Session a Class Descriptions

Session A Early Morning Activities 7:30 – 8:30 am Yoga Stretch (All Ages Welcome) Dropin class. Begin each morning by stretching into your day. This class will help you have higher energy levels throughout the day and will help you maintain the energy level you need for all of your Cazadero classes. Each morning we will do stretches for the whole body, including: hips, hamstrings, shoulders, neck, back and wrists. All levels and ages welcome. Bring your own yoga mat. (Melanie Green, no limit) 8:00 am Morning Wake Up Band (All Ages Welcome) This is an impromptu, volunteer camper band dear to our hearts for its many surprises. We have woken up to the sounds of tuba solos, angelic choirs, roving ukulele bands and energetic rattles in the hands of our very young campers. Meet at Kid City to warm up at 7:50 am daily and start the musical procession through camp. (Kerry Yates, no limit) 9:30 9:55 am All Camp Chorus (All Ages Welcome) “Look up and sing!” Each morning start your day off right. After many years, the Caz Family Camp tradition returns! Now everyone has the opportunity to let their voices rise up into the big beautiful redwoods. Right after breakfast and before your first scheduled class, join us and sing with the entire camp. (Aaron Elliot and Steven Patton, no limit) 9:30 – 9:55 am Kid City (2.5 – 5) Rosemary and Kerry open the doors of Kid City at 9:30 a.m., come and dropin with your child and help them transition before you leave for your 1st period class. Please refer to the end of class descriptions for details about Kid City.** (Rosemary Richie and Kerry Yates, no limit) Music, Mindfulness, & You (All Ages Welcome) Come to the field and reflect on your day of making music and art. Through an interactive art installation, campers can practice mindfulness by answering the daily question. What did you create today? (Selfguided, no limit) 1 PERIOD 1 (10:00 AM – 10:55 AM) P1 – Alphabet Rockers! Hip Hop Dance: "I CAN DANCE" Choreographers Workshop (8 – 12) Fresh Beat Band meets Schoolhouse Rock! Through movement, exploration and brainstorming, students learn the foundations of dance, in shapes, gestures and patterns. Students will explore rhythm, beats and the choreography of Alphabet Rockers positive music, and then create their own dance moves for a final performance. (Kaitlin McGaw and Tommy Shepherd, limit 20) P1 – Big Fun On Steel Drums (6 – 12) Classes will focus on different styles music played on the "Pans" (steel drums). Students will have fun playing in a steel drum ensemble and learn some basic rhythm, harmony, and melody. No experience is necessary. No reading is required. All instruments will be provided. (Mark Rosenthal, limit 11) P1 – Circus Arts (6 – adult) This class has something for everybody! Whether it is stilt walking, juggling, or standing on a globe, you will find something you love and will love performing at the Cazadero Clown and Circus Extravaganza on Saturday night! Amaze yourself (and your friends...) (Jill Fjeldheim and assisted by Iris DeSerio, limit 15) P1 – Classical Caz Ensemble (12 – adult; younger campers accepted based on ability to read music) Let's take it real "Old School". If Bach, Beethoven and Brahms are your thing, check out the Classical Ensemble. Our chamber group will perform at lunchtime, Open Mic and the Final Concert. Depending upon instrumentation and experience, we can break up into smaller groups, as well. Ability to read traditional notation is required. (Richard Vaughan, Lisa Chattler, Rebecca Steinberg, no limit) P1 – Creative Writing Performance Workshop (10 adult) Spoken Word Artist / Performer Joshua Silverstein utilizes spoken word as a device for this ultimate soul liberating workshop. In this safe space students will be encouraged to dig deep, share and perform their individual ideas, feelings and emotions. By taking a risk and taking this workshop, those who participate fully will experience the awesome of letting their inner voices be heard. (Joshua Silverstein, no limit) P1 – From Paper to Metal: Mixed Media (610) We’ll explore a variety of art techniques with different materials to create several small art projects. Using nature as our inspiration we will experiment with wire and beads to create bugs and critters, hammered nails and string to weave nameplates and learn how to make new paper from recycled. Using many materials easily available around the house kids will be able to take their newfound skills home to further explore their creative ideas. (Sarah Mayers, limit 15) 2 P1 – Gospel Choir (7 – adult) Have you always wanted to sing gospel music? Well here’s your chance! You are invited to be part of Family Camp’s rockin’ and soulful gospel choir! You will learn and perform spirituals, along with contemporary and traditional gospel music. Students will learn vocal and performance