Gold Coast Arts Center Presents its Children’s SummerArts™ Camp & Summer Program Lineup

GREAT NECK, NY — June 12, 2017 — Are you seeking summertime activities that will entertain, educate and stimulate your child? The Gold Coast Arts Center offers a plethora of artistic programs and full- and half-day camps that are sure to appeal to every child’s interests and abilities, while helping to cultivate talent, and boost self-expression and self-confidence, in a fun, safe and nurturing setting.

The popular full-day SummerArts™ Camp offers camp programs for children ages 6–9, and 9–14. Programs include Acting for Film, in which children learn acting techniques by working on scenes that are performed live, and then recorded on tape; Dance, Dance, Dance, a place where dancers of all skill levels are welcome to learn a variety of dance styles, including ballet, jazz, hip-hop, kick line and tap; and Cartooning, where campers develop basic drawing and storytelling skills, learn to draw their favorite cartoons, and create their own characters and cartoon strips using ink and color. Other SummerArts Camp offerings include 3D Art, Applause Acting, Ceramics, Chess, Crafts, Drawing & Painting, and new this summer, Musical Theatre for Film.

All specialty camps run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (lunch and a snack are included), and culminate in a performance or display at the end of the session.

The Gold Coast Arts Center’s Half-Day Junior Camp, for children pre-K to age 6, fills your child’s summer with art, music and dance, and features a new fun theme every week. The Half-Day Junior Camp runs from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and includes a snack.

Additional programs, held every Wednesday afternoon, include Summer Primary Ballet & Tap, for children ages 4–5; Fencing, for children ages 7–16; and Drawing, Painting & Ceramics, for children ages 6–16.

For more information, including pricing and session schedules, visit www.goldcoastarts.org. To register for any of these summer programs, please call 516-829-2570.

The Gold Coast Arts Center is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting and supporting the arts through education, exhibition, performance and outreach. For more than 20 years, it has brought the arts, and arts-in-education experiences, to tens of thousands of people throughout the region through its School for the Arts, which offers year-round classes, to students of all ages and abilities, in all visual and performing arts; a free public art gallery; concert and lecture series; outreach programs, which each year bring artist residencies, after-school programs, school assemblies, teacher-training workshops, and parent-child workshops, to students, senior citizens, teachers and others in schools and in underserved communities throughout our region; year-round film screenings and discussion series; and the Gold Coast International Film Festival. The Gold Coast Arts Center is an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Partners in Education Program, and the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C.

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