Bay Area Girls Rock Camp is an organization that empowers youth through music, promoting an environment that fosters self-confidence, creativity and teamwork. Through music lessons, workshops, group activities and performance, campers acquire skills that help guide them throughout their lives.

Our week-long program is open to girls and trans youth ages 8-18. No music experience necessary! Campers attend instrument lessons, form a band, collaboratively write an original song, participate in daily music and empowerment-related workshops, and perform with their band at a live showcase at the end of the week.

Summer 2016 Dates:

Session 1 TEEN WEEK (ages 13 -18): June 13th -17th // Showcase June 18th
Session 2 (ages 8-18): June 27th – July 1st // Showcase July 2nd
Session 3 (ages 8-18) : July 18th – July 22nd // Showcase July 23rd

Camp will be held at Oakland School for the Arts at 530 18th Street in Downtown Oakland. The camp is fully accessible with access to elevators. Camp runs Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm. Showcases will take place at the New Parish, 579 18th St, Oakland, on Saturday from 2-5pm

Tuition is $450, full and partial financial aid is readily available. Learn more and apply at:

bayareagirlsrockcamp.org

Our day camps provide five days of hands-on, project-based instruction, where young ladies ages 9-12 and 13-17 engage in tech instruction. The camps run for six hours a day with lunch, breaks, community building, field trips and of course coding! Our camps offer a space where girls of color can learn computer science and coding principles in the company of other girls like themselves and with mentorship from women they can see themselves becoming. Camp runs from 9am to 4pm Monday through Friday with a graduation ceremony on the last day of programming from 6-8pm.

Summer Camp Bay Area Dates
Week 1: August 1-5
Week 2: August 8-12

Please visit our website to apply and for more information:

www.blackgirlscode.com

Reel Stories Media Camp gives entering 13-18 year old young women the storytelling and production skills to tell stories from their unique point of view, while incorporating media literacy and leadership workshops. Lead and taught by current female leaders in the media industry, this camp empowers young women to broadcast their stories to the world!

www.campreelstories.com

Girl Power-Surge Camp! 2 weeks this year!

July 11- 15, 2016 & July 18-22, 2016

In this fun & enriching camp we join together as tribal members of Planet Earth to investigate the ways the Earth keeps us alive and kicking, and in turn how we may take care of her.  We cultivate a reverence for the natural world and an appreciation for the wonders of our hearts and bodies.  We look deeper into urban culture to see that the natural world is with us at all times.

This girl-centric camp creates time and space to find out what it means to be a powerful girl in the world today.  How do we do it?  We talk in sacred circle, do kid specific yoga, dance and craft our way into our shiniest girl-selves.  During this quality girl time, we practice earth-honoring rituals that connect us to our Mother Earth and to each other.

Kindness is always our theme for the week…kindness and serious fun! We dance every day – this year focusing on hula – and we will have a small performance/celebration on the final Friday to show parents and friends the inner joy of our Power-Surge girl-ness!

Taught by Jnana Gowan, Director Powerhouse Education & Freesia Huth- dance specialist.

http://www.powerhed.com/kids-programs/

GirlsGo! Summer Program

GirlsGo! is an enrichment program encouraging middle school aged girls to discover and explore their passion, live their dreams and make an Indelible Mark. We provide life-coaching along with eye-opening and fun excursions. Participants learn positive ways to navigate adolescence, build self-confidence and nurture quality friendships as they prepare for middle school and beyond.

www.indeliblemarkfoundation.org

GirlVentures’ mission is to empower adolescent girls to develop and express their strengths. We envision a world in which girls and women are actively engaged in the leadership of thriving communities strengthened by diversity, civic engagement, healthy choices and environmental responsibility.

Led by highly qualified instructors trained in outdoor education and youth development, our 7 – 14 day summer courses allow girls to experience the wonders of the Northern California wilderness. Girls participate in activities such as backpacking, camping, rock climbing and kayaking, as well as individual and group projects focused on themes including identity, self-expression, collaboration, trust, conflict resolution and diversity.

– Learn more about our 7-day Redwood Adventure course for girls entering 6th and 7th grades here:

http://girlventures.org/our-programs/summer/redwood-adventure/

– Learn more about our 13-day Project Courage course for girls entering 7th and 8th grades here:

http://girlventures.org/our-programs/summer/project-courage/

– Learn more about our 14-day Transitions course for girls entering 9th grade here:

http://girlventures.org/our-programs/summer/transitions/

http://girlventures.org/our-programs/summer/

This summer at Go Girls! Camp, over 500 rising 1st–rising 4th grade girls will join us in Oakland, Berkeley, Palo Alto, and San Francisco to #BeAmazing as we journey across Earth, Water, Sky, and Space to make a difference and learn just how much we matter!

Over the course of 2 weeks, girls in Go Girls! Camp work together to create and perform their own plays that reinforce social/emotional skills. All camps are led by a team of highly trained and very talented theater teaching artists, expressive artists, music specialists and the coolest teen assistants you will ever meet (basically, these are girls you want your daughters to grow up to be).

Each session is two-weeks long (Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM– 4:00 PM) and culminates in “The Big Show” at 4 PM of the final Friday of the session. “The Big Show” is a celebration of our learning and our time together as a community, and is an essential part of the Go Girls! experience.

*Looking for the Go Girls! experience for an older girl? Check out our Go Girls!/Reel Stories Camps (rising 5th-6th grade) and our “GGLT” Counselor in Training program (rising 7th-9th grade)!

To learn more or to sign up, please visit our website:

http://gogirlscamp.com/

Wandergirls is an arts and nature based summer day camp serving the East Bay community. It is our mission to support girls in feeling deeply connected to themselves, to others, and to the world around them through making art, time in nature, homesteading and mindfulness activities. By building connections, we hope to empower girls to access their own inner knowing and to feel strong within themselves as they move forward into their teen years and beyond.

Our activities include:
§ Nature skills
o Orienteering, Hiking, Shelter Building
§ Art projects
o Art Journals, Collage, Poetry, Clay
§ Mindfulness explorations
o Yoga, movement, and meditation
§ Homesteading
o Botany, Herbalism, handmade herb oils and candles

All activities are in an atmosphere of discovery and playfulness, while also being grounded and present. We hope to build a close knit group, accepting a maximum of 12 girls.

Who: Girls ages 9-13
When: July 25-29 9am-4pm
Where: Tilden Park, Berkeley

Wander with us for a fun, meaningful and inspiring summer!

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, she finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
-John Muir

www.wandergirls.org