THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES
Faculty of Humanities and Education
Department of Creative and Festival Arts
Arts-in-Action’s Discovery Camp 2012
‘HEARTS OF GOLD’
Arts-in-Action, the Applied Creative Arts programme of the Department of Creative and Festival
Arts (DCFA), The University of the West Indies (UWI), will be conducting its annual Discovery Camp
for children aged 5 to 12. Now in its 23rd year, the Discovery Camp seeks to provide a facility
where young persons can engage in an arts-based process that is fun and educational, during their
long vacation (July-August), as it privileges the disciplines of art, dance, drama and music as
learning and developmental tools. Discovery Camp develops its annual arts curricula from broader
educational themes or domestic and international observances of relevance to our own cultural
space.
Given the commemoration of our nation’s 50th Anniversary of Independence, the DCFA’s 25th
Anniversary and Arts-in-Action’s 18th Anniversary, it is only fitting that this year’s camp highlight
these celebrations; hence the title, ‘Hearts of Gold’. Through the arts, our campers will enjoy a
vacation experience that will explore, reflect and enlighten them about these milestones. There
are field trips included in the camp package and weekly visits to the pool.
Discovery Camp will run for two sessions: July 9th-28th, and August 6th-18th, 2012 at the Senior
Common Room, UWI, St. Augustine. Discovery Camp hours are 9am-3pm, Monday to Friday.
Registration for the first cycle closes on June 29th, and the second cycle on July 27th 2012. For more
information please call 332-4AiA (4242), 789-7127, or 378-5759; or email us at
discoverycamp@artsinaction.org or email@artsinaction.org.
Discovery Camp... creating, discovering, empowering!