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    • WINTERSLEEP! JANUARY PA DAY FOR KIDS!

    WinterSLEEP!  |  PA Day for Kids! Friday, January 26, 2024  |  9 am – 4 pm Ages 4-12  |  Max 36 $70 no hst

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    Burrowing, nesting, hibernating. Let’s explore how our animal-neighbours spend the coldest months of the year through art in a creative and cozy day designed to celebrate the Canadian winter in us!
    $70

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    • MIXED MEDIA ADVENTURES FOR KIDS! | WITH EMMI BOYLE

    MIXED-MEDIA ADVENTURES FOR KIDS!  with Emmi Boyle  |  4-week Media Collage Series Saturdays  |  February 3, 10, 17, 24, 2024 9:30 - 11:30 am  Ages 6-12  |  Max 12 $110 for all 4 weeks, no hst Guelph artist EMMI BOYLE brings her love for mixing-it-up with materials and hi-5 kid-energy to the Elora Centre for the Arts this winter for 6 weeks of massive imagin-ating in our MIXED MEDIA ADVENTURE collage series! Let your junior artist loose with Emmi to explore animal collage, printed fabric, cardboard cities, and printed fabric star garland! All materials provided.
    $110

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    DRAWING 201’s FOR KIDS! | WITH DONNA HULL

    DRAWING 201’s FOR KIDS!  |  with Donna Hull 4-WEEK SATURDAY AFTERNOON DRAWING BASICS February 17, February 24, March 2, March 9, 2024 1:00 - 3:00 PM Ages 7+  |  Max. 15 $100 for all 4 weeks, no hst 

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    Warm up your winter SATURDAY AFTERNOONS with artist DONNA HULL for 4 fun-filled weeks designed for kids who love to draw! This series invites back our young artists from our Drawing 101 series and is also open to new junior-artists who wish to spread their wings and expand their drawing experience!
    $100

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    • FLYING DRAGON! ACRYLICS FOR KIDS

    FLYING DRAGON!  | Acrylics for Kids with Katherine Olenic Sunday March 3, 2024  |  10 AM -12  PM Ages 8 +  |  Max. 12 $40 no hst 

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    Back by popular dragon-demand! Let artist Katherine Olenic lead your junior artist in a fantasy- filled, vibrant DRAGON 11"x14" landscape on canvas. Katherine will discuss colour theory, composition, and guide artists in the use of acrylics.   A great way to start a fire-breathing Sunday morning! All materials included.
    $40

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    DEER IN THE FOREST! OIL PASTEL FOR FAMILIES!  

    DEER IN THE FOREST for FAMILIES!   OIL PASTEL for KIDS & ADULTS with Katherine Olenic Sunday March 3, 2024  |  2 PM - 4 PM Ages 6 +|  Max. 8  $60 for 2  |  Ticket price includes one child and one adult

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    Join artist Katherine Olenic for some together-time for the artist in YOU and your YOUNG ARTIST.   This class is designed to bring kids and a parent, grandparent, or caregiver TOGETHER! Each big and little will work on their own DEER IN THE FOREST oil pastel on 11"x15" paper. Learn some great techniques and take home your work to hang them side by side to share your Sunday afternoon memories!
    $60

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    MARCH BREAK ART CAMP | ART HISTORY TIME MACHINE!

    MARCH BREAK ART CAMP  |  Art History Time Machine!  Monday, March 11 –  Friday, March 15, 2024  9 am – 4 pm Ages 5-12  |  Max 36 $350 no hst  |  All materials provided 1 spot left Let’s time-warp our way through Art History with artists Rae, Alexa and Stephanie for a week of time-travelling ART Exploration! The old masters will meet their match when our young makers mix it up and learn some classic artmaking techniques! Try your hand at Mesopotamian Bas-Relief Prints. Byzantium Mosaics. Egg Tempera Animal Portraits. A Van Gogh Pop-Up. A Mixed Media canvas inspired by the Group of 7’s Lawren Harris! Get ready for a multi-media-mash-up week of creativity, fresh air play & friendship!
    $350

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    • SPRING AWAKENING! APRIL PA DAY FOR KIDS!

