Focus Central Art Camp Enchants as it Educates

  • Crystal Hosea (above) teaches singing to students, with Art Camp assistant Jenn Parker, as they learn secrets of singing and rhythm (next). The kids stayed focused and engaged while Hosea took them through simple but effective steps to understand melodic changes.

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    Crystal Hosea (above) teaches singing to students, with Art Camp assistant Jenn Parker, as they learn secrets of singing and rhythm (next). The kids stayed focused and engaged while Hosea took them through simple but effective steps to understand melodic changes.

  • Crystal Hosea (prior photo) teaches singing to students, with Art Camp assistant Jenn Parker, as they learn secrets of singing and rhythm (above). The kids stayed focused and engaged while Hosea took them through simple but effective steps to understand melodic changes.

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    Crystal Hosea (prior photo) teaches singing to students, with Art Camp assistant Jenn Parker, as they learn secrets of singing and rhythm (above). The kids stayed focused and engaged while Hosea took them through simple but effective steps to understand melodic changes.

  • The kids stayed focused and engaged while Hosea took them through simple but effective steps to understand melodic changes.

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    The kids stayed focused and engaged while Hosea took them through simple but effective steps to understand melodic changes.

  • Steve Hill explains computer aids for song writing.

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    Steve Hill explains computer aids for song writing.

  • Youth from the Mountain Institute of Kung Fu and Tai Chi conducted the martial arts training July 19-23.

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    Youth from the Mountain Institute of Kung Fu and Tai Chi conducted the martial arts training July 19-23.

The Focus Central Art Camp July 19-23 was a blazing success. Youth 4-16 years rotated to study three art forms each day for five days in an imagination-expanding immersion course held at the Assembly of God building in Frazier Park.

Classes included music, painting, kung fu, jazz, hip-hop dancing, songwriting with Steve Hill, piano and drums, sculpture, ceramics, acting and wildlife painting with Arts for Earth Foundation’s Michelle Nosco. The invigorating class structure was coordinated by Mary Pivetti.

More than 70 children attended each day, including all the Boys & Girls Club kids, who came all five days.

—P. Hedlund

This is part of the July 30, 2010 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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