Morning Instruction & Activities:

– Learning about historic Chocolate Cities

– Learning about Black elected city officials 

– Creating candidates, holding elections, and voting for city officials

– Playing the “circulate the dollar game”
Afternoon Project: Urban Design Physical Model 

– Collaborating to build a city 

– Each student contributes 2 structures

Project: Theatrical Production 

– Emphasis on ethics and empathy

– Soft skill development: kindness and conflict resolution

– Theater / Dance artist-in-residence

– Hearing and learning African fables & Black-authored short stories

– Adapting and performing stories for staged presentation

– Creating masks and costumes

– Learning choreography / movement / staging / blocking

Project: Visual Art and Book Making

– Each day, each student pairs with a peer to research an African country

– Listening to music specific to each country or region

– Viewing fabrics and fashion specific to each country or region

– Creating original art elements to contribute to a collage for that country

– Compiling student art into a single book on Africa

– Original student art available for auction, proceeds to camp

Project: Parades and Protest

– Music artist-in-residence

– Learning and practicing Black choral/choir music and embodied percussion

– Learning and practicing Freedom Songs

– Hearing and participating in a drum circle

– Researching contemporary causes for equity and equality

– Creating signs and banners to march for respective causes

– Learning about public expressions of Black joy (ie: parades) 

– Learning about marches for justice over time