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Performing arts camps offer programs in dance, film/video, music, theatre, visual arts, and creative writing. Campers spend the summer learning to express themselves creatively and artistically!

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• Adirondack Summer Camp

  Adirondack is a great summer camp that seeks to inspire the twin values of individualism and community in all its campers. Adirondack does this by providing young people with a sense of purpose, freedom of selection, simple pleasures, and respect for one's beliefs and all things living.

• Alfred University

  The campus of Alfred University is alive with activity all summer. There are High School Institutes, sports camps, workshops, conferences, and much more.

• Appel Farm

  At Appel Farm, campers have an opportunity to pursue their interests in the arts and develop their skills in theatre, music, fine art, dance, photography, video production, creative writing, tennis, and swimming.

• Ballibay

  Ballibay is a residential summer camp for children interested in the Fine and Performing Arts. Their program is educationally oriented, with an emphasis on process rather than product; and growth, learning, safety and caring are our highest priorities. Activities are non-competitive, and participation is based on the individual choices of campers.

• Belvoir Terrace

  An educational camp devoted to the fine and performing arts, Belvoir Terraceoffers girls an opportunity to develop skill, creativity, and self confidence through art, dance, music, theater and sports.

• Camp Arowhon

  Camp Arowhon's mission is to give every camper a safe place, physically and emotionally; for children to learn activity skills and return home more confident; a camping experience rich with caring, learning and respect.

• Camp Augusta

  Camp Augusta's mission is to provide children a safe, fun-filled experience that will serve as a catalyst for personal growth and an appreciation of the outdoors. Their nurturing atmosphere is achieved by limiting our total number of campers per session, increased supervision, and a dedicated and caring staff.

• Camp Awosting

  Camp Awosting-Summer Camp for Boys is Americas oldest private boys summer camp in continuous operation since 1900 and a camp to be cherished for its traditional camping program combined with caring staff, proper safety, and a great deal of FUN!

• Camp Betsey Cox

  Betsey Cox is a camp for young women growing up in the global world of the twenty-first century. Betsey Cox couples traditional camping with a commitment to programs which develop skills necessary for girls who hope to make a difference in the future.

• Camp Birch Trails

  Camp Birch Trails provides girls with opportunities to develop independence, confidence and leadership skills, to nurture positive values such as caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. Girls build lifelong skills at camp, while making new friends and special memories.

• Camp Birchwood

  The all-female environment at Birchwood provides growing girls with what they need more than ever these daysa safe, secure, accepting place where they can truly be themselves. Campers are able to cast aside societys expectations, popularity contests, and competitive stresses for a simple life filled with fun, giggles, games, playful moments, and fantastic friendships.

• Camp Blue Ridge

  Camp Blue Ridge is a family operated, activity oriented, coed, residential camp which offers activities for children in the areas of Outdoor Adventure, The Arts, Athletics, and Aquatics.

• Camp Carson

  The Camp Carson experience is a powerful, positive and life-changing adventure. Through intentional programming and a values centered focus, our campers explore their understanding of God, self and others.

• Camp Cayuga

  Camp Cayuga is a coed residential summer camp located in the Pocono Mountains of Northeast Pennsylvania. The facility encompasses over 350 acres of forestland, fields & streams, including 55 buildings and a private natural lake.

• Camp Chinqueka for Girls

  Camp Chinqueka for Girls is a traditional summer camp full of happy campers, experienced and safety-conscious staff, and activities practically guaranteed to make a girls summer more fun.

• Camp Curtain Call

  Camp Curtain Call is America's Premier Performing Arts Summer Camp. Their goal is to keep each camper active and refreshed in a safe, nurturing, rustic, mountain environment.

• Camp Dovewood

  At Camp Dovewood they believe that camping is an educational process where girls benefit socially, physically, emotionally, individually, spiritually and intellectually for an enriched life ahead.

