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Announcing Y-Arts Summer Camp 2010!

Y Arts — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:55:37 +0000

Information about the 2010 Y-Arts summer camp, including registration details, has been posted to our Web site on the Camps page! We are excited to share what we have in store.

The camp, which is entitled the Y Media Works Summer Institute 2010, runs 5 weeks, from June 28 through July 30, 2010, and a commitment to all 5 weeks is required. During the first week, campers will stay overnight from Monday through Friday at Camp Ohiyesa in Holly, MI, for an intensive team building experience in the outdoors. Activities such as swimming, canoeing, and high ropes will be offered during the day; our evenings will be spent learning about the media production process and planning our productions. After we come back from the July 4 holiday, the remaining four weeks of camp will be spent in teams creating a variety of digital media for local community partners (our clients!). Camp will run from 9am to 4pm, Monday through Thursday.

Space is limited, so the application process will be very competitive.

For more information, and to register, please visit the Camps page!

Detroit Free Press Grant Provides For a More High Tech Media Camp

Y Arts — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:37:57 +0000

Campers at the Y Arts 2009 Summer Media Camp are getting hands-on experience with new high definition video technology thanks to a grant from the Detroit Free Press’ 17th annual Summer Dreams program. Together with the Skillman Foundation, the Free Press raises money for summer camps “that give kids opportunities to experience and enjoy life in new and exciting ways.” Y Arts put the award they received this year toward several high definition video cameras to create the camp’s main media project, a 30 minute pilot episode for a healthy choices-themed children’s show. Students aged 12 to 18 are filming the magazine-style show’s segments, all of which are conceptualized and produced entirely during the six week camping experience.

Y Arts is delivering the camp in partnership with the Macomb County Abstinence Partnership (MCAP) and the East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC). Each partner is delivering a complete curriculum to the camp, giving kids the tools to make healthy choices when confronted with drugs, alcohol, and sexual activity (MCAP’s portion), as well as a smart respect for our local environment and investigations into issues of environmental justice (EMEAC’s portion). The kids use the information and knowledge gained from these groups as the subject matter of their video and other media, which they learn to produce from the Y Arts team of multimedia and visual artists.

You can read about the entire Summer Dreams program in this feature from the Detroit Free Press which outlines this and other camps it supports. Please consider giving to this incredible program, and if you have given already, please accept a sincere thank you from Y Arts, MCAP, EMEAC and the more than 50 children using the cameras this summer!

Summer Camp 2009

Y Arts — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:02:40 +0000

2009 Y Media Arts Camp

Our summer camp is shaping up to be a really great Summer experience. We’d like to invite anyone aged 12 to 16 who is interested in film/video, Web design, digital photography, graphic design, animation… all things digital… to apply. The camp runs from 9am to 4pm beginning July 6 and ending August 14. We have a lot of work to do in the way of making films and other media (we offer a project-based curriculum), so we are asking students to commit to the entire 6 week session. The cost of the camp is $0 (yup, ZERO DOLLARS… except a $50 registration fee for those accepted).

For more information and to download the camp application, visit our Camp page!