HIGHLIGHTS:

• Campers wrote, performed and built the set for two short plays about the lives of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and Pele, the famous Brazilian soccer player, which were performed at Art Town, Reno’s summer art festival.
• Campers learned Brazilian Capoeira techniques and traditional folk dances.

2007 Global Kids focused on modern day Latin America by investigating its geography, history, culture and Spanish language through dynamic, hands-on activities. In addition to a week-long, intensive basic Spanish course, the campers participated in different activities including cooking, arts and crafts, sports, mural painting and theater to celebrate the various Latin American cultures and the accomplishments of great Latino people, both in Latin America as well as in the United States.

All campers spent their mornings learning about Spanish language, culture, arts and crafts and geography.  Campers decided at the beginning of the week what their week-long afternoon activity focus would be selecting from the categories of Movement, Painting or Theater.  From those options, Global Kids campers wrote, performed and built the set for two short plays which were performed at Art Town, Reno’s summer art festival.

2007 PARTICIPANTS

• Ray Valdez:  Local painter and art teacher at Coral Academy of Science Charter School, Ray has worked with many youth community organizations and exhibits locally.  Ray worked with the campers in a weeklong project to learn about different aspects of Latin America and have final mural projects which were used as backdrops to the plays that were performed.   This was the second year Ray was involved with Global Kids.
• Susan Williams:  Local writer  and renowned children’s book author, Suzie helped the campers research and write their own plays about the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Brazilian soccer star, Pele.  This was Suzie’s second year involved with Global Kids.
  Arie Rodriguez:  A member of Ballet Folklorico Internacional, Arie taught students traditional folk dances from different areas of Latin America.
• Juliana Chavez:  Member of local theater company Brown Eyes Too and participant with Hispanic Youth Image youth development organization helped direct and guide the students in their self-written plays.
• Brett Brolliar:  A member of Tahoe Capoeira, Brett worked with the students to teach them different movements from the ancient Brazilian art of Capoeira.