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WEEK of February 18, 2008
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Summer 2008 at BFS—A Preview

Read about these great BFS summer programs, for children ages 2 to 12.

Summer Camp (ages 2 to 8)
Summer Arts (ages 8 to 12)

download Summer Camp brochure & registration form
download Summer Arts brochure & registration form

Registration will be on a first-come basis. We look forward to your child’s participation in Summer at Friends.

Summer Camp 2008
Ages 2 to 8

Summer is a special time in a child’s life. At Brooklyn Friends Summer Camp, young campers experience a variety of classes, activities and field trips designed to cultivate individual interests and talents. In our safe, nurturing environment, both individual expression and respect for others are encouraged, and lasting friendships are made. We look forward to sharing this summer with your family.

Summer Camp programming at BFS is specialized according to age group. Here is a description of the anticipated programming for the summer of 2008. (Note: Specialty classes, in-house visitors and field trips are subject to change.)

Brooklyn Friends Family Center Camp

Family Center Camp is open to children who have some experience in a group learning environment.

BFS Family Center Camp offers our youngest campers (age 2) a relaxed camp experience. Their days are designed by skillful preschool teachers to provide a balance between structured activities, free play, and rest. In our safe, caring environment children interact with friends, create art, listen to stories, and play with materials that enhance their skills. Family Center children will also splish and splash in the wading pools on the rooftop playground. Each Friday, Family Center campers will have a music and movement class, led by an experienced Music Together instructor.

Brooklyn Friends Preschool Summer Camp

Preschool Summer Camp is appropriate for 3 and 4 year-olds who have had one year of preschool and will be attending preschool in the fall of 2008. Children must be toilet trained.

BFS Preschool Summer Camp offers preschool campers a nurturing environment in which to enjoy their summer days with friends. Our caring, experienced teachers encourage creativity, individual expression, and positive social interaction through activities ranging from painting, drawing and collage, to gardening and cooking, to storytelling, free, and dramatic play. Hot summer days are punctuated by daily visits to the rooftop playground where children cool off in our wading pools and sprinklers.

Our preschool campers also enjoy weekly specialty classes including tennis, music & movement, hands-on science, and yoga. In addition to everyday fun and specialized classes, our preschool campers will also receive a special visitor in their classroom each Friday. Visitors will include clowns, music makers, magicians, story weavers, and puppeteers.

Brooklyn Friends K-2 Summer Camp

K-2 Camp is appropriate for children who are entering Kindergarten, First or Second grade in the fall of 2007.

BFS K-2 Summer Camp offers our oldest campers an enriching experience through a variety of activities, specialty classes, and field trips designed to encourage creative exploration, physical awareness, and positive social interaction. Specialty classes and activities will include Art, Science, Group Games, Cooking, Swimming, Tennis, Gardening, Music, and Movement. Ample time will also be given for free play in the classroom and on the rooftop playground.

Every Monday, K-2 campers will travel to Brooklyn Bridge Park for an afternoon of outdoor fun. On Fridays, K-2 campers will take field trips to exciting city destinations like the Transit Museum, Melody Lanes, New York Hall of Science, Queens County Farm, and The Central Park Zoo. The last day of Summer Camp, all campers—regardless of the session attended—will be invited to join us for a special camp visitor and group lunch in the cafeteria.

SUMMER ARTS ’08
Ages 8-12

THE PROGRAM

Summer Arts at Brooklyn Friends School is a unique opportunity for children who will be entering grades 3 through 7 in September 2008.

The program offers a diverse and exciting art experience taught by working and exhibiting artists from the New York City area. The instructors of the Summer Arts Program are selected for their artistic and professional accomplishments, as well as their experience working with children. Under the care and guidance of our staff, children explore their creativity and artistic abilities through an enriched interdisciplinary program.

In addition to participating in all classes offered in each session, students enrolled in Summer Arts go on field trips to the city’s many world-class arts and cultural institutions. The field trips include outings to major museums, special exhibitions and to the art studios of professional artists.

Students participate in recreational swimming two times a week at the Marriott Hotel pool, located 1/2 block from the school and they can play in two fully equipped gyms and on the rooftop playground at BFS. In addition to supervised daily free play periods, students participate in organized “ New Games” scheduled throughout the sessions.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Session 1
June 18–July 11 (closed July 4th)

Let’s run away with the circus!

Sculpture—The inspiration for this class will come from artists who used the imagery of the circus in their art such as Calder, Picasso, Degas, Seurat and Lautrec. Students will work with a variety of materials including wire, clay and paper mache to create their favorite circus animal or performer to be incorporated into our “big top”. As part of the process, students explore concepts of action, gesture and proportion.

Musique de Tony—Lyrics, rhythm, harmony and melody- these are the elements that students explore when learning about the process of songwriting. In a fun and lively group setting and through playing and singing together, students develop their own musical ideas and songs.

Printmaking—Tightrope walkers, elephants, jugglers, acrobats and so much more will be the imagery that students work with to create giant circus prints. For inspiration, students will look at old circus posters and European and American artists to understand and incorporate the excitement of the circus into their work. Students will learn collagraph techniques as well as styrofoam etching and stamp-making to create these magnificent prints.

Wildly Wonderful Wearable Art—Working with an array of materials, each student creates a unique piece of art that they will actually be able to wear! Inspiration comes from our study of circus animals, performers, and the ceremonial costumes of Native American, African, Asian and South American cultures.

