Session One ACTING, WRITING, PHOTOGRAPHY & DANCE        
July 7- July 28 $1800

Students will learn skills in ensemble acting ,play, writing, poetry, dance and digital photography. Campers stories of their own lives will provide the foundation for the multi-disciplinary youth led public performance on July 26.    Session Co-Director Jan Mandel, M.Ed., University of Minnesota, 28 year veteran teacher of theaterat St. Paul Central HS.  Has conducted hundreds of theater and arts education workshops for high school students, teachers, artists and community members.  Founder of Central touring Theater, comprised of her advanced acting classes, touring to schools throughout the Twin Cities.  Jan is the co-author of Acting, Learning and Change, a theater methods book. She was an Education Intern at Bauen in 2006 and a 2007 Session Director.Session Co-Director Usry Alleyne was born in Guyana, Argentina, SA and spent his early years “running around barefoot and catching bugs.” He has been teaching photography since 1993. Since 2000 Usry  has served as Artist Advisor in the Media Arts Program at Perpich Center for Arts Education, MN. He has also served as a photographer, video producer, editor and cameraman for the Walker Art Center, The Guthrie Theater, The McKnight Foundation. Usry holds a BFA from Mason School of the Arts at Rutgers University and is on the Board of Intermedia Arts.

Session Two  FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY, WOOD SCULPTURE, ARCHITECTURE             
July 30 – August 18  $1800

       
Students will explore the concept of “place” as it relates to the integration of art and nature in building sustainable lifestyles and communities. They will develop photographic stories and objects from nature reflecting the place of the camp and home. Session Two will also host eight teachers participating in Bauen’s pilot Education Fellows Program. See separate program description.   The Session Two public performance is on August 16.Session Co-Director S. Smith Patrick is a documentary filmmaker and photographer.  Her projects focus on human rights, social issues & indigenous cultural issues. In 2008 she’ll collaborate with the Bridges program as the instructor to Palestinian and Israeli youth committed to communicating with photography and video.  Her award winning film, The Children of Ibdaa: To Create Something Out of Nothing showed in more than 30 film festivals. She studied film/video production at Goldsmith’s College, London, prior to earning her MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State. She holds an MA in English Literature from Wheaton College, MA. Session Co-Director Randall Kober is an architect and founder of Anarchitectures..  He has been designing and constructing objects, installations and buildings in North America and Europe since 1982. He holds a Masters Degree in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Bachelors of Art in History from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Currently he teaches design and theory as an Assistant Visiting Professor in the Architecture School at the Illinois Institute of Technology.  Kober has taught in Rome and Paris for UIC and IIT.  Kober has worked as a rough and finish carpenter in Wisconsin and as an itinerant timber framer in northern Bavaria