RFA summer camps open for registration

RANGELEY — The Rangeley Friends of the Arts is offering three different week-long day-camps in music and drama for youth this summer at the RFA Lakeside Theater in Rangeley.

July 15-19 is Drama Camp for ages 7-12, led by Anne Crump of Methuen, Mass. Crump earned a BFA in Acting from Drake University and studied at the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. She has acted locally in Rangeley as well as in Farmington. The camp will meet from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day.
July 29- August 2 is TEEN Drama Week for ages 13-18 and is led Lindsay (MacNaughton) Hinojosa, a theater artist and educator from Brooklyn, N.Y. She holds a BFA in Drama from Syracuse University, toured the U.S. and Canada with the Missoula Children’s Theatre and is a performer and director for the award-winning performance troupe and media company Story Pirates. The camp will meet from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day.
August 5-9 is RFA Music Camp for ages 8-18 for all instruments and voice with camp leader Erin Smith, music instructor at RLRS; instructor Robert Ludwig, a retired organist and choirmaster of St John’s in Bangor; instructor Timothy Macek, Howard University; instructdor Mike Blythe: guitarist; and others. The camp will meet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day.
Each camp will have a finale performance at 1 p.m. on the last day. There is a fee for each camp; scholarships are available. For more information, visit www.rangeleyarts.org and click on Youth Programs, Camps at the top of the page, or call the RFA at 207-864-5000.

PHOTO: Kids from the 2018 Drama Camp held at the RFA Lakeside Theater in Rangeley perform. (RFA staff photo)