• Camp Echo Lake

  Camp Echo Lake is an institution that families have trusted for generations to provide a safe, secure, positive and nurturing environment for their children. It is a community where, for seven active weeks, children can grow, discover build confidence and form friendships theyll take with them into adulthood.

• Camp Edward Isaacs

  The mission of Camp Edward Isaacs is to provide campers with a safe, nurturing Jewish camp experience and a well rounded quality program that places an emphasis on fun, friendships, self-esteem, and skill development.

• Camp Ein Gedi

  Camp Ein Gedi very spacious campgrounds with plenty of room to run around and engage in all sorts of activities. Surrounded by trees and wooded areas, Ein Gedi campers will have a chance to interact with Mother Nature as they go on nature hikes and explore natural paths and trails.

• Camp Farwell

  If there were three ingredients that could be said to form each girl's Camp Farwell experience, they would be friendship, community spirit, and a warm family environment. For at the heart of the Camp Farwell experience is an underlying belief in the importance of personal growth, self-confidence, and an appreciation for nature's beauty.

• Camp Fern

  Founded on Christian principles with respect for all faiths, Camp Fern's mission is to enrich the physical, spiritual and social lives of campers by providing summers of fun, friendship, exploration, and growth.

• Camp Foley

  Camp Foley surrounds campers with their peers, adds activities to stretch both physical and creative abilities, and provides positive role models as their counselors.

• Camp Gray

  Camp Gray is a Catholic summer camp that offers a variety of programs and is recognized for its emphasis on community living, personal and spiritual growth, environmental stewardship, and, of course, plain-old, crazy fun!

• Camp Green Lane

  Founded in 1926, Camp Green Lane has offered a warm, safe and secure, nurturing Jewish environment. Its a place where kids can enjoy just being kids, where old fashioned fun is the top priority, where the bottom line is happiness.

• Camp Hawthorne

  Camp Hawthorne's goals are to help campers grow into healthy, tolerant, and self-confident individuals, capable of living and working with others in a community setting while creating lasting relationships with their peers.

• Camp Hilltop

  Camp Hilltop's goal is to provide children with an exciting, diversified and wholesome camping experience. Everyone at camp is unique in their own way and being able to tie all of the differences together is what makes Hilltop such a magical place.

• Camp Hollymont for Girls

  At Camp Hollymont for Girls campers live in lodges and enjoy rocking on large, open-air front porches. Other first-class facilities include: a beautiful stone chapel, a professional stage and theater, an athletic Center with a full gymnasium and indoor pool, an art center, athletic fields, tennis courts, and miles of winding riding trails through the woods.

• Camp Lakeland

  Camp Lakeland strives to achieve an outstanding camping experience through challenging and fulfilling programs that encourage social growth and skill development. We allow each camper the opportunity to discover his or her own potential and build self esteem within a supportive Jewish Environment.

• Camp Lindenmere

  Camp Lindenmere has represented the very finest in summer camping for over 50 years by placing special emphasis on individual interests and personal attention to each camper every summer.

• Camp Maplehurst

  Founded in 1955, Maplehurst continues to offer children unique opportunities to try new activities, meet new friends and gain valuable skills.

• Camp Mataponi

  Mataponi offers girls a wide range of activities in landsports, watersports, arts & crafts, trips, nature, and horseback riding. Intheir structural program, every camper is permitted to follow and develop her interests and gain new skills.

• Camp McConnell

  Camp McConnell is the perfect place for children to spend their summers. With many activities to choose from, campers find many new interests as well as current interests to pass the time with friends, new and old.

• Camp Mowglis

  Mowglis provides a wholesome summer learning experience through which boys develop confidence, independence, personal resources, and a sense of responsibility towards others and the environment.

• Camp Newaygo

  If you like spending time in the outdoors, enjoying the sun, having fun on the water, and making life long friendships, Camp Newaygo is the place for you. Each camper designs her own program of daytime activities with three instructional periods per day and a fourth activity period open to waterfront and crafts.

