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Session Week 1 June 11th 15th Weekly Arts & Crafts Theme In The Image Drawing and Painting Week 1 June 11th 15th HIGH SCHOOL CREW MANDATORY TRAINING WEEK Week 2 June 18th 22nd Rookie Camp June 18th 22nd 1 overnight on June 21st Week 3 June 25th 29th Week 3 June 25th 29th Week 4 (prorated fee) Session A-July 2nd & 3rd Closed July 4th Session B-July 5th & 6th Week 5 July 9th July 13th Week 6 July 16th July 20th Week 7 July 23rd July 27th Week 7 July 23rd 27th Overnight NIGHT OWL Week 8 July 30th August 3rd Week 9 August 6th August 10th The Fabric of Life Weaving with Janet Borel and friends And ALL of Creation Sings Connections through Music with Chris Adkins As Iron Sharpens Iron Basics of Blacksmithing with Jim Adams and OOO Studio We Are The Clay Ceramics and Pottery Studio Every Fiber Felted Art with Janet Borel With Every Season Wood Working with Walt Beckwith and Al Townsend The Story Creating your story with John Claude Bemis Show and Tell Visual Story Telling New Hope Camp and Conference Center can provide accommodations for your wedding, family reunion, retreat or conference. Our outdoor pavilions, day use & overnight buildings, and other facilities are available to rent during the year. The camp is also home to two lakes, walking trails, and a labyrinth. The New Hope Pool is open Memorial Day through Labor Day. It s a great way to survive the hottest of summer days. With pool pass privileges, you can schedule swimming lessons for members of your family with our trained Water Safety Instructor and bring guests for a nominal fee.
K-5th At New Hope Camp children are given the chance to play, explore and discover! Our daily activities include swimming (Memorial Day to Labor Day), nature walks, outdoor games, building forts, and creating works of art. Our goal is to provide the highest quality child centered programming, while strengthening the child s connection to the natural world through daily play and discovery. Rising 1st-9th Our General and Specialty Counselors will provide opportunities for campers to experience the outdoors in fun & engaging activities designed to challenge the mind, body & spirit. Day Camp Rising 1st 6th ($275 per week ) Day Camp Rising 7th 9th ($325 per week) Week 4a and 4b are prorated. Go online for prices. Hiking, Fishing, Canoeing, Swimming Archery (3rd grade and above) Soccer, Basketball, Gaga Ball and more! Clay, Woodworking, Drawing, Painting, Music (and a few surprises) with our Visiting Artists! Fun Friday, Bible stories, and more! Campers (K-2) also receive swim lessons with our Red Cross trained Water Safety Instructor, in addition to swim time for practice and play!
Rookie Camp RISING 4th & 5th Back by popular demand! Rookies enjoy camp all day activities and then spend one night in one of our cabins for one night away from home. During the overnight at 6 pm campers will enjoy a delicious dinner, evening swim, evening games and of course treats at the campfire before turning in for the night. This is a great camp to give overnight a try Rookie Camp ($330 per week) Night Owl Camp RISING 5TH 9TH This unique camp experience will actually encourage you to stay up late and see what the natural world looks like in the dark! We will enjoy cooking out, field sports, night hikes, evening paddles, swimming, stargazing and more! There will be special guest visitors who will add an extra special experience for campers. You can expect to meet some native North Carolina nocturnal creatures during Night Owl Camp. You don t want to miss this adventure! ($495 per week) RISING 5TH 9TH After a day of camp fun, we will continue the adventure playing crazy games, evening canoeing, night cooking over the campfire and more surprises! After vespers its off to the cabin! (oh yea, one night we ll be sleeping under the stars). This is a great opportunity for campers to develop confidence and build deeper relationships with their peers! ($495 per week) Day Camp begins at 8 am and ends at 5 pm. We offer early drop off at 7:30 am and late pick up at 6 pm at no extra charge. Overnight camps are one week long and begin Monday and end on Friday. DISCOUNTS Lunch and 2 snacks are provided each day This year we are offering a sibling discount. For each session there will be a $5 discount for each additional sibling attending a session. Campers must be in same session to qualify. Early Bird Register by April 17th 2018 to receive $5 off per session per child Partner churches information listed on partner churches at time of registration. Is financial assistance available? We encourage you to seek other options to assist in the cost of camp such as your Church or other family members. If this is not possible please complete the scholarship form which can be found online and submit with your registration form.
