REDMOON SUMMER CAMP
Engineering Wonder!

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Redmoon Summer Camp is designed to engage young people with an exciting and alternative summer experience—working with Redmoon artists to develop problem-solving skills and creative thinking, all through using the Redmoon “toolbox.” Through a unique exploration of Redmoon’s creativity and collaboration, youth will be introduced to puppetry, mechanical object making, shadow, and physical performance. Summer Camp participants will create an original shadow show to be performed for family and friends on the final day of camp. Their final performance will be taped and shown to thousands through the remarkable spectacle productions that highlight Redmoon’s fall calendar and emphasize Redmoon’s commitment to Chicago, civic art and public engagement. The summer camp participants’ work will serve as the pre-show transmission at The Astronaut’s Birthday, Redmoon’s 2010 spectacle on the facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art, and it will also be shown during Festival 2010: J.O.E. A Joyous Outdoor Event. Both events are expected to gather more than 20,000 people. The students’ work will accompany a summer of self-produced guerrilla art, created by Redmoon and used at landmark Chicago locations as buzz to these grand and important events.

Open enrollment for REDMOON’S PREMIER SUMMER CAMP will be held at two locations: Audubon Elementary School, Roscoe Village, from July 19-30, and Franklin Fine Arts Center, Lincoln Park, from July 12-23. The camp will last two weeks, Monday-Friday 9am-3pm, and is open to children age 8 through 11.

Limited Space! Two weeks only!

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or call 312-850-8440
Questions: summercamp@redmoon.org

REDMOON SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM

…is an in-depth, year round, educational partnership pairing Redmoon teaching artists with classroom teachers to provide students with a vibrant spectacle arts curriculum that is integrated with the school’s academic programs. This curriculum fosters meaningful learning opportunities for stu¬dents and teachers alike by exploring tools of spectacle to enhance current curriculum and build an annual Spring Ceremony for their school, neighborhood, and families. This program is currently practiced in Chicago’s Audubon Elementary School, currently in its sixth year of partnership. Over 250 students participate annually. Productions have resulted in pageantry focused on classic literature and literacy skills, site specific installation as an investigation of science and nature, and most recently a powerful new student-authored graduation ritual and ceremony celebrating this important rite of passage for the students as they move from primary school into high school.

RSPP Testimony:

“Redmoon’s Neighborhood Arts Program at Audubon is unlike anything I have seen in my ten years of teaching and it is unlike anything I have heard about. The students are empowered to make meaningful art in a way that is not usually done at this age. The teaching artists are dedicated to keeping a strong connection between the curriculum in the class and the artistic work that is being done.”

REDMOON SCHOOL RESIDENCY PROGRAM

engages and address’ the needs of schools and communities in new and imaginative ways changing student’s perception about the spaces they learn and live in. In four to twelve week sessions, Redmoon artist-educators collaborate with leaders, teachers, and students in project based investigations of spectacle techniques to meet the specific needs of the school or community. Redmoon Residency projects focus on service learning through civic engagement, transformation of space, and imaginative green technology.

The Residency Program was most recently practiced in an international residency in Donegal Ireland engaging three primary schools, the Regional Cultural Center, and the Oatfield Sweet Factory. One hundred and twenty students and community members participated in the seven week residency resulting in a gallery exhibition conceived and built by students to celebrate 80th anniversary of the Oatfield Sweets Factory. The Sweet Fantastic exhibit was seen by and audience of two thousand from across County Donegal.

REDMOON’S MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

…pairs young people with professional artist mentors in an intensive exploration of creativity and leadership. The program’s strong emphasis on mentorship allows youth to foster unique and individual relationships with these professional artists who exemplify leadership, confidence, and self-expression. The program encourages participants to draw from their own experiences and imaginations in creating an annual performance featuring spectacle techniques. This newly designed Mentorship Program draws from the fourteen years of success by the Redmoon Dramagirls Program. This program successfully practiced the Mentorship Model Program with the girls and women of Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood with forty girls and women participating annually. Focusing on the notion “powerful actions create powerful girls,” the culminating productions used drumming, stilt walking, mechanics and poetry in artistic investigations of the girls’ personal experiences and stories.

Mentorship Testimony:

“Seeing girls love what they’re doing in Dramagirls inspires me to seek out what makes me feel that kind of enthusiasm.”

REDMOON INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

…provides training in spectacle art techniques in three distinct areas, build shop, performance, and administration. Emerging artists of all backgrounds experience an in-depth training of Redmoon’s art-making practices and serve a primary role in creating Redmoon events, while developing enduring skills and learning a philosophy of collaborative creativity. The internship program has been successfully practiced for fifteen years and serves on average one hundred participants annually. Redmoon graduate interns have gone on to serve as exemplary artists in arts organizations, theaters, galleries, schools, and museums in Chicago and across the nation.

COMMUNITY COLLABORATION

Since the theater’s inception in 1990, Redmoon has collaborated with community groups to create site-specific public spectacles and events. The principle behind these collaborations is to encourage personal ownership of art and community propriety of public space. This engagement invites community participation in spectacle-making, integrates community and art-makers into productions, brings communities closer together through art and performance, and provides community members the opportunity to watch their neighbors create and perform exceptional work.

Through public performances such as the All Hallows Eve, Spring Pageants, and Community Spectacles, as well as a variety of community-based workshops, Redmoon has engaged thousands of artists and community members.

Past community partners include; The Chicago Park District, Maywood Fine Arts Center, Brentano Math & Science Academy, Blaine School Elementary, Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance, Thresholds Austin Apartments, Geneva Community High School, Inspiration Corporation, Interfaith Refugee Immigration Ministries, Kovler Center for Survivors of Torture, Teen Living Programs, Willow House, Nia Imani Youth Gospel Choir, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago Chinatown Chamber of Commerce. Friends of the Chicago River, and the North Lawndale Employment Network, Roscoe Village Neighbors, Northeastern University, the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Oscar DePriest School, Louis Armstrong School, Oak Park River Forest, North Park Elementary School, Audubon Elementary School, Northeastern Illinois University, Columbia College, Chase Elementary School, Ball Horticultural Society, and Donegal Regional Cultural Center (Ireland).