Session B Early Morning Activities
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SESSION B EARLY MORNING ACTIVITIES Advance signup is not required for early morning activities. 7:30 – 8:30 am Yoga Stretch (All Ages Welcome) This is a daily dropin class. Students will spend the first part of class exploring yoga stretches to prepare the body to sit with more ease. The rest of the class will be devoted to a guided meditation. Different meditation techniques will be taught. This class is especially designed for those who are interested in learning more about sitting meditation and how to cultivate these techniques in their daily lives as a means to increase body awareness and overall health. All levels and ages welcome. Bring your own yoga mat. (Melanie Green, dropin) 8:00 – 9:00 am Morning Pilates (All Ages Welcome) Start each day with Pilates beneath the towering redwoods. We'll begin each class with classic mat abdominals—laying down a strong core foundation for the day ahead. The second half of each class will focus on selfcare techniques for a different part of the body; back, feet, shoulders, knees, and pelvic floor. Leave camp with a toolkit for maintaining a healthy, painfree alignment. This class is suitable for rank beginners and more experienced practitioners. Bring a Pilates mat or two yoga mats. Plan to dress in stretchy layers as we will be outdoors while it is still cool. (Laurie Leiber, dropin) 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, dropin) 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? (Emiliana SimonThomas, dropin) 8:30 9:30 am All Camp Chorus (All Ages Welcome) 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. Dropin and sing! Learn whole songs in a short class time before breakfast. You can come one day or all five days learn entire tunes with multiple voice parts. (Aaron Elliott and Steven Patton, dropin) 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 st transition before you leave for your 1 period class. Please refer to the website for details about Kid City. (Rosemary Richie and Kerry Yates, no limit) 1 PERIOD 1 (10:00 AM – 10:55 AM) 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 Hannah Kahn, limit 15) P1 – Classic Country Songs Ensemble (13 – adult) Prerequisite: Able to play basic chords on an instrument played in a Honky Tonk Band and/or want to sing melody or harmony! guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, accordion, fiddle, lap steel, etc. Classic Country Songs! George, Patsy, Loretta, Merle, Hank we'll work up harmonies and simple arrangements, and sing and play through classic country songs, paying attention to some nuances and what makes them so achybreaky awesome. Bring your instruments and we'll pass around solos, or practice playing and singing, backing up singers, etc. Be ready for the Caz Honky Tonk Friday night! If you love that old honky tonk sound, or have no experience in this genre, this class will get you hooked! (Evie Ladin, no limit) P1 – Classical Caz Ensemble (13 – adult; younger campers accepted based on ability to read music) What could be better than playing Chamber Music in the redwoods! Depending upon instrumentation and experience, we will form small ensembles and work up pieces to perform at lunch time in the dance hall. If you love chamber music, this is the class for you! Ability to read traditional notation is required. (Sascha Jacobsen and Rebecca Steinberg, limit 20) P1 – Creative Writing Performance Workshop, Beginning (10 adult, recommended for first time participants) 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, limit 25) P1 – Creek Walks (6 – adult) Scour the creek every day for bugs, crawlies, birds, mammal tracks and sign, and all things Naturey. (Will Hoyt, limit 20) P1 – Drum Set, Beginning (12 – adult) Learn basic grooves in rock, jazz, latin and R&B, while exploring the world of fourway independence with 2 hands and 2 feet. A fun way to learn more about feel, time, and pocket. No experience necessary. Instruments will be provided. Bring your own sticks. (Keith Terry, limit 6) P1 – Fruit Rhythm Ensemble (9 – adult) Fruit Rhythms are a powerful way to learn and retain rhythms. All great drumming traditions use some kind of verbal way to describe or teach rhythm. I like to use fruit names to teach rhythms and in this class we will play percussion ensemble music like a well oiled machine all through this easy, low stress method. If you can say it, you 2 can play it! Prerequisites, you must have a voice and be able to speak, and a desire to have fun. (Brian Rice, limit 12) P1 – HandsonHarps (8 – adult) HandsonHarps with harps provided is a class designed for everyone that would like to play the harp! Simple but beautiful songs and patterns will be taught. We will learn basic melodies as well as learn to improvise some of our own! No experience is required; bring only your fingers and a desire to play one of the world’s most calming instruments. (Lisa Lynne, limit 10 unless you bring your own harp) P1 – Hats! Beginning Knitting (10 – adult) Never knit before? Tried, struggled and gave up? No worries! Knitting is relaxing, productive and creative and if you've been intimidated in the past, this may well be the class that turns it all around for you. Hats are a great lowstress, highinterest place to start, because you get to use all the basics (casting on, increasing, decreasing, bindingoff) in one quick project. We'll be developing our own patterns for our hats, too! (Coriander Reisbord, limit 12) 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 website for additional details about Kid City. (Christina Lewis, Rosemary Richie, Kerry Yates, no limit) P1 – Melodica Madness! (8 – adult) Melodica is the new ukulele! It's cheap, portable, and superfun. It's easy to learn and is perfect for playing along with friends on guitar or uke. In this class we'll learn to play melodies and chords, we'll jam out on some simple songs, and we'll hit the road to play at Kid City and other venues around camp. No experience necessary. A limited number of melodicas will be available for use; for hygienic reasons, tubes can't be shared but a few will be available for purchase at camp. Contact Jennifer if you would like purchasing tips. (Jennifer Jolly, limit 20) P1 – Mexican Song and Dance for Families (6 – adult) Adults and children together will learn traditional Mexican son using percussive dance, sung poetry, and rhythm instruments (such as the cajón and the donkey jaw bone!). We will warm up with singing games, and learn songs from different areas of Mexico (son jarocho from Veracruz and son de artesa from Guerrero) which explode with rhyme, polyrhythm and fun animal characters. (Arwen Lawrence, Jorge Liceaga, limit 12) 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. (Steven Patton, Aaron Elliott, and Michelle Jacques, limit 3 guitars, 2 keys, 2 bass, 2 drums, 6 vocalists) P1 – Movement and Metaphor (13 – adult) Movement, drawing, poetry, creativity...life! In this NEW class, we'll explore the bridge between art and life, using movement as a beginning point. During the week, we'll move through different expressive medium to create a short performance piece based on your own personal material and life metaphors.