Rising 10th All of the team members that keep camp running smoothly are here with one common purpose, to create a safe, educational and exciting environment for your child to grow and thrive in. This year, along with our general counselors, we will be re-introducing specialty counselors and for the first time will also have a new Visiting Artist on campus each week. (read more information in this brochure) We are excited to be providing a staff that has specialized training in areas of field sports, water sports, nature and art! Our entire staff recognizes that you have many options when it comes to selecting a camp for your children. We consider it our privilege to host your camper and be a part of their great adventure for the summer! Thank you for being a part of New Hope Camp and Conference Center as we embark on our next great adventure. This program is designed to prepare members to join the camp as counselors-in-training the following year. All crew members will receive CPR training. Crew members must attend the mandatory training week and will have the option to volunteer for weekly sessions during the summer. Typical Schedule: Meet with skipper and set up supplies around camp Snack duties Session 1 placement (either with group or with specialty.) Kitchen and Lunch duty Activity Snack Preparation Assist with camper pick up Please note this may change based on the needs of camp for day and/or week. High School Crew ($360 for 1 week only)
The spirit of the creator is clearly seen in the created. Janet Borel has enjoyed knitting, sewing and quilting since she was young, but after taking a beginning weaving class in the mid-1980s, she was hooked! As a member of the Baltimore Weavers Guild Janet learned to make felt and dye fibers. Janet began teaching at New Hope Camp in 2009. She says, It is always amazing to me how the children enjoy the challenge of working with their hands and creating something special. Christopher Neil Adkins is a native of Hillsborough, NC. He has distinguished himself as one of the most talented young guitarists of his generation. As a performer, he has received multiple awards in both regional and international guitar competitions. Christopher has performed with including: Sergio and Odair Assad, David Russell, Jason Vieaux, Paul Galbraith and Johannes Möllern. He is currently a Doctoral Candidate at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Jim Adams is an internationally recognized artist with a broad experience in varied materials and processes. He has been an instructor, resident artist and demonstrator at Penland School of Craft, Center For Documentary Studies at Duke and the Burren College of Art in Ireland. He continues to teach from his studio in Hillsborough, NC and resides at New Hope Camp where he is also employed as the Program Director. Mark of the Maker is our theme for summer camp 2018. Each of the nine weeks we will be exploring art, craft, science and nature while we play and create together in the beautiful setting of New Hope Camp and Conference Center. Drawing, Painting, Sculpting, Pottery, Wood Working, Weaving, Music, Writing, Story Telling and Black Smithing will all be part of the summer art scene at camp. Through the art and craft experience each camper will have opportunities to learn about themselves, their peers and the environment as they express their individual experiences. Self awareness and confidence are the goals as campers explore the Mark of the Maker and make their own mark in the community they are engaged in! We will have a different visiting artist each week to introduce campers to new materials and processes as they learn to Think Through Art And Craft. The experiences campers have on the sports field, water front and nature will be the foundation for ideas and inspiration in the art and craft studio! John Claude Bemis is an award-winning author, musician, and educator. His novels include The Wooden Prince and Lord of Monsters, the first two books in the Out of Abaton series (Disney-Hyperion) and the Clockwork Dark trilogy (Random House), among others. John was chosen as North Carolina s Piedmont Laureate for Children s Literature. He lives with his wife and daughter in Hillsborough, NC. Walt Beckwith and Al Townsend will be returning as visiting artists in the wood shop! Walt is a life-long woodworker and has been teaching a Week of Woodworking at Camp New Hope for the last 7 years. Projects we will work on are age-related and many are adaptations of Roberto Lou Ma s action animals. The Walking Rhinos and Climbing Orangutans are yearly favorites. To read more about these and other artists that will be joining us this summer and catch up with updates visit www.newhopeccc.org