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January 2015 In This Issue Featured Alum ............................................................. 2 Alumni Info ................................................................... 3 Sarv’s Corner ................................................................ 4 Camper Artwork ......................................................... 5 Appel Farm For Life ................................................... 6 Camp Reunions ........................................................... 7 Ice Cream Parties ........................................................ 8 Look Who’s Coming to Camp 2015 ....................... 9 Fun at the Funplex! We are counting the days until March 28th, when we can catch up with you at the Appel Farm Spring Reunion at the Funplex! It will be fun! It’s at the Funplex! Everyone is invited, campers, alumni, families and friends! In the meantime, Appel Farm might be visiting a town near you! Until then, please enjoy meeting camp alumnae, Khristina Williams, and read about the connection between Breath and Butterflies with Sarv. Check out our talented campers’ artwork, celebrate Appel Farm For Life, and see who’s eating ice cream in the cold of winter! See who’s already signed up, and continue your countdown to Camp 2015! We would love to hear from you as well! Let us know what you’re up to! Share news about your art, upcoming shows, college, jobs, family, and life in general! Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/ appelfarmcamp. Save the date for our Camp Reunions, and check out all the posts on our School Year Blog. Let’s stay in touch all year, and next thing you know it’ll be time to come back to camp! See you at the Funplex on March 28th! photos by AC Jimenez Cori, Jennie and Rachel Stay in Touch! Refer a Friend! Register for Camp 2015 before January 31st, and receive ; Read the Appel Core! If you know anyone who Submit Appel Juice! might be a great fit for the a $500 discount off your 4, 6, or 8-week tuition! ; ; Schedule a play-date community at Appel Farm with your camp friends! (and who would know better than you guys,) we ; Read the School Year would love to introduce Blog! ourselves! ; Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, You can refer a friend on Twitter, and Pinterest! our website, or just give us ; Come to our Camp a call! (856) 358-2472 [email protected] www.appelfarmartscamp.org Reunions! FEATURED ALUM Khristina Williams 1. When were you at camp? I attended Appel Farm for the summers of 2004, 2005, and 2006 during the second session! 2. What was your major and what were some of your minors? My first summer at camp I majored in Visual Arts. My second and third year I discovered my love for acting, and decided to major in Theater Performance. It was such a fun experience!! Some of my minors included Costume Design, Stage Camp 2006: Costume Design Minor 2014: Reporting for FashionOne Television at the Emmy’s Combat, and Ceramics. 3. What was camp like when Television. I love what Outside of work I helped me to step you were a camper and I do. The best part of spend a lot of my free outside of my comfort what are some of your my job is traveling and time doing community zone and challenge favorite memories? getting to interview outreach and volunteer myself daily. Camp was the one thing cool people. This past work. One organization I looked forward to every Summer I had a chance that I work with is the GH 6. What advice or suggestions do you have year! Appel Farm was to attend the Emmy’s, Girls’ Basketball league. for present day Appel Farm like my second home MTV VMA’s, and the BET I get to spend 2 days campers? and I met some of the Awards! I’m also heading a week coaching and most amazing people to LA in a few days to mentoring young girls. My advice to present day there, whom I’m still cover the Golden Globes. Appel Farm campers is friends with today. Some Some of my acting jobs 5. How do you think you were to figure out what you’re influenced by your Appel of my favorite memories include a national Secret passionate about, and Farm experience? at camp were the deodorant commercial, a then pursue it! Dream Friday Night Concerts, Britney Spears Radiance My experience at Appel big! Don’t downgrade shaving cream fights, promo commercial Farm was where it all your dream to fit your “Halloween” night, and (MTV,) and Angelo (short started. It helped me to reality. Upgrade your of course the fabulous film by award winning figure out who I am and conviction to match your dance parties. director Flavio Alves.) what I was passionate destiny. All things are I also had the chance about. Growing up I had possible! 