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Kids College

Kids College is a series of interactive workshops designed especially for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. These week long sessions help students develop their imaginations, voices and bodies by teaching skills which help them grow - both as artists and as people. In addition, these workshops come gift-wrapped in a setting that's warm, nurturing, supportive and extremely fun.

Sing Your Heart Out

Sing with the piano, play piano for singers, or do both during this week of vocal expression. A final performance features the best of what you do!
Instructors: Keith Drayton and Joanne Rauback Drayton

Showbiz Kids

Explore the secrets of performing onstage as a singing group - using choreography and gesture to bring zing to your singing. Be part of a final performance showcasing your talents.
Instructors: Keith Drayton and Joanne Rauback Drayton

Write On

Write with passion and play, imagination and thoughtfulness about worlds you experience and the worlds you dream.  Explore poetry and fiction.  The final class features reading the best of what you've written.
Instructor: Martha Petry

Jazz It Up

Explore your own unique and creative expression through dance and movement.  Improvise with energy, joyfully concentrate on dancing with pizzazz.  Experiment with different dance styles.  Create and perform your own individual and group dances.
Instructor:  Martha Petry

 

Enter Stage Right

Enjoy a week of theatre learning and fun - acting workshops, acting warm ups, theatre decorum, make up demonstrations, theatre lingo, exploring the theatre upstage, down stage backstage, and under the stage. Write and perform your own short play.
Instructor: Sandy DiCesare

Hairy Potter

Get your hands into the clay, work on the potter's wheel, and have fun. Make toad houses, gargoyles, and shakers - your own creations that you can take home with you.
Instructor: Tom McMillen Oakley

Summer Band Camp

                                                 Jackson Community College Band Camp provides an outstanding musical experience for young musicians. The morning session focuses on the particular needs of students who have completed the first year of instruction, while the afternoon is for students with more than one year of instruction, but who have not yet attended high school. A "Finale" concert celebrates two weeks of learning!
Instructor: Ron Douglass

Click here for an application to the Summer Band Camp

 

 

 

For more information on Kids College, please contact Language, Literature, and Arts Department at 517.796.8582

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