• Camp Nominingue

  Since 1925, Camp Nominingue has become widely known as a place where the spirit of real camping still exists and a place to cultivate friendships, self confidence and a sense of achievement; a place to learn new skills and take part in a wide variety of activities and outdoor games.

• Camp O-AT-KA

  Camp O-AT-KA will provide to every camper and every staff member a caring community, close to nature, where the body, the heart, and the spirit are strengthened through experiences that are fun and challenging.

• Camp Oliver

  Camp Oliver provides facilities and a safe caring enviornment for children so they can appreciate and value themselves, others, and the natural world around them.

• Camp Olympia

  Camp Olympia is a private residential camp dedicated to having fun together, helping people grow in body, spirit and mind. It is an opportunity of a lifetime.

• Camp Rio Vista and Camp Sierra Vista

  Camp Rio Vista for Boys and Camp Sierra Vista for Girls are two of Texas's top summer camps, located in the beautiful Texas Hill Country. The brother-sister emphasis was designed to provide families with the opportunity to send siblings to camp at the same time, but with a separate camp program unique to each child.

• Camp Sloane

  Camp Sloane's motto is OTHERS. This communicates the importance of the values on which Sloanes philosophy is based. An individualized, elective approach to numerous activity choices is age-appropriate and instructional, providing for skill progression and achievement.

• Camp Tanamakoon

  The word "Tanamakoon" is a native American word meaning "Hail fellow, well met," an appropriate name for a camp that creates long lasting friendships.

• Camp Ton-A-Wandah

  Camp Ton-A-Wandah offers girls instruction in more than twenty areas including: archery, riflery, tennis, swimming, horseback riding, canoeing, arts and crafts, drama, dance, basketball, soccer, volleyball, kayaking, mountaineering, high ropes, rock climbing and more.

• Camp Wahanowin

  Wahanowin is a place where friends return each summer to rekindle the magic and spirit unique to Wahanowin, where the commitment to outstanding service and quality has enabled them to create an environment where children learn, grow and flourish.

• Camp Westminster on Higgins Lake

  Camp Westminster on Higgins Lake provides a setting where youth develop a sense of responsibility and self-worth in a Christian community. The enthusiastic, gifted, and multicultural staff are carefully selected and thoroughly trained.

• Capital Camps

  Capital Camps is an independent non-profit organization and a beneficiary agency of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. The main purpose of the camp is to provide a summer camp program for children and retreat opportunities to the Jewish community.

• Cedar Lodge

  Cedar Lodge strives to create an environment where children of all ages, backgrounds and races grow with in a healthy, safe setting. The Cedar Lodge staff works hard with the campers of each week to offer a varied, unique program with those campers in mind.

• Coppercreek Camp

  Coppercreek Camp shares the love of the outdoors and the incredible experience of camp life by taking camping and having fun very seriously.

• Crestwood Camp for Girls

  The strength of Crestwood Camp comes from God being placed first in all that they do, a strong sense of tradition, a mindset focused on safety, and the development of an unbelievably fun environment. Camp is focused on individual attention and building one-on-one relationships.

• Forest Cliff Camp

  Forest Cliff Camp's goal is to provide campers with memories to last a lifetime and to give parents the peace of mind that comes with knowing their children are receiving the best care.

• GirlSummer at Emma Willard School

  GirlSummer is dedicated to providing an exciting and stimulating academic environment, based on the philosophy that summer fun and learning go hand-in-hand. The positive benefit of the increased opportunities and new friendships that blossom during camp cannot be overstated.

• Great Lakes Camps

  The mission of Great Lakes Camps is to enrich lives and develop tomorrow's leaders by providing challenging and rewarding growth experiences. Campers at Great Lakes not only learn new skills in their program of choice, but, more importantly, gain feelings of greater confidence and enhanced self-image.

