Filmmaking, writing and composing - Multi-arts summer day camp

Join CreativeArt Ink for a full day summer day camp in CT and spend your time writing with a Pulitzer Prize nominee; movie-making and animating with award-winning filmmakers; improvising with Off-Broadway actors; exploring movement with a choreographer direct from the 92nd Street Y, and more! Add fresh air and outdoor activities to this full day Multi-Arts summer camp experience in Darien and Westport, Connecticut and you have a unique, impactful summer!

Dates: July 27th through August 7th 8:30am – 3:30pm

Ages: 8-10, 11-13 and 14-16

Location: Staples High School

Cost: $1150

A Campers Sample Schedule:

8:30 Morning Greeting and Sign In

8:45 – 10:15 Period 1 Animation

10:30 – 11:45 Period 2 Filmmaking

11:45 – 12:15 Lunch

12:15 – 12:45 Recreation(Pool will be available on certain days before lunch)

12:45 – 1:15 Xtreme Scene (Surprise period with either Campers Choice, a Speaker of the Day, a film, a performance, or a combination)

1:15 – 2:45 Period 4 Writing with Pulitzer nominee

2:45 – 3:20 Period 5 Composing using Garage Band

3:20 Afternoon Announcements

3:30 Sign Out and Goodbye

Note:

Because classes in multiple disciplines will be offered simultaneously, there will be some opportunity for a student to spend extra time in an art form at the discretion of CreativeArt Ink staff.

Campers should bring their own healthy snacks, lunch and refreshments (water preferred). A cafeteria lunch may be available for purchase.

Our mission at CreativeArt Ink is to give area kids a strong foundation in the arts which will continue to help them throughout their lives. By studying with established artists who have had some degree of success in their art form, our young people will gain a deeper understanding of the various approaches in the arts and will begin to recognize how and why they are connected. This knowledge will serve them well as they navigate through school and out into the world.

Patrick McCullough is an award-winning filmmaker. One of Patrick's recent projects was producing and acting in the independent film, Beautiful Kid, with Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of Angela's Ashes. Variety cited Beautiful Kid for it's, "astonishing integrity." The film won the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor awards at the Method Fest in Burbank, California, and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble Cast, and both, the Maverick Award for Best Low Budget Film, and Best Feature, competing against films with budgets over 50 times higher. Patrick began his filmmaking career producing and directing several educational films including the Cine Golden Eagle Award-Winning, Sara's Diary, a teen suicide prevention film, and Abusive Relationships: Crossing The Line. His screenplay, Broham was a finalist in the Sundance Film Festival Screenwriting Program, and he was nominated for Best Short at the Movies on a Shoestring Festival, for his film, A Dream Come True. He has served as a Blue Ribbon Panel Judge for the Daytime Emmy Awards (Judging Writing and Directing in Children's Movies) and on the nominating committee for the SAG Awards (Outstanding TV Series). Patrick is an Artist/instructor at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts (GHAA), teaching Screenwriting and Film Production. He runs summer film camps and after-school programs for youth in towns throughout Connecticut through his company, Filmmakers Ink.