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YouthWrite Elbow River II Experience 2024

$675.00 CAD

July 7 - July 12, 2024

Day or Overnight Camp For Ages 15-19
An unforgettable experience for creative youth, spending time with quality instructors and other talented peers discussing ideas and sharing their work.

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Elbow River II Experience!

PLEASE NOTE: REGISTRATION CLOSES ON JUNE 23, 2024

Day and Overnight Options

  • Ages 15-19
  • July 7th - July 12th, 2024
  • Day campers from 8:30 am - 9:00 pm. Overnighters arrive Sunday evening and stay until Friday afternoon.
  • FCJ centre: 219 19 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2S 0C8
  • Tuition - two options
  1. $775 - Overnight at FCJ
  2. $675 - Day camp only

YouthWrite Fees Include

12 hours of daily instruction/activities led by highly qualified instructional and supervisory staff, supervised meals, break times, evening programs. All supplies are provided as are daily breakfasts (overnighters only) lunches, suppers, and snacks. Each participant is required to dress for the weather, bring PPE, indoor/outdoor shoes, and will receive a complimentary copy of YouthWrite: The Magazine.

For those of you new to YouthWrite:

Registration steps continue after registration on this site. After you complete the registration on this site, we ask that you proceed to Campfax, a secure camp database, and:

  • fill in important details
  • provide a letter of reference from a teacher/mentor
  • provide the answers to the four YouthWrite questions
  • provide a short sample of writing

You are not fully registered until all steps are completed.



Please note

All fees include $100 non-refundable fee.  No refunds will be made if registration is cancelled after June 23, 2024.

A full refund will be possible in the event an applicant is not accepted into the program or if COVID restrictions require that we cancel or reconfigure camp. YouthWrite Society Canada reserves the right to cancel courses and restrict enrollment. Courses, instructors and supervisors may be subject to change.




When

July 7th - July 12th, 2024

Full Week

Where

FCJ centre:

219 19 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2S 0C8

Who

Guest instructors thus far:

Spyder Yardley-Jones

More TBA SOON!


Blue-Pencil Café:

TBA Soon!


Our Special Guest Presenter:

TBA


Our Super Supers:

Jessica Davidson

Elise Leske

Lead Super Joey Lucius

Miranda Martini

Mason Repka

Emily Smith

Maia Tustonic

MORE TBA!


YouthWrite Director-Coordinator:
Gail Sidonie Sobat


Guest Instructors



YOUTHWRITE INSTRUCTORS: THE CREAM OF THE CROP!


Throughout YouthWrite's history, we have prided ourselves on the calibre of our fine instructors.


YouthWrite invites superbly talented and reputable instructors who represent the many facets of the performing, visual, musical, dance, film, and written arts. 


MORE AMAZING INSTRUCTORS TBA SOON!

Spyder Yardley-Jones


Bio

Spyder Yardley-Jones (he/him) is an internationally recognized cartoonist, painter and sculptor. He has been teaching at YouthWrite since its inception. Spyder's artwork has been on exhibition in the US and Canada including The Art Gallery of Alberta. He has illustrated an award-winning graphic novel and created the artwork for Theatre Network's production of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. Spyder illustrated the forthcoming graphic comic, THE LOFTS, written by Rylan Kafara, which will be published in both digital and hardcopy!


Course

I'm A Wee Beastie - Time to sculpt, YouthWriters! Using aluminum foil and masking tape you'll create what you would look like as a wee beastie . This will be followed by a written description of your beastie life.


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 AMAZING SUPERS TBA SOON!

Jessica Davidson


Bio coming soon




Elise Leske

Elise Leske is a past YouthWriter who now dabbles in comedy, camerawork, and crossword puzzles.  When she’s not on set or doing stand up, she likes painting and crushing her opponents in board games (she often loses).  She is also Gail’s favourite. 



Joey Lucius

Joey Lucius - Lead Super


Joey Lucius is a Canadian Comedy Award-winning performer and has been a staple at Edmonton’s Rapid Fire Theatre since 2007. He’s also a real life certified teacher! As a writer, Joey is a contributor to the online Beaverton, and is currently developing a project about the Filipino-Canadian experience that received a letter of interest from the CBC. He thinks birds are cool! And he knows he is Gail’s favourite!




Miranda Martini


Miranda Martini is a musician, writer, composer, and performer for theatre, film, television and beyond. She is currently working on a chooseable-path audio dating sim set in inner-city Calgary, to be launched this summer on the Story City app. As a former camper, instructor and long-time super, Miranda is excited to be back at YouthWrite for another year where she will once again be Gail’s favourite.



Mason Repka


Mason is a YouthWrite Communications Manager, 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 is a professional Game Master, Director/Coordinator of Dark Ascension LARP, and is Gail's favorite. 




Maia Tustonic


Maia Tustonic is a journalism and political science student at Carleton University with a passion for shining light on untold stories. A proud alumna of various theatre and choir programs in Calgary, and currently an editor at the Charlatan and the Carleton Global Review, Maia has loved writing, theatre, and singing for as long as she can remember. She is beyond excited to return to YouthWrite for another summer full of imagination and friendship, plus being Gail’s favourite!




Emily Smith


Bio coming soon!




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!



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