Our 2024 Summer Programs Were a Hit!

July 1-12--"Story Beats" 10-day FANTASY & FICTION CAMP

Featuring widely-published author, Ellen McGinty and Founder of Tokyo Kids Write, Melissa Uchiyama

This is a camp for fantasy fans and fiction lovers! Writers can be ages 7-16. 

They can be burgeoning writers or already consider themselves dedicated and talented! 

What do we do with our ideas? This camp will help us identify the ideas that light us up and then help our writers move forward with their story elements! This 10-day camp features the work & teaching of Resident-Author, Ellen McGinty, alongside Tokyo Kids Write Founder, Melissa Uchiyama, allowing for more time to go deeper!

Creativity meets surefire ways for writers to move forward! Discover and adopt the same idea of Story Beats that makes Ellen's work a success, blockbuster movies, and video games worth watching again and again! Our writers can express their beats using paper and ink, paint, walls of stickers, and more---science, art, and writing all come together for our creative campers. Writers receive specific feedback on their own short stories from Melissa and from our resident author, Ellen!

We will use our understanding of story beats plus many other skills to edit our short story anthology of fantasy and fiction! This camp anthology will be made into a gorgeous, keepsake book, followed by a fantastical authors’ reading party!

Cost: 10,000 yen per day plus tax/100,000 yen for 10 days plus tax.

Time: 10 am-3 pm, weekdays

Location: Tree of Life Language and Creative Arts Studio is a few steps from Komagome Station (JR Yamanote & Tokyo Metro Namboku Lines). There are numerous convenient ways to reach our studio, including easy car-drop-off.

July 29-Aug 9-- 10-day DRAMA AND WRITING CAMP:

From Blank Page to Script to Stage!

Featuring actress, Kristen Watts, and actress/director, Claire Allsbrook, along with Melissa Uchiyama, Founder of TKW

Campers can be ages 7-16. 

This is a camp for kids who want to make a splash with acting and writing, learning from some of the best, right here in this industry! Ten days mean ten times more laughter, improvisation, outings, focus, performance, and fun! 

With live inspiration and support from their acting and writing mentors, our campers will get into script analysis, acting training, even writing and performing their own monologue!

Cost: 10,000 yen per day plus tax/100,000 yen for 10 days plus tax.

Time: 10 am-3 pm, weekdays

Location: Tree of Life Language and Creative Arts Studio is a few steps from Komagome Station (JR Yamanote & Tokyo Metro Namboku Lines). There are numerous convenient ways to reach our studio, including easy car-drop-off.

Aug 19-23— 5-day Camp: Monologues (writing & performing)

& What it Takes at Auditions!

Featuring actress, Kristen Watts, and actress/director, Claire Allsbrook alongside Founder, Melissa Uchiyama

Our Campers can be ages 7-16. 

This is a mesmerizing and intensive chance for anyone eager to pursue acting and monologue writing! Working with our acting and directing professionals, campers will learn all that they need to successfully audition for roles in theatre. They will write, edit, and have the chance to perform their monologue and/or have it performed on their behalf by one of our professional actors in a culminating acting and writing showcase on the last day!

Cost: 10,000 yen per day plus tax/50,000 yen for 5 days plus tax.

Time: 10 am-3 pm, weekdays

Location: Tree of Life Language and Creative Arts Studio is a few steps from Komagome Station (JR Yamanote & Tokyo Metro Namboku Lines). There are numerous convenient ways to reach our studio, including easy car-drop-off.

Again, all camps are designed to stand on their own, but they also build upon each other! The 7-day vs 10-day acting camps will have their own, unique components, ie one will feature our work with existing scripts and deeper acting while the other has us writing scripts and thinking like playwrights!