    SPRING AWAKENING!  |  PA Day for Kids! Monday, April 8, 2024  |  9 am – 4 pm PA Day camp has been changed to Monday April 8, to align with UGDSB PA Day schedule.  Please contact programming@ecfta.ca if you have registered and would like a refund for the Friday, April 19 PA Day. If you have registered already for April 19, your spot is secure. Please join  us on Monday the 8th! Ages 4-12  |  Max 36 $70 no hst 1 spot left! Please email programming@ecfta.ca for a spot. April SHOWERS bring May FLOWERS in this creative-play-day featuring expressive watercolour painting and paper. Let’s spread our arms wide and welcome April, learn about the solar eclipse and let our creativity shine in our cheery Art Classroom and Maker Space!
    $70

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    • THE MIRROR ROOM IN JUNE! JUNE PA DAY FOR KIDS!

    The MIRROR ROOM in June!  | PA Day for Kids! Friday, June 7, 2024  |  9 am – 4 pm Ages 4-12  |  Max 36 $70 no hst one spot available! Join us for a colourful and cheery day discovering Yayoi Kusama’s magical world of PA Day POLKADOTS and MIRRORS! We’ll be focusing on pattern, repetition, and bending & shaping space & time, so get your noggin’ ready! http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp/
    $70

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    • Micro Mini MAKERS! | Miniature World Summer Art Camp

    MICRO MINI MAKERS!  |  Miniature World Camp Tuesday, July 2 - Friday, July 5, 2024 (4 day camp) 9 am to 4 pm Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $280 no hst   It’s a micro-art world week! Small hands can make great art in a week full of tiny builds, small-scale sculptures, and mini masterpieces! We will explore a mix-up of mediums all micro-focused on the miniature. It will be petite-week of pint-sized perfection! sold out
    $280

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    Mid-Century MINI MODERNISTS! | Young Designers Summer Art Camp

    Mid-Century MINI MODERNISTS! | Young Designers Camp Monday, July 8 - Friday, July 12, 2024  9 am to 4 pm Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $350 no hst  sold out! Get ready to think outside of the box! Modernist thinkers and artists pushed the boundaries of art making and new materials and so will we! We'll explore the modernist teachings of the Bauhaus and focus our skills on developing Paul Klee-inspired block printmaking; 3-D architectural sculptures in the style of Wassily Kandinsky’s landscapes; and a kinetic wall sculpture that would make Maholy-Nagy proud!
    $350

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    Beyond the STRATOSPHERE! | TECH+ART Summer Art Camp

    Beyond the STRATOSPHERE! | TECH+ART Camp Monday, July 15 - Friday, July 19, 2024  9 am to 4 pm  Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $350 no hst  Campers! Let your  imagination go sky-high in this hi-octane art power pack week of science and art! Design and build your own model rocket throughout the week and turn them into kinetic flying works of art. On Friday, we’ll make sparks fly and launch our rockets into the sky for a ka-pow display of our creative genius! We will explore new worlds where young artists have never gone before!
    $350

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    POW! POP! PLAY! | Pop-Art Power Summer Art Camp

    POW! POP! PLAY! | POP-ART Power Camp Monday, July 22 - Friday, July 26, 2024 9 am to 4 pm  Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $350 no hst  

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    Explore the colourful KA-POW world of pop culture in this big bold week featuring some big-wigs of the POP Art world! Andy Warhol, Keith Herring, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein will come to visit and inspire a week full of eye-popping colour, bold design, printmaking, stencils, collage and paint!
    $350

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    MYSTERY Mansions! | Design it+Build it Summer Art Camp

    MYSTERY Mansions! | DESIGN IT+BUILD IT! Camp Monday, July 29 - Friday, August 2, 2024 9 am to 4 pm  Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $350 no hst  

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    Roll up your sleeves this week and get ready to design + build a MANSION of monolithic proportions! We will be the designers, architects, and creators of our own collaborative mysterious build. Behind every door is a new mystery! In each room will have a secret to solve. From invisible ink messages, trap doors, and kinetic sculptures, we will create a mansion that will put the Winchester house to shame. Will you be able to find your way out of this mystery?
    $350

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    • ABC’s + LMNOP’s | Alphabet Summer Art Camp for Ages 4-6!

