TRICA: Treasure Valley Institute for Children's Arts

 Summer camps for 2011: great teachers, meaningful curriculums, wonderful tuition!

Inspire ingenuity in your children...

Everyone secretly wants to be a Rock Star...   Teachers: Ryan Peck and Jared Goodpaster of Boise Rock SchoolThis is a summer camp devoted to the art of rock and roll. Students will form a band, choose a name, make a poster and learn some rocking tunes. At the end of the camp, students will give a short, amazing concert the final 15 minutes of camp. Instruments are provided.   Ages 3-6: June 20-25, M-F 10-12 pm noon   Ages 7-12: June 27- July 1, M-F 1:30-3:30 pm

Dance on Cardboard, Ghetto Blast, Tag and Scratch   Teachers: Jon Swarthout with Boise B-BoysWe will learn...exciting break dance steps, how to tap into yourself and create your own new moves,  the inspiring story of the history of breakdance in America, design and paint you own graffiti art on a backdrop, turntable scratching. On Saturday we perform an old school, breakdance style performance on cardboard at the Downtown Boise Farmer's Market in the Grove. The Boise B-Boys will also show up to perform with us (and they are incredible).Sign up if you dare!   Ages 3-5:Aug. 8-13, M-F 10 -12 noon, Sat. Performance at 10:30   Ages 5-8:June 20-25, M-F 1:30-3:30 pm, Sat. Performance at 11:30   Ages 8-12:Aug. 8-13, M-F 1:30-3:30 pm, Sat. Performance at 11:30

Street Dance inspired by Great Authors and Illustrators   Teacher: Jon Swarthout & friends In Dance Performance Camp students participate in a daily dance class with live music. They learn and rehearse choreography using meaningful literature carefully chosen by Ms. Jillian Subach from the Collister Library as themes, help design and paint a backdrop inspired by the illustrations from the book, take neighborhood dance walks, and put on a free show for friends, family and the public on Saturday at the Downtown Boise Farmers' Market.   Ages 3-5:June 6-11, M-F 10 -12 noon, Sat. Performance at 10:30   Ages, 5-8:July 11-16, M-F 10 -12 noon, Sat. Performance at 10:30

Princess Wand...check, Big Tutu...check, dream fulfilled...check!   Teacher: Jon Swarthout & friends Designed to fulfill a young girl's dream of becoming a ballerina princess. A similar structure to the Dance Performance Camps but using classical music and ballet as the theme. Creativity and storytelling will lead students through the fundamentals of ballet dancing. Classes will emphasize whimsy, joyous movement and love of music. Students will make a magical princess wand and we provide fantastically over-sized tutus created by Lita John Hechanova Demitita especially for this program! Performance on Saturday at Downtown Boise Farmer's Market   Ages 3-5:June 27-July 2, M-F 10-12 noon, Sat. performance at 10:30July 18-23, M-F 10-12 noon, Sat. performance at 10:30Aug 15-20, M-F 10-12 noon, Sat. performance at 10:30   Ages 5-8 Aug 1-6, M-F 10-12 noon, Sat performance at 10:30

Be in, direct and edit your own film   Teacher: Tom Nash & friends Join us in the exciting world of movie making! Campers will act in exciting stories designed for the screen. Campers are both the role of movie maker and actors within the film. They will experience and learn movie set terminology such as "action", "cut", "mark" and "frame". They will get a chance to see themselves on camera and adjust for "what the camera sees".  The finished product will be a DVD of their performance to be shown the final 15 minutes of camp on the final day and one to take home to keep as well.Ages 3-6: June 13-17, M-F 10 -12 noon   Ages 7-12: June 13-17, M-F 1:30-3:30 pm

"I love acting. It is so much more real that real life"  -Oscar Wilde   Teacher:  Sandra Cavanaugh & friends Acting camps for budding actors interested in tapping deeper into their own character to learn how to playfully bring to life fun, memorable characters for the stage and screen. Participants will learn the secret behind effective acting-playing actions-and how to creatively use their unique personality to accomplish what their character needs in a scene. Each day is built around structured play, using improv games, acting exercises and basic scenes to build each actor's confidence and willingness to risk. Participants will have fun learning tools to help them approach any acting challenge.   Ages 7-12: Aug 1-5, M-F 1:30-3:30 pm

Dance and drum to the beat of Africa!      Teacher: Ben Pursley, Rachel Burke and Liz TannerMake music on traditional West African hand drums  and become acquainted with the cultural and historical importance of the rhythms, songs, and dances of Africa.  (All drums are provided).       Ages 3-6: June 27-July 2, M-F 10 -12 noon   Ages 7-12: July 18-22, M-F 1:30-3:30 pm

"Hi, Ho! Kermit the Frog here!"-Kermit   Teachers: Jon and Linda Swarthout(Jon's mom, a very talented and accomplished puppeteer is coming out of retirement to teach this camp!)  Each student will build a hand  puppet, engage their imaginations, and choose a character to match their puppet. Their puppets will come alive on a special puppet theater stage for their final presentaton. Using characterization techniques, each student will engage in  acting exercises to promote vocal projection and puppet stage movement that reflects speech and story.At the end of the week there will be a free performance for friends and family the final 15 minutes of class.   Ages 3-12: Aug. 15-19, M-F 1:30-3:30 pm(divided into age appropriate work groups within 1 camp)

Girls wanna Rock! Empowering female energy...   Teachers:Karen Smith and Gayl Loutzenheiserof Wild Thyme Studio Amp up your camp! Girls Rock Boise is developed to empower girls using the tools of music education to foster selt-esteem and confidence. During this week girls will form a band, learn to play instruments, write their own songs and perform together.  Please specify your preference of guitar, bass, keyboards, drums or vocals.  All levels of experience are welcome.  Students will perform a band concert the last 15 min of class on the final day.**Classes will be held at Wild Thyme Studio, 2121 Sunset, Boise, 83702.   Ages 7-12: June 20-25, M-F 1:30-3:30 pm

 

Broadway Splash: triple the teachers=triple the fun!     Teachers: Jillian Subach, Jon Swarthout, and Trey BirkheadAn introduction to musical theater featuring drama, song, and dance.  Students will get the experience of being in a musical as the explore one musical theater scene.  They will learn blocking, drama, voice projection, song, dance, movement, and how an actor connects emotionally with an audience. At the end of the workshop students will perform showing parents and friends their work to produce this tightly woven piece.    Ages 3-6: July 25-29, M-F 10-12 pm noon   Ages 7-12: July 25-29, M-F 1:30-3:30 pm "Once again, I am sincerely impressed with the instruction provided by TrICA and their highly qualified team. My son thoroughly enjoyed his first day at Sword Dancing camp and we are looking forward to the rest of the camp. We have taken far too many camps throughother providers where classroom management has gotten in the way of really awesome instruction and I am so thankful the TRICA has managed to avoid this pitfall. We are very lucky to have such a high caliber art program, with such diversity, available to our kiddos. Keep up the incredible work!" -Megan Fuller