 Thanks for visiting Yes! And... Collaborative Arts iMagination Programming (CAMP) on the web! You can use this website to find out more information about our acclaimed arts education programs, view clips and order DVDs of our fantastic A Winter Sort of Thing, sponsor children in our programs, volunteer, come on staff or just figure out how you can be a part of this exciting company of artist educators.
Our recent A Winter Sort of Thing, "The Clean Green Machine" is now available to order on DVD. Go "relive the magic" and see the cool preview trailer cooked up by our friend Dave Manzo of Hobo Pictures. (Dave is the director of this and the DVD for last year's A Winter Sort of Thing - The Greatest SNOW on Earth.) Or you can try your hand at seeing what Chip's "Either/Or Machine" will eliminate next.
We just released our 2009 Summer Theatre Camp schedule. Visit the Summer Theatre Camp page to find the site closest to you, cost, performance schedules and more. Here's a quick breakdown of the summer. (Early registration prices good until April 1!)
July 6 - July 10 SHADOW Camp Job Training
July 13 - July 31 Summer Theatre Camp @ Trinity
Aug 3 - Aug 14 SHADOW Camp
Aug 17 - Aug 21 CHUMC - Session 1
Aug 24 - Aug 28 CHUMC - Session 2
If you are interested in working or volunteering with us this summer, please visit our Staff page.
Yes! And... equips children and teens with the tools to become better learners by giving them a stake in their success through involvement in the process of creating through collaboration. Yes! And... uses the arts as a tool for personal and communal discovery, reconciliation, and the construction of strong, positive sense of self and potential. Our goal is to partner with schools, community groups and social agencies in underserved areas to create and sustain Collaborative Arts Education Programs that meet the needs of each specific neighborhood.
Our name comes from a theatre game, where an individual starts a story and the next person picks up the telling by responding, “Yes! And…” then adding their part of the story, and so on. Collaboration is a vital skill for children to learn. It is much more powerful than compromise. Collaboration creates a space where vision, ideas, and desires are affirmed and can be achieved because people are working together. It creates a stronger sense of self-worth when a child understands that "Yes!" people support his or her ideas "And…" there are people to partner with them. The “And…” is as important as the “Yes!”
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