Summer Arts Camp in Ontario, Canada

Centauri Summer Arts Camp, Niagara Region, Ontario:
Centauri Summer Arts Camp is a specialist arts training camp for boys and girls aged 8 to 18, located in the beautiful Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada. Centauri brings together young people from across the world and talented, experienced arts practitioners for an exciting summer of creativity, informal learning and fun!

For complete beginners as well as experienced young artists, Centauri is the perfect place to develop creative skills. But Centauri Summer Arts Camp is far more than a training ground for the arts. Centauri Summer Arts Camp is a safe and nurturing environment where community is emphasized, friendship valued and personal growth celebrated. Staff are chosen, not only for their exceptional arts skills, but for their ability to be outstanding role models for young people.

Centauri is a family owned camp. It was established in 1994 by Craig & Julie Hartley and has quickly grown thanks to its great reputation for arts training in a summer camp community. Julie and Craig are also the directors of the camp and live on-site throughout the summer.

Our teaching faculty consists of experienced and talented arts practitioners who can offer young people an inspiring and educational experience in the arts. Our counsellors are all aged 18+, so they bring to camp a level of maturity and responsibility and provide the campers with excellent role models. Most are outstanding undergraduates specialising in the arts.

We provide quality arts training within a cooperative and nurturing summer camp atmosphere.

The arts may be a career for some, but for all of us they can enrich and deepen our lives. We aim to show young people the pleasures and the importance of the arts in society, as a means of reflecting our world in all its diversity, and exploring everything that world could be. Through the arts, as creative participants and reflective audiences, young people grow in confidence, learn the validity of their own ideas and explore both their originality and their place within the world.

Centauri Arts Camp offers 40 specialty arts programs, including Theater, Stage Combat, Acting Skills, Shakespeare, Television, Film-making, Musical Theatre, Photography, Digital Arts and Design, Creative Writing, Music, Dance (Lyrical, Ballet, Hip Hop).
 
In addition to their chosen specialty, campers choose daily electives in each discipline, sports and crafts.

We believe summer camp is a unique environment in which young people come together to remake the world - and to do so, as much as is possible, free from the pressures they often face in school.

Location & Facilities:
Centauri Arts Camp is based at a residential school in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada. Our school is situated on one hundred and thirty five acres of woodland and meadow bordered by the picturesque Welland river. The central camp area is about 35 acres with permanent stone and wood buildings including boys and girls dormitories, camp dining hall, workshop & rehearsal rooms, dance hall with sprung floor, visual arts studio and theatre studio.