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Where the life flow from our natural world meets the hearts of humanity Hugs, smiles, and friendship...Children have a natural desire to explore their environment Costumes and capes at this years Solstice will feature in each Friday performance New friends, helping each other balance things out on the pedal go go's Creative Director Katherine McLeod works with talented artists from around the world to bring the programs to lifeAmazing crafts provide us with some quiet moments of creatingA place where the tall always enjoy helping the smallChildren enjoy our special craft and cooking each Friday at Carnivale Both boys and girls love our daily art programSoccer is a wonderful way to release energy and create team spiritThis Solstice will take us to Rivers of the World! Children will have the opportunity to play the Gasong Drums at our Solstice programFacilitators who care and help out at every turnEven dads love to give the hoola hoops a go!In search of the river source... Camp Magic Solstice 2012 Celebrates Rivers of the World Let the rivers run... By Katherine McLeod   Coming from Canada, a place of natural beauty... rivers and lakes running into and out of each other….the river has always inspired me. Some of my fondest childhood memories involved rivers... Canoeing down the river with my grandparents, jumping into the river and over waterfalls close to our home, skating on them during the long winters, walking up and down the banks in warmer weather, exploring all of the insect life that abounds around rivers in the short Canadian summers.   If life is to survive in our world's rivers, we need to start taking better care of them. Ensuring that for generations to come these remarkable places are there for our children and grandchildren. Let's learn about Rivers of the World so that we can, in turn, realize even more that protecting our rivers is of utmost importance.   Solstice is our Camp Magic program that focuses on stories in nature. We like to highlight a different place in nature each December that will inspire children to further explore and understand their natural environment. Our world is a place of magnificent beauty... a gift. Now more than ever geography and environmental education needs to be fully integrated into our mindscapes. What better way to immerse our imaginations into these places than through story, dance, art, movement, music, circus, and song. This is what we do best at Camp Magic...   AMAZING ACTIVITIES ON OFFER! Stilt Walking in Costumes and Capes Cinzia Ciarmicolli will be taking stilt walking with children even further this camp, offering them costumes and capes to wear once they have learned to walk on free-standing stilts. Storytelling Yoga Yeshi Eperjesi will be taking children on story journeys through yoga this Solstice. Fantastic Flag Formations By popular demand, Alberto Martinez will again be joining us and directing the Friday Flag Formations during our December program. Incredible Soap Box Stories Alberto and Johnny Gillett will be teaming up this year with weekly Soap Box Stories. Gasong Drums Katherine McLeod will be creating River Ga-songs with groups using the beautiful Gasong drums. Mesmerizing instruments, they are actually re-cycled gas cylinders. Children love to listen to and play these. Guitar Lessons We are excited to have Linden Furnell back this December for the last two weeks of Solstice, playing and teaching guitar to the children. Orixas Dances We will be working with different elements and movements from the Brazilian Orixas dances. Performance, Performances, and Performing! Every week Camp Magic is filled with performances... by the Crew, and by the children each Friday. Working together, inspiring each other as we journey and create through amazing visual landscapes, this is just a part of the magic of Camp Magic... Lady by the Waterfall Katherine McLeod can't wait to sing and drum stories from the river. Yoga Guy Yeshi Eperjesi is bringing to camp lots of stretchy yoga tales! Butterfly on Stilts Cinzia Ciarmicolli is excited about introducing more costumes and capes for stilt walkers.   Story Guy with Dragon Johnny Gillett will be sharing some amazing river stories with the children. WHERE IN THE WOLRD ARE WE GOING NOW?? Each week we will visit a different river community, in a different country. Check out where we're going! Week 1: Decemeber 10-14We're off to the Eramosa River in icy Canada... brrrrr! Week 2: December 17-21Let's Rock the Kasbah beside the Draa River in Morocco! Week 3: December 26-29"Roar!" said the Snow Lion who slept at the Source of the Mighty Mekong River in Tibet. Week 4: December 31-JanuaryWe'll bring in the new year alongside the Magic River in Malaysia... learning the amazing ways of the Orang Asli people. Location Once again we will be housed at Nexus International School. A superb location for our camp, Nexus has a fantastic playground under a grand Banyan tree, lots of great play equipment, covered places to practice circus skills when it rains, plus octagon shaped classrooms inside of 6 room clusters that help to establish the amazing community we create at Camp Magic each week. Registration Please click here to download form and learn about payment methods.     Hours of Operation and the benefits of our program that go beyond the hours of attendance... The camp runs from 8:45am to 3:15pm daily. Throughout the day your child will be exposed to a vast number of inspiring activities that will call forth each child's unique creativeness.   Tapping into your child's creative potential through arts based programs (like Camp Magic!) has shown, time and time again, to: - Encourage and nourish more flexible thinking - Further develop problem solving skills - Effectively and confidently speak publicly - Help to create a rounded student - Boost a child's excitement to learn in all areas of the curriculum   Please see our Testimonials section to read what parents, children, and crew say about our program.   So many of our Mums and Dads tell us that their children, once the camp is finished, are already waiting for the next one to begin!   For more information about Camp Magic, our Crews and all the activities we will be doing, please visit these sections: Activities, What is Camp Magic, Camp Magic Motto, Photo Gallery, Camp Crew, and Testimonials. Enjoy exploring our site!   Commonly Asked Questions What ages can attend Camp Magic? Children from the age of 3-12yrs are entitled to enter our program. There are a number of different age groupings that vary, depending on the size of camp.   Does my child need to bring a lunch? Yes. We do not provide lunch at Camp Magic. However, we do provide morning and afternoon tea.   If my child is attending Camp Magic Solstice, what sections of this website are relevant to us? Please enjoy all of it! The only sections that ARE NOT relevant to the Solstice camp are Theme and Calendar (currently reserved for our June/July camp) and our International section. The rest of it will provide you with most of the information you will need!   My child is shy. How can you help him/her to settle in to your program? Our staff policy at Camp Magic is to ensure that each child leaves with two things at the end of the first day (and every other day thereafter):   1. A friend 2. A smile This does in fact happen! The crew at all of our programs are thoroughly trained to work with and manage children (in groups and individually). All facilitators and program directors are constantly engaging with the children, and monitoring their development and participation in the program. If we notice a child who is particularly quiet and/or shy on the first day, we will scout around and ensure that they have met and made a new friend by the end of day 1.   At Solstice, we visit places of natural beauty in our mind's eye What is your favourite river memory? Art, painting, craft... so much to do each day Guitar lessons at Camp Magic inspire many children to begin playing a musical instrument Negotiating and understanding performance enriches our understanding of each other and the world Cool circus stuff to use every day Brother and sister enjoy a fun moment together in our outdoor program We have several different types of poi available for children of all ages to try out! Colour is everywhere...Camp Magic is a happy balance between busy and relaxed, creating and quiet... a time to engage, and a time to rest. This helps to build the magic in each Friday performancePerformances to watch one, sometimes two times each day!Alberto will lead our flag program again this DecemberBruce, our Camp Director of Operations, will be around to tell us funny stories!Many of our Camp Magic families return to us every year, watching each other grow...Hand held and free standing stilts available © Copyright 2013. inthegroove Camp Magic. All Rights Reserved.