Summer Registration opens
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 at 10:00 am

We’re excited to feel the Caribbean energy at Grace Art Camp this summer. Returning to our roots with story-based programming, we will welcome our professional storytellers back to our morning assemblies to regale us with tales of a colorful monstrous bird, a girl with the gift of song and her green monkey, a cucaracha seeking the ideal suitor, and more!

Campers will create vibrant art projects in studios like Animation, Ceramics, Fibre Arts, Glass, Paper & Book Arts, Photography, Printmaking, and Visual Arts.  They’ll rehearse energetic performances in Music & Dance, Puppetry, and Theatre.  They’ll prepare and taste flavorful foods in Culinary Arts.  All inspired by Cuba and led by our Culture Keepers.

This year we will have eight full 5-day sessions. In order to provide the Grace Art Camp experience to as many families as possible, we ask that you choose one session per camper. 

Stories of Cuba: Session Dates & Stories

Session 1: Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel (June 22 – 26)
In this retelling of the classic fairy tale with a Caribbean twist, a beautiful Sugar Cane grows up in a tower overlooking the sea after being stolen away from her parents on her first birthday by an island sorceress, Madam Fate. With only a pet green monkey for company, Sugar Cane is lonely, her only consolation being her love of music and song. Could a young man with a gift for music break the spell of Madam Fate and help Sugar Cane set herself free?

Session 2: Martina the Beautiful Cockroach (June 29 – July 3)
In this Cuban folktale, the beautiful Martina Josefina Catalina Cucaracha doesn’t know coffee beans about love and marriage, so when suitors come calling, what is she to do? Luckily, she has her Cuban family to help! While some of the Cucarachas offer Martina gifts to make her more attractive, only Abuela gives her some useful advice…

Session 3: Child of the Sun (July 6 – 10)
In this Cuban legend and creation story that explains why solar eclipses occur, Earth’s children, Sun and Moon, struggle to live in harmony when Greedy Sun refuses to share the sky with Moon. Earth and Moon must intervene to save all the people, plants, and animals from the prideful Sun.

Session 4: Yams Don’t Talk/ Los Ñames No Hablan (July 13 – 17)
This classic playful trickster folktale from Afro-Cuban tradition tells the story of a man and woman who find themselves afraid when their yams start speaking. Unable to solve the mystery themselves, they bring the news to the King, who in turn calls on Osain of the Three Feets, the wise holy one of the forest, to help.

Session 5: TBD (July 20 – 24)

Session 6: The Twins and the Bird of Darkness: A Hero Tale from the Caribbean (July 27 – 31)
In this captivating traditional Caribbean folktale about the struggle between good and evil, two twin brothers with contrasting personalities embark on a quest to save the brave Princess Marie and her kingdom from a monstrous, seven-headed Bird of Darkness.

Session 7: TBD (August 3 – 7)

Session 8: Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel (August 10 – 14)
In this retelling of the classic fairy tale with a Caribbean twist, a beautiful Sugar Cane grows up in a tower overlooking the sea after being stolen away from her parents on her first birthday by an island sorceress, Madam Fate. With only a pet green monkey for company, Sugar Cane is lonely, her only consolation being her love of music and song. Could a young man with a gift for music break the spell of Madam Fate and help Sugar Cane set herself free?

Stay tuned for Session 5 & 7 story announcements and more camp details!