SOCAPA (The School of Creative and Performing Arts)
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| Founded 📆 | 2001 in New York City, NY, United States |
| Founder 👔 | Jamie Yerkes |
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| Products 📟 | Performing arts education |
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| 🌐 Website | www.socapa.org |
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SOCAPA (The School of Creative and Performing Arts) is a summer camp for high school students based in New York City, Los Angeles, and Vermont. SOCAPA was founded in New York City in 2001 by filmmaker Jamie Yerkes and a small collective of New York artists.[1] SOCAPA offers programs in filmmaking, acting, screenwriting, dance, photography, and music. In 2016, SOCAPA expanded it’s programing to include a mountain biking and action filmmaking program, which was listed as one of the World’s Best Summer Camps of 2019 by Outside (magazine).[2]. SOCAPA encourages a Collaborative learning model through the use of interdisciplinary group projects that bring young artists together to work toward a common goal.[3]
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- ↑ Meyer, Andrea (2003-06-01). "Living the Indie Life". The_Independent. Retrieved 2019-09-19.
Jamie Yerkes, director of ‘Spin the Bottle’, is a tenure-track professor at Long Island University and director of summer programs at Manhattan School of Cinema, which he founded with other working filmmakers.
- ↑ Pearson, Stephanie (2019-05-16). "The World's Best Summer Camps of 2019". Outside_(magazine). Retrieved 2019-09-18.
The formula here is simple yet awesome: ride bikes and make movies.
- ↑ O’Neill, Meaghan (2017-02-24). "Here's why you should send your kid to an arts camp this summer". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2019-09-18.
…choreographers learn how to design routines for the camera, actors acquire makeup skills for film, and photography students take head shots of the musicians. This interdisciplinary, collaborative approach is one of the program’s biggest assets.
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