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By ELIZABETH LEE BROWN

The Tampa Tribune

Published: May 24, 2008

CARROLLWOOD - Potential summer campers at the Carrollwood Cultural Center can get a taste of pottery, drama, painting, and music at a hands-on open house next week.

Students and their parents may tour the building, which opened in March, and visit different stations to experience the various curricula offered this summer.

The facility is offering three summer camps split into two main disciplines: fine arts and music. The weeklong camps will run the weeks of June 16 and June 23.

The fine arts camp is geared toward students in grades 2 to 5. Campers will get an introduction into a variety of arts with 35-minute lessons in chorus, dance, piano and theater, painting, and printmaking and pottery.

For the musically-inclined, children enrolled in the elementary strings camp will take lessons in string instruments such as the violin, viola, cello and bass.

Campers will spend four hours a day in rehearsals, practicing in sectionals, and learning music theory and music history.

The music camp is designed for children who have some experience with string instruments, typically from elementary schools.

Campers need to take their own instruments.

Campers should have a working knowledge of reading music and playing the instrument but will not have to audition for acceptance, said Helen Michaelson, the center's educational outreach director.

"We're trying to get to those students because some of them have lost their programs in the public schools," Michaelson said.

The middle school band camp focuses on band instruments such as flutes, clarinets, trumpets, tubas, baritones, and trombones.

The curriculum for the band camp is similar to the strings camp, and students also must have their own instruments.

The arts camp is from 8:30 a.m. to noon. In the afternoon, the elementary and middle school music camps run from 1 to 5 p.m. The weeklong camps will run for two sessions.

The curriculum is designed so that students who attend both weeks will not repeat the same lessons, Michaelson said.

The camps give students an introduction into the various disciplines, and that may spur interest to enroll in a more in-depth course, she said.

The center's third session, from July 7 to Aug. 15, will offer more children's classes in piano, ballet, tap, dance, theatre, and acrobatics.

IF YOU GO

WHAT: Open house on summer camps at the Carrollwood Cultural Center

WHEN: 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. May 31

WHERE: Carrollwood Cultural Center, 4537 Lowell Road

CONTACT: Helen Michaelson at (813) 269-1310

WEB SITE: www.carrollwood center.org

Reporter Elizabeth Lee Brown can be reached at (813) 865-1502 or ebrown@tampatrib.com.

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