Colourstrings Music & Art Summer Camps 2012

All Camps will take place at the VSO School of Music, 843 Seymour Street.

To register please call the VSO School at 604-915-9500

Colourstrings summer camps will offer children aged 3-7, four different ‘themed’ programs, each of which guides them to express themselves through music, movement and the added element of  visual art, using ColourStrings educational principals. Through guided improvisation and working together in a group, children will explore, discover and create whilst building core musical skills.

Exclusively offered through the VSO School of Music this summer, each week- long summer Colourstrings camp integrates the worlds of music, movement and visual art in a uniquely creative and imaginative way.

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Session I              Monday, August 13 to Friday, August 17 (5 days)

Carnival of the Animals
 
TIME:                                   9.30-11.15am
AGE LEVEL:                        3-5 yrs
FEE:                                    $170
INCLUDES:                          45min music session ; 45min art session; materials included
REQUIREMENTS:                 Please bring your own snack and drink

The Carnival of the Animals is an imaginative musical suite of fourteen movements by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns that has delighted generations since its first performances in 1922. Each movement depicts a different animal and features an orchestral instrument.

In this camp, children will take part in an imaginary carnival celebration and become familiar with Saint-Saëns music. What would a kangaroo sound like on the xylophone? How could a painting turn into music? Children will be encouraged to conjure pictures in their minds, and then turn their imaginations into music, using xylophones and an array of percussion instruments. We will explore impressionist art and create art, crafts and percussion instruments to take home.

Session I              Monday, August 13 to Friday, August 17 (5 days)

The Paper Orchestra

TIME:                                    9.30-11.15am
AGE LEVEL:                         5-7yrs
FEE:                                     $170
INCLUDES:                           45min music session; 45min art session and materials
REQUIREMENTS:                 Please bring your own snack and drink

An orchestra is one of the world’s most amazing human structures, in which individuals work together to create something greater than the sum of its parts. 

In this camp, children will be guided to hand craft their own cardboard replicas of string instruments, then transform them into a visual piece of art. We will learn humorous stories about famous composers as well as the basic concepts of conducting an orchestra. On the last day of camp children will form an imaginative ‘orchestra’ as their paper instruments come alive and they present their debut concert. The Paper Orchestra develops a strong sense of community through imparting the concept that every individual has an integral role to play.

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Session II                             Monday, August 20 to Friday, August 24 (5 days)  

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
TIMES:                                  9.30-11.15am
AGE LEVEL:                         4-6yrs
FEE:                                     $170
INCLUDES:                           45min music session; 45min art session and materials
REQUIREMENTS:                 Please bring your own snack and drink

The Four Seasons is a set of four violin concertos and poems by Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi that depict spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Children will travel back to the baroque era with wigs adorned as we creatively move and use an array of instruments to portray elements of nature; rain, bird songs, cold, wind and other seasonal elements. We will learn about the four seasonal paintings by Marco Ricci that inspired Vivaldi’s work as we experiment with different art mediums and use found objects to create art and percussion instruments to take home.                                                                                                                                                                Session II                             Monday, August 20 to Friday, August 24 (5 days)

The Octopus’s Garden
TIMES:                                  9.30-11.15am
AGE LEVEL:                         3-5yrs
FEE:                                     $170
INCLUDES:                           45min music session; 45min art session and materials
REQUIREMENTS:                 Please bring your own snack and drink

Children dive into the jazzy blue sea in this jazz and be-bop-centered Colourstrings camp, becoming familiar with the sounds of some of the world’s classic jazz musicians which will culminate in making cool art and percussion instruments to take home. We will explore abstract art and encourage children to think about the different characteristics of sea life and how they could be expressed through movement and a variety of instruments.