City Mission camper, Brandon, showed us how to hold the mic and performed an original rap at the performance.

Middle and High school students at City Mission sang several group songs together at their camp.

City Mission high schooler, Am'lei, did a great job on her solo on Ain't No Mountain High Enough.

Loving on the elementary kiddos from City Mission!

The Maryland team from GBCS came to help Urban Arts for our first week of camp at City Mission.  They were wonderful!

Our music teacher, Renee, encouraged two of the older boys to write a rap about their life.  It was AMAZING!  A link will soon be available for the video to watch it.

The City Mission middle and high school girls performed a dance and song that was wonderful!  They were practicing the afternoon of the show.

They guys were practicing the Go Buck hip hop dance at City Mission before their performance.

The City Mission middle and high school guys wrote a powerful drama about having patience.  They based the location at the Detroit River Walk.

We built and painted this puppet theater for the elementary students to perform their original puppet shows at the final performance.  During the week the kids created and made their puppets out of socks and lots of cool "extras".

Painted birdhouses, door knobs, decorative jars are some of the art projects the kids worked on during the elementary City Mission camp.

Our kids!!

We performed at City Covenant Church with the Urban Arts kids.

It was a long day for the elementary kids, but they were troopers at the dress rehearsal!

The kids LOVED using the puppets in drama class!

The HPCO kids did an amazing job at their performance.

We had so many girls who tried out for solos and deserved solos at HPCO that we turned three solo parts into six!

These guys had a fun time with their dance.

We did a short rehearsal in the afternoon before the kids' performance the next day.  (which they rocked!)

Brandon, from City Mission, joined the Urban Arts team the rest of the summer and helped in the dance department.  We are so thankful for him!

Gotta love working in 100 degree weather and no air:)

The CDC girls were troopers in their dance class of a 3rd floor building with no air during the hottest week of the summer! (we moved outside after this day)

The kids loved their projects and Mama Linda who taught art!

Some of the sweetest kids! They were getting ready for music class with Miss Katie Beth.

Reginald stepped up and took two solos for the performance! He did a great job! ( He also received the camper of the week award for the boys!)

We surprised the kids with water balloons one afternoon.  It was a nice break and much need time to cool off!

Taylor received the camper of the week for the girls at HPCO.  She was so sweet and talented!