Summer Camps
HIGH SCHOOL - CAMP COUNSELORS / THEATRE CREATORS
*Must be 14 yo by start of camp to participate in this program
Interested youth are hired to participate in H2M’s summer employment + Youth Devising Residency Workshops.
A series of Youth Devising Intensive Workshops for High School Students. These are paid to participate workshops -An artist development program, youth are paid as young professionals to participate. High School students work with professional theater artists to create an original work.
As a Youth Creator, you also serve as Students Camp Counselors to support middle school programs by acting as mentors and motivators for middle school participants - leading improv and theatre games, encouraging participation, supporting staging and tech, and helping middle schoolers craft their work.
We offer multiple week long summer camps throughout the summer. Similar to our devising theater education programs, these camps offer professional guidance in creating in collaboration a unique and original theatrical performance piece. Camp participants learn improvisation, clown, movement, puppetry, film, lighting and sound design. Camps are typically full day camps at various locations throughout the greater Portland area as well as surrounding school districts.
MIDDLE SCHOOL - DEVISING ORIGINAL THEATRE
These camps are FREE and open to rising 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students!
Using Hand2Mouth Theatres unique approach to creating original theater - youth will learn a variety of theatre making techniques; from puppetry to film, sound and movement, performance, storytelling, text, and media, youth will learn how to create original theater of their own devising based on the world in which they live. Offered at various locations throughout the greater Portland area
“My kid is so excited about this camp. They don’t talk very much but they can’t stop talking about your camp!”
Parent, Summer Camp