Upcoming Events

Virtual Summer Programs Info Sessions

Join us for info sessions about this summer’s Camp sessions or Adventure Quests (6th-10th graders). A great opportunity for prospective families to meet one of our directors and get your questions answered!

🗓 Wednesday, January 15: Summer Camp | 7-8pm | Online | Register
🗓 Wednesday, January 22: Summer Camp | geared towards one-week campers | 7-8pm | Online | Register
🗓 Tuesday, January 28: Adventure Quests | 7-8pm | Online | Register
🗓 Wednesday, February 5: Summer Camp | 7-8pm | Online | Register
🗓 Wednesday, February 19: Summer Camp | geared towards one-week campers | 7-8pm | Online | Register
🗓 Wednesday, March 5: Summer Camp | 7-8pm | Online | Register

Tu B’Shevat Celebration

Explore the Jewish value of Caring of the Earth – Shmirat ha-adamah with nature-based crafts, tree and seed planting, recycling projects, fruit sampling, a birthday party, and an optional multi-lingual (English/Spanish/Hebrew) nature walk to Live Oak Park. This Tu B’Shvat event is geared for children ages 3 – 8 years. Everyone is welcome! Hosted with JCC East Bay, Eden West Village, and Berkeley Moshav.

Sunday, February 9, 2025 | 2 – 4 pm | JCC East Bay, Berkeley | Tickets

Sunday Fun-Day with Camp Newman

This free event is for those in our community with disabilities and their siblings and adults who love them. We will have plenty of sensory-friendly and accessible camp activities for all including tie dye, s’mores, music, archery, parent discussions, PJ Library Story Corner and art! Families will also be able to explore Camp Newman’s ropes course, hiking trails and gorgeous campus. Lunch will be available for purchase or feel to free to bring your own picnic lunch.

Sunday, March 2, 2025 | 12 – 4 pm | URJ Camp Newman, Santa Rosa | RSVP Here

Camp Tawonga’s 100th Anniversary Celebration

Mark your calendar for a special evening filled with community, song, dinner and celebration! We can’t wait to toast 100 incredible years of Tawonga with you. Ages 21+.

Saturday, March 8, 2025 | 6pm | 715 Harrison St., San Francisco
Reserve Tickets and Sponsor Event Here

More Ways to Engage

Check out recordings of past events below – or take a break from screen time with Tawonga radio.

Tawonga Radio

Tap into the Camp spirit and take a break from screens through Tawonga Radio! Stories below:

📻  From Monotone to the Moon: How One Song Leader Found His Voice: Elan Lavie was a camp song leader who didn’t quite know how to sing. Through sheer determination, he found a way and brought a bunk of 12-year-old boys closer in the process.

📻  Emmett Cooks: From Tawonga Kitchen Staff to Culinary Entrepreneur: When Tawonga’s 2020 summer season was canceled, Tawonga Lead Cook, Emmett Verba, took a leap of faith. He started “Emmett Cooks,” delivering inventive meals all around the Bay Area. Hear how he got his business off the ground.

📻  Journeys to Tawonga: Ken Kramarz: Former Tawonga Executive Director Ken Kramarz shares how his entire life changed after the summer of 1981 when he worked as a Tawonga Unit Head. “It was a total antidote to everything I had experienced.”

📻  Journeys to Tawonga: Becca Meyer: What made Camp Director Becca Meyer shift from pursuing a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, and studying the brains of mice, to working at Tawonga? Listen to find out!

📻  Journeys to Tawonga: Rabbi Laura Rumpf: What do marshmallows have to do with Jewish teaching? At Tawonga, it turns out, a lot! Listen to this “Journey to Tawonga” with Rabbi Laura Rumpf to hear more.

📻  Journeys to Tawonga: Brenton “Big Fiji” Seeto: How does someone working at a resort halfway around the world in Fiji come to find a home on Tawonga’s summer staff? Listen to find out.

📻  Journeys to Tawonga: Liz Chenok: Liz Chenok survived the embarrassment of showing up at Camp to work her first summer with her entire family in a minivan; now she’s a member of Tawonga’s year-round staff!

Questions

Feel free to email info@tawonga.org or call 415.543.2267 with any questions.