Motion (picture) at the ocean

Activate Arts, a group that connects kids with Oregon arts activists and guides children with hands-on projects, is bringing a video performance camp to Lincoln City this summer.

The group will welcome Sam Hamilton as activist-in-residence for the Youth Activism Summer Camp, running from Monday, June 21 through Friday, June 25.

Hamilton, from Aotearoa, New Zealand, will be guiding first through eight graders in a geopolitical choral arts video project called “Te Moana Meridian.” The project is about the Pacific Ocean and the international Prime Meridian.

“Te Moana Meridian” involves a big team of artists, performers and thinkers from Oregon, New York and Aotearoa. The plan for the camp is to develop a playful piece of music, and then professionally film a performance of it at the beach. This video will then become part of the traveling exhibition presented in various forms at the Portland Art Museum, the Transmediale Festival of Art and Digital Culture in Germany and elsewhere.

The project will be similar to a performance Hamilton did with the Camas High School Choir at the Portland Art Museum in 2019.

Hamilton has been a full-time practicing and working artist for 15 years, during which time he has produced work inside an active volcano crater, at an astrophysics observatory atop a remote desert mountain, in Sāmoa with dance artist and chief Ioane Papali’i, at an anarcho-artist squat in Greece and inside a Shinto shrine in Japan with Māori choreographer Cathy Livermore.

Local sand artist Odessa Ford will also make an appearance.

The camp will be held from 10 am to 3 pm daily at the Lincoln City Cultural Center, 540 NE Hwy. 101, and is free for all Lincoln and Tillamook County residents.

For more information, go to www.activateartsnow.com or call 503-358-6143.