Summer Camp

KUAF’s Mobile Listening Lab visited the Folk School of Fayetteville for Girl Power Rock Camp. It’s a week-long camp for girls ages 8-14 to learn to play, write and perform their own songs. Today on Ozarks at Large, we hear from the members of the newly-formed band MZ MESS: Hazel, Stori, Emily, Milly, Emerson, Shiloh, and Morgan— and from their instructors: Jori, Shannon, Jules, and Milcah.

Summer camps are an annual ritual for many families, but not all camps can support all children. This summer, a three-week camp on the University of Arkansas campus is designed specifically to host children with complex communication issues. Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams visited the camp to learn more about the people involved.

On today's show, a summer camp for children with complex communication issues. Also, a nonprofit focused on civic engagement in Arkansas is filing suit against the Arkansas State Board of Election Commissioners over the process of signing a form. Plus, you may be familiar with a bar crawl. But what about a yarn crawl?

Summer camps have long been a staple of the season, and there are plenty of nontraditional options in northwest Arkansas. Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams takes us to an interfaith gathering at Friends Camp NWA, a culinary camp at Brightwater: A Center for the Study of Food and theatre camp TheatreSquared.

On today's show, we explore a seasonal staple: summer camps—also, an Arkansas growth industry: podcasts. Plus, Kurt Alaska makes the case for cassette tapes.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences will be hosting a free two-week summer camp for 10thgraders in Fayetteville that will focus on STEM and data science.

Gypsy Camp, constructed on the banks of the Illinois River south of Siloam Springs in rural Benton County almost a century ago, is being preserved. The…

Earlier this month, the Arkansas Department of Health released directives for summer camps, but organizations have spent several weeks prior to that…