Theatre summer camp in San Diego, California
Berridge Programs, founded in 2008, runs residential gap year and summer programs for young people at Chateau le Mont Epinguet, an 18th-century chateau on the Normandy peninsula in France. Its summer offering is Cooking and Culture, a culinary and cultural immersion course for students aged 14-19, including graduated seniors and those starting a gap year. Participants take hands-on cooking classes, shop local markets, meet regional producers, dine in bistros and a Michelin-starred restaurant, and prepare and share a three-course meal each evening at the chateau. Photography, writing and art workshops run alongside the kitchen work, with the group producing a curated anthology of recipes, reflections and images. Excursions include coastal hikes, Normandy beaches and Mont St Michel. Berridge also operates a fall and spring Creative Semester for students aged 17-22.
Cohort size of 12 students. Tuition includes accommodation, excursions, instruction, private transportation to the program, meals in residence and most meals out; it excludes roundtrip airfare to Paris and lunches on excursions. Open to all with no prior experience required and taught entirely in English.
Celia attended the summer acting program at Berridge in 2016 and 2017, studying Shakespeare, On Camera, Movement and Scene Study with professional actors Duane Daniels and Greg Ainsworth among others.
With no in-person school or performance opportunities this year, young artists are looking towards summer theatre programs for the first opportunity to get back to doing what they love.
Space 55 Theatre Ensemble, the innovative voice for performing arts in downtown Phoenix, announces the appointment of producer, director and actor John Perovich to the position of Artistic Director.
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