• Green River Preserve

  The Green River Preserve summer camp was founded with a mission and program designed specifically to meet the needs of bright young naturalists. All aspects of the camp are thoughtfully and deliberately adjusted to accomplish this objective.

• Hidden Valley Camp

  Hidden Valleys roots are in the movement of progressive childrens communities. Built with a commitment to quality and professionalism, and a deep sensitivity to individual needs and group life, HVC has no rifles, uniforms, or color war. A non-competitive, non-sectarian community provides individualized attention to all campers in a structured yet unpressured atmosphere.

• High School Creative Dramatics

  Discover techniques that professional theatre actors use to deliver memorable performances.

• Idyllwild Arts

  Since 1950, Idyllwild Arts has offered intensivehands-on workshops in dance, film/video, music, theatre, visual arts, and creative writing to students of all ages and abilities in the San Jacinto Mountains above Palm Springs.

• Independent Lake Camp

  Independent Lake Camp believes camp is not reform school, campers are not pre-programmed droids, and that all kids have a healthy sense of how they want to spend the precious summers of their youth. They aim to respect and celebrate diversity in an open-minded and open-hearted spirit of trust, acceptance, recognition, and kindness.

• Interlochen Arts Camp

  Interlochen Arts Camp, which provides intensive training each summer to talented youngsters from around the world, is well established as one of America's true cultural treasures, continuing as the country's premier site for young musicians, dancers, actors, visual artists and writers to explore and develop their talents.

• Island Lake

  At Island Lake you, the camper, are given the opportunity to explore a multitude of exciting activities. The instruction you receive is geared to your individual interests, needs and talents. An Island Lake summer is an experience that cannot be duplicated in any other environment.

• Julian Krinsky Summer Camps

  Julian Krinsky provides high quality programs to help young people develop their skills, talents and abilities in sports, the arts, business, enrichment or tours. Many of them give you the opportunity to combine courses and activities to create exactly the experience you want.

• Keystone Camp

  Keystone Camp strives to develop the total girl on an individual basis. In a beautiful mountain setting, a Keystone girl learns the value of developing skills that last her lifetime.

• Kickapoo Kamp

  Kickapoo Kamp offers a fun environment that helps to build self-confidence, self-awareness and self-acceptance. Over 30 activities challenge and interest every camper.

• Lake Bryn Mawr Camp

  Since 1921, Lake Bryn Mawr Camp has been a summer home for generations of campers who converge on Bryn Mawr mountain to learn, play, run, laugh, dance, shout, sing, cheer, make friends, honor old traditions, establish new ones, and celebrate summer in a loving and spirited community.

• Lake Greeley Camp

  Lake Greeley Camp is a private coed overnight summer camp to give children fun-filled, safe summer experiences for over 40 years with a mature, caring staff, exciting trips, special events, great evening activities and daily program, your child is guaranteed a summer to remember.

• Ligonier Camp

  Ligonier Camp's purpose is to give their campers opportunities to commit themselves to Christ and grow in their understanding and practice of the Christian faith in four areas -- God, others, self, and the creation.

• Long Lake Arts Camp

  Long Lake Arts Camp goes beyond the traditional idea of a summer arts camp with a unique non competitive, nurturing program in drama, fine arts, dance, music, film making, rock music and circus.

• Maine Golf and Tennis Academy

  The Maine Golf and Tennis Academy is New England's #1 Golf and Tennis Camps. Plus, they also offer all the classic and traditional summer camp programming: Camping and Canoeing Trips, Waterskiing, Sailing, Kayaking, Canoeing, Ropes Course, Whitewater Rafting, and Arts and Crafts.

• Med-O-Lark Camp

  Med-O-Lark has the largest offerings of workshops in the fine arts and handcrafts of any camp among the many New England camps. The courses in dance and theatre also provide many opportunities for shows and presentations at the end of every two weeks. Additional arts available at camp include culinary arts, martial arts, fencing, English riding, choral music, guitar, poetry, writing, and creative photography.

