The Grand Street Kids Club is a free summer camp for inner-city youth ages 4-12. The purpose of the program is to expose youth to a variety of artistic expressions in a setting with other youth their age. Children have the opportunity to do many things: arts and crafts, dancing, singing, field trips to historical places, theaters, and parks, including the swimming pool at Lincoln Park. We invite local artists from the Albany region to volunteer their artistic talents with the children, exposing children to a variety of artistic mediums and measures.

The Grand Street Kids Club is directed by talented, passionate, and skilled people who take interest in the success of our inner-city youth. The program runs every summer for six weeks, July – August, from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM on weekdays. Breakfast and lunch are included. It costs nothing for your child to attend, however to offset costs we ask for a $20.00 suggested weekly donation.

2010 Summer Program

Grand Street Kids Club is currently full for the summer. If you are still interested e-mail your information to either of the directors below and your child’s name will be added to our waiting list.

Program Dates and Details

July 7th – August 13, 2010
Cost: FREE
Location: Grand Street Community Arts Center, 68 Grand Street, Albany, NY

Program Directors

Karece Powers, karece@grandarts.org
LaToya Robinson, latoya@grandarts.org

A Typical Day at the GSCA Kid’s Club

After breakfast, the kids at GSKC start out by drawing or writing in their hand made journals. This introspection allows personal time for themselves while quietly talking amongst themselves. They often beam proud smiles and eagerly show off their great works of art.
Story time winds in next. Books are read aloud in small groups by teens or the older readers can go off and read to themselves.
Team games are played and awesome art projects are created by staff, teens or a visiting volunteer artist. Today they made lemon balm scented hand cream with the various, natural provisions supplied by a generous parent. Hand etched prints cut from foam trays, long and slinky snakes strung on toilet paper rolls and terrariums growing in glass jars to name a few projects. Today a talent show revealed amazing and wondrous feats of acrobats, dances and songs from the littlest child to the oldest. These are some of the daily adventures at GSKC that inspire joy, courage, autonomy, friendship and creativity.
To top the day off, after lunch, the kids hike off to the beautiful aqua pool at Lincoln Park for a cool swim. You can bet they all remember their bathing suits! Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer