Christ Church Deer Park, Toronto

Performing Arts Drama Camp 2009

CHRIST CHURCH DEER PARK PRESENTS Smashing Bat Production Company Summer 2009 Performance Arts Drama Camp!

Participate in the development of a script. Aug 31 - Sept 4, 2009. Act in the showcase. Invite your family, friends and neighbours to the show! Showcase evening: Friday, September 4, 2009 at CCDP - Curtain: 7 pm

Drama day camps are fully supervised. Daily snacks, a BBQ on Friday followed by outdoor games are part of the excitement and are included in the registration fee ($125.00 each).

Camps are available for the following age groups:

6 - 10 years old
11 - 13 years old
14 - 16 years old
over 16 years

Showcase evening: Friday, September 4, 2009 at CCDP - Curtain: 7 pm

For information:

Contact Samantha Caravan (416) 920-5211 x27 or email »
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See photos from the 2008 Performing Arts Drama Camp here »
CCDP Youth group page here »

Camps and the Showcase performance are all held at Christ Church Deer Park. See map here »

CCDP IS PROUD TO COLLABORATE with Smashin' Bat Production Company for the third exciting Summer Performance Arts, Drama Camp.

Smashin’ Bat is an award winning production company committed to theatre education and exploring outreach opportunities through theatre arts. All of its members have an association with Theatre Erindale and its joint training program at the University of Toronto and Sheridan College. Together, Heather Ervin and Jenny Salisbury have created a summer camp curriculum that is sure to challenge, inspire and empower any group of young people that may have an interest in the arts. They look forward to sharing their unique brand of hands-on dramatic education with the community at Christ Church Deer Park. It is amazing what can happen in a week of supportive dramatic creation, and they look forward to sharing with you the masterpiece that your youth will create!

SMASHIN' BAT PRODUCTION COMPANY Artistic Director Heather Ervin (right) and General Manager Richard Chan (below left) currently helm Smashin’ Bat Theatre; both play several roles within the company - director; performer; writer, administrator - and have an intense passion for collaboration with those who inspire them. The company also has three members at large who round out the creative team: Jenny Salisbury, Dennis Hayes, and Kevin Dowse, who is also the Founding Artistic Producer. Smashin’ Bat is an artist-driven theatre company with a three-fold mandate: to produce works from the classical and Canadian canon in exciting new interpretations, to develop new Canadian plays, and to nurture emerging artists and companies through its outreach and mentorship programs. Smashin’ Bat is dedicated to creating theatre that empowers its audience about life and art—and they are not afraid to get messy in the process.

Pieces, Smashin’ Bat ‘s first production, began as a successful performance at the University of Toronto Drama Festival, where it won the Robertson Davies Award for Best Original Script (Dowse), Merit Award for Direction (Ervin), and the Viewer’s Choice Award. It was subsequently remounted at the 2006 Hamilton Fringe Festival, where it was rated “Best in Venue.” For the past two summers, Smashin’ Bat has also mounted cross-country Shakespeare tours to critical acclaim: The Leader-Post, Regina’s leading newspaper, hailed As You Like It as “charming”, “impressive”, “enchanting”, and “theatre at its best, Shakespeare stripped to its bare essentials,” while the Ontario Arts Review praised The Bard’s Betrayal: A Shakespearean Collage for capturing ”both in concept and execution - the very essence of the Shakespearean formula.”

Most recently, Toronto Centre for the Arts has engaged Smashin’ Bat as one of its five resident companies in the Studio Theatre with a focus on producing Shakespeare productions for high school students and the surrounding community. Smashin’ Bat will begin its five-year relationship this winter with a remount of their summer success The Bard’s Betrayal , and in the spring they will mount its sister piece Of Wit and Whimsy.

In addition to creating professional productions for a public audience, Smashin’ Bat is also committed to theatre education and exploring outreach opportunities through theatre arts. All of its members have an association with Theatre Erindale and its joint training program at the University of Toronto and Sheridan College. This passion for education and knowledge sharing has led Ervin to open a new branch of Smashin’ Bat specifically geared toward youth training and mentorship - Penguin Tales Drama.