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Spend your days practicing your art, or stretching your creativity by trying new opportunities at one of the best summer camps for the arts. Explore programs for grades 3–12.

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You'll explore interests and experience adventures outside of your arts discipline in an amazing environment. And you’ll do it surrounded by exceptional instructors and talented friends who will cheer you on.

• Find a program that fits your interests and passions with options in 7 different arts areas
• Meet other students who love the arts as much as you do, and who will become lifelong friends
• Learn from accomplished, renowned guest artists from across the globe
• Participate in activities outside the classroom like camp traditions, cabin games, and water activities
• Grow as an artist and as a person, and leave forever changed

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Interlochen Arts Camp offers a variety of programs in seven different arts disciplines for students in grades 3–12. Join a one-week intensive and dive into a hyper-focused topic, or spend your summer doing what you love in a two-, three-, four-, or six-week session. If you're interested in multiple art forms, you'll have the opportunity to explore through our Interdisciplinary Arts programs for grades 3–8.

Creative Writing

Our creative writing camp offers summer programs in multiple focus areas like Creative Writing, Novel Writing, Performance Poetry, and more.

Take a one-week intensive in ballet, contemporary dance, or hip-hop, or spend even more time doing what you love.

Pursue your love of theatre in Acting or Musical Theatre, or explore backstage with a Theatre Design & Production program.

Summer music camp programs are offered for young musicians in grades 3–12 with programs in a variety of genres, instruments, and skill levels.

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Take your stories from your head to the screen through filmmaking and animation programs taught by industry professionals.

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Explore painting, drawing, ceramics, or fashion in a visual arts program. At the end of the summer, you'll share your work in an exhibition or runway show. 

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Dates vary by age and program of interest.

One-week Intensives (Grades 9–12) : June 15-21

Two-week sessions (Grades 3-6) : June 23–July 6; July 7–July 20; July 21–Aug. 3

Three-week sessions (Grades 6–12) : June 23–July 13; July 14–Aug. 4

Four-week sessions (Grades 3-6) : June 23–July 20; July 7–Aug. 3

Six-week sessions (Grades 6-12) : June 23–Aug. 4

The priority application is  Jan. 15 . We will continue to welcome applications after Jan. 15 as space permits. In 2023, over 3,000 students attended Interlochen Arts Camp, so the earlier a student can apply the better. Applying early gives you priority consideration for scholarship opportunities, for your first choice program, and gives you time to plan ahead.

We believe that each and every talented student who is offered admission should be able to attend Interlochen Arts Camp. 85% of families that apply for assistance receive financial aid. Need- and merit-based financial aid is available, and financial need does not affect admission.

Interlochen exists to help artists develop and improve, so it is most important that students showcase potential to learn and a capacity for continued growth. Students are not expected to be "perfect." We recommend that you learn more about Interlochen, visit our campus, or apply.

Interlochen's beautiful 1,200 acre campus is located in the northwest corner of Michigan's lower peninsula, near Traverse City. By car, we are about four hours from Detroit, and six hours from Chicago. Our region is served by Cherry Capital Airport (TVC), which offers multiple daily flights to and from Chicago and Detroit, and seasonal service to/from Minneapolis, New York City, and Newark.

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Interlochen Center for the Arts: Creative Writing Major

As a creative writing major, you will receive accelerated, individualized, graduate-level instruction that will put you leaps and bounds beyond the typical high school writer in terms of technique, versatility, and vocational know-how. 

• Craft an exciting body of work in diverse literary genres
• Develop an in-depth understanding of craft terminology and stylistic techniques
• Engage in professionalization opportunities, such as preparing portfolios for national high school creative writing contests and literary publications, interviewing visiting writers about their career paths, and attending workshops
• Collaborate in interdisciplinary contexts with artists from other majors on campus

Our faculty will provide personalized mentorship within an intensive but nurturing workshop environment. Interlochen instructors include novelists, poets, playwrights, and screenwriters, including Brittany Cavallaro, a New York Times bestselling author of young adult novels including the Charlotte Holmes series. 

At Interlochen, you’ll deepen your craft and prepare for your future as a writer and active participant in the literary scene.

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Artistic and academic courses are weaved throughout an Arts Academy student’s day.  Our co-curricular approach emphasizes the connection between art and academics, encouraging students to think critically and creatively about problems in the classroom and beyond. 

Athletics offered: Basketball, volleyball, cross country, and lacrosse, plus intramural competitions in ultimate frisbee, soccer, tennis, and badminton

Clubs and organizations: Black Student Union, Young Feminists Club, the Interlochen Book Club, the Student Sustainability Club, the Traditional Chinese Art Club, Model UN, Stilt Walking, and Interlochen Podcast Cooperative, among others. 

