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Spring Break Young Creators' Camps

Join us during spring break for a day camp for young creators, in-person at the Highlands United Church in Edmonton!

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YouthWrite Spring Break Young Creators' Camps:

MARCH 30th - April 2nd: GRADES 4-9 

Highlands United Church, 11305 64 St NW, Edmonton, AB T5W 4H6
9:00am - 3:30pm
After-program care ($10) 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Each day of day camp costs $50 per participant, and includes two workshops with fabulous and famous instructors. Come for one day, or come for all four!


We have will have instructors from YouthWrite, SkirtsAfire Festival, Edmonton Poetry Festival, Masani St. Rose, and SNAP Gallery! We'll be posting the full schedule of classes and instructors ASAP!

Instructors:
- Liz Ingram of SNAP Gallery
- Janice MacDonald
- Steve Pirot of Edmonton Poetry Festival
- Mason Repka
- Amanda Samuelson of SkirtsAfire Festival
- Masani St. Rose
- Kelly Turner
- Spyder Yardley-Jones

More info TBA soon!

Please note

All fees include a $40 non-refundable fee. No refunds will be made if registration is cancelled after March 25, 2026. YouthWrite Society Canada reserves the right to cancel courses and restrict enrollment. Courses, instructors and supervisors may be subject to change.







Brought to you in partnership with...


YouthWrite is ecstatic to welcome back many of last year's Spring Break partner organizations!
Make sure to check them out and look here for more partners as we add them!











Meet your amazing instructors: More TBA Soon!

                                                                                                                     




 Liz Ingram

YouthWrite Instructor - SNAP Gallery


Bio

Liz Ingram - coming soon!


Course

Coming soon!




 Janice MacDonald


Bio

Janice MacDonald is a mystery writer who created the first series set in Edmonton, and continues to invent danger and trip over clues wherever she goes.


Courses

Learning the Formula and Crafting Your Own Detective - Mystery fiction follows a recipe that started with Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and hasn’t varied all that much in the nearly two hundred years the genre has existed. Come and learn the recipe for the most popular type of fiction there is, and leave with the biography of your very own detective, ready to star in your next adventure.




 Steve Pirot

YouthWrite Instructor - Edmonton Poetry Festival



Bio

Steve Pirot - Coming Soon


Course

 Description - coming soon! 






Mason Repka

YouthWrite Instructor

Bio

Mason is a storyteller at heart, and has Studied English and Creative Writing at MacEwan University and the University of Victoria. Their dream job is to be a wizard, sending daring and unwitting heroes towards life-changing adventure. Mason is the director and founder of Dark Ascension LARP, and works as a professional Game Master, guiding players through the realms of table-top and live-action roleplaying. Mason is also a Registered Massage Therapist, and works at YouthWrite as a Communications Manager, Supervisor, and Instructor. They are so excited to be leading you on a table-top adventure this spring!


Course

Coming soon!- 




Amanda Samuelson

YouthWrite Instructor - SkirtsAfire Festival


Bio

Amanda Samuelson is an accomplished and award-winning writer, producer, dramaturg, educator, and actor currently based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 Territory. She is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts BFA program, with a major in Theatre and a minor in Creative Writing. During her time at NYU, she spent the majority of her studies at the Playwrights Horizons Theater School. 


Amanda’s ten-minute and one-act plays have been read and staged at festivals and competitions in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Her full-length play, Pressure, premiered at the 2022 Edmonton International Fringe Festival, presented by Nextfest and self-produced. Her new full-length play, A Visit, is currently in development and has received funding support from Edmonton Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts.


Currently, Amanda works as the Assistant Managing Director for SkirtsAfire, a theatre and multidisciplinary arts festival that supports the work of women and non-binary artists. She also teaches playwriting to teens at the Citadel's Foote Theatre School and Free Arts Society, taking great pride in inspiring the next generation of writers.


Course

Playwriting Power - Have a story idea? Let's turn it into a play! In this workshop, explore the basics of playwriting through guided writing prompts focussed on character, story structure, dialogue, and more. Then create your own short script and discover how stories can be shaped for the stage.




 Masani St. Rose

YouthWrite Instructor - Masani Consulting Services
                                                      


Bio

Masani (she/her) is born and raised in Mohkinstis (Calgary, AB). She immersed into learning about her ancestral roots through dance at the tender age of three, specializing in West African and Carribean dance. Upon the introduction to dance, Masani found passion for the West African traditions, culture and style. Through training under Michèle Moss-Johnston at Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, she was able to build her foundation. Still working very closely with Michèle Moss-Johnston and various other artists from Guinea, West Africa, she finds every opportunity to take master classes from artists from various regions of Africa, including Congo, Uganda, Ghana, Mali, Guinea and Zimbabwe. Throughout the years, Masani has worked with various studios and professional groups across Canada. It is her mission to keep the art and culture alive from soul to sole!


Class

Soul to Sole - Explore the ancestral stories from Guinea, Conakry through movement. We will connect our words and movement from soul to sole. 




 Kelly Turner  

YouthWrite Instructor


Bio

Kelly Turner - Coming soon!


Course

TBA...







Spyder Yardley-Jones

YouthWrite Instructor


Bio

Spyder Yardley-Jones is an award-winning, international illustrator, cartoonist and visual artist. His artistic abilities are not limited to the 2D world. Spyder takes his characters and transforms them into sculptures and detailed dioramas. He's been teaching art to youth in the Edmonton school system and at YouthWrite for 30 years.


Course

Coming Soon!


The Amazing Supers

Handpicked and multi-talented, YouthWrite Supers are the centre of our camps. As artists, teachers and mentors, they bring the X-Factor to YouthWrite.


MORE SUPERS TBA SOON!


SUPER Mason Repka


Mason is a YouthWrite Office Bee, working with Gail and Tania behind the scenes to make sure YouthWrite events go swimmingly. Mason loves to teach writing through Roleplay, whether it be Live Action or Table Top. He also owns and operates Dark Ascension LARP, and is, of course, Gail's favorite. 



Communications Manager Tania Gigliotti  


Tania is a powerhouse administrator, amazing client services manager, excel wizard, and an adorable little hobbit. She spends her spare time researching youth engagement in living history museums for the Young People are the Future project, as well as reading a lot of good books and eating a lot of good food. She's also Gail's favorite. 



Meet Your Coordinator


YouthWrite Director-Coordinator

Gail Sidonie Sobat 


is a multi-award-winning teacher and author, with twelve books for children, teens and adults, and a number of educational and academic articles. A Global News Woman of Vision and an Arts and Culture Citation Award recipient, she is the YouthWrite creator/coordinator, an international presenter, an instructor in the professional writing program at MacEwan University and in the Faculty of Education at U of A. Gail was The Writers’ Union of Canada Regional Representative for Alberta, NWT and Nunavut, and writer in residence with the Metro Edmonton Federation of Libraries

She has moved forty times in her life from Badlands to Siksika Nation Reserve to hideous suburbs to Istanbul to the Sunshine Coast to her writer’s garret in a century-old temperamental house. She adores all of her Supers & Coordinators equally, and loves YouthWrite like a Madwoman!