    ABC’s + LMNOP’s | ALPHABET ART Camp for AGES 4-6! Tuesday, August 6 - Friday, August 9, 2024 (4 day camp) 9 am to 4 pm  Ages 4-6  |  Max 36  |  $280 no hst   sold out The alphabet offers 27 amazing opportunities to get creative! Let’s go all alphagetti this week and explore the world of the ABCDErian. We’ll learn about unusual words from other cultures, alphabets from around the world, night writing for the dark, and create our own personal alphabet font! This camp is designed for you youngest artists who are just entering their learning journey. Projects will be geared for our 4-6 year olds, with a day full of making fun and play. A great introduction to Summer Camp!
    $280

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    OUTDOOR Explorers! | Plein-Air+More Summer Art Camp

    OUTDOOR Explorers! | PLEIN-AIR+MORE Camp Monday, August 12 - Friday, August 16, 2024  |  9 am to 4 pm  AGES 5-12  |  MAX 36  |  $350  |  No hst sold out Let’s break out of the studio this week and head outdoors for some plein air in the fresh air and learn about some earth-shaking art movements that embrace the environment and the earth beneath our feet! We’ll explore the tradition of plein air painting in the great outdoors, with a nod to the Group of Seven, and get some green-spiration from the Earth Art and Environmental Art movements.
    $350

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    MAGICAL Creatures! | Draw+Doodle Summer Art Camp

    MAGICAL Creatures! | DRAW + DOODLE Camp Tuesday, August 20 - Friday, August 23, 2024 (4 day camp)  |  9 am to 4 pm  Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  $280|  No hst   sold out If you love, doodling, drawing, toons, anime, story booking or story boarding, this camp is for you! Magical Creatures is a drawing-forward camp, focusing on pencil, ink, illustration markers, watercolour, fun fonts and text. This camp is perfect for the young illustrator in you!
    $280

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    Small HUMANS Big ART! | Big Ideas Summer Art Camp

    Small HUMANS Big ART! | BIG IDEAS Camp Monday, August 26 - Friday, August 30, 2024   |  9 AM- to 4 PM Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  $350  |  No hst   sold out Small hands can make BIG work in this week of thinking big and making bigger! Let’s look at the world around us through a new lens…a magnifying lens! In this thinking-big week, young artists will create monstrously sized insects that glide over the classroom; explore printmaking with the bountiful patterns found in nature; and join in a collaborative mural that takes its inspiration from the abstracted chaos of Jackson Pollock mixed with a kid-made Rorschach test.
    $350

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    • DRAWING BASICS FOR KIDS! | 6 WEEK SUNDAY SERIES | with Eileen MacArthur

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    Drawing Basics is designed for older kids 10 and up who love to draw and want to learn some new skills! Young artists will learn how to draw from observation and how to translate what we see into drawing. Led by artist Eileen MacArthur, Eileen will guide the class in learning about line, value, and balance in composition. Artists will be experimenting with various wet and dry drawing material including graphite, charcoal, ink and watercolour.

    $150.00

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    NEON NOODLERS! | OCTOBER PA DAY FOR KIDS!

    SOLD OUT AGES 5-12  |  MAX 36   $70  |  No hst   Excite your October senses with fluorescent bolds and bright colours! Phosphorescence, luminescence and day-glo will be the theme of the day as we explore how artists use solid, bright colours and shapes to create ART with intensity! Let's explore abstraction, pop art and synthetic colours as we embrace a hyper method making art!

