2012 Directors: Dawn Hinsvark, Ron Fryer, Kathy Eason
"This was my daughter's comment as she was leaving: I'd rather be here than with my soccer team! Meaning - camp was the most important thing in her life!" -
"This is the highlight of our daughter's year. We get as much value planning, preparing for, and discussing after the event as the event itself. It is a shared conversation that brings us closer together and makes some conversations possible that otherwise would be very difficult for us to fall into."
"My daughter has a sense of belonging-- stronger here than anywhere else!"
Chinese Heritage Camp was one of the first camps in the country exclusively created for families with children adopted from China. It is one of the ten camps facilitated by the highly respected Heritage Camps for Adoptive Families. Chinese Heritage Camp offers programs for infants through high school. This will be the 15th year families from across the country meet in Colorado to gain a deeper understanding of the Chinese culture and share their adoption stories. This camp regularly fills up quickly with a waiting list, and the camp has grown along with Chinese adoptees, now boasting a large group of high school campers and our first wave of adopted Chinese counselors!
Campers of all ages had a great time celebrating both the Lantern Festival and the Year of the Rabbit (2011 camp themes) through music, dance, ceremonies, food, arts and crafts, and more. We were thrilled to have Chinese-American hip hop violinist, Jason Yang at camp with us this year. He had a lot of fun interacting wiht the campers of all ages, and he really made our "Celebrate China" night an event to remember! We also had more thrills with Kaba Modern, an Asian collegiate dancy troupe who has been coming to our Korean Heritage Camp for a few years, here at Chinese Heritage Camp this year to teach the older kids dance, and put on a tremendous performance as well. It was our biggest Chinese Heritage Camp ever, with over 800 people in attendance, and it was also one of our most exciting!
We always also spend time at camp exploring the unique gifts and challenges that come with our mostly transracial adoptive families. We realize that as your children grow, they will be dealing with issues faced by any child of color, no matter their country of birth. At our camp, they are with a sea of families who are like theirs, and with children who are in the majority for a few days. Though we celebrate and highlight the birth country of our campers, the similarities of being adopted children of color in mostly transracial families is what really bonds the children, and their families so immediately at our camp
Camp planning will be underway soon for 2012, and we know we have set a high standard after this year. It will be hard to beat, but we are sure going to try! It is also the Year of the Dragon, which means we have to make it extra special! Watch this site for updates about the theme, guest presenters, workshops, and activities as they are solidified.
Please join us as we delve into the very soul of Chinese culture through its cultural traditions in 2012!
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