techniques, rhythms, and harmony. Singers from beginners to advanced, of all ages, are encouraged to join in the fun of learning and singing this exciting music. All you need is willingness, commitment, and a passion for making a “joyful noise!” (Bryan Dyer, no limit) P1 – HipHop Ensemble (11 – adult) In this collaborative ensemble, lyricists of all skill levels explore the art of spoken word and perform original verses for a final performance...with a live band! Those in the band should be more advanced players, capable of improvising and holding a steady groove. Concepts like remixing and sampling will be applied in our arrangements of hiphop covers/originals. (Mike Ruby, Jacob Rubin, and Isaac ButlerBrown, limit 3 guitars, 1 keys, 2 bass, 3 singers, 8 rappers) P1 – Kid City – Creative Play with Christie the Clown (2.5 – 5) Christina brings her bag of tricks to engage and entertain our youngest campers. Clowning, puppetry, scarf dancing, storytelling, magic and more!!! Please refer to the end of class descriptions for details about Kid City.**(Christina Lewis, Rosemary Richie, Kerry Yates, no limit) P1 – Line Dancing (8– adult) "If you want to dance, you have to get in line." Join us for an easy, fun classno partners needed. Learn line dances to country western tunes, salsa tunes and music from everywhere. Dance the "Electric Slide" and the "Cowboy Strut, " while you exercise your body and mind. (Barbara Arhon assisted by Gerhon Moore, no limit) P1 – Motown/Soul Band (12 – adult) The mighty Motown Band returns to Caz for an encore performance! This band is a smaller counterpart to Rock Band, geared toward more advanced players looking for a more intensive ensemble experience. We’ll cover several classic songs from the Motown and Soul repertoire, focusing on groove, arrangement, presentation, and very tight ensemble playing. Horn players (trumpet, sax, trombone) strongly encouraged! Bring your instruments and amps. (Jeremy Steinkoler, Aaron Elliott, limit 3 guitars, 2 keys, 2 bass, 2 drums, 6 vocalists) P1 – Piano: Rock and HipHop (13 – adult) Level: Intermediate Prerequisite: Ability to read and play 2handed piano sheet music; familiarity with major and minor chords. Come learn some cool rock and hiphop piano! We’ll play some tunes by a range of current and recent artists, and look at how the piano parts work musically in order to make up some grooves of our own. 3 There might be a class performance at the end of the week. Keyboards are provided, but bring your own headphones and 1/4” adapter. (Jennifer Jolly, limit 9) P1 – Sitting Around the Fire Telling Folktales; Traditional Storytelling (18 – adult) Learning and telling old fashioned folktales; stories that have been handed down from generation to generation, will be explored using storyboarding, guided meditation, ecstatic listening and appreciations. Each participant will select a folktale to learn and tell. We will create storyboards or pictures to build visual journeys that help us learn the tales. Then, using guided meditations we will flesh out the breathing living story in each folktale. Participants will practice ecstatic listening, finding what is alive for them and appreciating the tales told. (Michael Baefsky and Virginia Cunningham, limit 12) P1 – Stone Carving (8 – adult) In this class we will turn hunks of stone into really cool objects! We’ll focus on tool safety and how to work with the material. Objects will progress from selection, to shaping, to smoothing, to polishing. Tools include files, rasps, rifflers, saws, drills, sandpaper and elbow grease. Most students will produce two or three small objects, but I’ll have some larger stones if a student has a more ambitious agenda. Tired hands and small cuts are also part of the curriculum for most students. (Brennan O’Brien, limit 12) P1 – String Band (13 – adult) Open to all acoustic stringed instruments. We will play a variety of tunes, ranging from old fiddle tunes, to blues, swing, and more. Learn some great melodies, improvise, and have fun as part of the Cazadero String Band. (Steve Gibson, limit 10) P1 – Three Chords and the Truth: A Workshop for the New and the Experienced Songwriter (12 – adult) Writing your own original song can seem like an intimidating task, but creating simple songs can be a natural and easily accessible process. In this workshop, we’ll do a set of activities to play with lyrics, melodies and grooves and piece them together into songs. We will also draw inspiration from sample songs that we will listen to together. If you have an instrument that will help with the writing process, please bring it; if not, there will be a guitar and keyboard available to use. If you don’t play an instrument but want to write songs, come anyway! There will be techniques that you can use as well.

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