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    • BOOK BINDING FOR KIDS! | WITH AHMRI VANDEBORNE

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    AGES 6-12  |  MAX 12 

    $40  |  No hst  |  All materials provided

    Young makers! Join Guelph artist Ahmri Vandeborne and learn how to book bind! Make your very own notebooks, journals and books in this playful Saturday afternoon, perfect for kids who like to journal, draw, or keep track of their discoveries when they’re exploring outside. We'll bind and decorate together and then explore the Elora Centre for the Arts to document all our discoveries in these brand-new, hand-made pocket books. Artists will leave the class with the skills to keep making their own special books for all their favourite activities!

    $40.00

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    LET’S DILLY DALI! | NOVEMBER PA DAY FOR KIDS!

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada
    AGES 5-12  |  MAX 36    $70  |  No hst Let’s explore the wild and wonderful surreal world of Salvadore Dali through his mysterious Melting Clocks landscapes! Young artists will learn about weird world of Surrealism and how artists use dreams to create strange artworks with hidden meanings. We will also be looking at some of the methods artists use to express complex ideas, such as frottage and finding images in abstract marks. Get ready to dally with Dali!

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    • HOLIDAY CARDS FOR KIDS!  |  MIXED MEDIA WITH AHMRI VANDEBORNE

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    AGES 6-12  |  MAX 12 

    $40  |  No hst  |  All materials provided

    Do you have a crafty kiddo looking for new ways of using all the bits & bobs in your craft drawer? Join this mixed media class with Guelph artist Ahmri Vandeborne! Young makers will explore our current exhibition, collect inspiration in a fun scavenger hunt activity, then will take their new-found inspiration back to the crafting room to work with pencil crayons, pastels, markers, collage materials and more to create unique compositions of colour and shape on giftable cards, perfect for holiday giving!

    $40.00

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    • HOLIDAY MINI CAMP! 2-DAY JANUARY WINTER BREAK WITH ALEXA COLLETTE

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    Give your kiddos’ school break a creative kickstart to the New Year before they head back to school!

    Join artist Alexa Collette on Thursday and Friday for 2 snow-inspired days exploring mixed-media, paint and clay, to create their own imagined winter-worlds filled with snowy landscapes and captivating creatures! Ages 6-12.

    $130.00

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    PAINTING BASICS FOR KIDS! 4-WEEK SATURDAY SERIES

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    Artist Eileen MacArthur is back in the ECFTA classroom to lead a fast and fun, art-packed introduction to the basics of painting for young artists ages 8 +.

    Eileen will offer guidance in observational painting techniques, transfer-methods, colour theory, value, brush handling and composition, and how to break a painting down into more manageable parts!

    $110.00

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    MIGHTY MATISSE! JANUARY PA DAY FOR KIDS

    From bright solid shapes to colourful painted still life florals, we will ponder the beautiful and complicated inner world of French icon Henri MATISSE. Young makers will explore composition, pattern and colour, and learn about how artists tell stories with pictures!

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    $70.00

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    • THE DRAWING ROOM! |  4-WEEK SATURDAY SERIES  | with Donna Hull

    THE DRAWING ROOM! |  4-WEEK SATURDAY SERIES  | LIVE ANIMALS with Donna Hull

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    Art-up your Saturdays in a playful afternoon of drawing with artist Donna Hull! Learn the 101’s of drawing from an art educator with more than 30 years of experience teaching in the classroom and beyond!  This 4-week series will focus on a visit from LIVE ANIMALS, the wonders of nature, drawing organic shapes and artist's choice of a naturalistic animal portrait, Owl or Horse! FEB 15, 22, MARCH 1, 8

    $120.00

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    • MARCH BREAK ART CAMP IMAGINING IS BELIEVING!

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    IMAGINING IS BELIEVING March Break Camp!

    A week where creativity knows no bounds. A place to dream, to believe, and to inspire. Where imaginations can run wild, where possibilities are endless, and art comes alive! For ages 5-12.

