2024 Spring Break Camp Brochure

SPRING BREAK CAMP 2024 WEEK ONE | March 18-22

Kindergarten - Grade 5 (Choose one full-day block)

Grade 6 - 9

(Choose one or two

Sign-in begins at 8:45 AM and classes start at 9:00 AM

Kindergarten - Grade 2

half-day blocks)

Grades 3 - 5

Block 1 #28363 $296.00

Block 2 #28364 $282.50

Block 3 #28365 $287.50

Block 4 #28366 $296.00

Block 5 #28367 $287.00

Block 6 #28368 $289.00

Block 7 #28369 $291.00

Block 8 #28370 $293.00

Dramarama

Pencil & Pastel Magic

Spring Palette

All About Dance

Mask Making

PlasticinePalooza

Origami Kite Flying

Play Guitar!

Mask Making

Dramarama

All About Dance

Spring Palette

PlasticinePalooza

Origami Kite Flying

Play Guitar!

Pencil & Pastel Magic

Spring Palette

Mask Making

PlasticinePalooza

Origami Kite Flying

Dramarama

Play Guitar!

Pencil & Pastel Magic

All About Dance

Spring Palette

Art Sprouts

Mask Making

Origami Flower Basket

Expressive Arts #28375 $153.25

Lunch 12:00 - 12:35 PM

Lunch 12:05 - 12:40 PM All About Dance

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pencil & Pastel Magic

Musical Theatre

PlasticinePalooza 12:35 - 3:35 PM

Art Sprouts

PlasticinePalooza

Musical Theatre

Pencil & Pastel Magic

All About Dance

Mask Making

Spring Palette

Origami Flower Basket

Origami Flower Basket

All About Dance

Pencil & Pastel Magic

PlasticinePalooza

Spring Palette

Musical Theatre

Mask Making

Art Sprouts

Pick up 3:35 PM or After Camp Care (optional) #28379 | 3:45 - 5:00 PM | $35.00/child

SEE PAGE 3 FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

Drama Club #28376 $129.25

Pick up 3:35 PM

SPRING BREAK CAMP 2024 WEEK TWO | March 25-28

Kindergarten - Grade 2 (Choose one half-day block)

Grade 6 - 9

(Choose one or two

Sign-in begins at 8:45 AM and classes start at 9:00 AM

half-day blocks)

Kindergarten - Grade 2 Block 1 #28371 $141.00

Block 2 #28372 $126.00

Block 3 #28373 $126.00

Block 4 #28374 $133.00

Spring Palette

Hip Hop and Breakdance

Watercolour Wonder

Grass World

Grass World

Spring Palette

Hip Hop and Breakdance

Watercolour Wonder

Watercolour Wonder

Grass World

Spring Palette

Hip Hop and Breakdance

Pick up at 12:00 PM

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM About Faces #28377 $114.00

Lunch 12:00 - 12:35 PM

12:35 - 3:35 PM Fibre Explorations #28378 $118.00

Pick up 3:35 PM

SEE PAGE 3 FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

General Information

Kindergarten - Grade 5 Camp Class Descriptions (March 18 - 22 & 25 - 28)

Grades 6 - 9 Youth Camps (March 18 - 22 & 25 - 28)

Kindergarten - Grade 5 Spring Break Camp Monday – Friday, March 18-22 | 9:00 - 3:35 PM

All About Dance

Origami Flower Basket

About Face(s)

Learn about different dance styles and explore moves from ballet, hip hop, contemporary dance and more! Wear comfortable clothing you can move in and non-marking, indoor running shoes or bare feet. Teacher: Ashley Binette

Flowers are blooming! Create paper flower baskets using origami. Learn how to make several types of flowers, as well as many types of insects and birds that love flowers.

Teacher: Sarah Park

Explore portraiture from the basics to beyond. Practice a variety of techniques like sketching and drawing, then paint and use mask-making techniques to create relief portraits. Teacher: Tami Murray

Art Sprouts

Fly kites in the spring breeze! Learn how to make paper kites and paper air balloons being flown by children and cute pets. Let’s all fly up to the clear spring sky! Teacher: Sarah Park

Students from kindergarten to gr. 2 and gr. 3 to 5 choose one full-day block. Each block contains six activities. Small class sizes ensure that students receive quality time with their teachers. Refer to the timetable for the classes of each block.

Students must bring a nut-free lunch and snack each day.

NEW: Kindergarten-Grade 2 Half Day Camp Monday-Thursday, March 25-28 | 9:00 - 12:00 PM Students from kindergarten to gr. 2 choose one half-day block.

Each block contains three activities. Small class sizes ensure that students receive quality time with their teachers. Refer to the timetable for the classes of each block.

Grades 6 - 9 Spring Break Youth Camps Four, week-long, half-day art camps run over the two weeks of the SD43 Spring Break and are designed specifically for youth, allowing them to delve more fully into their chosen art form.

Students taking both morning and afternoon camps should bring a nut-free lunch and snack each day.

Place des Arts is a nut-aware facility during camps. As some camp participants have allergies, please do not bring foods with nuts or nut products to camp.

Registration opens on January 28, 2024

Let’s celebrate the season’s change and nature’s amazing beauty and diversity.

