Creative Camps in St. Petersburg Summer at the Chapel, Summer at the Museum, Summer at the Theater

St. Petersburg, June 6 - August 19, 2016

On June 6, 2016, summer shifts of the Summer in the Chapel, Summer in the Museum, and Summer in the Theater camps open. The great excitement and interest in the program is caused by its content and successful launch in 2015. Full immersion in the space of cultural institutions of St. Petersburg, five-day (day-type camps), as well as invited specialists - the best musicians, actors, children’s teachers became the visiting card of the Art ParkING Center programs. This year, the program expects to accept up to 1000 students.

The Art ParkING Center team presents a new type of music, museum and theater education for children from 6 to 12 years old, taking European techniques as a basis, the best achievements of the Russian pedagogical music school and developing its own five-day program.

The program "Summer at the Museum" will be held on the basis of three branches of the St. Petersburg Museum of Theater and Music, "Summer at the Chapel" - at the State Academic Chapel of St. Petersburg, and "Summer at the Theater" within the walls of the Comedy Theater. N. M. Akimova. All three sites will accept children throughout the summer daily, from Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 6 pm. This will allow project participants to immerse themselves as much as possible in the musical, museum or theater environment, get into the backstage, get acquainted with a rich creative life. Small groups (up to 10 people each) are formed from children with and without primary musical or theater education.

The five-day content is rich and multifaceted: it is an acquaintance with the history of institutions in a playful way, the basics of theatrical and musical art, participation in musical and theatrical performances, the study of the specifics of different genres. The program "Summer in the Chapel" provides for daily exciting concerts, playing various instruments, joint music-making and even an excursion to the organ. “Summer at the Museum” offers to get acquainted with the life of museum objects, create your own exhibition and participate in the auction. At the same time, the guys will be engaged in prototyping, shooting, get to know the imperial theaters and the composer’s house, try to compose music, stage an opera and learn about the color hearing phenomenon. The direction “Summer in the Theater” will become an experience of immersion in the theatrical environment, because in the summer the Comedy Theater lives an active life. The lessons of acting, pantomime, directing and other theatrical specialties will be combined with the study of the history of the theater and the staging of his own performance.

All programs are accompanied by sightseeing walks in the historical part of the city, acquaintance with the architecture and treasures of St. Petersburg.

Through the game and team design, the authors of the project strive to instill a love for the musical culture of St. Petersburg and to form a desire for creative self-development, to generate interest in knowledge in the field of art for each participant in the project and thus ensure the intellectual capital of the future.

ANO Center for Modern Technologies in Art "Art ParkING"

works in the field of cultural design since 2012. For four years, the team completed projects commissioned by the Mariinsky Theater, the State Academic Chapel, and organized three international conferences at VMOMK them. M.I. Glinka and SPbGMTiMI with the participation of the International Musicological Society and the International Iconographic Society. Refresher courses in the field of cultural management were organized for museum specialists (2013–2015). Since 2013, there has been a Children’s Inter-Museum Project for an audience of 0 to 5 years old, a specialized festival “Kids in the City of Muses”. The center has developed programs for children 6-15 years old, conducted at various museums. More than 50,000 children became participants in the children’s programs implemented by the Center.

Creative Camps in St. Petersburg "Summer at the Chapel", "Summer at the Museum", "Summer at the Theater"