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Graff’Arts & Sports Camp

Camps Location

CENTRE ST-GABRIEL JEANNE D’ARC
Located at the entrance of the village of Saint-Affrique, our camp session will take place in this magnificent property surrounded by 15 acres of land.

Our camp offers the perfect conditions for Artistic activities :

A theatre (200 sq. meters), a dance studio, a music studio, a room with a PA system (sound-proof) with a 90 sq. meters screen, a gym completely equipped, a fine arts studio…

Campers will stay in comfortable rooms of 2 to 5 beds with shower facilities, a dining-room – several sports fields are also available in the Parc and the swimming pool located in the village is only a few minutes walk from the camp.

Theme

During their stay campers are going to discover and practice Fine Arts. They will get their inspiration as they explore, through many sport activities, this beautiful part of France, its history and culture. At the end of camp, their art, their Fresco, will be inaugurated by local representatives.

Activities

To decorate and spray paint a huge wall, to create a fresco based on a theme (solidarity, non violence or even the Middle Ages…), is one way to prove one’s artistic abilities ! Here is what campers will have to do and learn in order to reach that goal:

VSF Introduction to the different Techniques of painting and fine arts
VSF Exploring the region, its resources, its culture, its history and choose a theme
VSF Finding the right location to work and get all necessary authorisations
VSF With the help of a professional artist making a model at first and then creating the Fresco !

Additionally, campers will participate in the creation of all the different sets necessary to other programs on site (theater, music hall …).

They will study, calligraphy, Acrylic and aquarelle painting, lettering and manuscript illumination and experiment Environmental Art in Nature…

Extra Activities

- Kayaking : down river (2 half days)
- Biking trip in the forest of Rougier de Camarès (1 day)
- Initiation to rock climbing (1/2 day)
Choice of other activities are:
- Hiking, camping trips, swimming, games and parties…

Field Trips

VSF Trip to the Viaduct of Millau, the world highest bridge, built over the Tarn River.
VSF Visit of the Roquefort cheese cellars
VSF Biking around the fortified Templar city of St. Eulalie de Cernon, with its network of medieval streets, its towers and walls built in the 15th Century by the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem.
VSF Trips on the Causses de Larzac following the foot steps of the Knights of Templar – Discovering of the history of the region.