ROWE — If you’re looking, you can find just about any type of summer camp to send the kids to, but what about adults?
The Rowe Center is offering just that this year — Creativity Camp for Adults: Play, Imperfection, Nature and Joy. From Aug. 24 to Aug. 29, adults will have the opportunity to try new things each day.
Jonathan Mirin, co-founder of Piti Theatre Company, said he was talking with Arthur Samuelson, director of programming at The Rowe Center — which offers retreats, workshops and other types of summer camps at 22 Kings Highway — when Samuelson said he liked the idea of offering a summer camp for adults to explore different art forms. He said he wanted it to be something rejuvenating, relaxing and supportive while including “the power of play.”
“I jumped at it,” Mirin said. “What a wonderful idea.”
The camp is open to anyone with a desire and passion to create, perform or produce, regardless of skill level or area of interest.
Mirin said typically, theater artists take theater workshops, visual artists take visual art workshops and so on. But during this camp — the first of its kind at The Rowe Center — artists will have the opportunity to do whatever they choose for the week on the 500-acre property.
“They can stay within their comfort zone, or they can take all sorts of other classes — take creative risks,” he said. “That will be encouraged.”
Mirin said during “down time,” campers will be able to take hikes, write in journals, swim or do whatever they’d like to do.
Having witnessed programs at The Rowe Center for the past seven years, Samuelson said he has seen how powerful community can be.
“Given this context, I have wanted to create an all-arts camp that would explore and expand the boundaries between art forms, and would provide artists and creative people with an opportunity to experience the joy of being in a beautiful place with like-minded folks,” he said.
Mirin said there will be some sort of talent show during the week.
“We’ll be encouraging people to participate and asking that they do something out of their comfort zone,” he said.
Participants will also build a regatta, if they’d like to participate. And, the community at-large will be invited to visit on Wednesday, Aug. 28.
“We want everyone to experience the camp, if even for a very short time,” Mirin said. “We’d love to see it grow.”
Mirin said he expects the first camp will see about a dozen people attend, but he’s hoping that number grows over the next few years. He said it will mostly be peer led.
Register for the camp, which includes lodging and meals, at: bit.ly/33h4lVp. For more information about The Rowe Center, call 413-339-4954 or visit: www.rowecenter.org.
Reach Anita Fritz at 413-772-0261, ext. 269 or afritz@recorder.com.