Rock 'N' Roll Camp for Girls
How to Start a Band, Write Songs, Record an Album, and Rock Out!
Hey, girls—get ready to rock! Since 2001, the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls has taught tons of girls, ages 8 to 18, how to let loose and rock out. This June, open the book for an instant trip to camp. Rock 'N' Roll Camp for Girls brings the camp's inspiring, hands-on approach and advice from its all-star crew of female musicians to girls everywhere. Super cool features offer lessons and tips on how to play instruments, write songs, get the word out about your shows, sing your heart out, and more! Featuring a short history of the raddest women in rock, 50 awesome illustrations and photos of young bands, and contributions by members of Sleater-Kinney, The Gossip, Mirah, and others, Rock 'N' Roll Camp for Girls will have readers turning up their amps in no time!
Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls
We put the ‘AMP’ in CAMP! It’s all about not being afraid to speak up, sing out, and make noise: The Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls is a Portland, Oregon-based nonprofit organization devoted to building girls' self-esteem through music creation and performance. Proving that music is a girl’s turf too, the Camp provides workshops and training, creates leadership opportunities, cultivates a supportive community of awesome peers and mentors, and encourages social change and the expansion of skills that will keep you rockin’ through life. We believe that by teaching these things, we can help girls develop—musically, mentally, and emotionally—toward their own ideas of who and what they want to be. Since opening in 2001, the Camp has grown like crazy into a year-round program with three summer sessions—and now there are girls' rock camps all across the country and the world.
The Camp depends on the generosity of people like you—bring rock 'n' roll to girls everywhere and donate today!
Come jam at the movies! Chronicle Books is pumped to help support our friends at Girls Rock! Productions in the release of their new movie, Girls Rock!
Welcome to a place where it is 100% okay to be exactly who you are. Meet Laura, an adopted Korean girl from Oklahoma obsessed with death metal; Palace, a sweet-seeming 8-year-old with a heavy metal sneer and "rawk" heart; and Amelia, who writes songs about her Chihuahua Pippi and loves "crazy noise music." These are the faces of The Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls, and Girls Rock! is the movie about their empowering journey. Sit back and watch (and listen!) as these girls achieve goals they never thought possible. Through video diaries, camp week footage, interviews, and animations, you will rock—and transform—right along with the girls. It's like a summer full of Rock Camp all rolled into one night, so tune up and tune in!
Come on over to www.girlsrockmovie.com to join the message boards, request a screening near you, win a guitar, and spread the girls rock love!
Join the opening weekend festivities starting Friday, March 7th in these cities:
Stay for the opening night party from 8:30 – 10 p.m., hosted by Chronicle Books
Audience members with a ticket stub from the 7-ish p.m. showing are invited to meet the filmmakers, learn more about the girls rock programs, and support the Bay Area camp opening this summer.
Doors open Saturday morning at 10:30 a.m. with pre-show entertainment: live music from local girl bands like The As Ifs, and interactive instrument stations provided by the new Bay Area Girls Rock Camp for kids to rock out. The 12:30 and 2:30 matinees will be followed by Director Q&A.
PORTLAND
VIP party with a red carpet walk for rockin' girls and free popcorn, guest appearances by mayoral candidate Sam Adams and the Rose City Rollers, and a performance by girl band Bluebird in honor of International Women's Day on March 8th.
NEW YORK
Panel discussion hosted by NOW NYC on issues affecting girls today, Director Q&A, limited edition Girls Rock! Fender Stratocaster giveaway, a mini rock camp hosted by the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls, and a performance by girl band Care Bears on Fire in honor of International Women's Day on March 8th.
LOS ANGELES Write Girl, a great org that helps empower girls through writing, is hosting a discussion on the media and girls. Panelists include founder and executive director, singer-songwriter Keren Taylor; Grammy-award winning songwriter and WriteGirl mentor, Michelle Lewis; and Grammy Foundation Coordinator, Education Initiatives, Valerie Vanderwest.
The film also opens the weekend of March 7th in SEATTLE and CHICAGO with Directors' Q&A and Fender guitar giveaways. More cities coming soon!
