The institute of creative arts is hosting a summer camp for children across the country who are interested in the Arts. It includes singing, dancing, painting, drama, piano and keyboard lessons, fashion design and jewelry making. The Camp will last for 2 months and will cater for children 7 years and older. Today, 7news spoke with the coordinator, Joseph Stamp Romero.
Joseph Stamp Romero - Summer Arts Coordinator, ICA
"This year, we're doing summer programs in voice, drama, dance, piano, and fashion design; that's in the districts - In the Belize District. Other districts have their own programs going on, that has their various disciplines going there. With the fashion design, for example, we have Dayna Brown, and she is with our Design Wing, and we will be coming in to do a fashion workshop, from July 18 - 22. So that will be at the House of Culture, so people can come and learn the introduction to fashion design, through Dayna Brown. Frankie Reneau will be back working with the students on piano. Kellie Cadogan, from Barbados, will be doing her voice lesson with persons that she had last year. And also, in drama, the Theatre Company - the Belize Theatre Company- will be working with students in drama. the Belize Dance Company will be working - will be doing a special workshop in dance. The idea is to expand, to make the summer arts a little more exciting. There are so many different areas that you can expand to, and how you can improve the arts. And I think these are some of the ideas that came up, and we wanted to make sure that we have different things going on to grab more interests of more people. So, I think that those are some of the things that we looked at and said, 'Okay, these are some the things that we can add to these programs to make it a much more exciting summer."
For additional information and registration forms you can go to www.nichbelize.org or you can call telephone numbers 2-2-7-2-1-1-0 or 2-2-7-2-4-5-8.
The Muslim Community of Belize is also having a summer camp for children July fourth to the fourteenth at no cost - registration will be on Friday.
