Drama Kids Summer Camps

Drama Kids Summer Camps are perfect for children wanting to discover their dramatic gift, as well as for those students wishing to continue to develop acting and public speaking skills.

KINDERKIDS SUMMER CAMP: ADVENTURE LANDS (Ages 4-5)

On July 12th, little kids will have fun with our award—winning dramatic movement exercises, speeches and imaginative acting. The young campers will explore new adventures, visiting places like an African safari and a rainforest. We will introduce them to the wonderful world of dramatic fun. Camp tuition is $ 100 (half-day) or $ 150 (full-day) and includes all supplies and a summer camp T-shirt.

TALES FROM FARAWAY LANDS (Ages 6-10)

Campers will participate in various class drama activities and perform in a special end-of-camp performance. Through the creative process of drama, you will take a 5-dav summer vacation in which our actors will perform scenes from distant lands, dress up in native costumes, and adopt a foreign name. Camp tuition is $ 1,000 and includes all supplies and a summer camp T-shirt.

ONCE UPON A TIME SUMMER CAMP (Ages 6-10)

Campers will explore their favorite characters from storybooks using the art of masks and movements from August 1st to August 5th. They can develop unique and fun characters with their own colorful masks. Camp tuition is $175 (half-day) or $250 (full-day) and includes all supplies and a summer camp T-shirt.

Campers who attend a full-day program will need to bring a bag lunch each day.

DKI ACTING ACADEMY PLAYHOUSE (Ages 11-13)

Would you like to begin acting classes, or further develop your writing skills? You can develop your creative abilities in the ten-day camp through creating interesting dialogues, designing sets and costumes or acting in a play that you create.

You’ll have fun in a wonderful night of DKI Acting Academy Playhouse! Camp fee is $175 a day and includes all supplies.

These days I am on my very best behavior whenever I leave the house. If I am wearing pantyhose(连裤袜), I double-check to ensure there is no hole on it. I drive thoughtfully as if I’m being tested for a license. I won’t even allow myself to frown when another driver is blocking my path.

My kids have noticed my fear in public. “Why are you looking all around, Mum?” they asked.

“You can’t be too careful,” I said. “Every single person around us is hiding one of cell phone cameras. They are glad to catch somebody doing something stupid or embarrassing. Then they’ll put it on YouTube and a million people will see. I’m not taking any chances.”

“But I don’t think anyone is interested in filming you putting on your lipstick for a YouTube video.” answered one kid.

“Oh, really? Don’t count me out so quickly.” I said.

Actually, in some cases, I am all for public shaming. For example, I admire the cleverness of the man who put up a website where he posts photos of cars and license numbers of people who occupy two parking spots. And I take secret pleasure in photos of politicians with their fingers in their noses. Throwing light on bad behavior can awake the sleepy conscience(良知).

But what about the poor guy who has already had a bad day at work and then loses his temper at a rude store clerk? What about the woman whose only crime is a terrible judgment error at the hairdresser? Do they deserve to have their images uploaded onto the Internet for all the world to see?

None of this is new, of course. Allen Funt pioneered the art of catching people during unguarded moments back in the 1940s with “Candid Camera”. But there’s a difference. On “Candid Camera”, people are set up in staged situations, such as riding in an elevator that goes sideways. And they must give permission before they enjoy their fifteen minutes of fame. Now we are a nation of Allen Funts. This can’t be a good thing.

Wearing a red nose for a day may seem like a strange way to raise money for charity. However, it seems to work in Britain. Red Nose Day (RND) is a well-known event in the UK. The aim of the day is to raise money for a charity called Comic Relief which helps people in need in Africa and in the UK.

Comic Relief was started in 1985 by Richard Curtis. He wrote the series “Blackadder” as well as the famous films “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “Notting Hill’’. Richard’s idea to start Comic Relief was as a response to the severe lack of food in Ethiopia. It’s called Red Nose Day as on this day many people buy a plastic red nose to wear! The money made from selling red noses goes to the charity.

Red Nose Day takes place every two years in the spring and is now so well developed that many people consider it to be an unofficial national holiday. For example, many schools have non-uniform days.

The slogan for the last RND was “Do Something Funny for Money” and the money collected was used to help fund projects in the following areas: treating malaria, education, maternal health and mental health. The BBC Red Nose Day telethon raised £ 74.3 million! Money-raising events take place all over the country and many schools join in. People also donate money by post, in banks, by phone using a credit card and online.

Getting sponsored to do something is a common way to raise money on RND.   If someone sponsors you it means that they agree to give you a certain amount of money for your actions. Here are some ways that people raise money: wear their pyjamas (睡衣) all day at work or in school, or grow a moustache or beard for a month.

So, if you are ever in the UK on Red Nose Day, now you know why you may find normal people wearing red noses and doing silly things! It is all for a good cause!

Vinegar is great. It makes salad, fries and dumplings taste better, and you can even clean your windows with it. And now, according to scientists, it may even help the planet’s population survive climate change. Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan proved that. They found growing plants in vinegar makes them more resistant to droughts. This could mean that in the future, worries about climate change affecting the world’s supply of food will be much lower.

The discovery was made after the researchers studied the Arabidopsis, a plant known for its ability to survive in dry weather. It was found that when the plant was placed in drought-like conditions, it produced a chemical called acetate (醋酸盐)—the main component of vinegar.

After discovering this, the scientists experimented further by adding acetate to the soil of other plants before they stopped giving them water completely. After leaving the plants for 14 days, they found that the ones treated with acetate had survived, while the untreated plants had dried up and died.

It’s hoped that this simple method of survival could soon be used to help fanners in dry countries keep their crops alive. “In the experiment, we targeted the staple foods of the world—rice, wheat and maize… and proved successful” Jong Myong Kim, co-author of the study, told Popular Science magazine.

Kim has already been in touch with people around the world who are interested in trying this simple and cost-effective method out for themselves from farmers to companies and amateur gardeners. “Now we are trying to cooperate with them to make a method to apply this system, and make the process as simple as possible,” he said. Hopefully this means the end of hunger caused by bad weather in the future.