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Interlochen was a dream of mine for much of my childhood, and, after four years at the Academy, I love it even more than I thought possible. With an Interlochen education comes the ability to mix artistic and academic learning, a community that fosters close friendships, and a constant array of opportunities, among other things.” 

- Poppy,  ‘20, Arts Academy Creative Writing alumna

“At Interlochen, you are surrounded by a wealth of resources and people who are equally excited to be there as you are.”

 - Sabine, Arts Academy Creative Writing major

Introducing: The 2023 recipient of the Virginia Ball Creative Writng Scholarship —  Lucy Lombardo , an eighth grader from Honeoye, New York! She has been selected to receive a full-tuition scholarship to attend Interlochen Arts Academy as a Creative Writing major. Check back later to hear how you can apply to win next year's scholarship!

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Region: Mid-West Region

State/Province: Michigan

Program Delivery: Day, Other, Overnight

Provided By: Private School

Gender: Coed

Entering Grade: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th

Session Length: Other

Start Month: September

Acceptance: Yes

Category: Writing

Sub-Categories: College Experience, Literature, Writing

Cost: >$3,000

More Information: 231.276.7472 or [email protected]

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In this one week-workshop style summer camp, teens will write stories, novel excerpts, nonfiction, and poetry in a fun, inclusive environment. 

Our goal is self-expression. Our methods are learning by doing, teaching young writers to find their unique voice, try out different styles in their writing, and follow the artistic process to see where it leads. 

Taught by working artist and college English instructor.

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San Francisco, Calif. 94117

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Use code SAVE50 to get early bird discount of 50 percent off before July 1. 

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<p>I’m thinking of applying to Interlochen (a summer camp in Michigan) this summer for creative writing. It’s famous for music, but its creative writing program is gaining ground. It’s past the due date, but admissions are accepted late. </p>

<p>Here’s my question: Is this camp strong enough in creative writing for me to attend for three weeks of my summer? I’d give up a week in NY with my friend and some R&R BUT I love writing and want to actively pursue it. I know a friend who’s had great experience with the music program and a former mentor who’s attended the boarding school for creative writing. It’s also a “campy” camp with lake time, hiking, and cabins. </p>

<p>Thoughts? It’d be great if anyone had personal experience, but I of course would love any blind advice. </p>

<p>Oh, and I’m a hs freshman. So technically I could lounge all summer by the pool (except for two-three weeks of trips, which is kind of a time-sucker). But that’s sounding less and less appealing the more I think about it and the further I get from the Interlochen due date.</p>

<p>I never majored in creative writing (though I did attend some readings) but I went to Interlochen for five summers and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Part of the magic of the place is the fact that you can major in anything, but still be surrounded by so many different kinds of art. I was a visual arts major, but because of the atmosphere I was able to attend concerts, acting performances, creative writing readings, and so much more. So while I can’t speak specifically on the quality of the writing program, I can most definitely vouch for the quality of the experience. Is it worth three weeks of your summer? Well, to me it was worth eight.</p>

<p>Sounds like my type of place, but sadly too short. I personally love writing and discussing equally…spending three weeks in this environment would be heaven for the creative monger in me.</p>

<p>I was a high school creative writing major last summer and have already enrolled again for this year.</p>

<p>Interlochen is an absolutely amazing experience. The kids who choose to go are some of the most incredibly talented people you’ll ever meet. You’ll be in a cabin with kids of all different majors, so you will get to make friends with all sorts of passionate people.</p>

<p>Walking through Main Camp, you might pass a group of choral majors harmonizing on their way to the cafeteria, a couple of theatre majors scattered on the grass rehearsing their lines, and the odd guitarist improvising on a bench near the Melody Freeze. You get to attend all student performances for free, whether that means an orchestra concert, musical theatre workshop, or dance production.</p>

<p>Your cabin is home base…as a writer, I spent plenty of time there, pounding away on my laptop. The Writing House is the coolest collection of writing classrooms you’ll find anywhere, and you’re free to hang out and write on the deck or in one of its many nooks and crannies. </p>

<p>The teaching was great. I’ve written all of my best stuff at Interlochen. All classes are small–mine had 8 people, which was the average. We became very close.</p>

<p>All in all, I wouldn’t trade my three weeks there for anything. At the end of the session, I wished I could stay for the entire six weeks. I can’t wait to be back.</p>

<p>My only concern would be whether there are openings left in the program. They offered all of my former classmates and me portfolio waivers for the same program, which means that several returning campers will have passed the “audition” stage and taken those spots. But then again, they have changed the writing program a lot this year, so they may be expanding. I don’t know. You might want to email admissions and ask.</p>

<p>Please, feel free to PM me if you have any more/more specific questions. I would definitely recommend applying.</p>

