both in studio and site specific. We’ll also have lessons in lighting and costume design that will enhance your understanding the contributions these forms bring to productions. Desiging choreography will also serve as to develop project management and collaborative skills. Whether you are prepapring pieces of choreography for college, extracurricular programming submissions, working to build their portfolio, or simply looking to explore a creative zeal, this weeklong workshop is for you.
Week 7: August 11–August 15
LITTLE ARTISTS: MUSIC, MOVEMENT & CRAFTS
Ages 4 and 5 | 9 to 11 a.m.
Tuition: $275 | Insider Plus: $261.25
Instructors: Zoë Stewart & Megann Filios
Explore the art of music through books, movement, songs, and crafting! We’ll play imaginative games while learning rhythmic rhymes, tongue twisters, and making silly sounds. Through instrument play we’ll have the opportunity to touch a variety of musical instrument families including strings, percussion, and more!
Week 2: July 7–July 11
Week 4: July 21–July 25
LITTLE ACTORS: STORY, DRAMA & MOVEMENT
Ages 4 and 5 | 9 to 11 a.m.
Tuition: $275 | Insider Plus: $261.25
Explore the art of theater and music through books, movement, games, and crafting! We’ll play drama and imaginative games while learning how to act out a story. Based on the interest of the group, we’ll work together to act out scenes inspired by a favorite theme including animals or Disney, picking songs to dance to and characters to pretend to be. On the last day of the week, we’ll perform what we’ve been working on for our families and friends.
Week 1: June 30–July 3 (Mon–Thurs) (Instructor: Katie Venard)
Week 3: July 14–July 18
Week 5: July 28–August 1
Week 6: August 4–August 8 (Instructor: Katie Venard)
MUSICAL THEATER PERFORMERS
Grades 1 and 2 | 12:15 to 3 p.m.
Tuition: $275| Insider Plus: $261.25
Week 1 tuition is prorated for a 4-day week.
Discover your inner performer and step into the spotlight in this interactive theatre experience! Through fun drama games, imagination, and activities, we’ll learn iconic songs and scenes from the chosen play each week as we explore the basics of acting and prepare final short productions for the end of the week!
Week 1: June 30–July 3 (Mon–Thurs)
The Many Moods of Inside Out (Instructor: Katie Venard)
Week 2: July 7–July 11 | Little Mermaid (Instructor: Zoë Stewart)
Week 3: July 14–July 18 | Jungle Book
Week 4: July 21–July 25 | Peter Pan (Instructor: Zoë Stewart)
Week 5: July 28–August 1 | Snow White
Week 6: August 4–August 8 | Moana (Instructor: Katie Venard)
MIDDLE SCHOOL INTENSIVE: YOU’RE GOING TO BE POPULAR
Grades 6 to 9 | 3:30 to 6 p.m.
Tuition: $500 | Insider Plus: $475
Instructor: Alyssa Surette
This theater arts intensive program is designed to engage your performing artists in training that grows their enthusiasm, talent, and interest in theater arts. Instructed by artists and educators with first-hand experience, our intensive programming includes in-depth training in acting, dance, music, voice and movement, audition etiquette, and performance. In the final week, students will perform the showcase and receive individualized feedback from a Broadway guest artist.
This intensive program will feature songs and scenes from Stephen Schwartz, (Wicked, Godspell, Pippin, Pocohantas, Children of Eden). It concludes with a performance showcase featuring the participants’ talents and growth.
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
Weeks 2, 3 & 4: July 14–July 30
SOLD OUT
Public Performance: Friday August 1, 2025
JUNIOR SUMMERSTOCK
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Grades 4 to 8 | 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Tuition: $1000 | Insider Plus: $950
Instructors: Alyssa Surrette
Join Alice on her musical adventure through Wonderland as she encounters many oddities in this two-week intensive musical theater offering. Participants receive music and dance instruction and learn and reinforce basic acting skills, stagecraft, and cooperation/team-building experiences. Beginners and more experienced performers are all welcome!
Week 1: June 30–July 3
Week 2: July 7–11
TWO public performances on Sat., July 12 12 Noon and 2:30 p.m.
FROZEN JR.
Grades 2 to 5 | 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Tuition: $1100 | Insider Plus: $1045
Instructors: Emily Vincent
Join Elsa and friends on their musical adventure through Arendelle as they encounter magic and adventure in this twoweek intensive musical theater offering. Participants receive music and dance instruction and learn and reinforce basic acting skills, stagecraft, and cooperation/ team-building experiences. Beginners and more experienced performers are all welcome!
Week 3: July 14–July 18
Week 4: July 21–July 25
TWO public performances on Sat., July 26 12 Noon and 2:30 p.m.
SHOW IN A WEEK
DISNEY CLASSICS
Grades 3 to 5 | 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Tuition: $550 | Insider Plus: $522.50
Explore theater and music through games, physical movement, storytelling, and finding your voice as we work on performing scenes from the muchloved canon of Disney movies and musicals. We’ll work on our acting, singing, and dancing skills to help build and devise a final show. At the end of the week, actors will take to the stage and perform what they’ve explored over the week for family and friends.
Week 5: July 28–August 1
TWISTED FAIRY TALES
Grades 4 to 8 | 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Tuition: $550 | Insider Plus: $522.50
Instructor: Maureen Regan
Reimagine our versions of classic fairytales in this week filled with the unexpected. What if Sleeping Beauty was cursed to sing for a hundred years rather than sleep? How would Jack and the Beanstalk have ended if Jack had befriended the giants instead of stealing from them? We’ll explore these stories through games, physical movement, and storytelling. We’ll work on our acting, singing, and dancing skills to help build and devise a final show. At the end of the week, just before pick-up, actors will take to the stage and perform what they’ve explored over the week for family and friends.
Week 6: August 4–August 8
PROP AND SET DESIGN
Grades 5 to 9 | 12:15 to 3 p.m.
Tuition: See website for breakdown
Instructor: Casey Bowers
Work behind-the-scenes these weeks on the incredibly important art of prop and set design and creation. Get hands-on experience preparing effective and useful props and backgrounds suited to the jumior Summer Stock productions.
Week 1 & 2: June 30 to July 11: Alice In Wonderland
Week 3: July 14–July 18: Frozen Jr.
Week 6 : August 4–8: Twisted Fairy Tails
