Events
2026 Events
Alumni and Friends Camp Cleanup Day: Saturday May 2, 9:30 - 3:00pm (Rain date: Sunday May 3, same time).
All are welcome to help get YCamp ready for another amazing season! After a long winter, there are many jobs to be done and many hands make light work! If you can rake, sweep, garden, wipe, paint, lift, or carry, we’ve got a job for you!
Open House: Sunday May 31, 12:00pm - 3:00pm
This is a great opportunity for campers to see where they will be sleeping, eating meals, and participating in activities this summer. Tours of camp will depart every 30 minutes, making their way throughout camp and answering questions as they go.
Tuesday Tour and Tastes: Tuesdays during the summer.
Join us for a walking tour followed by lunch with our campers in the picnic grove or dining hall (weather dependent). Every Tuesday June 23 - August 3, from 11-1:30, registration required. Links to register coming soon.
Community Plate Storytelling Dinner: Tuesday August 18.
YCamp alum Karl Schatz has brought food and storytelling together to build community throughout Maine and his suppers have been featured on local and national news. For one very special night, the stories and conversation will be around universal themes from YCamp experiences. Details and tickets will be available soon, see links below to learn more about Community Plate.
Looking for story tellers! Do you have a YCamp story you want to share? Karl and his team will help you get it ready for sharing during the dinner. We want to hear about the time (these are idea to get you thinking, there are literally thousands of stories to share):
- The moment you knew you made a lifelong friend
- The counselor who made you see yourself more clearly, gave you advice, or showed exceptional kindness
- An unlikley friendship that bloomed at YCamp
- How you turned a potential “very bad day” into a favorite memory (you know, it’s funny, now)
- Something new you learned to do and continue to do now
- How time at camp was different from home, did new experiences, people, responsibilities lead to a “new you?"
Interested in learning more about sharing your story? Email Janet Sydnor at Janet@maineycamp.org
- Community Plate on the TODAY show: Maine Couple’s Potluck Suppers Brings Strangers Together
- Community Plate on NBC Nightly News: Strangers share food, stories with potluck suppers in rural Maine
- Community Plate on NPR's Weekend Edition: Fighting loneliness in rural Maine, one casserole at a time
- Community Plate in the Boston Globe Magazine: Over half of Americans are lonely. In Maine, potluck dinners are helping
- Community Plate in The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Using Food and Stories to Bring People Together
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