Local youth have been learning how to develop their singing, dancing, and acting skills this week at the E.A. Rawlinson Centre.
The five day performing arts camp is a reincarnation of a theatre camp that Broadway North used to hold every summer.
“There was group of visionary volunteers who started a theatre camp that happened every summer here since 1995,” said Darren McCaffery, manager of the E.A. Rawlinson Centre.
“That stopped about 2003 or 2004 and so this is the re-emergence now and so Broadway North has graciously donated some funds to get the camp back started again at the E. A. Rawlinson centre and now we are going to carry on the tradition,” he added.
Since Monday students from between the ages of six right up to adults have registered for the camp.
McCaffery said they were not sure what to expect for the camp’s first year back. He said they would have been happy if they had 25 students register, but it turns out there are a lot of Prince Albert youth eager to learn about the performing arts because they had a total of 72 students sign up.
Friday evening the students will showcase what they have learned over the week to family and friends during an onstage performance after 5 p.m.
“The instructor will come out and talk about what they have been working on over the four days and then there will some sort component with the students, so whether it’s a performance or warm up or part of a dance that they have been learning.”
McCaffery said that camps like this will definitely continue. There might be more camps that continue in the fall and most likely again next summer.
Anyone interested in taking part can call the E.A. Rawlinson Centre at 765-1270.
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