{"id":84,"date":"2025-01-30T17:26:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T17:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.cah.ucf.edu\/jmg-theater\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:03:01","slug":"lets-go-camping","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.cah.ucf.edu\/jmg-theater\/home\/lets-go-camping\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Go Camping!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Spring 2024, the JMG Traveling Theater partnered with guest artists Nicole B. Adkins and Scottie Rowell to develop <i>Let\u2019s Go Camping!<\/i>, a 45-minute interactive play designed for 2 to 5-year-olds. <i>Let\u2019s Go Camping! <\/i>follows best friends Happy Camper and Fuzzy on a camping adventure, told through music, puppetry, and creative play! Along the way, children will explore the wonders of nature, meet woodland friends, and earn Junior Explorer badges.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0<i>Let\u2019s Go Camping! <\/i>premiered with students in the \u201cTYA and Communities\u201d course.<\/h2>\n<p>This production marked our first play designed to go bedside, allowing us to better engage with patients with reduced mobility or isolation requirements. Performing bedside helped us solidify our value of transforming institutional spaces into imaginative worlds of whimsy and play. Additionally, this play served our partner hospitals\u2019 needs for increased early childhood programming. Finally, this play deepened our engagement with UCF Nursing students, as the script called for facilitators to support patients at specific moments throughout the show\u2014a role filled by both Theatre and Nursing students.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to performing at children\u2019s hospitals, <i>Let\u2019s Go Camping! <\/i>performed at Amazing Explorer\u2019s Academy, UCF Celebrates the Arts, and Kids Fringe at the Orlando International Fringe Festival. <i>Let\u2019s Go Camping! <\/i>will return in Spring 2025.<\/p>\n<h3>Let\u2019s Go Camping audio play<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Let&#039;s Go Camping Audio Show\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C9ClSY8Cy0s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This audio version of\u202f<i>Let&#8217;s Go Camping!\u202f<\/i>allows children to relive the adventure, and provides a theatre-based performance to patients in isolation. \u200bBased on the play &#8216;Let&#8217;s Go Camping!&#8217; Written by Nicole B. 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