Creators Camp is for aspiring and existing UnSchoolers, Homeschoolers, Open Learners to experience the open learning process Create anything and everything that one likes Create individually or with others of all ages You as Creator and not as parents, child or adult
Create Big, Create Small, Create Short, Create Long
Create what all you want to create – all your interests
Create by yourself, in small groups and as a whole group
Create anything – Upcoming Creator’s Camp from 23rd Dec 2024 to 3rd Jan 2025 (12 days)
What’s Special about Creator’s Camp
🤸🏼Child and Parent, we all co-create and design our day. 🤹🏼Each decides what each would create – anything and everything – what you like doing, what is new and what somebody else is doing. 🤖All kinds of resources available in Aarohi Campus – for anyone to design anything – like treehouse, poetry, tyre park, dance show, swings, electronics, art, crafts, jewellery, treks, carpentry, puppetry, et al – you name it – you get to create it. 🧭Campus day flow is designed to have time for Creations, Self care, Community Activities, Sports, Meals Together, Fitness, and loads of processes to experience open learning. 🎇Creation invariably requires failure – so all mistakes and failures will be constantly celebrated.
Support Circles: Almost everybody around would connect, push, nudge you out of the comfort zone and assist you when required
Participation:
Family Participation: Parents, siblings, grandparents – all ages learners can join the camp together and stay at the campus during this week. Each one of us will experience the campus & community as learners in Creators Camp.
Children 8 years and below need to be accompanied by at least one parent
We will all live together at Aarohi Campus during camp dates.
Next Camp Dates: Dec 23rd 2024 to Jan 3rd 2025 (2 week, 12 days)
You arrive at campus on Monday 23rd Dec morning (before 10 am) and leave on Friday 3rd Jan afternoon / evening.
The last day of the camp is reserved for Show Off and Presentation. Its integral that all the families are participative totally till the end of the camp
Aarohi Campus is located near Bangalore (1.5 hrs drive) in a village near the city of Hosur, about 4-5 hrs from Chennai.
Financial Contribution:
Contribution for creators camp is any amount within this sliding scale for anyone above 8 years (including adults):
Dec 23rd 2024 to Jan 3rd 2025 = 12 Days – Contribution scale per person: ₹ 15,000 to 18,000
Children below 7 years can be taken as 50% of above.
Contribution to be paid at the time of registration itself.
Camps are planned for a specific number of days – so please follow that. If, however, both parents cannot stay here for the whole duration, atleast one parent and children can stay for the whole week, while the other parent can get a glimpse for a few days.
You can attend to some urgent / low time demand mandatory personal or office work. But it is definitely advisable to participate in the camp when you do not have office / personal work and hence can engage with the community and experience open learning. Coming to campus with your office work hence is neither helpful for you, not for children and others here, further it kind of effects the whole learning culture of the community. Kindly plan when you do not have office work. The real way to understand open learning is by doing stuff; DOING things that you like, especially what you’ve never tried before. The experience of doing something new, and that too with those around you is an essential ingredient of open learning.
It is highly recommended that either you come to the campus when the child has holidays from online school or you take a break for your child from his/her online school. Please do not mix school work with camp at Aarohi.
Our current schedule of the week is from Monday morning to Friday evening. So ensure that you reach Campus BEFORE 10am on Monday morning. If you’re booking your flight / train / bus tickets – kindly plan in such a way that you reach on Monday (and not on Saturday/Sunday). Similarly plan to leave campus by Friday evening after 3pm or worst case Saturday morning.
Please see this page for info on how to reach campus
Food: Fruits and basic simple Veg Food for all meals are provided in Community Kitchen. Only if you have any specific food need which you think will not be available in our kitchen please connect during orientation meeting scheduled after your registration. You can bring any home cooked snacks or food items for the whole community, but definitely do not bring personal snacks. If you have a toddler any specific food needs for the child you can bring and also cook.
Stay: We all stay in Dormitory Style room – living together and experience community Living. Campus has enough common basic bedding needs (bedsheets, pillows and blankets), so its optional if you want to bring your own beddings / sleeping bag.
Laundry: We have basic facilities to wash your own clothes manually..
Essentials to Bring – Travel light – Apart from your regular personal stuff – ensure you bring
Individual water bottle and Outdoor shoes is must.
Separate notebook / stationery for each member of the family.
Light jacket and mosquito repellent is recommended.