• Mercerburg Summer Camps

  Mercerburg's summer camps and workshops feature quality staffs with excellent reputations and credentials with the focus on challenging people to excel in their interests and to try new ideas.

• Middle School Creative Dramatics

  Do you like to let your imagination run wild and become different characters? Have you ever dreamed of being on stage performing in front of an audience? Would you like to write a play? Then Creative Dramatics is the course for you. Whether you've starred in every play since kindergarten or never acted before, you'll discover how to capture an audience's attention on stage. Your instructors are veteran stage actors who know how to make learning fun. They'll show you special techniques for using your voice and moving your body, test your quickness with fun improvisational games, and teach you how to make costumes and props out of everyday items. Camp runs June 18-23, 2007 and is open to middle school students. Part of Point Park University's Summer in the City.

• Middlesex County 4-H Camp

  The mission of Middlesex County 4-H Camp is to encourage cooperative group living in a natural environment that focuses on the individual's social, spiritual, mental and physical development.

• Montreal International Music Camp

  The Montreal International Music Camp aims to promote intercultural exchange and encourage intercultural activities, and thereby benefit all community members, both local and abroad.

• Ojai Valley School

  The philosophy of Ojai Valley School is contained in the motto "Integer Vitae," meaning wholeness of life, symmetry of life, soundness of life, and, therefore, poise and strength of life.

• Performance PLUS

  Performance PLUS utilizes the performing and technical arts as a vehicle for positive development. Performance PLUS develops personal/professional, respectful/responsible, ethical/artistic - character.

• Pinemere Camp

  Pinemere has created an exceptionally beautiful environment to foster the positive growth and development of each of its campers. Pinemere is dedicated to offering children a chance to enjoy a summer camp experience in a majority Jewish setting where they can grow socially, emotionally and spiritually.

• Point Park University: Summer in the City

  Summer in the City was launched in 2004 with 21 programs and 500 students of diverse backgrounds.Since the, all campers come away with enriching experiences thatare both academic and holistic. Point Park University's Summer in the City 2006 is offering 25 different summer camps for middle school and high school students, teachers and adults.

• Radio Theater

  Experience radio like never beforeinside a real studio, learn how to work the controls and write and act out programs. This fun class will take you behind the scenes of radio production and teach you about the creative and technical aspects of the business. You'll discover how to produce cool sounds with the equipment; create, write and record a commercial; and create, write and perform a play. Your play will even be recorded and broadcast at a later date, so you can tell your family and friends to tune in. And when the week is over, you'll leave with lots of hands-on radio experience, new friends, and a CD of your recordings.

• Riverview Camp for Girls

  Riverview is a community committed to celebrating childhood, and the kindness and goodness that is within each child where girls enjoy the simple joys of playing, laughing and sharing good times with friends in a safe, carefree and wholesome environment year, after year, after year.

• Salisbury Summer School

  The Salisbury Summer School was founded in the belief that a student's ability to understand and employ the written word determines to a substantial degree his or her measure of academic achievement.

• Sanborn Western Camps

  Sanborn Western Camps, Big Spring Ranch for Boys and High Trails Ranch for Girls, create outdoor experiences of exceptional quality and depth with a fun, relaxed atmosphere and caring staff who provide a supportive environment for individual growth in self-confidence, independence, and awareness of others.

• Shaffer's High Sierra Summer Camps

  Children 8 to 17 thrive at this traditional summer camp with a focus on noncompetitive wilderness adventure activities in California's splendid Tahoe National Forest on the peaceful headwaters of the North Yuba River and next to the Sierra Buttes and 70+ pristine mountain lakes with miles and miles of hiking, biking, and horse trails. Mountain biking, rock climbing, river rafting, horseback riding and lots more! What would you attempt, if you knew you couldn't fail?

• Summer in the Arts at Northern

  Summer in the Arts at Northern is offered through the Northern Illinois University of the College of Visual and Performing Arts and provides classes in music, art, and theatre.