<p>Like MFlevity, I went to Interlochen as a Creative Writing Major as well. Poetry, specifically. I had the best time I could ever imagine. Not only is Interlochen beautiful, but the entire vibe of the campus is entirely electric. You’re perpetually inspired, whether by WYSO, by the lake, your classmates, etc. I made some of the best friends I could ever have there. The classes were killer. My teacher last year was so funny, incredibly helpful, and brilliant poet in her own right. Go! I hope you can get in before it fills up.</p>

<p>I am looking to do Interlochen as well but am concerned with the extremely high prices for a three week summer program. I started off looking at Interlochen for the music program actually, specifically on voice instruction, but was blown away at the price of $6,000 for only three or four weeks. I can’t quite remember exactly how much the writing program was, but I can only imagine that it is similar to music. Could it really be worth that much money??? I’m a freshman too, and the other issue that I had was the question of my age. Am I too young to be applying to something like Interlochen??? I guess being a freshman isn’t that young when it all comes down to it but I also don’t want to be put into something that is way beyond me… And the last question: is the Interlochen summer camp really competitive to get in to? And is it prestigious at all? I honestly don’t care about prestige in general, but I am genuinely curious, for if I am going to be paying $6,000, then I should imagine that its prominence should be quite outstanding.</p>

<p>A reply would be lovely!!! I guess it is kind of late, but it is always nice to keep such thoughts in hand…</p>

<p>Well, you’re definetely not too young. It’s grades 3-12! It is competitive to get into, and it is very prestigious. You should apply for financial aid, 70% of Interlochen students are on financial aid! If you have anymore questions feel free to PM me.</p>

<p>I have had three kids at Interlochen, and they all loved it. Your price tag is wrong, I believe. Three weeks is about $3,000, not $6,000. There is money available, and I think a large percentage of kids can get at least a partial scholarship if they financially qualify.</p>

<p>Goodness, I need to write that personal essay and send my app in! You all make it sound so amazing. </p>

<p>treefarmer, what were your kids’ majors? I’d be interested to see what Interlochen can offer to everyone.</p>

<p>Right. Three weeks’ creative writing is around $3,500, and that’s without scholarship.</p>

<p>Are you a freshman this year or a rising freshman? Rising sophomores must apply to the high school program (portfolio requirement for admission) but rising freshmen can choose to apply to either the intermediate (non-audition) or high school division.</p>

<p>I would recommend applying as soon as possible for the best chances of financial aid.</p>

<p>Hey, do you guys think it’s too late to apply? I’ve been toying with the idea but I don’t want to spend too much time if my chances are pretty slim to start with.</p>

<p>If you’re worried, you can email admissions and ask if there are still openings. They’re always pretty quick with replies.</p>

<p>To all those who have been to the camp: Most of you said it was a “prestigious” camp, does that mean that those of us who have never had training would feel overwhelmed? I really want to go but i am worried that I might not feel adequate. It all sounds like great fun, but I am not an amazing writer. What is your advice, go for it or not?</p>

<p>Hi! Sorry I’m bringing back a six year old discussion thread, but I recently got accepted to the creative writing program (fiction and poetry) and was wondering if I could get some more info on it. Is the CW major at interlochen as credible sat he music seems to be? I’ve heard TONNES about performing arts, but very little about visual arts and creative writing. Any info would be helpful! I also started a thread on this, so replies there as well would be helpful :)</p>

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As funding for arts education declines worldwide, experts ponder what students — and the world at large — are losing in the process.

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This article is part of our special report on the Art for Tomorrow conference that was held in Florence, Italy.

Awuor Onguru says that if it were not for her continued exposure to arts education as a child, she never would have gotten into Yale University.

Growing up in a lower-middle-class family in Nairobi, Kenya, Ms. Onguru, now a 20-year-old junior majoring in English and French, started taking music lessons at the age of four. By 12, she was playing violin in the string quartet at her primary school, where every student was required to play an instrument. As a high school student on scholarship at the International School of Kenya, she was not only being taught Bach concertos, she also became part of Nairobi’s music scene, playing first violin in a number of local orchestras.

During her high school summer breaks, Ms. Onguru — who also has a strong interest in creative writing and poetry — went to the United States, attending the Interlochen Center for the Arts ’ creative writing camp, in Michigan, and the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio . Ms. Onguru, who recently returned to campus after helping organize Yale Glee Club’s spring tour in Kenya, hopes to become a journalist after graduation. She has already made progress toward that goal, serving as the opinion editor for the Yale Daily News, and getting her work published in Teen Vogue and the literary journal Menacing Hedge.

“Whether you’re in sports, whether you end up in STEM, whether you end up in government, seeing my peers — who had different interests in arts — not everyone wanted to be an artist,” she said in a video interview. “But they found places to express themselves, found places to be creative, found places to say things that they didn’t know how else to say them.”