Session 2
July 14–Aug 1

Mixed Media Sculpture—Students create their art inspired by found objects, personal items and a myriad of art materials. We will explore the work of several artists in this medium, including Picasso, Joseph Cornell and the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. We will take a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to view his newly installed work. As part of the process, students will paint and draw from observation and explore the concept of symbolism in art.

Spoken Word/Hip Hop—In a fun and supportive atmosphere, students learn the basic elements of Hip-Hop song writing, performance, and visual arts. Using William Shakespeare as a source of inspiration and through playing, singing and listening exercises they find their "flow" and are encouraged to express themselves creatively. Students also explore various rhyming techniques that will be used in their rap lyrics and poems. To complement their songs, students’ use a variety of materials to create Hip-Hop based artworks.

Woodworking—In the school’s fully equipped woodshop, students incorporate basic design, measuring, sawing, hammering and 3-D problem solving techniques to create their work of art. Supervised and guided by BFS’s expert woodworking teacher, the students learn about the tools that will help them realize their ideas in a safe and creative way.

Cel-Animation—From pencil test to edited project, students learn the FUNdamental steps of the animation process in the BFS digital media lab. Utilizing a digital drawing tablet and computer animation software, students will draw and paint backgrounds and characters to animate. No experience required. Just a little patience, determination and creativity!

Courses subject to change

PROGRAM INSTRUCTORS

Vicki Behm Sculpture—Session 1
Vicki is a painter and teaching artist who joins us for her sixth year at Summer Arts. She has been teaching art to children through the Studio In a School Foundation for eight years. She has led children’s art projects with the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, New York City Opera Company, the Brooklyn Museum of Art and Queens Museum of Art. She recently had a show of her sketchbooks and presented them in workshops at the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum.

Tony Soll Musique de Tony—Session 1
Tony has been playing the guitar forever (since he was 15). He is an accomplished songwriter for both children and adults, and is currently playing bass, guitar and singing with several groups around the New York City area. For over 20 years he has been both a BFS parent and teacher. Currently, he teaches humanities and journalism in the Middle School.

Susan Greenstein Printmaking—Session 1
Susan is a painter and children’s book illustrator. She has been a teaching artist for the Studio in a School Foundation for the past 11 years. Some of her favorite projects have included creating books, giant puppets and large mosaic installations. She is presently working with teachers at the Brooklyn Museum to create large-scale prints of NYC. Susan studied at Pratt Institute and has worked as a supervisor in Pratt's Saturday Art School Program.

Yasmin Spiro Wildly Wonderful Wearable Art—Session 1
Mixed Media Sculpture- Session 2 Yasmin is a sculptor and installation artist, teaching for the Studio in a School Foundation for the past four years. She also works as a Blueprint for the Arts facilitator in conjunction with the NYC DOE. She previously worked with the Doing Art Together program through the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and at Pratt's Saturday Art School. She holds a BFA in painting and an MFA in sculpture from Pratt Institute. Yasmin has recently shown her own work at galleries in Brooklyn and Miami.

Franklin Rossman Hip-Hop/Spoken Word—Session 2
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Franklin has always been intimately involved in music and Hip-Hop. He is a recording artist whose work has been featured on MTV, Ecko TV, and many other media outlets. In addition, Franklin has also developed the Hip Hop English Curriculum, which analyzes the music from a literary perspective. The curriculum has been implemented in W.E.B Dubois High School, and he has also taught workshops at numerous schools in New York City.

Tim Waugh Woodworking—Session 2
A native New Yorker, Tim had his first woodworking experience at Bank Street School for Children. He later went on to study photography and literature at NYU, but it wasn’t until he became an uncle that he realized that he wanted to be a teacher. For the last 17 years he has been teaching woodworking at BFS.

Andy Cohen Cel-Animation—Session 2
Andy is a filmmaker with over twenty year’s experience in the film and video industry. He studied filmmaking and earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts. For the past ten years Andy has taught animation, video production and digital media at BFS. In addition, he is the founder and creator of the renowned Bridge Film Festival; an annual festival featuring films made by students from Friends schools worldwide.

SCHEDULE AND FEES for SUMMER ARTS

Monday through Friday, 9am to 3pm.
“Early Bird” drop off available at 8:15 am at no additional cost.
“After Camp” available from 3:00-6:00 pm at an additional $10 per hour.
Lunch is not provided for Summer Arts students. A daily snack is provided.

Session 1:
June 18–July 11 $1428.00
(Note: Summer Arts will be closed on Wednesday, July 4th)

Session 2:
July 14–Aug 1 $1260.00

Program tuition includes the cost of registration fees, t-shirt, snacks and materials for each class. Enrollment for partial sessions is not available.

REGISTRATION for SUMMER ARTS

Registration deadline is April 15, 2008 To reserve a space for your child, a non-refundable deposit of $300.00 must accompany registration; the balance is due no later than June 1, 2008 Additional program materials, forms and an invoice will be mailed after registration. All forms must be completed and returned at least one week prior to your child’s first day of Summer Arts. Only children for whom we have full payment and completed forms will be allowed to attend Summer Arts.

Sessions fill quickly and space is limited. Students are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information on Summer Arts at BFS, contact Rachel Webber, director, at rwebber [at] brooklynfriends [dot] org or 718-852-1029, ext. 248.