Summer 2022 Photos are Here!
Posted: July 18, 2022 | By: Joey Perr | Category: UncategorizedHere is the link to albums for our July session. Check back for updates – we will upload a few times per week:
News & Announcements
Announcing the 2021 Camp K Newsletter!
Posted: December 26, 2021 | By: Joey Perr | Category: Uncategorized2021 was quite a year for the Camp Kinderland community, and we are so excited to share the highlights with you in the latest Camp Kinderland Newsletter! Click the link above to read it from your computer or tablet, take it with you on your phone, or print it out at home. It is easy to share with family and friends – just forward them the link or direct them to the Kinderland website.
The 2021 KINDER-THON
Posted: November 16, 2021 | By: Joey Perr | Category: Uncategorized
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The 2021 Olympics Journal + Two Zines!
Posted: August 20, 2021 | By: Joey Perr | Category: UncategorizedFor the past 62 years, our campers and staff have participated in a very special tradition at Camp Kinderland. The Kinderland Peace Olympics has been an integral part of every season in that it reflects camp’s values of peace, equality, and social justice. Our goal is to pay tribute to the people, events, and social movements that reflect our commitment to make the world a better place. In addition, the Peace Olympics provides us with a framework of group cooperation and respect for one another’s abilities. Children can exercise their many skills, explore new ideas and capacities, and share with each other across age groups. Best of all, they do all of this while having a great time.
The theme of our summer was “Fight Racism with Solidarity,” which comes from Fred Hampton. The teams were: The Rainbow Coalition (alliance between the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Poor White Patriots Organization); The International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, which organized all workers regardless of race at a time when many unions were segregated (and featured in Salt of the Earth); STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) started by Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson to represent groups marginalized by the mainstream LGBT movement; and Idle No More, a movement for the rights of native peoples to protect the land and water. (more…)
July Photos are Here!
Posted: July 10, 2021 | By: Joey Perr | Category: UncategorizedHere is the link to albums for our July session. Check back for updates – we will upload a few times per week:
Kinderland: A Film by Amy Grappell
Posted: April 25, 2021 | By: Joey Perr | Category: Uncategorized
Award-winning filmmaker Amy Grappell invites the Camp Kinderland community to a private work-in-progress screening of her new film KINDERLAND. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A. All proceeds from ticket sales will help support Amy’s completion of the film.
KINDERLAND tells the story of two Jewish summer camps, Kinderland and Kind Ring, founded in upstate New York in the 1920s and still in existence today. Both were established by secular working-class Jews on either side of the leftist political divide and committed to generating Mentshlekhkeit, a Yiddish word meaning ‘humaneness’ or becoming a better person so you can help the world be a better place. Many early alumni became leaders in the American labor movement and the fight for civil rights. Despite numerous commonalities, the two camps enjoyed a legendary feud from opposite ends of Sylvan Lake, where the sparring was ideological and the activities, such as re-enacting the Spanish Civil War, were mind-boggling. Present-day campers carry the mantle of their predecessors in the ongoing fight for social and economic justice and equality, offering hope in today’s disheartening political climate.
In telling this story, the film highlights not only the vital contributions of first-generation Jewish Americans, but also the act of remembering as an integral unifying force in the ongoing fight for social justice. As Leda, a counselor and former camper says in the film, “History is our greatest weapon, because the erasure of history is how power maintains itself.” It is with this in mind that Amy feels a sense of urgency to get this film out into the world and hopes you’ll consider supporting her in this endeavor.
Live Screening + Q&A on Monday, May 3rd at 7:00pm ET
Private screening window open from May 3rd – May 31st
Please view the trailer above, and share this private screening invite with friends and family. All proceeds from the screening will go to completing post-production, in hopes of premiering at film festivals in 2021/2022.
Registration for Summer 2021 is Open!
Posted: March 1, 2021 | By: Joey Perr | Category: UncategorizedWe are registering campers for summer 2021!
To register for camp, please click here. You’ll see options to log in (for returning campers) or set up a new account (for new campers). If at any time you’re asked for an invitation code, it’s “KINDERLAND”.
Returning campers: Please log into the system to register using the link above. Your Username is your email address. If you do not remember your Password, you can reset it yourself through the above link and clicking “Forgot your password.” Once in the system, click “Applications” to access this year’s registration form. Please email Mike Salop at mike@kinderland.org with any questions.
New to camp: Please set up a new account using the link above, and then fill out the registration application.
If you have any questions, please email Mike Salop at mike@kinderland.org
Open Call for 2020 Camp Kinderland Newsletter
Posted: September 23, 2020 | By: Joey Perr | Category: UncategorizedEvery fall, we round up stories, photographs, announcements, and remembrances from the previous year to share with our camper families, alumni, and supporters in the Kinderland Newsletter.
In these unprecedented and unpredictable times, it is more important than ever to celebrate and remember the personal and collective milestones that took place within our community over the last year.
Please send your birth notices, remembrances, announcements, stories, and upcoming events to joeyp@kinderland.org so that we can include them in this year’s Kinderland Newsletter. Make sure to include details and photos/images.
The You Ain’t Goin Nowhere Trip Book
Posted: June 22, 2020 | By: Joey Perr | Category: UncategorizedWho saw a moose? Who played Fagan? What’s Yiddish for rainbow? Which bunk is that? What Starfish is that? Make a Kinderland fortune teller! See if you can spot the peace signs! Laugh at a Kinderland Mad-Libs! Call a friend and play the Would You Rather…
Behold the You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere “Trip” Book 2020! Pretend it’s rest hour in your favorite bunk and have fun with these puzzles and games!
A “boom-chicka-boom!” to Raquel Jennings and our many contributors for compiling this very special activity book!
A Statement in Support of Black Lives Matter
Posted: June 14, 2020 | By: Joey Perr | Category: Uncategorized
Camp Kinderland stands unequivocally in solidarity with the calls for justice for George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, and the thousands of other Black Americans who have been murdered at the hands of a racist police system.
Frederick Douglass said, “Power concedes nothing without a demand.” Right now, protestors are using their bodies and voices to demand accountability, safety, and a world free from police violence. We as a camp continue to be committed to dismantling white supremacy in all its forms. We are in solidarity with protestors around the US and the world.
We call ourselves “summer camp with a conscience,” and Black leaders and Black-led movements have been pivotal teachers for us in developing that collective conscience.
Now is the time to show up. If it is safe for you, consider taking to the streets and joining a protest. Please take precautions to keep yourself and others safe. If you have the means, donate to the bail funds for protestors and to black-led organizing. Contact your representatives to demand funding for communities, not cops. Let us work together towards building the world we want to see.
Solidarity Forever,
Camp Kinderland