Children, Youth & Teen ProgrammingbrighthillAugust 10, 2015
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Children, Youth & Teen Programming: 2023 Workshops, Internships & Book Clubs
Celebrating 31 Years
ANNOUNCING SPRING & SUMMER YOUTH WORKSHOPS
The In-Person Workshops take place at Bright Hill Literary Center’s Education Wing, 94 Church Street, Treadwell, NY. Space is limited, so early registration is advised.
All of the Bertha Rogers-led Bright Hill Literary Workshops for Kids include writing and visual arts and in-corporate science and math for projects; we believe in STEAM.
THE WORKSHOPS
Bright Hill will provide morning and afternoon snacks, but kids should bring their own bag lunches. CHILDREN ages 6 - 18 (K-12).
The fee for each five-day literary workshop is valued at between $350 and $600, but Bright Hill charges tri-county youth $170 and out-of-area students $260.
Full and partial scholarships are available to permanent residents of Delaware and Otsego Counties (Delaware Academy/Delhi Central School students receive full scholarships provided by the Abraham Kellogg Education Fund). Registration is limited to 16 students.
To register, fill out registration form below, email AS PDF or MAIL HARDCOPY to info@brighthillpress.org, and purchase ticket on our website OR SEND A CHECK.
Mail registration form to Bright Hill Press at 94 Church St, Treadwell, NY 13846 with payment included.
THE CATSKILL FOSSIL FOREST IN CAIRO + THE GILBOA FOREST
There’s a forest in Cairo that dates back 386 million years predating the Gilboa Forest by 2-3 million years. We will learn about these forests, their trees and root systems, then build our own trees and forests and write poems and riddles and stories about them and how they communicate with each other. Bright Hill will host a bus trip to Cairo & Gilboa to see fossil forest in quarry and in Gilboa.
Youth Literacy Arts Education Workshop led by Bertha Rogers – April 3-7. from 9 AM – 2:30 PM
Cost to tri-county area students only: $170
Cost to out of town students: $250
Full scholarships available to Delaware Academy Students with thanks to the AL Kellogg Foundation
MAY 13, 9 – 4 PM
HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH YOUR MOTHER – ARTISTIC STORYTELLING THROUGH iPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY
The day before Mother’s Day, Nick Kelsh will take students out into the world and inside our gallery studio to learn how to shoot a portrait (of someone you love). After lunch, Nick will teach editing, captioning, and offer insights into how to write an accompanying piece to the photo. We will print the photos at Bright Hill for students to take home. More details to come.
Led by Nick Kelsh – Cost to in-area and out of area students: $100
Full scholarships available to Delaware Academy Students with thanks to the AL Kellogg Foundation
JUNE 26-30, 2023
MEXICO/ MAYAN/ AZTEC ART & GAMES- SUMMER 1
The artists of Central & S. America created some of the world’s most unusual art & games. We’ll learn about them and create our own, then write poems in the style of Pablo Neruda & others.
Youth Literacy Arts Education Workshop led by Bertha Rogers – June 26 – 30 from 9 AM – 2:30 PM
This workshop runs Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 2:30 PM
SUMMER SESSION: June 27 – July 1, Ages 6 – 14
Cost to tri-county area students only: $170
Cost to out of town students: $250
Full scholarships available to Delaware Academy Students with thanks to the AL Kellogg Foundation
JULY 17-21, 2023
SPIDERS & TICKS & OTHER ARACHNIDS- SUMMER II
There are lots of spiders & other arachnids in the Catskills. We’ll learn about them, make paintings or sculptures of them, then write poems and stories about them. Bus trip to NYS Museum, Albany
Youth Literacy Arts Education Workshop led by Bertha Rogers – July 17 – 21 from 9 AM – 2:30 PM
Cost to tri-county area students only: $170
Cost to out of town students: $250
Full scholarships available to Delaware Academy Students with thanks to the AL Kellogg Foundation
AUGUST 21-25, 2023
WOLVES & COYOTES & DOGS- SUMMER III
We’re all familiar with dogs, and we hear coyotes at night and wonder about wolves in America. We’ll learn about them and create art about them, then write them down!
Youth Literacy Arts Education Workshop led by Bertha Rogers – August 21 – 25 from 9 AM – 2:30 PM
Cost to tri-county area students only: $170
Cost to out of town students: $250
Full scholarships available to Delaware Academy Students with thanks to the AL Kellogg Foundation
Bertha Rogers co-founded with Ernest M. Fishman Bright Hill Press & Literary Center in 1992 and the Bright Hill Literary Workshops for Kids Program in 1993. A Master Teaching Artist, Rogers has presented programs in schools, libraries, and community venues since 1975, including NYC’s Teachers & Writers Collaborative and the Catskills DCMO and ONC BOCES Arts in Education Program.
Rogers has served as judge for local, regional, and NY state NEA Poetry Out Loud Contests and is a member of the selection committee for the NY Writers Hall of Fame.
Each BH Literary Workshop for Kids program includes 5 intensive days that begin at 9 am and end at 2:30 pm; after lunch on the last day, the kids present their poems and/or riddles in the Bright Hill Library to an audience of family and friends, after which they exhibit their completed projects in the Education Wing.
During each day’s session, the big kids and interns work with the younger kids as they write their poems, riddles, stories, and essays, and as they complete their visual works: artist books, papier mache sculptures, and performance pieces.
Rogers, a poet and visual artist, has been awarded residency fellowships to artist colonies, among them MacDowell, Millay, Saltonstall, and Hawthornden Intl'l Writing Retreat in Scotland. Her visual works have been shown in hundreds of juried and solo exhibits throughout the US and Europe and are collected in the Harry Ransom Archive at the University of Texas. Rogers's poems appear in journals and anthologies and the collections Wild, Again (Salmon, 2019); Heart Turned Back(Salmon, 2010); Even the Hemlock(Six Swans, 2005); The Fourth Beast(Snark, 2004); A House of Corners (Three Conditions, 2000); Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen, 1991); and What Want Brings: New & Selected Poems (Salmon, 2022). Her translation of Beowulf,the Anglo-Saxon epic, was published in 2000 (Birch Brook); her translation of the riddle-poems from the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book, Uncommon Creatures, was published in 2019 (Six Swans).
This workshop runs Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 2:30 PM
To register, fill out registration form below, email to info@brighthillpress.org, and purchase ticket on our website.
Or mail registration form to Bright Hill Press at 94 Church St, Treadwell, NY 13846 with payment included.
