Is it really time to start thinking about summer? If you’re like many and have yet to secure summer child care, Magic City Momma has got you covered. Here are a few camps going on around the city.
Named the best camp in the country, On the Set allows youth between the ages of 10 and 18 to experience filmmaking. Campers go on location and are place on a live action set to shoot a short film that stars a real Hollywood actor. Past actors have included Kadeem Hardison, Malik Yoba, Wendy Racquel Robinson and Carl Anthony Payne. This year’s camp will run from July 13–22. Registration and auditions will be held June 25 at the Sheraton Civic Center Medical Forum Building, Room D from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m). Actors must come prepared to do a two- to three-minute monologue or performance. Behind the scene candidates (i.e., directors, producers, and cinematographers) will be interviewed). For additional information, send an email to peepthis@bham.rr.com or call 205.602.2208.
YMCA
Boasting locations across the city, the YMCA offers kids (and moms) the chance to not only participate in camps, but to play sports and a variety of other activities. For more information, contact Anthony Sparks at asparks@ymcabham.org or 205-324-1643.
Is your child into science, check out the McWane Science Center’s summer camps, which will be help from June 6 through July 29. New this year is the Creativity Lab, which will offer hands-on, open-ended exploration for students in fourth through ninth grades. Campers will have a chance to explore 3D doodling, circuit building, and robot programming.
This community service camp is for kids ages 13 to 19 and offers them the opportunity to take part in fun community service projects, workshops and games. Three camps will be held: June 27–July 1, July 11-15 and July 25-29.
Minority Youth Science Academy
Rising 10th through 12th graders will stay on the campus of Samford University for this three-day camp that exposes students to experiments in biology and engineering/technology, college application counseling, and a Q-and-A with minority scientists and college science students.
Students in kindergarten through 12th grades will have the chance to plan, create and participate in a theatre production in this camp, which will be held June 13–17 and June 20–24.
Writing Camp for Teens and Tweens
If you have a budding writer between the ages of 11 and 15, this camp will get help them find the perfect words, imagery and details. Sessions will be held June 6–10 and July 25–29.
Animate
Animate is an academy in worship, theology, and the arts for high school students and their mentors. Students can attend as an individual, with a friend, or with a team from their congregation or school. At Animate, students hone worship leadership skills, adults sharpen their mentoring tools, and everybody works together to reflect on the intersection between worship, theology, and the arts.
Mark your calendars for this year’s Animate: June 20-24 or June 27-July 1, 2016.
For campers ages five to 13, split up in multiple groups, to offer as much age-appropriate programming as possible throughout the day. But all campers will experience games, sports, hands-on learning, craft activities, on-campus field trips, and much more!
Shades Mountain Independent Church in Bluff Park offers eight weeks of day camp with themed activities each week. For students in third through eighth grades, an overnight camp will be offered the week of July 24–28.
Do you know of any summer camps going on in the Magic City? Let us know in the comments.
