Southampton Arts Festival

Children’s Program

August 16-28

Southampton Cultural Center

Levitas Center for the Arts

The goal of our entertaining, multidisciplinary Arts festival is to enhance your family’s Hamptons summer experience and to create a place where your children will learn specific skills from internationally acclaimed musicians and artists, while acquiring the tools to appreciate the world of the Arts for years to come.

Designed to help children better understand and relate to the Arts by immersing them in the atmosphere of the festival, our program aims to enrich their lives and forever change the way they experience their own creativity.

The festival will present a comprehensive, entertaining children’s program that will include Music, Musical Theater, Art and Photography studies, interspersed with several children’s concerts.

Individual instruction will help children form a new level of proficiency in their instrument, while multimedia creative workshops led by well-known musicians and professional students will inspire their curiosity for the Arts.

Since it is our goal to create an environment in which children would experience the world of the Arts holistically, by being a part of the larger professional festival, both participating children and their families are encouraged to attend other festival activities, including evening chamber music concerts, master classes and professional students’ performances.

A Brief Description of the Activities

All children’s classes and workshops will take place on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.

1. Individual instruction in Piano, Violin, Cello, and Guitar will be offered three times a week. 

 2. The Musical Theater workshop will take place three times a week. The children participating will present a play at the end of the festival. (The workshop has a minimal enrollment of 8.)

3. The Photography workshop will be offered three times a week. Children will learn how to work with cameras and digital editing tools.

4. The Multidisciplinary workshops will be offered three times a week, fostering children’s creativity and developing their taste for the Arts. We will present a unifying theme from a certain culture or epoch, with musical compositions serving as a window to a particular culture.

The workshop will allow children to both broaden their knowledge of the subject and get to know the artists. It will also bridge the gap between performers and children, helping them to identify with the experience of a classical music concert in a very personal way.