WordsWorth camp was great. Six RIOites graced the grounds, many for their first time. Needless to say, they are all now hard core WordsWorthians with years of camps ahead of them. Then the DramAntics camp blew away the Calgary Fringe Festival during the Inglewood Sunfest. Again we had six RIOites showing up (many different than the WordsWorth camp). We created a play which was a tribute to the genre of Anime. It had martial arts, poison sushi, and speed lines! Awesome. Next came week one of our first ever RIO camp with only one full time RIO member attending. Needless to say, all our new friends quickly embraced the RIO philosophy of playing with our words. It was so much fun seeing what the kids would plan for the week. I think one of the best parts was shooting the film, Spider Apocalypse. In fact it was so great that the kids are planning on coming back next year to shoot the sequel - Spider Apocalypse Two - Return of Jeff. Check the RIO September E-Zine to see the film. Now in a week and a half it will be time for week two of RIO camp. Who knows what we'll get into then! If you want to join us - there's still room. Just go to our camps listing to register.
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So many RIOites are heading off to writing camp this summer. There are at least five going to WordsWorth residential writing camp out in Bragg Creek, where I teach Speculative Fiction and run Dungeons and Dragons. That starts in ... eep!... two days. Then we have the DramAntics Theatre Camp gearing up at the end of July. Six days of madness that consists of writing and producing a play - THEN putting it on at the Calgary Fringe Festival. Five more RIOites will be at that with me. Come August, RIO runs its own crazy camps where the kids actually get to choose what goes on. Nuts! I'm sure I'll see my RIO friends there too, along with some new faces. What an exiting summer its going to be! I can't wait to get started.
We have our theme song - RIO RULES THE WORLD. Cereal from Valhalla. A story from our latest RIOite. A paragraph poem sort of thing. Reviews for books that never existed. AND lots and lots of pictures. Check it out.
We give you RIO's Theme Song - RIO RULES THE WORLD! enjoy.Tony Carter joined us at RIO yesterday to teach us about Character Development through a character support group. The kids had fun making characters with some serious problems from not liking being touched, short term memory loss, running away from home with a pet pig, being trapped either in the belly of a squid or under a rock deep underwater, and being an everything eating dragon, among others. We then devised ways of helping each other using our characters. The kids loved the play acting and learned some important ways of character exploration without even knowing they were learning, which really is the best kind of education - education through play. Thanks again Dare Devil, we had fun!
This Monday Tony will be teaching character development to our RIO club, Spec Fic style. He's a great guy and everyone is going to have loads of fun. He may even show up as his alter ego, Dare Devil. I can't wait!
Working with kids is the best thing in the world. I get to play. Play with my words. Play with my imagination. Play, have fun, experiment, and not worry about failure. Because kids aren't judgemental the way adults are. They know all about learning, failing, trying. They are willing to go places, to try to shock, to look at things upside-down just for fun. That's why running RIO is the best thing in the world.
I had so much fun at the Bridgeland community day hanging out with the kids, making ads, watching a magic show, and seeing the dancing. I even ate cake! Thanks Bridgeland for inviting us to join your party. Check out the cool ads by going to the June E-Zine.
On time and highly entertaining, RIO's June E-Zine is ready for you to read. But that's not all. RIO will be at the Bridgeland Family Fun day on June 2nd to film some commercials and help kids make some new products. All this will be uploaded to the June E-Zine (hopefully) by the third. So don't just read this E-Zine once - come back and view it again!
Dungeons and Dragons took place in the basement of the Alexandra Centre tonight. Of course that was after a lusty rendition of our RIO theme song - RIO Rules The World. Only two more meetings after tonight. One with a guest speaker, and one with roasted hotdogs and more Dungeons and Dragons. The kids took on killer skeletons and quite a number of dire rats. They found gems, fell in traps (Olive), kicked down doors (Jessica), showed an amazing lack of co-ordination (Nicole), and finally found the key to the dragon door. What lies behind? We'll find out next time, only a month to wait.
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EditorKim Firmston is the director (read slave) of RIO and the only adult in the group. To see her troubled mind, visit her website http://www.kimfirmston.com/ Archives
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