CALIFORNIA STUDENT EXCHANGE 2008 STUDENTS SELECTED
A group of 18 talented young music and arts students from Devon and Cornwall have now been selected to take part in the Idyllwild Summer Arts Program.
Idyllwild Summer Arts Program is a residential arts camp held in the beautiful, mountainous setting of Southern California. The programme includes courses for all ages and the students from England will be part of the Youth Arts Center for 13-18s. Courses last 2 or 3 weeks and are intensive studies of a particular artistic area. Students are encouraged to develop their personal artistic vision through intensive practical work with expert tuition and activities which are team-based and non-competitive. The experience is highly-focused. Students return from Idyllwild exhilarated through the immersion in the arts and motivated in their subject and with stories of inspirational environment and new international friendships. This is the third year of the exchange and students from KEVICC have returned as staff at the Centre.
The group of students, aged 15-17, come from: King Edward VI Community College in Totnes; Lipson Community College in Plymouth; Teign School, Kingsteignton; Knowles Hill, Newton Abbot and Truro College in Cornwall and will attend courses in: filmmaking; photography, jazz music, acting for camera, jewellery making, song and dance, art and choral singing.
Students were selected through a rigorous process including applications, references, auditions and interviews, arranged and panelled by Dartington Plus in collaboration with secondary schools from Devon and Cornwall. The Helen Foundation, for a second year are fully supporting two students from Teignbridge to join the student group for the trip.
The group will meet for the first time in June at Dartington in a day of workshops. Upon their return from the US, the student group will be set to work in the UK, planning a project which will share their experience with other students from their schools. Students will be asked to create a new piece/s and run workshops to take some of the ‘Idyllwild Experience’ back to their classrooms and inspire other students in music and the arts through what they have learnt. Some students will also be returning to work as part of the tutor teams of the Dartington Summer Youth Programme.
Dartington Plus is delighted to have been able to select such a talented and motivated group of young artists from the South West region.
The Idyllwild Exchange programme is one of a number of collaborative arts projects funded by the Transatlantic Arts Consortium. The Transatlantic Arts Consortium is a collaboration between Dartington, Idyllwild Arts and CalArts.
Dartington Plus is a partnership between The Dartington Hall Trust, King Edward VI Community College and University College Falmouth – incorporating Dartington College of Arts. Funded by Arts Council England