Camp Kinderland

26/07/2026

Coming to the Benefit Weekend? Let us know so we can have an accurate headcount for food! Link below get your tickets today ☀️ 🌳🌊🏊‍♀️

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21/07/2026

A note from our Cultural Director, Sandra:

This year marks Camp Kinderland's 50th year in Tolland, Massachusetts! From the orange Pete Seeger dining hall to the Paul Robeson bell tower, the "hardwood," the "Sharea," and the "love swing" overlooking Victory Lake, this campus has shaped generations of camper and staff memories.

This August in camp, we're throwing Kinderland in Tolland a 50th birthday party, and we want YOUR stories. Did you attend or work at camp in Tolland? Were you part of the move from Sylvan Lake? What do you remember about the bunks, the buildings, the fields, the lake, the stars?

Share your memories by August 2nd! We will share your responses with our 2026 campers.

This year marks our wonderful Camp Kinderland's 50th year at our current location in Tolland, Massachusetts. To celebrate this milestone, we hope to share with campers stories and memories from our community. If you are willing to share any memories, please submit them by August 2nd. We will share y...

17/07/2026

Video from our 2026 Peace Olympics Opening Ceremony.

This summer our theme is: “Lift Every Voice: Another World is Possible.”

The first part of our summer theme, lift every voice, draws form the Black National Anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” written by Harlem Renaissance poet and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson. The hymn demands of us to synthesize the struggles of the past with the demands of the present:

“Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us / Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us. / Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, let us march on till victory is won.”

12/07/2026

In 1943, Kinderland grandparent Abe Meeropol penned a lyric asking “What is America to me?”. On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, here’s our answer. When Ballad for Americans was first performed live for CBS radio in 1939, with Paul Robeson as soloist was the most listened to broadcast in US history. Composed by Earl Robinson, famed movement musician and composer of the Joe Hill song, he articulated our vision of America, one rooted in racial, cultural, and religious diversity, one based on the centrality of working people, one based on the right to organize and to dissent. All of these are the essential Camp Kinderland values we pass on b’chol dor vador, from generation to generation, until we’re able to build that better world we all strive for. Congrats to the 2nd year CITs and our amazing soloist Danny for their incredible performance!

11/07/2026

RSVP for the Camp Kinderland Benefit Weekend today! Sign up at the link below ☀️🌳🌊🏊‍♀️

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03/07/2026

From Camp Kinderlander Richard Flacks, “a brief tour through influential songs and poems of protest and resistance in U.S. history”

Dick Flacks has a long and storied history in the progressive movement. He was a co-author of the Port Huron Statement by the Students for a Democratic Society, the 1962 manifesto credited with launching the New Left movement of the 1960s. For 44 years, he has hosted a radio show on KCSB in Santa Ba...

10/06/2026

Last week we announced a $25K matching gift for our capital campaign. That matching fund for our capital campaign has now doubled to $50K, for 50 years in Tolland. We're still raising $150K for a new walk-in fridge and septic system.

Click the link below to double your impact, today!

www.campkinderland.org/donate

03/06/2026

Remembering our colleague Ann Dragoon Wasserman.

Forthright, fearless, socially conscious and a committed Jewish humanist, she was among the first dancers in George Balanchine's New York City Ballet.

02/06/2026

The Camp Kinderland community mourns the loss of our dear colleague, Ann Dragoon Wasserman (Aug 8, 1929-May 27, 2026).

A “daughter” of the founding generation of Kinderlanders, Ann and her late husband Al, were staunch supporters of the progressive causes, social justice and Yiddishkeit values that remain at the core of Camp Kinderland today.

They raised their children and grandchildren to follow in their footsteps to make the world a better place for all people.

Influenced by dance luminaries such as George Balanchine and Camps’ own Edith Segal, Ann danced her way through life, applying movement to everything she did.

The Camp community is grateful to the support of the Wasserman family over the decades and we extend to them our deepest sympathy and love.

02/06/2026

We’re raising $150K for a new walk-in fridge and septic system, the unglamorous stuff that keeps camp alive. And right now, every dollar goes twice as far! A generous donor is matching all donations to our capital campaign up to $25K.

For 50 summers, our Tolland home is where kids have asked big questions, built lifelong friendships, and learned to imagine a kinder and more just world. And we need your help.

Link below give today!

https://www.campkinderland.org/donate