Limited Spots Remain for Summer 2025!
Camp Arena Stage
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Contact
camp@arenastage.org
Program: 202-600-4064
Payment: 202-488-3300
Yo, Artist! Join us this summer at Camp Arena Stage — where community and art make magic!
Hosted on the beautiful grounds of Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, Camp Arena Stage is a full-day, multi-arts summer camp, for young people, ages 8-15. A place to explore, discover, and create with the encouragement and guidance of professional artists and educators.
Campers choose their own schedules from a long list of classes in theater, dance, music, visual art, filmmaking, and writing.
Favorite past activities have included improvisation, a cappella, hip-hop dance, musical theater, drawing and painting, rock band, stop-motion animation, and many more.
With a Noontime Show every day, campers can perform in front of the best audience in DC—each other! In the 3-Week Session, campers showcase their work in our evening Arts Extravaganza.
Camp Arena Stage is for all artists. Not every artist is a performer, so being on stage is not required!
2025 Dates
3-Week Session: July 7 – July 25, 2025 (SOLD OUT.)
2-Week Session: July 28 – August 8, 2025 (SOLD OUT. Campers aged 12-15 can sign up for the limited availability waitlist here!)
Essay Contest Opportunity: Youth in Grades 7 and 8 who attend DC schools can participate in an essay contest sponsored by the Washington (DC) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated. The winning essay writer will be awarded a fully-paid spot in our 2-Week Session. The deadline is May 26, 2025. Click here for packet and details.
Location
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School
(click for directions or see map below)
Program Details:
Testimonials
Here's what the campers have to say:
"...opportunities to broaden your horizons..."
"If you are into the arts...it's definitely a place for you."
"It's fun there!"
What parents/guardians are saying…
“We loved the variety of classes taught by skilled artists...she truly honed her skills, not just marked time.”
“My child loved getting up and going every day as well as working on her craft.”
“Camp Arena Stage is an incredibly supportive, accepting environment exposing kids to new artforms in a fun way.”
What campers are saying…
“I liked the acceptance of who you are and how you can let your creativity run freely.”
“How amazing the community is. The counselors were always amazing and even after being here for four years this camp always lifts my spirits.”
"The general positive energy was amazing everywhere I went."
Sponsors
Camp Arena Stage is made possible by Friends of Southwest DC.
Arena Stage’s community engagement efforts are generously sponsored by Denie and Frank Weil; The Toni A. Ritzenberg Fund for Educational and Community Outreach Programs at Arena Stage; Joanne Barker; The Robert and Natalie Mandel Family Foundation; Rick and Carol Froehlich; The DeLaski Family Foundation; Boeing; Comcast; Alice Shaver Foundation; GEICO; Venable Foundation; Hattie M. Strong Foundation; Nora Roberts Foundation; Enterprise Holdings Foundation; Friends of Southwest D.C.; and Actors’ Equity Foundation.
Camp Arena Stage
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School
1524 35th St NW, Washington, DC 20007