Thank you for making our first annual Under the Pines Performing Arts Camp a success. We look forward to continuing the camp for years to come. 

If you have any questions or comments regarding Under the Pines please reach out to dawn@mccallarts.org

Camp Faculty

MISSOURI SMYTH

Born and raised in New Zealand to immigrant parents from the South Pacific, Missouri studied piano under the Royal Schools of Music, and graduated from BYU-Hawaii and University of AK SE with degrees in English, Music, and Master of Arts in Teaching. Missouri has been actively involved in the Juneau Arts Community dedicating her life working with young people directing choirs, serving as the Artistic Director of the Alaska Youth Choir a non-profit children’s community chorus dedicated to excellence in choral music for twenty years, musical theatre, and string orchestras. Missouri also directed the Christmas Oratorio ‘King Island Christmas’ which toured to the ‘Fringe Festival’, Scotland in 2013. She has directed professionally for Perseverance Theatre and for the STAR program.

LINDA MOYER

Linda recently retired as the elementary music teacher at Meadows Valley School in New Meadows, Idaho. Linda has her B.A. in Education grades K-8, Music Education K-12, and Early Childhood Certification from Boise State University. She obtained her Orff Music Certification in Westchester, PA. She has taught pre-school through 6th grade. Music has been a big part of Linda’s life since childhood. She has had varied musical situations and opportunities. Some favorite positions: playing Honky Tonk piano on a paddleboat in Alaska for a summer, flying to a rural church in a fixed wing airplane every Sunday for years to be the church organist, playing piano for over 25 Missoula Children’s Theater musicals, and singing or playing piano in various local folk groups. Linda was music director for one adult musical, The Quilters, and prefers working with the creative imaginative children in her casts.

Email: Linda@mccallarts.org

DAWN KOLDEN

JILLIAN LEWIS

Camp Intern

AURORA WARD

Camp Intern

MARIA AMES

 Maria received her B.A. from Seattle Pacific University in Interior Design. She has been the costumer for MAHC CT plays ROCK OF AGES, THE WINTER’S TALE, GRETEL, and FREDERICK. Maria has been part of the MDSD for the past five years where she makes classrooms look like a Pinterest Board. Maria has also decorated spaces for the holidays and weddings at Jug Mountain. She has a joy of sharing her skills with others and lets the young people in MAHC CT plays take pride in their costumes.

General Information for Participants

Arrival and Departure
The teachers will be waiting for your student. It is very important that you pick up your student on time. We do not have child care available for after class times.

Water & Snacks
Please send a water bottle with your student. Acting is thirsty work. If your child needs to have a snack, feel free to send something small, healthy and easy for them to handle. Please, no soda or candy.

Clothing
Skirts without bike shorts, bare middles, tight clothing, flip flops — no fun. If the student is afraid of something showing, all that creativity will go right out the window. Please have your student wear loose, easy-going clothing. It’s time to play and have fun.

Observing
We have found that students participate more fully and are more focused when loved ones are not present. If you would like, you may stay for the first 10 minutes of their first class, but if you stay you will have to play. We will take good care of your children and you are invited to see all the wonderful work they’ve done if there is a final performance. If there are special circumstances please contact the teacher of your class.

Discipline
It’s all about play and we want all our students to have lots of fun and enjoy the creative experience. So, if a student becomes disruptive or wants to watch instead of joining in — we will use the quiet time-in method where we invite the student to take some quiet time and rejoin the group when they’re ready. However, if behavior becomes an issue, we’ll contact you to help us.

Cell Phones
Cell phones, cell phone watches, and tablets are all distracting and invade on the space to create. We ask that all digital distractions be left with parents/guardians so we can be free to play and be present with one another.

For questions, please email Dawn Kolden at dawn@mccallarts.org
Special circumstances will be met on an individual basis.

COVID-19 RELEASE OF LIABILITY IS REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE

The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has been declared a worldwide pandemic by the World Health Organization. COVID-19 is extremely contagious and is believed to spread mainly from person-to-person contact. As a result, federal, state, and local governments and federal and state health agencies recommend social distancing and have, in many locations, prohibited the congregation of groups of people. MAHC has put in place preventative measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19; however, MAHC cannot guarantee that you or your child(ren) will not become infected with COVID-19. Further, attending MAHC classes could increase your risk and your child(ren)’s risk of contracting COVID-19.

By checking this agreement, I acknowledge the contagious nature of COVID-19 and voluntarily assume the risk that my child(ren) and I may be exposed to or infected by COVID-19 by attending MAHC classes, and that such exposure or infection may result in personal injury, illness, permanent disability, and death. I understand that the risk of becoming exposed to or infected by COVID-19 at MAHC may result from the actions, omissions, or negligence of myself and others, including, but not limited to, MAHC employees, volunteers, and program participants and their families. I voluntarily agree to assume all of the foregoing risks and accept sole responsibility for any injury to my child(ren) or myself (including, but not limited to, personal injury, disability, and death), illness, damage, loss, claim, liability, or expense, of any kind, that I or my child(ren) may experience or incur in connection with my child(ren)’s attendance at MAHC classes (“Claims”). On my behalf, and on behalf of my children, I hereby release, covenant not to sue, discharge, and hold harmless MAHC, its employees, agents, and representatives, of and from the Claims, including all liabilities, claims, actions, damages, costs or expenses of any kind arising out of or relating thereto. I understand and agree that this release includes any Claims based on the actions, omissions, or negligence MAHC, its employees, agents, and representatives, whether a COVID-19 infection occurs before, during, or after participation in any MAHC program.