Summer Camp 2019

Here are some highlights from this year's camp:

In the first week, we learned about mutual aid in animal groups, came up with a plan for how to run camp together through shared jobs and cooking lunch, learned about powerful queer icons through history, did theatre of the oppressed, talked about borders and the role they play in our lives, learned about immigration and how it has changed through time in the US, made our own recipe books while we planned out the menu for the second week of camp, walked to Mt. Tabor and learned about invasive species in the environment and made seed bombs, made a lot of good food together, and played a ton of two square!!

In the second week, youth ran camp! We learned together about popular education and democratic free schools where students have more control over their education, brainstormed and planned out workshops that we wanted to happen, and watched Walkout and talked about students taking action together! We had youth led workshops of all stripes -- a game about the Area 51 raid, a filming workshop in which we made a short film together, a conversation about the president and the far-right demonstrations that happened in Portland over the weekend in-between camp, a cookie baking workshop, improv games, slime-making, a pizza-topping workshop, and a spray painting/shirt-making workshop! And thank you to Glitter squadron who led a disability justice workshop, Rudy Serna of Redstone Collective for a mural workshop, and On Target Training PDX for a self defense workshop! AND we made lunch together every day of camp! WOW !!!!!

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