Mercury rising! Look forward to a hot summer. Mercury bubbles with loads of ideas, always ready to create! She is presently studying contemporary dance at UQAM. She dreams of becoming a choreographer and likes playing with the uncommon. According to Mercury, the best creators are children. They are always full of energy, just like her! Adventuress and always ready to discover, Mercury looks forward this summer!

Hello dear campers, my name is Shawi, short for Shawinigan, a small but very beautiful city. I find this name original, dynamic and funny; three qualities that describe me well. Since 2005, I am a speciliazed educator and I have been working with kids since I was 17. Thus, I work in education during the year. During the summer, I take a break and use the time to fulfill my biggest passion: animation. As I love to say, being laughed at is no big deal. Bring on the laughter, I am not scared! Furthermore, I love inventing games and creating new interesting characters during theme days to make children big and small happy. I hope that you will have loads of fun at camp--just as much as I have from working there!

Antigone loves drama. For her, life is a constant drama production and she has only one desire: to act. She loves everything that is related to the stage: costume creation, backgroud, script writing, producing... "Every character we play is a new meeting. It is an adventure that never leaves us indifferent and that changes us, helps us grow, as people and as human beings. It is often difficult and often demanding, but always incredible. A challenge in every second. There is nothing more beautiful than to act..." Who is ready to take on this challenge? Cambronne to all!

Boulette is passionated by different types of things. Musique, of course, but also cinema, physical excercise, cooking and video games. He takes part in these activities not to pass time, but to cultivate his soul as much as he can. This means that he never chooses randomnly. Always at the look out for new experiences and informed of progresses made by his favorite activities, Boulette has a big inconquerable appetite for adventure. He hates resting, even though he knows it is often necessary, and time wasting. He strongly believes that there is always something important to do with the time we have. We have so little of it today, why not use it to the best of our capabilities!

This is my first summer at the McGill Conservatory Day Camp, but I have worked at other camps beforehand as camp counselor and as a French Second Language tutor. My baccalaureate in architecture (2005-2008) has helped me develop my ideas and create an artisitic vision. Art, it an change the world! I am so excited to share with you my passion for the arts and architecture and to hear your ideas! Everything is possible...I am also really passionate about different languages and different cultures. I am working towards teaching French as a second language or teaching arts in high school. So many ideas, projects... Summer 2010 will be awesome!

Always ready to bust a move, Galipette is the number one person to get people to dance! With this as her schooling major, she knows how to light the dance floor on fire and how to organise activities to get the little ones excited! As a dance teacher on most days and a dancer every day, she loves sharing her passion with others. She dances out her dreams, her life. In other words, she overflows with energy! And for those who want a top secret before the summer starts: Galipette loves her cereal just as much as she loves dancing! Are you ready to enter the world of movement and craziness with Galipette? I am waiting for you!

The time has finally come for us to meet! Just fresh out of the woods and into the city, I have discovered this wonderful world of Artemusiki. Be ready, all big and small, to enter my magical and imaginative universe! My childish heart and happy spirit is waiting for you to create, laugh and have fun! Paintbrushes, crayons and scissors will come out of my treasure box in order to create wonderful treasures. Creativity, craziness and fun are on schedule!

Born at the centre of the Sun, Kiki is a formidable being indeed. In his early years, Kiki came to Earth and dug the deepest trenches in the ocean and collected sparkling stones for a cute necklace that he gave to his little sis. His digging days came to an end when he fell in love -- with a camcorder. Never had he seen such a beautiful object with such a noble purpose: capturing his unique perspective on the world. Kiki's love of film making has brought him to the McGill Conservatory Day Camp, where he is eager to share this passion with Earthlings-in-training (you may call them campers).

"Koala" being her baptised name, she is probably the only animator to sport her real name! This phenomenon has probably also led her to her special carreer as an entertainer. Not knowing what the future held for her, Koala began taking theatre and dance classes at the age of four! She continued to practice these performing arts as passe times in order to concentrate on acting for seven years! Following this, she focused on dance and never stopped! She has also practiced the violin for four years, but a magical accident made her lose her talent as a musician. This was a very sad incident. Since that, Koala dances frequently at the UQAM univeristy, creates dances from time and time and goes to a lot, a lot, a lot of dance shows. Did I mention that she watches a lot of dance shows? Her goal: that a maximum of kids dance like they have never danced before! Her famous quote: "One dancing koala is better than two that are sleeping!"

Many people think of percussion as the ‘art of hitting things’. THIS IS TRUE! Vinyl (despite the old sounding name) will inspire new and exciting ways-and things- to hit. Had pasta last night?! Bring in the jar or can the sauce came in! Kick over a garbage can in a steaming rage last night?! Bring him the lid of the can! Everything is welcome in Vinyl’s layer. He will certainly show you how there can never be a dull moment when playing percussion!