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Website Revision: 27jul2010

WELCOME to "Song-C.A.M.P. - Creative Arts Mentoring Project" ©®™ : * "Playing at Fame as Singer-Songwriters, Performers and Recording Stars!" * "A Gateway to encouraging and fostering Increased Learning and Self-Esteem through the magical art of Writing, Performing and Recording their own Songs!" * "Guidance to freely express themselves creatively, for Life!"

Song-CAMP Fall Semester begins Tuesday September 14th 3-6PM, 2010 and goes thru Tuesday, November 16th 2010. There is no Song-CAMP the week of Tuesday October 26th due to Aurora Public Schools Fall Break.

"Song-CAMP at Parkview", is a two 9-week semester after-school free program for 32 Aurora Public Schools 3rd/4th/5th grade elementary children. It is brought to Colorado neighborhood communities each fall and winter by the leadership of Parkview Congregational Church Song-CAMP's Walt Lofstrom & Mary Morrissey and trained adult volunteers, in cooperation with Aurora Public Schools. It is a child-safe place, and does not promote or engage in religious or political doctrine. It is operated and organized without discrimination in hiring staff, recruiting volunteers or providing services on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin or disability.

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Please take a moment to check out our GUESTBOOK, REVIEWS, SONGS and PHOTOS. We cherish your comments - please sign our Guestbook or email "Walt@Song-CAMP.org" with a Review! We also invite you to join our email list at the right-hand top of this website.

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The Song-CAMP Story - “Creative Arts Mentoring Project”:

"Song-CAMP at Parkview" offers two Semesters per year (fall and winter) of 3-hour long, nine-week Tuesday after-school Creative Arts Mentoring Project sessions to 32 selected Parkview neighborhood children. The weekly project consists of providing safe transportation to Parkview, offering an hour of healthy snacks, an hour of creative activities mentoring time, and an hour of Song-writing mentoring - where each of the two groups of children create their own songs from scratch, perform and draft-record them ... within one hour! Having earned a Master of Arts in Specialized Ministry from The Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Walt was commissioned to a Specialized Music Ministry in the Metropolitan Denver Association of the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Church of Christ (March 22, 2009), as Director of Song-CAMP. A retired engineer, Walt had created a special children's after-school program in the Fall of 2007 at Parkview Congregational Church called "Song-CAMP at Parkview – Creative Arts Mentoring Project”. Founded by Recording Singer-Songwriter Walt and his Singer-Songwriter music partner and friend Mary Morrissey, "Song-CAMP at Parkview" was an experiment where they tried song-writing with the children and youth attending Parkview's annual LaForet weekend spring camp. Attesting to their success, they celebrate their 3rd Song-CAMP Anniversary on May 19th, 2010. "Song-CAMP at Parkview" is an after-school program brought to Colorado neighborhood communities by the leadership of Parkview Congregational Church - Song-CAMP's Founder and Director Walt Lofstrom, Assistant Director Mary Morrissey and their wonderful team of Parkview adult volunteers. In cooperation with Colorado's Aurora Public School District, they have become APS's featured after-school program: http://www.aps.k12.co.us/family/family.html Song-CAMP's three missions are: * "Playing at Fame as Singer-Songwriters, Performers and Recording Stars!" * "A Gateway to encouraging and fostering Increased Learning and Self-Esteem through the magical art of Writing, Performing and Recording their own Songs!" * "Guiding people to freely express themselves creatively, for Life!" Since 2007, under Song-CAMP's guidance, a number of different groups of children have enthusiastically written over 50 songs - which have been performed in six concerts at Parkview, two concerts at the City of Aurora Colorado's "Original Aurora Renewal 'FallFest' ”www.auroragov.org/AuroraGov/Departments/Neighborhood_Services/Original_Aurora_Renewal), and the "First Annual Conference on Transformation", as well as their "Earth Day Celebration", at Englewood Colorado's First Plymouth Congregational Church (www.firstplymouthchurch.org). Song-CAMP has recorded their songs on CD's and published most of them on the internet for listening by the public. They've had an exponentially growing number of website visits, totaling 110,000 hits in their second year alone. People from all over the world have visited the website and posted affirmations of the work Song-CAMP has done. Thanks to grants from the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Church of Christ (www.rmcucc.org), a grant from The The John and Margaret Thomas Community Endowment Fund (www.ThomasEndowmentFund.org), the enthusiastic support of Pastor Steve Hoffman and the members of Parkview Congregational Church (www.ParkviewUCC.com), the Aurora Public Schools (www.aps.k12.co.us), and support from The Food Bank of the Rockies (www.foodbankrockies.org) - accompanied by a food grant from Colorado's Arapahoe County Government (www.co.arapahoe.co.us) ... all have helped to transform the unique experimental project of Song-CAMP from a dream into a reality.