About
The ASPIRA Coquí Summar Camp offers children exciting opportunities to enjoy and learn about their community and family history through creating vibrant artwork, hearing and writing stories and poems, seeing films and participating in field trips to help widen their understanding of their heritage and world. Children also culminated their summer experience with a theatrical performance that incorporated the musical instruments, sculpture and literary works they created with visiting artists.

Activities focus on exploring the campers’ identities, countries of origin, family histories and homes. Children also explore Latin American geography, cultural expressions by examining how their families came to Philadelphia and formed communities here. Our theme is engaging and interesting because of children’s associations with family gatherings; their homelands and identity are rich and full of potential for creating meaningful arts.

Children of all ages are also fascinated with their history and heritage. With the guidance of art specialist campers will visualize, design, plan, select and assemble sculptures, musical instruments and compositions that express their history, heritage and pride.

Program Design
Our Summer Camp offers children rich and varied opportunities to create vibrant art, hear and tell stories, make music and songs, and stage a dramatic performances, dance, as a closing culminating celebration, using plays, songs, and poems that they created.

Program Contact
Miguel Meléndez, Director of Leadership & After-School Programs
Elis Negrón, Data Entry Specialist
Arminda Ortiz, Programs Assistant