ART-is-IN Camps are week-long day camps during which a team of Frick and Frack Music professionals rehearse and produce a full-scale, Broadway-style musical featuring local 1st - 6th grade kids as cast, choir, and crew in churches or schools. Auditions, intensive rehearsals, performing arts instruction, and finished performances for the public are all part of the camp. With a strong emphasis on helping children discover their unique spiritual gifts and talents. Every ART-is-IN Camp provides Biblically based instruction along with quality arts education.
Frick and Frack Music has conducted over 50 ART-is-IN camps throughout the south-eastern states. Annually, they tour during the summer months, and remain in 'home port' in Stafford, VA during the school year. For every tour, Frick and Frack creates a new children’s musical filled with Biblical truths. The camp week engages kids in active learning where they experience the arts at a variety of levels designed to meet each camper’s needs.
Every camp day, kids start together in a large group setting where rehearsal time is mixed with Frick and Frack’s exclusive method of fun-based learning. Then they break up for smaller group instruction. Also during the day, the kids participate in a worship time that includes Bible lessons directly from the musical. On Friday night, it all comes together in a professionally staged, Broadway-style musical where the kids are the stars and where the Gospel is presented in a fun and engaging way.
“Usually,” says ministry director, Phillip Lanier, “we’re able to wrap music education up in a laugh-filled package that makes it approachable and leaves kids wanting more.” From large group, the kids split into small groups where they work with counselors to learn specific skills. “We have a pretty unique way of determining aptitude, interest, and maturity,” Lanier says. “When people see us at work, they usually think we’re nuts...but everybody smiles the night of the show, so we must be doing something right.” Throughout the week, there are opportunities for each child to experience arts education through small percussion ensembles, dance groups and vocal ensembles. Frick and Frack Music makes a point to make sure that every child who wants a part, receives a part of some kind in the musical presentation at the end of the week.