Ms. Onguru’s path shows what a pivotal role arts education can play in a young person’s development. Yet, while the arts and culture space accounts for a significant amount of gross domestic product across the globe — in the United Kingdom in 2021, the arts contributed £109 billion to the economy , while in the U.S., it brought in over $1 trillion that year — arts education budgets in schools continue to get slashed. (In 2021, for instance, the spending on arts education in the U.K. came to an average of just £9.40 per pupil for the year .)

While experts have long espoused the idea that exposure to the arts plays a critical role in primary and secondary schooling, education systems globally have continually failed to hold it in high regard. As Eric Booth, a U.S.-based arts educator and a co-author of “Playing for Their Lives: The Global El Sistema Movement for Social Change Through Music,” said: “There are a whole lot of countries in the world that don’t have the arts in the school, it just isn’t a thing, and it never has been.”

That has led to the arts education trajectory heading in a “dark downward spiral,” said Jelena Trkulja, senior adviser for academic and cultural affairs at Qatar Museums , who moderated a panel entitled “When Arts Education is a Luxury: New Ecosystems” at the Art for Tomorrow conference in Florence, Italy, organized by the Democracy & Culture Foundation, with panels moderated by New York Times journalists.

Part of why that is happening, she said, is that societies still don’t have a sufficient and nuanced understanding of the benefits arts education can bring, in terms of young people’s development. “Arts education is still perceived as an add-on, rather than an essential field creating essential 21st-century skills that are defined as the four C’s of collaboration, creativity, communication and critical thinking,” Dr. Trkulja said in a video interview, “and those skills are being developed in arts education.”

Dennie Palmer Wolf, principal researcher at the U.S.-based arts research consultancy WolfBrown , agreed. “We have to learn to make a much broader argument about arts education,” she said. “It isn’t only playing the cello.”

It is largely through the arts that we as humans understand our own history, from a cave painting in Indonesia thought to be 45,000 years old to “The Tale of Genji,” a book that’s often called the world’s first novel , written by an 11th-century Japanese woman, Murasaki Shikibu; from the art of Michelangelo and Picasso to the music of Mozart and Miriam Makeba and Taylor Swift.

“The arts are one of the fundamental ways that we try to make sense of the world,” said Brian Kisida, an assistant professor at the University of Missouri’s Truman School of Public Affairs and a co-director of the National Endowment for the Arts-sponsored Arts, Humanities & Civic Engagement Lab . “People use the arts to offer a critical perspective of their exploration of the human condition, and that’s what the root of education is in some ways.”

And yet, the arts don’t lend themselves well to hard data, something educators and policymakers need to justify classes in those disciplines in their budgets. “Arts is this visceral thing, this thing inside you, the collective moment of a crescendo,” said Heddy Lahmann , an assistant professor of international education at New York University, who is conducting a global study examining arts education in public schools for the Community Arts Network. “But it’s really hard to qualify what that is.”

Dr. Lahmann’s early research into the decrease in spending by public schools in arts education points to everything from the lack of trained teachers in the arts — partly because those educators are worried about their own job security — to the challenges of teaching arts remotely in the early days of the Covid pandemic. And, of course, standardized tests like the Program for International Student Assessment, which covers reading, math and science, where countries compete on outcomes. “There’s a race to get those indicators,” Dr. Lahmann said, “and arts don’t readily fit into that.” In part, that is because standardized tests don’t cover arts education .

“It’s that unattractive truth that what gets measured gets attended to,” said Mr. Booth, the arts educator who co-authored “Playing for Their Lives.”

While studies over the years have underscored the ways that arts education can lead to better student achievement — in the way that musical skills support literacy, say, and arts activities lead to improved vocabulary, what have traditionally been lacking are large-scale randomized control studies. But a recent research project done in 42 elementary and middle schools in Houston, which was co-directed by Dr. Kisida and Daniel H. Bowen, a professor who teaches education policy at Texas A&M, is the first of its kind to do just that. Their research found that students who had increased arts education experiences saw improvements in writing achievement, emotional and cognitive empathy, school engagement and higher education aspirations, while they had a lower incidence of disciplinary infractions.

As young people are now, more than ever, inundated with images on social media and businesses are increasingly using A.I., it has become even more relevant for students these days to learn how to think more critically and creatively. “Because what is required of us in this coming century is an imaginative capacity that goes far beyond what we have deliberately cultivated in the schooling environment over the last 25 years,” said Mariko Silver, the chief executive of the Henry Luce Foundation, “and that requires truly deep arts education for everyone.”

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Savvino-storozhevsky monastery and museum.

Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

Belfry and Neighbouring Churches

Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.  

To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.

Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.

Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.

Tsaritsa's Chambers

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.

At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.

Palace of Tsar Alexis

The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.

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