Poland - Austria - Slovakia - Our goal is to introduce American middle and high school students to the treasures of Polish culture, architecture and nature...
Three weeks long Art Camps complement our year-long SITE Art and Music Program. The goal is to introduce American middle and high school students to the treasures of Polish culture, architecture and nature. Our unique Camp combines daily art workshops or music classes with hiking and site-seeing. The camp represents a wonderful opportunity for meeting the both: Polish and American cultures, and Polish and English languages. Participants will meet also students from Poland and other European countries. Volunteer parents are welcome to join the camp.
Program includes:
- One week visiting two countries Austria with Vienna and Slovakia
- Two weeks in southern Poland near Krakow, in the pristine Wysoka and Binkowka hamlets, in the middle of Beskid Mountains. The camp facility include 2-4 person rooms and a pool.
ART PROGRAM
Our camp helps to discover and promote young people's interest in the art. The participants will work on their art projects led by experienced, licensed, bilingual art teachers. Daily excursions will provide topics for artwork. The students will illustrate their daily experiences when working in a fun and student-friendly atmosphere. We will make sculptures, paint dry and oil pastels, experiment with tempera, watercolor, and enjoy drawing with coal, pencil and sepia. They will also have fun with collage and linoleum-print. An art workshop is located off the camp at a Sidzina museum historic log house dated from 18 century. An Art Exhibit at the end of the camp, prepared by the participants, will crown two weeks of work.
HIKING PROGRAM
Camp purpose is to raise students interest for hiking and to instill them with love for nature represented by Polish Carpathian Mountains. We plan daily hiking trips from easy to more advanced and longer to build better fitness in students. We are also taking bus trips to interesting local site such as Sucha Beskidzka with Renaissance Castle and 18th century Inn - Karczma Rzym. We will visit and paint the picturesque market squares of Wisla and Zywiec, eat Popes Wojtyla Kremowki in Wadowice, or swim in Sola River in Wegierska Gorka. Two days of the camp members will spend in magic Krakow. Our program in Krakow includes visits to Wawel Royal Castle, The Market Square (Rynek), and to the Czartoryski Museum. We will also make a stop at a restaurant on Slawkowska Street where, following the Camps tradition, we will dine on pizza, pyszne pierogi - delicious dumplings, and obwarzanki - local precels.
MUSIC PROGRAM
Focuses on an exciting travel in time to the 16th century Renaissance Era at the historic mansion Dwor na Wysokiej lead by Bractwo Lutni (Lutnia bratherhood). Students will learn the ancient instrument Lutnia and compositions as madrygal, kanons and psalms. Also students will take part in singing on voices psalms, love songs and ballads in various languages found in Eastern Europe from Polish and Ukrainian, to Jewish, Russian and Gypsy. The whole camp group will take part at the Biesiada Staropolska - a dinner with all beautiful, traditional and already forgotten rituals. All participants art work and music achievements will be presented at an after-camp event at the Polish Consulate in New York City. The new tradition is a reunion of the Camp participants during Halloween Party at the Foundation place in Purdys, Westchester, where everyone can meet friends and replay the great time from the summer.
INFORMATION
The Nowodworski Foundation's website: www.sitenf.org
Kinga Lesniak tel. 914-552-9247 or e-mail: lesniak.kinga@gmail.com
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