Ways to keep your kids active this summer

Srividya Veeraraghavan, the founder of Story Train, will be organising two storytelling camps for children this summer. The first camp that starts on April 16 is for children between the age group of 7 and 12 and the second camp from April 30 to May 5 focuses on children between 5 and 10. “The first session will focus on the topic — how to present a story effectively? I’ll be teaching them voice modulation, acting and presentation. At the end of the workshop, the child would be much more confident in developing and presenting a story,” says Srividya. During the second session, children will be introduced to the world of public speaking. 

Contact: 9791119634 

Address: World Storytelling Institute, No, 14, Second Avenue, Harrington Road, Chetpet

The Summer Dance Intensive by Madras Dance Arts (MDA), is a short, high-intensity summer dance course for children and teenagers between the age group of 6 and 16. The course that will commence on April 16 will include beginner level dance techniques, floorwork, strength and flexibility, contemporary and street jazz syllabus, stylised training routines, stage theory, basic performance and theatre techniques as well as choreography. It will culminate in a presentation show and students who display potential will be selected towards the Trinity Diploma program in performing arts (Junior Krtya) that will run through the year at MDA. Students who may not be able to be selected for the same can pursue other courses of dance study at MDA from June as well. The course will also have a best outgoing student selected in each batch. All participants will receive certificates of distinction, excellence or completion based on performance through the course. 

Contact: 8754480048 

Address: 131/145, 2nd floor, Sahas Embassy, Nelson Manickam Road, Nungambakkam

Wandering tree summer carnival is a funpacked programme for children aged between 5 and 12 years. The carnival is aimed at bringing out the cultural and creative side of children with a unique combination of art, craft, theatre and science. There will be classes in creative ad writing, modular origami, clay modelling, theatre and pottery. The organisers have included two interesting camps on aeromodelling and avionics. Akshaya of Wandering Artist says, “We wanted to include different and innovative programmes for our summer carnival. That’s why we came up with two offbeat topics apart from art and craft. Vaayusastra, a startup recognised by central government ministry of science and technology will coach the children on aeromodelling and avionics. They will be taught the basics of aerodynamics and we can assure that this would be an interesting platform for children.” The summer classes will begin from May 7 to 18. 

Contact: 9840111425 

Address: Wandering Artist, 51, 6th Main Road, RA Puram