With friends, team tryouts, report cards, and countless other examples, parents are always helping their kids navigate emotions and express them in appropriate ways. If you have kids, you have drama. But this summer, it’s time to lean in and add some positive drama with Calgary Young People’s Theatre summer camps!
Calgary Young People’s Theatre (CYPT) was created with the desire to inspire and develop young people in the arts by offering a safe, creative space. Through their classes, camps, workshops, and production opportunities, kids and youth can explore the creative arts, learn to express themselves, and develop their potential.
Summer Camps
The excellent camps at CYPT are led by professional theatre actors, directors, and playwrights. These camps are perfect for kids and teens ages 4 – 18 who want to dive into drama, express themselves, and showcase their creativity. No experience is necessary and your kids will learn how to act, improvise, create a play, and more. Wherever their creative interests lie, it promises to be a fabulous summer!
With locations in Calgary’s NW, SW, and SE, CYPT offers half-day, full-day, and two-week camps. Days are filled with learning various dramatic skills like acting, improvisation, and stage combat, plus learning how to create a play. Each week normally concludes with a fun performance. Check the website to see what camps Calgary Young People’s Theatre summer camps are offered near you.
Half Day, 1-Week Camps (4 – 6 years old)
Half-day camps run 9 am – 12 pm or 1 – 4 pm each day (times vary by location and week — visit www.cypt.ca for more details) giving your little one a chance to show the world what they’re all about! The week concludes with a fun performance.
Full Day, 1-Week Camps (6 – 12 years old)
Camp kids spend their mornings learning various dramatic skills like acting, improvisation, and stage combat, and then in the afternoons, they work with a CYPT professional theatre artist to build their very own play that they’ll perform at the end of the week! The camp runs from 9 am – 4 pm.
Full Day, 2-Week Camps (10 – 18 years old)
No experience is necessary, but older kids who’ve developed a taste for the dramatic will find that this camp is the perfect next step. Over two weeks, they’ll get to build a longer play in the afternoons and experience a broad range of morning drama fun! The final performance is on the second Thursday of each camp. The camp runs from 9 am – 4 pm daily.
Drama Camps for Teens (12 – 18 years old)
These 1-week camps for teens explore exciting specialty topics, allowing them to delve deeper into the dramatic world and build their skills, in things like makeup, improv, stage combat, and more. The camps run from 9 am – 4 pm.
What Else?
Calgary Young People’s Theatre also offers an optional lunch/snack program for busy families in the full-day camps. It’s just $60/week for 2 snacks and one lunch daily! If you need a longer day, they offer pre-camp care beginning at 8 am and post-camp care until 5:30 pm, for only $5 per session, per child. (Extra care is not available at the West or CKE locations.) If money is tight this year, there is also a bursary program that low-income families can apply for so all kids can participate. (Email admin@cypt.ca to request a bursary application or for more information.)
All that’s left is to take the stage! The curtain will rise on a summer of fun this year for drama adventures and creative excitement. Many of the kids who attend Calgary Young People’s Theatre summer camps return year after year to see old friends and meet new ones and these camps fill up fast. Register here to make sure your child gets to experience all the fun of drama!
Calgary Young People’s Theatre Summer Camps:
North Location
Where: The Unitarian Church of Calgary
Address: 1703 1st Street NW, Calgary, AB
South (Riverbend) Location
Where: The Riverbend Community Association
Address: 19 Rivervalley Drive SE, Calgary, AB
South (CKE) Location
Where: CKE Community Association
Address: 1015 73 Ave SW, Calgary, AB
West Location
Where: SCA Community Association
Address: 277 Strathcona Dr SW, Calgary, AB
When: July 2 – August 23, 2024
Time: Full days, 9 am – 4 pm; Half days, 9 am – 12 pm and 1 – 4 pm (times vary by location and week — visit CYPT for more details)
Phone: 587-392-5832
Website: www.cypt.ca/summer-camps
