Summer Collaborative Arts Camps

Yes! And... Collaborative Arts (YACA) is a Philadelphia youth arts organization whose summer camps focus on collaborative art making and imaginative play. All campers are taught by professional artists and accompanied class to class by travelers (counselors) and junior staff. Imagination Camp, for children entering Kindergarten through 4th grade, introduces the skills of the creative theater arts through purposeful play. Theater Camp, for 5th through 8th graders, teaches acting, dance/movement, visual arts and storytelling/playwriting, culminating in a performance the campers create, produce and perform themselves. Sort of Thing includes a four-week program building a Yes! And... musical and a two-week Musical Theatre Creation Camp. Shadow Company, for 9th-12th graders, is a two-week intensive developing a new theatre piece for the FringeArts Festival.

Imagination Camp: entering Kindergarten-4th grade. Theater Camp: entering 5th-8th grade. Sort of Thing: entering 6th-12th grade. Shadow Company: entering 9th-12th grade.