Field Guide to Whatthewhat
Cost
$495*
Where
Maxon Mills
37 Furnace Bank Road
Wassaic, NY 12592
When
July 19–23, 2027
Mon–Thur, 9:30 AM–3:30 PM
+ Fri 9:30 AM–4:30 PM
Who
Rising grades 5–9
This camp is for our older youth creatives ready to explore the wonderlands of Wassaic Project through imagemaking and writing! Inspired by the Vagabond Time Killers universe, campers will work on projects that focus on observation and investigation of our indoor and outdoor surroundings through images. As Imagemakers, we're thinking about both sight and site. Activities may include DIY viewfinders, instant photography, map-making, cyanotypes, observational drawings, creative poems, and collages. Through these projects and materials, campers will work towards creating a collective Field Guide to Whatthewhat — a publication exploring all of the objects, plants, animals, and other wild findings found in the magical home of the Vagabond Time Killers! The Field Guide to Whatthewhat will be printed and available for our audience at the culminating performance.
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* We have a no-questions-asked scholarship policy to ensure our education programming is accessible to everyone who wants to participate. If the cost of camp presents a significant financial barrier, please reach out to jill@wassaicproject.org for a partial or full scholarship. If you do so before December 18, we will send you a discount code before registration opens.
We will issue a refund minus 20% for cancellations received two weeks in advance of the camp start date. There will be no refunds of cancellation notices received within two weeks, as it is difficult for us to fill the spots on such close notice, and we operate within a narrow budget. We will waive this policy in the event of an emergency or hardship — please email jill@wassaicproject.org should you need to request this.
About Vagabond Time Killers
Welcome to the town of Whatthewhat, a magical place in a steep valley where fairies build villages in tree roots, apples ripen to the color of indigo, and when you dig a hole in the ground, you never know where it will come out. The moon is always visible in the sky and the water flows uphill (except on Mondays). To enter and leave, you must tell a joke to the bridge troll Inan Doubt, and everyone trades in the blue rocks called slag strewn through the riverbeds. Pantyhose the Billy Goat roams the hills and the horses three, Charlemagne, Antoinette, and Bob, graze happily on the grassy slopes of Rattlesnake Mountain. Here dwell the Vagabond Time Killers, a group of kids expert at killin’ time, the wizard Azorazad who guards the top-secret time machine, and the Unruly Band of Renegade Music Makers, who perform never-before-heard works of music on never-before-seen instruments.
Each year, the rattlesnakes on Rattlesnake Mountain threaten to overtake Whatthewhat and claim it as their own. They demand an offering from somewhere distant in time and space to keep the peace in Whatthewhat. In the year of 2027, the rattlesnakes have requested that the Vagabond Time Killers retrieve the spare power plug from the Intergalactic Space Station on which all humans live in the year 4027!
Join the Vagabond Time Killers in restoring balance to the town of Whatthewhat. With the help (or sometimes hindrance) of Azorazad the Wizard, Pantyhose the Billy Goat, the troll Inan Doubt, the inventor Eddie, the mad emu Mother, the Unruly Band of Renegade Music Makers, the Keeper of the Rattlesnakes, Old Gray Beard, and many more friends, the Vagabond Time Killers will travel into the beyond. Will they succeed in their mission of retrieving the spare power plug? Only time will tell.
We need YOU to join on this adventure!
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Field Guide to Whatthewhat
Cost
$495*
Where
Maxon Mills
37 Furnace Bank Road
Wassaic, NY 12592
When
July 19–23, 2027
Mon–Thur, 9:30 AM–3:30 PM
+ Fri 9:30 AM–4:30 PM
Who
Rising grades 5–9
This camp is for our older youth creatives ready to explore the wonderlands of Wassaic Project through imagemaking and writing! Inspired by the Vagabond Time Killers universe, campers will work on projects that focus on observation and investigation of our indoor and outdoor surroundings through images. As Imagemakers, we're thinking about both sight and site. Activities may include DIY viewfinders, instant photography, map-making, cyanotypes, observational drawings, creative poems, and collages. Through these projects and materials, campers will work towards creating a collective Field Guide to Whatthewhat — a publication exploring all of the objects, plants, animals, and other wild findings found in the magical home of the Vagabond Time Killers! The Field Guide to Whatthewhat will be printed and available for our audience at the culminating performance.
* We have a no-questions-asked scholarship policy to ensure our education programming is accessible to everyone who wants to participate. If the cost of camp presents a significant financial barrier, please reach out to jill@wassaicproject.org for a partial or full scholarship. If you do so before December 18, we will send you a discount code before registration opens.
We will issue a refund minus 20% for cancellations received two weeks in advance of the camp start date. There will be no refunds of cancellation notices received within two weeks, as it is difficult for us to fill the spots on such close notice, and we operate within a narrow budget. We will waive this policy in the event of an emergency or hardship — please email jill@wassaicproject.org should you need to request this.
About Vagabond Time Killers
Welcome to the town of Whatthewhat, a magical place in a steep valley where fairies build villages in tree roots, apples ripen to the color of indigo, and when you dig a hole in the ground, you never know where it will come out. The moon is always visible in the sky and the water flows uphill (except on Mondays). To enter and leave, you must tell a joke to the bridge troll Inan Doubt, and everyone trades in the blue rocks called slag strewn through the riverbeds. Pantyhose the Billy Goat roams the hills and the horses three, Charlemagne, Antoinette, and Bob, graze happily on the grassy slopes of Rattlesnake Mountain. Here dwell the Vagabond Time Killers, a group of kids expert at killin’ time, the wizard Azorazad who guards the top-secret time machine, and the Unruly Band of Renegade Music Makers, who perform never-before-heard works of music on never-before-seen instruments.
Each year, the rattlesnakes on Rattlesnake Mountain threaten to overtake Whatthewhat and claim it as their own. They demand an offering from somewhere distant in time and space to keep the peace in Whatthewhat. In the year of 2027, the rattlesnakes have requested that the Vagabond Time Killers retrieve the spare power plug from the Intergalactic Space Station on which all humans live in the year 4027!
Join the Vagabond Time Killers in restoring balance to the town of Whatthewhat. With the help (or sometimes hindrance) of Azorazad the Wizard, Pantyhose the Billy Goat, the troll Inan Doubt, the inventor Eddie, the mad emu Mother, the Unruly Band of Renegade Music Makers, the Keeper of the Rattlesnakes, Old Gray Beard, and many more friends, the Vagabond Time Killers will travel into the beyond. Will they succeed in their mission of retrieving the spare power plug? Only time will tell.
We need YOU to join on this adventure!