Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the renowned summer arts day camp, now entering its 48th season, announces that there are still limited openings in its later-season 3-Week programs for children in grades Pre-K – 12. Bus transportation is available at central pickup points on Long Island and in the boroughs of NY City. Major subjects include Discovery, a unique program of arts activities for children in Pre-K, K or 1st grade; Art Adventure (Grades 2-4); Studio Art (Grades 5-12); Painting & Drawing (Grades 4-12); Sculpture (Grades 4-12); Dance Adventure (Grades 2-3); Beginning Combination Dance (Grades 4-12); Introduction to Theater (Grades 4-12).
The 2015 3-week Season begins on July 27 and ends on August 14. Daily bus transportation is available at central pickup points in Nassau, Suffolk, Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Westchester. In addition, the Center now offers Aftercare for all ages, from 3:05 PM to 6:00 PM, at no extra charge, for busy and working parents. Students from throughout the Tri-state area are transported daily by air-conditioned buses, and no audition is needed for most courses, just an interest.
Families may make individual appointments, as soon as possible, to tour the 200-acre woodland campus at 185 Colonial Springs Road in Wheatley Heights, Long Island, and obtain full information. Call (631) 643-7900, write to info@usdan.com, or visit www.usdan.com.
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Usdan Center annually hosts more than 1,600 students from towns throughout the Tri-State New York area. One- third of Usdan’s students receive scholarship assistance based on family need. Video from many of Usdan’s programs and special events, may now be viewed on the Center’s website, http://www.usdan.com as well as on YouTube. Also, families can check out Usdan’s Facebook site, where additional information and late-breaking news is featured. One recent special event has been free art exhibits at the lobby gallery of 430 Park Avenue in Manhattan, showcasing the work of almost two dozen Usdan students. Their work is now showing at Manhattan’s UJA on East 59th Street.
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts opened its 48th season on June 29th. Featuring more than 60 programs, it is annually attended by students from Long Island, New York City and additional neighborhoods throughout the Tri-State Area. Usdan has introduced the arts to more than 60,000 young people since its inaugural season in 1968. The Center is situated on a magnificent 200-acre woodland campus in the Town of Huntington, Long Island, and is open to all young people from ages 5 to 18. A hallmark of Usdan’s mission is its tradition of welcoming all students based solely on their expression of interest in the arts, as no audition is required for most courses. The Center offers programs in music, dance, theater, visual arts, creative writing, nature and ecology, and chess, in flexible 3, 4 and 7-week sessions. Although the mission of the Center is for every child to establish a relationship with the arts, the unique stimulation of the Center has caused many to go on to arts careers. Alumni include Natalie Portman, Mariah Carey, jazz star Jane Monheit, Seth Rudetsky, Jackie Hoffman, Olivia Thirlby, Taylor Dane and members of Broadway shows and major music, theater, and dance ensembles such as the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the New York City Ballet. Usdan Center is an agency of the UJA Federation of New York. For more information, write to info@usdan.com, Call (212) 772-6060 or (631) 643-7900, or visit usdan.com.
