Music Art & Drama Camp!

The campus of Southwest Virginia Community College is the site for the sixth summer Music, Art, Drama (MAD) Enrichment Camp. MAD Camp will be held Monday, July 16, through Friday, July 20, from 9:30 a.m. through 3:00 p.m. in the SWCC King Community Center. The week-long cultural enrichment camp is open to any upcoming third-graders to ninth-graders. The theme of the camp is “Kaleidoscope of the Arts.” Campers will experience activities that will stimulate their imagination and introduce them to the very wide range of what constitutes music, art, and drama. Every day a Noon-Time Experience will take place. This year campers will experience the performance of different styles of dancing, they will experience how two pianists can perform duets playing different styles of music at the same time, and they will experience how sidewalk art can speak to the soul. A Friday night “Show and Tell” and potluck dinner will take place in the King Gym to allow the students to share what they have been experiencing during the week. Returning clinicians are founding director of the East Tennessee Children’s Chorus Beth McCoy, Richmond-area artist Abby Bland, and Second-City actor Joey Bland. The tuition for the week is $100 for those who register before June 1. After June 1, the fee is $115. Tuition will cover the cost of the camp and the special noon-time experiences. In order the keep the cost of tuition down, students will bring their own sack lunches, and the camp will provide drinks and cookies.
In addition to MAD Camp, an Advanced Theater Workshop will be open to a limited number of high school-age and older theater lovers who want the experience of training in improvisational theater. The Advanced Theater class will take place 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. from Monday-Thursday. Joey Bland will be the workshop leader for this workshop. Tuition for the workshop is $50.
Applications for MAD Camp or the Advanced Theater Workshop can be obtained by contacting Pauline Taylor at Southwest Virginia Community College at 276.964.7619 or e-mailing her at pauline.taylor@sw.edu . Applications for both camps are also available by contacting Wrenda Fuller at 276.889.4738 or e-mailing her at wsfull@verizon.net . On-line applications are available