4. Where are you living now, to work with actress some social interaction and what are you doing for Giving Opportunities To Others Cameron Diaz in 2013; issues, so if you told work and fun? me back then that I’d Over the past thirteen years, GOTO she interviewed and has sent 129 campers, including I am currently living in photographed me to be be talking to people Khristina, to Appel Farm. GOTO New York City, and I’m on the cover sleeve of for a living, I wouldn’t scholars attend camp for an actress and freelance her book, The Body Book. have believed it. My up to three summers on TV host for FashionOne experience at camp full scholarships. www.thegotogroup.org Alum Info Join Us! Speed Dating Falling in love in between majors, minors, and everything else... an evening with How many Appel Farmers met the love of their lives at camp? In the past 15 years, at least Rachael and Jeremy Basescu, Jo and Mike Leibowitz, Jackie and Andy Havington, Issy and Friends of Appel Farm Jake Charrot-Grinsdale, Loes and Eli Wing, Antea Roberts and Wesley Bogan, Joanna and We would like to invite all of our Gabe Branch, Emily Rand and Seth Werlin... These counselors were so busy teaching and Alumni, funders, volunteers, and taking care of campers, it’s amazing they found time to flirt, let alone fall in love! Board Members for An Evening with Friends of Appel Farm. Maybe, despite the schedule of a camp counselor, immersing yourself in a caring, supportive We’ll be gathering for a wine environment that welcomes you, inspires and requires you to be your best self, and celebrates and cheese social in our Theater your passions, makes you pretty easy to love. Caring for children, teaching, and making art Gallery to catch up on all of our are all very attractive...and it can’t hurt that you are stuck in Elmer with 90 of your peers, memories of Appel Farm, and either! then joining the audience of the long standing tradition...our We love our staff, and we get a kick out of how many of you love each other! Let’s Friday Night Concert! get all these couples together for a love-in Friday, July 17th this September at the Friday, August 14th Appel Farm Alumni Reunion. Appel Farm Alumni Reunion Appel Farm is celebrating 55 years of Camp! We are inviting Appel Farm camper and counselor alumni along with their families and friends to spend Labor Day Weekend at Appel Farm. Let’s all get together, live in a bunk, explore the arts, remem- ber our camp days, catch up with old friends, and celebrate the Appel Farm community. Ben Fink, a camper in 1996-98 and current staff member, is get- ting a group of Alumni together to start planning the reunion. Let us know if you want to help! September 4-7, 2015 #AppelFarmForLife Preparation, Incubation, Illumination, Implementation Breath and Butterflies Imagine that someone is as natural as breath itself. As accusing you of something. long as we take breath, we It can be anything: borrowing are inspired. And all of us go something without asking; through changes as dramatic telling someone a confidential as butterflies. secret; cheating on a test— Inspiration is a fact of life. It anything. You didn’t do it. belongs to all of us. And, yes, And your response is to say, I mean artistic inspiration as “Who? Me?” well. Inspiration draws from Where do you point your our heart and soul and from finger when you say that? our very breath. Where is that “me” you point In our world today, the head to? You do not point at your has become overrated. Many head. You do not point at educators have forgotten that your stomach, your feet, or wise saying that it is better to your legs. Everybody points light a fire than fill a bucket to their chest. We point to when it comes to teaching. where our lungs and heart Students today barely have reside—our breath and our time to catch their breath. soul. At Appel Farm we have a Sometimes we need to look chance to take a breath. at old words with new eyes. We can nourish our own Camp families Take “inspiration.” It means inspiration and the inspiration see their taking breath in. When of others. Of course we can campers’ final we point to our chest we do this in our art. But we can products during are pointing to that place do it relation to each other Performance of breath—of inspiration. as well. Week, but here’s Similarly, expiration is the a sneak peek at opposite. The breath goes My mother—an artist, poet their creative out. Our last breath is an and teacher once said, “the process, from exhalation. And we expire. real art is life.” It is as natural preparation to and wondrous as drawing The ancient Greeks had a implementation! breath.