• Summer Institute for the Gifted

  The mission of the Summer Institute for the Gifted is to provide the highest quality educational and social opportunities for academically gifted and talented students through programs designed to meet their abilities and needs.

• Summerstage

  Summerstage day camp, available to Pre-K through 12th graders, is a creative theater workshop and performance program including acting, singing, movement skills, creative game playing, recreational activities, sports, crafts, writing, swimming and final performance.

• The Academy by the Sea and Camp Pacific

  The Academy by the Sea and Camp Pacific is dedicated to helping youth grow and prosper through an assortment of productive summer camps and an exceptional summer academic program.

• The Orme Summer Ranch Camp

  A summer at Orme is a life changing experience. Beyond a summer of fun, Orme offers friendships and growth that last a lifetime!

• Tripp Lake Camp

  The mission of Tripp Lake Camp is to provide a nurturing environment for campers, enhancing their sense of competence and self-worth by providing opportunities to explore all facets of their personalities, encouraging them to take risks and expand their boundaries.

• Upper Valley Events Center

  Summer Days Camp, for ages 5-10, is a four-day per week, 8AM to 5PM, enrichment camp. Its elements are: Art Smart, outdoor "backyard adventure", theater/movement, science and Gee Whiz (a fun way to keep your child's academic skills up during summer).

• US Performing Arts Camps

  US Performing Arts Camps are located at some of the finest university facilities in the country. A great benefit to US Performing Arts Camps is that many of our university's theater, dance, film and television departments are directing the programs themselves.

• Windsor Mountain International Summer Camp

  Windsor Mountain International Summer Camp is a caring, creative community and the first international summer camp affiliated with the United Nations, with programs and activities help campers explore aspects of being a responsible citizen of the world.

• Windsor Mountain Student Travel

  Windsor Mountain Student Travel seeks to provide travel and community-building experiences that can open minds, foster personal growth, and cultivate a spirit of proactive change, thus enabling students to respond to cultural and environmental challenges as responsible citizens of the world.

• YMCA Camp Manitou-Lin

  Located in Middleville, the 160 acres of YMCA Camp Manitou-Lin is a branch of the YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids. Guests of Camp enjoy delicious and nutritious family-style meals served in our beautiful 20,000 square ft. Cheff Lodge that is complete with an air-conditioned conference room, a wrap around porch full of lazy rockers, a cozy fireplace, a climbing wall and an Indoor High Ropes Course. Seventeen heated and carpeted cabins with bathrooms and showers will house campers throughout the year "on the shores of Ol Lake Barlow."

• YMCA of Greater Boston

  The mission of the YMCA of Greater Boston is to build health of spirit, mind and body based on the highest ideals of the Judeo-Christian heritage, and to improve the quality of life for children, individuals, families, and communities in the cities and towns of greater Boston.

• YMCA of Hamilton/Burlington

  YMCA of Hamilton/Burlington is renowned for providing high quality camping experiences for young people at its day and overnight camps. Generations of children have learned new skills, developed an appreciation of the outdoors, and had fun at YMCA camps.

• YMCA of Metropolitan Washington

  The YMCA of Metropolitan Washington is a membership association of men, women. As part of the worldwide YMCA movement and as stated in our constitution, the mission of this association is to foster the spiritual, mental and physical development of individuals, families and communities according to the ideals of inclusiveness, equality and mutual respect for all. The YMCA of Metropolitan Washington is open to all people, regardless of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, gender, age or handicapping condition.

• YMCA of Saratoga

  The YMCA of Saratoga is a charitable association dedicated to building healthy bodies, minds and spirits of the people of Saratoga County by putting Christian values into practice through programs that promote good health, strong families, youth leadership, community development, and international understanding. The YMCA welcomes as members men, women and children of all ages, incomes, abilities, races, and religions. The YMCA of Saratoga is a Northeastern New York United Way Agency.