Usdan to Host 'Usdan University' on 7/18

Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts http://www.usdan.com, Long Island's premier arts day camp, will present the 11th Anniversary edition of its unique and fun one-day arts camp experience for adults, Usdan University. The program takes place on Friday July 18, from 9 AM to 3 PM. on Usdan's 200-acre woodland campus at 185 Colonial Springs Road in Wheatley Heights (Huntington), New York 11798.

This year, due to the extreme popularity of both aspects of last year's combined Organic Gardening and Simple Food class, there will be separate classes in Gardening and in Cooking (in one course, create your own miniature herb garden and in Cooking, learn recipes that incorporate an herb garden harvest). This popular course, in combination, sells out every season in the regular student curriculum. The cooking workshop will be taught by Chef Richard LaMarita, who has taught at the Natural Gourmet Institute for the past 18 years. In addition to studying at the Institute of Culinary Art, he has worked with Chef Floyd Cardoz at Tabla Restaurant Organic Gardening will be taught by Michaela Himelfarb, a Graduate of SUNY/Old Westbury and the Wilderness Awareness School's two year Adult Immersion Program & Apprenticeship. She is also an Organic Gardening Consultant with M&A Landscape Service in Locust Valley, Long Island.

Fees: Regular admission is $65.00. The price goes down to $50.00 per person for more than 2 adults registering as a couple For more information and reservations, contact Usdan Center at (631) 643-7900 , or visit EventBrite online, or http://www.usdan/com and click the Alumni Section.

Usdan University is offered year after year by popular demand, and it was created to respond to friends of the Center, Usdan alumni and parents of students saying "What about something for me, too?" or "I want to relive the Usdan experience," or "Be 13 again." Participants often come from distant states as well as the Tri-State Area.

The day begins with a wide variety of arts classes, including (besides Organic Gardening and Cooking): Digital Photography (composition and presentation of Macintosh computers); Painting (acrylics and/or pastels); Hand building ceramics, Potter's wheel ceramics (ceramics students may leave their pieces for firing, and pick them up later in the summer); Broadway jazz dance (some background suggested); Musical Theater (acting, speech, movement, voice, theatrical expression and improvisation. (No prerequisite).

The morning classes are followed by a gourmet lunch, catered by Long Island's Suburban Eats, and a concert in the on-site, 1,000-seat McKinley Ampitheater, followed by afternoon recreation, which can include Chorus, Nature Walk, Archery or a campus tour. There will also be an optional swim in Usdan's Olympic-sized pools, from 3:15 to 4:15 PM.

The "students" in performance classes sometimes (without pressure or requirement!) take the stage in the Center's Ampitheate to demonstrate their morning's work. And at the end of the day, everyone gets ice cream (a Usdan tradition) and even a diploma.

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