    $350.00

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    • PARIS MATCH! APRIL PA DAY FOR KIDS

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    I love Paris in the Springtime! CEZANNE, MATISSE, & CHAGALL will pay a visit to our studio classroom this PA Day, as we create our own art-salon, complete with Edith Piaf as our background crooner! Aspiring artists will learn about the great French Impressionists and consider how art movements develop, by many minds coming together to create a community!

    $70.00

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    THE ART OF ANIME+MANGA!

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    Anime and Manga fans. This class is for you! Artist Eileen MacArthur will introduce young artists age 8 + to the basics of drawing and skill building, while learning about Anime!

    $65.00

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    • COLLAGRAPHS FOR KIDS! PRINTMAKING WITH AHMRI VANDEBORNE

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    Calling all budding artists! Interested in trying something new? Learn the basics of printmaking through the art of collagraphs!

    Guelph artist Ahmri Vandeborne will show you tips and tricks on how to compose an image of your choosing, translate your image to a collagraph matrix (raised surface), and ink up your plate for some hot-off-the-presses printing!

    $30.00

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    POKEMON WORLDS!

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    Pokemon kids! Join artist Eileen MacArthur for a half-day Sunday workshop celebrating the world of Pokemon! We will be making a Pokemon habitat using a variety of different materials and methods, including drawing, painting and sculpting!

    $65.00

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    PAINTING OUTSIDE! FAMILY PLEIN AIR

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    Join in our local celebration of plein air painting this May in this 2-hour quick-paint class with artist Eileen MacArthur! Family Plein Air is a fun indoor-outdoor, family-friendly paint for all ages who want to experience art-making together!

    $25.00

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    • LET’S VAN GO! JUNE PA DAY FOR KIDS

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

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    Young makers! Take a stroll through the vibrant world of Vincent Van Gogh and explore his use of colour and line to create motion, emotion, and intensity! Let's explore the sunny side of painting and using LOTS of vibrant yellow, yellow, yellow and practice Impressionist methods of art-making, as we work together to recreate Van Gogh’s luminous sunflowers on canvas!

    $70.00

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    • FLOW+GLOW! ART & MOVEMENT CAMP

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    3-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 4-7

    If your budding artist loves art, with a little get-up-and-go mixed in, this ART + MOVEMENT camp is for you!

    We’ll invent our own junior yoga moves and get those ants in your pants dancing and singing, along with playful creativity and friend-making!

    $210.00

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    ART THEN+NOW! MINI MASTERS CAMP

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12

    Let’s time-jump into the art time machine and look at Art THEN + NOW! This camp is full-on art making, trying out new materials, and exploring the connections between art today and art of the past!

    $350.00

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    ART TECHS! THE SCIENCE OF ART CAMP

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    5 DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12

    If you love to experiment, innovate, and collaborate then this camp is for you! This STE(A)M-injected camp brings super-sonic art making to young artists who love bright colours, bright ideas and are curious about how science and tech can POWER their ART explorations!

    $350.00

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    WHERE THE WILD THINGS ART! THE ART OF NATURE CAMP

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 4-7

    Let’s answer the call of the wild in this nature-inspired camp, designed to bring out the WILD artist in you! We’ll use our creative nature to wander, wonder and engage with the wild world all around us in a week of fresh-air creativity, nature explorations and outdoor play!

    $350.00

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    ALEXANDER CALDER! KINETIC CIRCUS CAMP

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12

    Ready for a week of avant-garde awesomeness? This kinetic camp will introduce young artists to American Modernist, Alexander Calder’s 1931 Cirque! A moveable feast of characters, contortionists, fire eaters, hi-wire performers and circus animals. We will spend the week creating our own kinetic circus fun!

    $350.00

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    • POP UP BOOKS! STORYBOOK ART CAMP

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    4-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 4-7

    Junior artists! Turn your fave book into a power pop-up 3-D Diorama Story Box. We will start each morning with a story and then get to work exploring visual story-making and transform our own favourite stories from home into sculptural ART!

