
PLA Summer AdVenture

The 2025 Peace, Liberation & The Arts (PLA) Summer Adventure
is a 10-day immersive journey designed to empower Chester youth to
explore creativity, history, and collective transformation through travel, reflection, political education, and artistic expression.
This reimagined program builds on the legacy of the PLA Summer Camp—which has served Chester youth since 2008—by taking learning beyond the classroom and into the world. Through visits to cultural and historical sites across the East and South Coasts, participants will connect with stories, movements, and communities that embody struggle, resilience, and liberation.
Rooted in the values of peace, justice, creativity, and community, this adventure invites youth to see themselves as part of a living legacy of resistance and transformation.
Apply by
June 12th
10 Slots
Available
Join us for an information session at the PLA House
2100 Providence Avenue, Chester, PA
May 17, 2025 – 2:00pm-3:00pm
Click here to sign up or for more information
Who It’s For
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Youth ages 13–16
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Must live in or have strong ties to Chester, PA
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Open to those ready to learn, grow, and build in community
What’s Included
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All travel, lodging, meals, and materials provided at no cost
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Small cohort of 10 youth and 3 adult mentors
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Hands-on workshops, cultural immersion, and creative project development
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Final showcase of youth-created work
Activities Include:
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Site visits to historic and sacred spaces
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Workshops in art, storytelling, music, movement, and writing
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Shared meals, rituals, and reflection circles
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Leadership development and creative project time
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Final group showcase
This is not just a trip. It is a journey of becoming—into self, into community, and into the work of justice. Through art, movement, dialogue, and site visits rooted in history and culture, youth will emerge grounded in legacy, bold in vision, and connected in purpose.

Check out the video from PLA Camp 2024!
The Peace, Liberation & Arts (PL&A) Summer Camp provides a multi-week experience for youth, ages 13-18. In order to foster peace and liberation for Chester youth, we must address at least three circles – the personal, the family and the larger community. PL&A Summer Camps include goals that seek to impact each of these important circles of influence. We recognize that peace-making is an inside to outside job and that building strong, young activators of liberation requires an inner strength and balance that must be nurtured. We must also acknowledge and provide education about the systems of oppression and discrimination that hold communities like Chester in cycles of poverty and violence. Therefore, our approach provides tools for inner reflection, historical and current events education, skill-building, artistic expression and opportunities to learn and serve through cultural exchange.
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2024 Camp Highlights

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