Adventure Camp: Afterschool Pilot!
The Forager School Adventure Camp outdoor fun continues! Throughout October and November, the inspiring first four weeks of The Forager School’s Adventure Camp after school enrichment pilot has been underway! This fall The Forager School partnered with The Gualala Arts Center to provide access to an arts-focused centralized campus as an initial familiar gathering place for the pilot sessions. The goal for the program is to cultivate relationships with a roster of host-sites that offer students the opportunity to explore local ecosystems and immersive art along the coast. The format of each session begins with an introduction to an artistic medium, then a guided nature experience to draw out inspiration, culminating in an expressive student-led creative project.
Our Adventure Teacher / Outdoor Enrichment Specialist, Therese Regonini (“Teacher T”), shares that these early sessions have already taken on a fantastic shape of their own, with creative projects such as harvesting natural clay, producing mixed media 2D-3D creations with inspiration from local flora and fauna, discovering intricate inspiration from microscope analysis, loom weaving, spotting banana slugs on foraging hikes through the redwoods down to the Gualala river bed, and touring art exhibits inside The Gualala Arts Center: a botanical anatomy inspired group show and the life works of Eduardo Smissen! Adventure students have also integrated their natural world inspiration into student-led performing arts on The Gualala Arts Center Stage! As a long standing champion of the creative arts in Mendonoma community, we are deeply appreciative of The Gualala Arts Center’s generosity and support in this endeavor and look forward to continued partnership as the program develops.
Pending student enrollment, The Forager School Adventure Camp after school enrichment programming will continue to run throughout the rest of the semester. Click here to learn more about upcoming dates and to sign up!
Adventure Camp fave: looking at the natural world under the microscope.
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