During the 2011 school summer break the Sierra County Child Abuse Council will offer a six-week summer art camp in Loyalton for middle school children ages 12-14. The purpose of the camp is to provide recreational art activities for at-risk youth in our community.
This program, in conjunction with other available programming, will offer well-rounded summer activities for middle school aged yout in the Loyalton area. The camp will supplement the existing school art program, which has recently suffered severe cutbacks. As most of the arts programming in the Sierra-Plumas Joint Unified School District has been cut or eliminated, the goal of the program is to provide arts, theater, and culinary instruction activities for these youth. The camp will take place at the Family Resource Center, 315 Main St., Loyalton, CA. See map.
The camp will be staffed by a local art teacher and middle school teacher. The students will receive drawing instruction, reader’s theater instruction, and cooking instruction. In addition, we plan to take the students on a tour of the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada.
The camp will begin on June 20, 2011 and will end on August 5, 2011 with a public showing of art created by the students, and a reader’s theater performance (check back with this site for event listings). Appetizers will be prepared by the students from the cooking class for the parents and community members in attendance. We will meet on Mondays and Tuesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (we will not meet July 4 or July 5). Students will be required to bring a sack lunch. Parents will be asked for permission to allow students to walk to local areas of interest, as will as to go to the Nevada Museum of Art.
For more information, call the Family Resource Center at 530-993-4205, or email Dianne Bruns at diannewillow@yahoo.com.
