A music and arts summer immersion program for girls
★ multiple session lengths to fit your plans ★ ojai, ca
Amplify Sleep Away Camp is an empowering, award-winning music and arts overnight and day summer camp, located in Southern California, serving girls from all around the world since 2012. Campers choose an immersive to focus on (drums, guitar, vocals, music production, bass, photography, A cappella pop choir) for part of their day and then get to choose between 50 different activities (things like: screen printing, DJ, film making, surfing, color run, hip hop dance, slam poetry; there’s always something for everyone) throughout the week as a “choose-your-own-adventure” part of every day, Every girl deserves the chance to be their most authentic selves, and Amplify helps them do that with lifelong friends and positive role models in a safe, supportive environment.
Immersive Programs
Before they arrive at camp, each camper chooses one focus, or “immersive,” for each session they attend our overnight camp. Mornings are spent in their chosen immersive , under the instruction of experts in each particular area, while afternoons are spent choosing between over 50 amazing activities a week; everything from DJ to Color runs.
Activities
Campers follow their passions and supplement their immersive with daily fun activity blocks in a “choose-your-own-adventure” format. Amplify offers over 50 activity options per week to choose from, guaranteeing something for everyone!
Camp Culture
Amplify is a community that empowers participants through music education, the creative arts, and positive mentorship. We encourage our youth to find their power, be their most authentic selves and lift each other up.
Campus
Proudly in residence at Besant Hill Boarding School in the beautiful Topa Topa Mountains of Ojai, Ca. Set on 500+ private acres with hiking trails and rock climbing on site. Features a brand new olympic size swimming pool.
Dorm Life
Campers live in beautiful dorm buildings separated out by grade cohort, with 2-3 campers in each dorm room. Campers choose their roommates through interactive games/ice breakers we play on the first day of camp. Roommate requests are also honored.
Trips
Our summer trips are one of the biggest highlights our campers rave about every year. Whether you are a highschooler doing a rites of passage campout on Santa Cruz Island, a Jr. Highschooler heading to the beach and surfing or one of our 4 or 6 week campers joining us on Catalina Island and/or Whitewater Rafting on the Kern River; there is something spectacular for everyone!
space still available in all sessions
All ages
overview
overview
Electric Youth
(3th – 5th grade)
(3th – 5th grade)
Lights
(6th – 8th grade)
(6th – 8th grade)
Legends
(9th – 10th grade)
(9th – 10th grade)
Leaders in Training/LITs
(11th – 12th grade)
(11th – 12th grade)
Campers grow and evolve every year
Every aspect of Amplify (and all our programs, really) is fine-tuned to best nurture and support youth where they’re at—and where they’re going! That’s why older campers get additional privileges, like more off-campus trips, challenges, and opportunities to be incredible role models to younger campers.
Campers also move throughout Amplify with their own age groups, including dorm assignments/location, electives, and creative immersives.
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Electric Youth
ELECTRIC YOUTH are Amplify’s youngest family members. For many, it’s their first time at sleep away camp, which is why they have their own special week of camp at both the beginning and end of summer.
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Lights
LIGHTS are our loveable middle children who’ve earned the chance to attend longer 2-week sessions of camp, sticking with their one chosen creative immersive from the start.
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Legends
LEGENDS are well on their way to being leaders in this summer experience that helps campers bridge the gap from adolescence to adulthood 😱
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Leaders in Training/LITs
LITs are our most senior campers whose days are full of advanced skill and leadership development (as well as fun, duh).
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Not quite ready to join us for sleep away camp?
Sleep away camp just ain’t for everyone, and we appreciate that. We still want as many youth as possible to enjoy all the fun, creativity, and empowerment that is AMPLIFY! Day campers experience all our magical programming 9am–5pm M-F, including creative immersive instruction, elective activities, beach days, the big final showcase, and so much more. Free roundtrip shuttle available from Montecito or Ventura locations.
This camp is not only the best, most fun and loving environment in the universe for kids, it literally has changed my whole life. I have made the best long life friends, grew into a way more confident person and I literally cannot imagine where I would be without it
This is the fifth year I have sent my daughter to Girls Rock sleepaway camp. She absolutely LOVES it and cannot wait to go back each and every summer. The camp administrators are truly caring, creative, compassionate and amazing people. The campus in Ojai is beyond beautiful. She tells me that the food is delicious. There is nothing negative to say about this wonderful program!
I’m a current 17 year old who’s been involved with all things Girls Rock SB since I was 9!!!! From bass guitar to DJ’ing to starring in music videos to taking photos of Modest Mouse… Girls Rock has given me the most amazing experiences of my life! I’ve attended multiple Amplify Sleepaway camps and AfterSchool sessions and performed at SoHo, Chase Palm Park, and the beautifullllll campus up at Ojai. I’m involved in their GRL Mag internship, Teen Council/Circles Zine making, and I am forever grateful for GRSB and everyone who comes with it 🙂 Every single year I am always impressed with the new people and experiences I face thanks to Girls Rock
This camp is seriously one of the best programs for pre teen and teen girls out there. For the kids who never feel like they find their group and the kids who find their people wherever they go – everyone thrives here . The bonds w the other campers and staff mentors are a big part of what makes this camp so so special. My kid came home beaming and so creative and not wanting to take breaks from her phone and happier than she’s ever been in her whole life ( her words) ….. Scholarships available too !!!!!
Our daughter has been attending Girls Rock for a couple years and she has gained much confidence in herself and her creativity. we found a private bass guitar coach from this and we love it. looking forward to the next camp sessions
