2023 SUMMER ARTS CAMP
Broadway Actors Camp Dates:
Monday, June 12 - Saturday, August 12, 2023
Artistic Adventurers and
Young Actors + Young Artists Camp Dates:
Monday, June 19 - Friday, August 11, 2023
What better way to spend a summer than creating, laughing, and forming friendships and lifelong memories?! The Art and Culture Center/Hollywood offers 3 different Summer Arts Camp experiences for different ages, experiences, and interests. For those beginning their lifelong love of the arts, we offer a half- or full-day immersion in the visual and performing arts: Artistic Adventurers. This camp uses play to introduce kids ages 5-7 to the wide world of art through music, movement, artmaking, and group games. Our 8–10-year olds have their pick to focus on visual and/or performing arts in Young Artists + Young Actors camp. Starting at age 9, campers can take center stage in our 4-week long Broadway Actors camp devoted to staging a full-length production of a musical in our 500-seat theater.
The Center’s arts education programs for children and teens inspire creativity; strengthen the family bond; and grow awareness of the arts as an essential resource in a child’s social development and academic success. Research shows that children who participate regularly in the arts improve their attention span, learn more quickly, develop higher level critical thinking skills and that play can help resiliency. They also have loads and loads of fun!
Summer Arts Aspire Program
For students 16 and over who are interested in arts, we also offer our Summer Arts Aspire program for teenagers and young adults to work with our camps and gain real on-the-job training and experience for community service hours and/or stipended pay.
TEEN ARTS AMBASSADORS
ARTS APPRENTICE
Artistic Adventurers
Ages 5 - 7
Full Day: 9 am- 4 pm
AM Session: 9 am – noon
PM Session: 1 – 4 pm
Camp Location:
Art and Culture Center Arts School, 1626 Harrison Street
Young Actors +
Young Artists
Ages 8-10
Full Day: 9 am- 4 pm
Young Actors:
9 am – noon
Young Artists: 1 – 4 pm
Camp Location:
ArtsPark at Young Circle, 1 Young Circle
Broadway Actors
Ages 9-16
Full Day: 9 am-4 pm
Camp Location: Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center, 1770 Monroe Street (US1 and Monroe St.)
Artistic Adventurers
Offered in both half- and full-day sessions, this two-week camp connects 5-7-year olds to the world of art through something we know they relate to: play! Campers will spend their camp days immersed in project-based art experiences such as papier- mâché and drama and movement games while learning how to better communicate and work together. Campers will be able to gain experience in both the visual and performing arts while exploring what interests them most. At the end of each two-week session, campers will perform in a “Sharing Showcase,” in the Arts School backyard, where they will get to present and share something they’ve created for friends and family.
Families may choose half- or full-day, two-week sessions. Campers staying all day must bring a non-perishable bag lunch, refillable water bottle, and two snacks. Choose the morning and/or afternoon session when registering.
Enrollment fees for each two-week session
Half-day: $350 for members | $375 for non-member
Full-day: $450 for members | $475 for non-member
Session 1: Cosmic Creators: Monday, June 19 - Friday, June 30, 2023 - FULL
Session 2: Fantastical Friendships: Monday, July 3 - Friday, July 14, 2023*
Session 3: Creepy Creepers: Monday, July 17 - Friday, July 28, 2023
Session 4: Kooky Spookies: Monday, July 31 - Friday, August 11, 2023
*No Camp Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Young Actors + Young Artists
Our camp for 8 through 10-year-olds allows campers to narrow their focus by choosing either visual or performing arts in our half-day sessions or to continue to grow their connection to both at our full day camp. Each two-week session follows a particular theme and culminates in a sharing opportunity for friends and family.
Young Actors
9 am – noon
Using drama, improvisation, storytelling, music, and movement, campers explore various themes and gain technique and public-speaking skills. Each session culminates in a performance for friends and family at ArtsPark.
Families may choose half- or full-day, two-week sessions. Campers staying all day must bring a non-perishable bag lunch, refillable water bottle, and two snacks. Choose the morning (Acting) and/or afternoon session (Art) when registering.
Young Artists
1 – 4 pm
Students enrolled in Young Artists explore drawing, painting, mixed media, printmaking, clay, and much more. Each session uses these various mediums to explore a different theme and culminates with an exhibition sharing in the Center’s Community Gallery.
Enrollment fees for each two-week session
Half-day: $350 for members | $375 for non-member
Full-day: $450 for members | $475 for non-member
Session 1: Wizardry, Witches, and Wanderers: Monday, June 19 - Friday, June 30, 2023 - FULL
Session 2: Time Travelers: Monday, July 3 - Friday, July 14, 2023* - FULL
Session 3: Astronomical Actors & Artists: Monday, July 17 - Friday, July 28, 2023
Session 4: Quirky Questers: Monday, July 31 - Friday, August 11, 2023
*No Camp Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Broadway Actors
Our beloved full-day camp, for 9 - 16 year olds, lets campers experience firsthand the process of staging a full-scale "Junior” production while forming friendships and building teamwork skills along the way. Campers will go through the entire process from audition to curtain bow while gaining technique and experience. This exciting journey culminates in two evening productions at the 500-seat Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center.
(Each camper receives two free tickets for family and friends.)
$825 members/$875 non-members, per session.
Note: Due to the ensemble format of this program and the heightened expectations of the final performances, participants must meet minimum attendance requirements and commit to dress and tech rehearsals, as well as the final performance. Campers must bring a non-perishable bag lunch, refillable water bottle, and two snacks.
Session 1: Monday, June 12 - Saturday, July 8
Shows: Friday, July 7 & Saturday, July 8* | 6:30 pm
*No Camp Tuesday, July 4
Show: Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical JR.
Get your toes tapping to the sounds of kids empowered by imagination in this high-energy adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda, a story of a girl who dreams of a better life for her and the children around her. Matilda is a witty, clever kid who chooses to use her special powers to save her school and classmates from their terrible headmistress, the detestable Miss Trunchbull. Could Matilda’s courage and quick-thinking save the day? Matilda JR. is a joyous romp. Children and adults alike will be thrilled and delighted by the story of the special little girl with an extraordinary imagination.
Session 2: Monday, July 17 - Saturday, August 12
Shows: Friday, August 11 & Saturday, August 12, 2023 | 6:30 pm
Show: The Addams Family Young@Part
Celebrate the wackiness in every family with the mysterious and spooky, all together ooky Addams Family! In this musical adaptation of the beloved 60’s sitcom, we flash forward to a grown-up Wednesday Addams bringing her new boyfriend home to meet the parents. Unfortunately, neither side are fully prepared for the dose of normalcy or wackiness that they are about to experience. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they all meet.
A limited number of partial scholarships are available through our Arts Outreach Program for qualifying families. Please reach out to the Education Department for details and to apply
Education@artandculturecenter.org.
All scholarships are given out in a first come, first served basis for qualified families.
Summer Arts Camp is funded in part by The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation, Helen Ingham Foundation, Florida Theatrical Association, and the Hollywood Police Department's Law Enforcement Trust Fund.