Create art inspired by animals, plants and the environment while exploring oil pastels, gouache paint, modelling clay and other techniques. Teacher: Lena Savic Dramarama Do you love making up stories and characters with your friends? Do you enjoy creating worlds in your imagination? Join Dramarama and work on creative expression and teamwork through fun and interactive theatre games. Teacher: Seamus Fera Grass World

Registration may be done online starting at 7:00 AM or at 1:00 PM in-person or by phone by calling 604-664-1636.

Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Full payment of program fees must be made at the time of registration.

Using drawing, painting, collage and polymer clay techniques, imagine and explore what lives in the grass. Learn about nature including snails, flowers, mushrooms, ladybugs and more while playing with bright colours and different materials. Teacher: Lena Savic

Withdrawal

Hip Hop and Breakdance

A student may withdraw up to seven (7) days prior to the camp start date. A refund of the class fee will be granted less the non-refundable registration fee. Refunds will not be granted after the seven (7) day period has passed. Exceptions for medical or compassionate reasons may be considered upon receipt of a written request submitted at least 24 hours prior to the start date of the class to info@placedesarts.ca. A medical certificate may be required. Upon approval, a refund of the class fee will be granted, less the registration fee and any applicable supply fees.

Explore the fundamentals of hip hop and breakdancing! Kick it old school with classic moves like the baby freeze and learn how to pop and lock, then combine the moves into a wicked piece! Wear comfortable clothing you can move in and non-marking running shoes or bare feet.

Teacher: Ashley Binette Mask Making Explore a character and create a mask using plaster of Paris, gauze, paint and other materials. Students are encouraged to think outside the box and take artistic liberties when creating their masks.

Teacher: Mariana Frochtengarten Musical Theatre

Register starting Jan 28, 2024

Dance, sing and act in this lively class!

Through theatre games and exercises, learn how to warm up, important terms and etiquette, character development, coordination and storytelling. Using popular musical theatre material and routines, combine your skills and explore being a stage performer. Teacher: Joanna Kovats

Origami Kite Flying

Pencil & Pastel Magic Learn drawing fundamentals, colour mixing, composition and more using coloured pencils and pastels. Master the techniques of layering, blending and capturing light and shadow. Express yourself and draw inspiration from art history. Teacher: Matin Komeili Plasticine-Palooza Create 2-dimension, relief and 3-dimension art using vibrant and shapable modelling clay. Make prints, sculptures and relief paintings. Teacher: Tami Murray Play Guitar!

Discover the enjoyment of music and the guitar in this fun ensemble setting. Learn basic chord shapes, rhythms and techniques for playing simple song arrangements. Cover basic theory and learn about musical genres by listening to and playing blues, jazz, rock, country, pop, hip-hop, classical and more! Guitar is provided for use in class. Teacher: Jimmy Baldwin Spring Palette Learn how to incorporate the bright and vibrant colours of spring with dry and wet materials to create unique mixed-media paintings inspired by nature. Feel inspired by flower blooms, green grass, rainbows, birds and butterflies. The sky is the limit to your imagination! Teacher: Clarissa Banos

Drama Club Actors to the stage! Learn to follow your impulses and improve your rehearsal and performance skills. Work creatively and connect with your peers to devise your show. Perform it for your friends and family at the end of the week.

Teacher: Seamus Fera Expressive Arts Hone your drawing and painting skills, learn about contrast, negative space, composition and more while looking for inspiration in unusual places like your name, feet or a mirror. These classes will include word games, movement and modelling with polymer clay. Express yourself in this dynamic, engaging class for bold and shy artists alike. Teacher: Lena Savic Fibre Explorations Learn about different fibres and their uses while creating beautiful projects.

Explore a variety of techniques such as spinning and dyeing, weaving on a table loom, wet felting and more. Teacher: Catherine Dumaine Youth Camp Supervision Policy Place des Arts does not provide supervision before or after class or during break times for students registered in our youth camps. Place des Arts does not assume responsibility for the well-being and safety of minors who are left unattended. If your child(ren) are registered for both the morning and afternoon camps, they are welcome to eat their lunch at tables in the Atrium or outside on Place des Arts property during the lunchtime break between classes (12:00-12:35 PM). Students must remain on Place des Arts property during lunch and within the designated boundaries, which will be identified on the first day of class by a Place des Arts staff member. Alternatively, parents are welcome to pick up their child(ren) and leave Place des Arts property during lunchtime.

Fees (all supplies are included in camp fees) WEEK ONE Kindergarten – Grade 2 Block 1 $296.00 Block 2 $282.50 Block 3 $287.50 Block 4 $296.00 Block 5 $287.00

Grades 3 – 5

#28363 #28364 #28365 #28366 #28367

Block 6 $289.00 Block 7 $291.00 Block 8 $293.00

#28368 #28369 #28370

Block 3 $126.00 Block 4 $133.00

#28373 #28374

Camp Care

Watercolour Wonder

After Camp Care $35.00

Dive into colour mixing, brush tricks and imaginative compositions. Explore layering, blending and wet-on-wet magic. Paint lively scenes from still life to portraits. Get artsy with masking and impasto and grow as an artist. Teacher: Matin Komeili

WEEK TWO Kindergarten – Grade 2 Half-Day Block 1 $141.00 Block 2 $126.00

#28379

#28371 #28372

WEEKS ONE AND TWO: Grades 6 - 9 Half-Day Youth Camps About Faces $114.00 #28377 Drama Club $129.25 #28376

Expressive Arts $153.25 #28375 Fibre Explorations $118.00 #28378