Each summer St. Monica Catholic Church sponsors a  Youth Music Camp for area youth offering hands-on experience in the performing arts of music, dance, and theater. The Christian curriculum affords each child the opportunity to successfully participate in choral singing, creative movement, acting, set design and construction, costuming, and handbell ringing.

The Youth Music Camp is open to all interested youth in grades 2nd through 12. A K-1 curriculum will be offered for the fulltime volunteer camp staffers' children only. A nursery is provided for the convenience of our volunteer staffers. Youth in grades 9-12 may opt to enroll as teachers' aides or play in the stage band for service hour credit if they  prefer to not pursue performance in the camp production.

The camp operates Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to Noon; Friday from 8:30 a.m. till  2:00 p.m. (which includes a dress rehearsal and performance for guests from local nursing homes ); and Saturday from 4:00 p.m. till 8:00 p.m. (includes rehearsal, evening liturgy, and final dinner theater performance in the Parish Center with dinner sponsored by the Knights of Columbus).

Children of registered  St. Monica Catholic parishioners pay a fee that covers the cost of the camp T-Shirt. We do ask children of non-parishioners for a donation of  $35.00 to help defray expenses .

Camp T-shirts form the basis of our performance attire, and are a wonderful souvenir of the camp experience!

For more information contact either Trish Kuper at 216-5559 (Trish_Kuper@hotmail.com) or Marie Connolly, 315-5093( MSConn5ok@cox.net).