Music Drama & Movement Art Camp

August 18 to 22, 2008
St. Vladimir's Cultural Centre,
404 Meredith Road (Memorial Drive and Edmonton Trail)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 or 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. daily (half days)

See the registration form for camp fees.

This half-day camp (either morning or afternoon*) is for all students aged 4-10 years. It's a half-day introductory arts extravaganza which runs for one week. No previous experience is necessary but is welcome. Enrollment and class size is limited. Students are grouped with other students of similar age and experience.

Classes are custom designed by five of Calgary’s top art educators, to provide an introduction to music, drama, movement and art and high quality instruction is given by professional teachers. The daily program will include forty minutes each of keyboard, rhythm and singing instruction, acting and focus games, movement and different dance forms, varied art techniques and there is a ten minute snack break. (Snacks and materials are supplied by CASSA.)This year’s camp theme is “Olympics.” Friday is open house family day.

NOTE: Enrollment for a full day is available. Students aged 9 and 10 can enroll in a half day of MDMA and a half day of PlayWriting Camp. Students aged 9 to 12 can attend both morning and afternoon sessions of PlayWriting Camp and participate in working on and performing in two separate and individual plays. Noon hour supervision will be provided but students must bring their own lunch.

* When you register we will attempt to accommodate your preference of morning or afternoon but we cannot guarantee availablity of spaces in either morning or afternoon camp.

2008 Teacher Profiles

Music: Nancie Redekop, Music, holds ARCT and AMUS Diplomas and is a member of the Alberta Registered Music Teachers' Association. She studied piano with Mary Naka Murakami and Maude McGuire and pipe organ with Roger Swinton in Moose Jaw and Dorothy Hare in Calgary. In Saskatchewan she competed in Kiwanis festivals from age 5-19 and was busy as an accompanist. For 3 years she was a travelling piano teacher to Avonlea, Briercrest and Mortlach. During the 1970's Nancie and Hal Redekop toured Western Canada and the Northern States with their night club band and backed up acts like the Allan Sisters.

After settling in Calgary, Nancie taught the Yamaha group program for 4 years and gave private piano and organ lessons. At First Assembly Nancie played for several "Singing Christmas Tree" productions and the Pentacost Presents TV show. Hal and Nancie have played at Soul Tatoo coffee house and have been guest soloists at many Calgary and area churches.

Nancie currently teaches the "Music For Young Children" program for 3-8 year olds as well as keeping up her private home studio. Other interests include two-piano work with Janice Dahlberg, accompanying singer Sharon Braun, collecting musical gift items and doing all types of crafts

Music Assistant: Michelle Taylor is a Certified Teacher of the Music for Young Children program who has been teaching this program for 8 years in Calgary. Her background includes grade IX Royal Conservatory

piano. She loves working with kids and has experience teaching children of all ages. As well as music she has taught swimming lessons and figure skating. In her spare time she sings lead soprano with and is the accompanist for a female quartet, Quarter Notes. She is the mother of two great kids ages 8 and 10 who have gotten their musical start with her in the Music For Young Children program. She assisted with the MDMA camp last summer and is excited to be back for another year of fun!

Drama: Darren Dyck has been teaching with the Calgary Board of

Education for seventeen years and is currently an assistant principal at James Fowler High School. His academic background includes a Bachelor of Education Degree with a Drama Major and a Masters of Arts Degree in Drama Education. He has been involved in drama and theatre for the past 22 years and believes that students growth and development is achieved best when children are actively engaged in drama experiences. His credits as a director of theatre for young people include over 30 different shows and most recently include Bugsy Malone, Scarlett Letter and West Side Story.

Movement: Meghan Drennan has taught dance and ESL workshops and residencies for the public and separate public school boards in Calgary and Montreal for the past four years. She is presently working on performances and dance residencies with Three Left Feet, an Alberta based Children's Dance company. She is classically trained in ballet, and has also trained with Nyata-Nyata, and under various West African, yoga, and flamenco specialists. Her degree in Cultural Anthropology and her commitment to dance stems from an interest in developing self awareness, understanding, and being inspired through challenging experiences of difference.

Art: Ken Morgan received his diploma from the Alberta College of Art in fine art painting and

sculpture in 1974 and his Bachelor of Education at the University of Calgary in 1977. During the past twenty-eight years he has been employed by the Calgary Board of Education mainly at the junior high level. He worked with children from grades 1 through 6 for two years at the Victoria Community School. He enjoys the enthusiasm and spontaneity of the young and looks forward to working with this age group again. Mr. Morgan presented two workshops at the Arts 200 Conference and was on the ongoing committee for the Arts 2000 and 2001 conferences. Mr. Morgan is currently the fine arts curriculum leader at Tom Baines School where he teaches visual arts to students grades 7 through 9. He has taught in the CASSA summer camps for the past nine years.

For more information on CASSA programs

call Linda Kundert-Stoll at 403-271-0418,
or fax us at 403-278-3236
or call Janice Dahlberg at 403-287-1856.
or e-mail us here

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