    $280.00

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    POP UP BOOKS! YOUR FAVE KIDS-LIT CAMP

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12

    Young Makers! Turn your fave book into a power pop-up  Diorama Story Box. Let’s explore visual story making and transform each of our favourite storybooks from home into sculptural Kid-Lit ART!

    $350.00

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    EARLY BIRDS+NIGHT OWLS! RISE+SOAR CAMP

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 4-7

    Birds of a feather flock together in this week of high-flying fun! Join us for creative making inspired by our feathery friends! Whether you’re an early bird or a night owl we’ll spread our art wings and soar together and make memories that take flight!

    $350.00

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    DARK SHADOWS! THE IMAGINARIUM OF EDWARD GOREY CAMP

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    4-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12

    Love to draw and shadowy storytelling?! Join us for some old-timey illustration inspired by American Gothic writer and illustrator Edward Gorey. Let’s explore the world of fancy-fine-line drawing, graphic story-telling and dark humour in this week of drawing and doodling.

    $280.00

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    • SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS TO THE ART CENTRE. LEARN DISCOVER CREATE!

    We welcome SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS for Grades K-12!

    Morning or afternoon sessions designed to inspire creativity and connect learning with the arts. Experience the power of Art in our art classroom and newly expanded Gallery + Atrium at the Elora Centre for the Arts.

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    2026 SUMMER CAMPS!

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

    SCROLL DOWN TO JULY-AUGUST FOR CAMP DATES & THEMES

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    • HOWL’OWEEN! OCTOBER PA DAY CAMP

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    Calling all mini mad scientists and mischievous monsters! Are you ready to create and craft your way through a PA day of creepy creativity?

    Join artists Eileen MacArthur and Stephanie Lines-Toohill for a Friday bursting with hauntingly hilarious fun, both indoors and out!

    $75.00

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    THE DRAWING ROOM! 6-WEEK SUNDAY SERIES with Donna Hull

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    Sundays. October 26, November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 2025

    Wake up your Sunday morning with artist Donna Hull for some junior-artist studio time and dive into the fundamentals of drawing. With over 30 years of experience in the classroom and beyond, Donna brings a wealth of knowledge to this engaging 6-week series!

    $160.00

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    • ART YOU CAN EAT (BUT YOU CAN’T ACTUALLY EAT IT!)

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    A CREATIVE WORKSHOP FOR KIDS WITH ERIN PERRY

    Get ready for a deliciously fun art-making experience with no ovens, no utensils, and definitely no bites. In this playful hands-on workshop, led by artist and educator Erin Perry, young artists will explore the world of food-inspired art, creating colourful, imaginative treats that look good enough to eat but are made entirely from art materials!

    $50.00

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    POKEMON WORLDS!

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    Pokemon kids! Back by popular demand. Artist Eileen MacArthur is in the house for a Saturday afternoon workshop celebrating the world of Pokemon! We will be making a Pokemon habitat using a variety of different materials and methods, including drawing, painting and sculpting!

    $65.00

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    MINECRAFTERS! NOVEMBER PA DAY CAMP

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    Young builders unite! This Minecraft-inspired world of pixel imagination is perfect for artists who love to block.

    Whether you’re a master builder or just love being creative, artists Eileen MacArthur and Stephanie Lines-Toohill will guide this hands-on, class blends art with the fun of the game! No gaming experience needed, just a love for building, crafting, and storytelling!

    $75.00

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    • CAMP CANDY CANE! HOLIDAY MINI CAMP

    Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

    TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY SINGLE TICKETS AVAILABLE!

    Let your child's imagination fly free like snowflakes in this 3 day mini-camp December 29, 30 and 31 for ages 5-12.

    Jump into a shimmering snow-kissed world where frosty dreams come alive, gently guided by ECFTA Educators' Leah Ferguson and Stephanie Lines-Toohill and sprinkle some imagination into the holidays and welcome the New Year with creativity!

    $75.00

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