July 13 - July 26
Imagine a place where you can tell the truth and still be accepted for who you are. Imagine a place where it's safe to get crazy and silly one minute and serious the next. Imagine saying whatever you want without feeling embarrassed. Imagine a place where you can be as smart and funny and quiet and goofy and shy and strange and normal as you really are and still get respect.
Friendship, adventure, excitement, challenges, quiet contemplation, exuberant craziness, closeness, and sharing will be blended with all the normal summer camp stuff that makes Rowe such a blast. Our theory is that really cool people know how to have huge amounts of fun, and we intend to prove it. If you're 11 or 12* and you want to meet new friends, this is the camp for you.
These transition years from childhood to adolescence are often a troubling time, during which children question their identity, their upbringing, and their values. Is anyone going through what I'm going through? What is normal? Against a strong current of zany fun, for which Rowe is justifiably famous, in an atmosphere of acceptance, we will take time to address serious issues such as the differences and similarities between males and females, the various kinds of families, what to think and do about drugs and alcohol, and how to make sense of our emerging sexuality.
It's important for teens to find their own unique energy, inner power, and individual identity. Away from home, family, and school, with the help of an experienced and focused staff, campers have a chance to explore new aspects of their personalities.
This camp lasts two weeks, so there's time to develop deep friendships, prepare for and perform in a talent show, create art and music, hear and tell stories, joke, and listen to each other. Join us in breathing life into an authentic, expressive, awesome summer experience.
This camp runs concurrently with Young People's Camp.
John Terlazzo is a poet, storyteller, singer/songwriter and painter. He performs and records with his band, Voices In The Hall, and teaches freelance workshops entitled, The Secret Tells Itself: Writing As A Contemplative Act, attended by hundreds of people from various populations, including psychotherapists and other helping professionals, former mental patients, juvenile offenders and students of all ages, as well as the general public. John brings 30 years of sitting meditation practice, yoga and creative arts practice, a newfound expression in ritual theatre and a deep love of the world's diverse storytelling traditions to this camp.
Cindy Terlazzo is a yoga teacher and social worker working with the mentally ill . Also a great teller of tales, Cindys compassionate and open nature makes her an excellent co director for this camp. She is the primary educator of their home schooled children (Rosa & Paolo), and has been married to John for 20 years. Together they will join a great and outrageous staff who are all chomping at the bit to leap into this year's camp. John and Cindy have served as T Camp staff in the past, and they are enormously grateful to Paul and Maureen Gemme and to all at Rowe for the opportunity to direct this one of a kind endeavor.