SPIRAL’s Story

Empowering our kids in supporting one another and learning how to tell their story!

Spiral Theater Camp is began with a simple vision - to provide encouraging, art-centered experiences for the kiddos of Hastings and neighboring communities. Spiral Theater Camp Director, Elizabeth Damico-Carper, launched such a camp for Black Dirt in the summer of 2019. The pandemic put the brakes on further ventures…until the summer of 2022. Molly McElory jumped on board and offered her expertise and master’s degree in theater education and our dream really took off!

Summer 2022 Elizabeth, Molly and two staff members ran four weeks of camp out of the Tilden Community Center gym. We are still so grateful for the families that took a chance on a brand new program! For the past three summers we have grown and moved to a new space at the Hastings Middle School. Working on a stage, expanding to the visual arts, the SPIRAL program gave more kids more ways to express themselves and learn how to work as a team.