Where: Little River, Canterbury
When: 29th June - 3rd July 2025
Who: School Years 9-13, Co-ed 2025
Cost: $210

For the first time ever, we’re offering CREATE! A pop-up arts camp designed for those who love creativity and want to explore its connection to faith and worship. 

We’ll spend five days together in Little River, on Banks Peninsula—a community of tiny homes, big inspiration, and endless opportunities to create. Here, you’ll have the chance to experiment with a variety of artistic expressions, including music, visual arts, drama, dance, textiles, photography, creative writing, and more. Whether you want to focus on one area or dabble in everything, this is your space to explore, create, and be inspired. 

But CREATE is about more than just making art—it’s about discovering how creativity can be a way of encountering God, expressing faith, and reflecting on what truly matters. Through hands-on workshops, group reflections, and time in Scripture, we’ll explore how the arts can shape the way we pray, worship, and engage with the world around us. 

Your camp leaders bring experience across different creative practices and are excited to journey with you in discovering new ways to express faith through creativity. Throughout the week, you’ll also collaborate on a major group art project, culminating in an epic showcase on our final night together. You won’t leave camp empty-handed—you’ll take home something you’ve created, along with fresh inspiration and new ways to connect with God through the arts. 

Of course, this wouldn’t be a SUNZ Youth Camp without time spent in the great outdoors! Expect to find creative and spiritual inspiration in the beautiful Canterbury ngāhere (bush), where we’ll step away from the usual spaces and let nature fuel both our imagination and our faith. 

Whether you’re already deeply involved in the arts or just want to try something new, CREATE is for you! Bring your passion, your curiosity, and your willingness to explore—you never know what you might discover about yourself, your faith, and the God who created it all. !