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Festival 2024 (Part 3)
After a long and emotional Festival day, final moments were spent in the Summer Theatre as the cast of this session’s musical, Urinetown, performed for camp. This show was made possible through the work of campers and staff in Theatre, Lighting, Sound, Costumes, Set, and MuShed. After the show, MANY tears were shed as it was time for all campers to say goodbye to their friends and the place that they’ve spent all summer growing.
Thank you to all for making this summer so wonderful and magical, and keeping the Buck’s Rock spirit alive. It has been such an honor to document this summer in the place that means so much to me and this community. There is truly nothing like this place, all because of the people that fill it. Much love and see you all next year! - Olivia from Marketing
Festival 2024 (Part 2)
In the afternoon at the Dance Studio, this session’s dancers performed some highlights from the two shows over the summer to guests in the audience.
Festival 2024 (Part 1)
WAAAAAHOOOOOOO HAPPY FESTIVAL!!!! Friends, family, and alumni came together to reminisce and celebrate on the final day of camp. Campers reunited with their loved ones and brought home at the end of the day. Our summer 2024 chapter ended with a beautifully long day that began with our Alumni Coffee Club. Old Buck’s Rockers told stories of the past and brought the audience back in time. The memories all came back as tears of nostalgia were shed. Campers and CITs showed off and collected the artwork they made this year as staff sold theirs at Staff Works in the dining hall! At 1pm, the talented cast of this years Festival day show debuted all the hard work and passion they put into Master Pathelin down at the Summer Theatre!
August 16th, 2024
The last full day of camp before Festival was full of finishing last projects, packing up, and bittersweet reflections on the summer. The morning consisted of a marble run over at Wood, where campers built a track for marbles from the shop to the gong. The Film shop went around recording interviews of everyone’s favorite summer memories as campers wrote final letters to home and helped their favorite shops with cleanup. The P.A.S.S. shop spent all day making this year’s official camp shirts, made by a P.A.S.S. CIT. In the evening, all campers received their summer yearbooks made by campers and staff in the Pub Shop and the very last softball game was played on the feilds, hosted with commentary by Clowns of Buck’s Rock past! What an amazing summer, see you at Festival!
August 15th, 2024
In the final days of camp, spirits are high and so much art has been completed. The musical rehearses down at the summer theatre in preparation for their show on festival night! Final glass lessons were taught and final touches were put on the camp mural down at Painting. The Pub shop has completed the camp yearbook, which mean ice cream for all!!! Campers, CITs and Staff worked endlessly for the completion of this project, and we can’t wait to see the work they’ve put in when campers get their yearbook tomorrow. The day ended up at the Actor’s Studio with the incredible performers in Beat Box; A Hip Hop Show, where campers displayed a staff-made play after only a week of rehearsal.
August 14th, 2024
Projects are being finished in shops as the days tick down in our final week. Everyone is feeling sentimental and bittersweet, but that doesn’t stop the grind. Urinetown rehearsals take the stage and the Actor’s Studio prepares for Thursday' night’s Hip-Hop showcase. Campers show off their favorite fiished projects in Weaving, Sewing, Puppetry, Metals, and more! The day ended with a glorious performance from our amazing musicians down at Rock Cafe, where campers, staff, and CITs came together in bands to perform the songs they’ve been working on all summer. (Rock Cafe photos slightly out of order due to website issue, keep clicking through to find your favorite performance!)
August 13th, 2024
Everyone is working hard to finish projects and enjoy final rehearsals! Campers prepare for Rock Cafe in rock band rehearsals, wood projects are being sanded and finished, batiks are being washed out, and the cast of the Festival musical learns some dance. The Ceramics shop took a trip to Sheffield Pottery, where they learned how clay is mined and mixed into the clay they use in their projects. Visiting artist Myq Kaplan led a stand-up comedy writing workshop in Clown. And the mural is being filled in by our incredibly talented campers! Everyone is in denial about the end of camp being so close, so the energy is high and delightful.
August 12th, 2024
The final week of camp is busy as ever! There were rehearsals for Rock Cafe this Wednesday, the Hip-Hop showcase this Thursday, and the musical on Saturday! At computers campers were making wooden molds using a CNC router over at the fabrication lab! Lessons happened at Glass as campers at Painting are finishing up the camp portrait. P.A.S.S. held a workshop with the Garden using the cyanotype proccess to make prints of sillouettes from nature. In the evening, the Clown Shop held it’s final Monday Clown Cafe, where campers and CITs performed improv for an audience!
August 11th, 2024
Today shops were full and rehearsals were ongoing. Ealking through camp, you could hear the sounds of power tools at Sculpture, music from each shop airing Radio’s shows, musicians practicing for Rock Cafe, and the sitzprobe for this sessions musical, Urinetown which will take the stage on Festival night (this Saturday!). Sitzprobe is a rehearsal where the orchestra and singing cast perform the songs from the show with eachother for the first time. Excitment is in the air, with a bit of bittersweetness. The final week of the summer is here, and everyone is making the most of the time they have at this special place.
August 10th, 2024 (Part 2)
The evening activity for the 10th was the second session Dance Show, Arcade. This incredible cast came together after many hours of rehearsal for a one-night-only performance with 17 dances in total and talent from not only campers in Dance, but L.S.D., Costume, and Set Design.
August 10th, 2024 (Part 1)
Vibrant day at camp as everyone is finishing up their projects for the summer. Some were in rehearsals for this session’s Clown Show on Sunday and Rock Cafe on Wednesday, while others gathered in shops to play the final round of trivia from our favorite staff and campers over at Radio! The Bronze Pour at sculpture happened, where bronze is melted and poured into molds made by campers. Film came around to shops, recording bits for our camp-wide memories video.
August 9th, 2024
Fun day at camp as campers enter the last week! Final projects are being made and campers are entering shops they’ve never been to. Campers completed projects in sewing and started projects in Batik. Book Arts held a workshop in collaboration with Metals where they dipped wire into Abaca solution to make paper jewelry and sculptures. Culinary held it’s annual burger competition! Campers came together to create unique burgers and competed for a winner!
August 8th, 2024
Today at camp, shops were full and rehearsals were running as campers grind projects and prepare for this session’s dance show on Saturday. Dancing campers spent the afternoon at run-through for the show at the summer theatre, where the entire cast gets to perform and see each others dances for the first time on stage. Radio shows were hosted, flowers were pressed in Book Arts, and a visiting artist hosted a Haiku poetry workshop. At night, MuShed hosted it’s final music recital where campers and staff performed what they’ve been working on all summer! AHhhh Buck’s Rock magic is in the air!
