The township of Bellingen is about to swell by 25 per cent, with 900 eager Camp Creative participants arriving on the weekend to do courses running from Monday January 5 to Friday January 12.
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The “camping” aspect is mostly figurative these days, with people dispersed among a variety of accommodation types, but the “creative” part of the name has been constant for the decades that Camp Creative has been operating.
This year, 64 courses are being offered, listed under broad categories like visual arts, crafts, dance, lifestyle, music, voice, writing, imaging and “for young people”.
“You can carve a sculpture with a chainsaw, or sketch and draw birds, flowers or animals,” the brochure explains. “You can cook up a storm, go fly fishing or learn to play the ukulele, or the clarinet. Go Bush camping with Uncle Michael to find bush tucker and learn a little of our indigenous history … learn a new skill, fine-tune an existing one. Have lots of fun!”
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Last year the Courier spoke with a number of regular campers including Pauline Douce from Queensland who said she had been coming to Camp Creative since 2002 and explained it had helped her recover from the loss of her daughter. Click the photo below to read her story:
