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Colour My World Chinese New Year Workshop 2022

Colour My World Chinese New Year Workshop 2022

Start this Lunar New Year not with a squeak but with a ROAR by participating in our intensive two-morning art & drama camps for 4-10 yrs. For those aged 8+, check out our diverse 1-day workshop offers, from Comic Book creation basics to Creative Writing and Animation to expressive, abstract Painting.

Bespoke workshops for friendship groups available upon request during festive period.

Tiger Roar

(Illustrated Collage Art)

VISUAL ART & DRAMA for 4 – 6 yrs

Fees : $1,350
Mon & Fri, 31 Jan & 4 Feb
10:00 am – 12:30 pm daily

IN VISUAL ART…

Get your little hands on some big presents…. Create an oversized laisee packet featuring the Tiger. Gain a basic understanding of composition and layout in this illustrated collage art. Collect some good fortune this year!

IN DRAMA…

Re-enact the story of The Lion And The Mouse, a classic fable that teaches us to always be kind to those that are in need. Through improvisation and storytelling, participants will showcase their fierce ROARs, collaboration, and acting abilities in order to put on a mini production.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Treasure

(Illustrated Collage Art, Motion Engineering)

VISUAL ART & DRAMA for 7 – 12 yrs

Fees : $1,450
Mon & Fri, 31 Jan & 4 Feb
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily

IN VISUAL ART…

Create an illustrative ‘hand crank’ box featuring festive tigers in motion. Paint and papercut your animal motifs set against a jovially festive stage. Integrate the 2D components into the circular motion mechanism. Watch your animals crouch, hop and dance!

IN DRAMA…

Tell the story of the Timid Tiger, a new friend that Dorothy will encounter in our mini-rendition of The Wizard of Oz. Participants will choose from a wide variety of characters to portray, pushing each individual to challenge his drama abilities of characterization and narration.

ONE DAY INTENSIVE WORKSHOP IN COMIC ART, CREATIVE WRITING, PRESENTATION & ANIMATION AND PAINTING (For 8 yrs +)

Creative Writing: Adventure & Fantasy

(Fiction Writing | Story Development)

For 8 yrs+

Fees : $1,200
Mon, 31 Jan
10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Aspiring to be the next Lewis Carrol and JK Rowling? Love imagining your own fantastical stories? Build a solid story outline, deepen character development, and get tips on how to write tales in the genre of Adventure and Fantasy. Create a spine of a short fantasy story, or the basis of your future magical saga!

Comic Art: The Great Race

(Comic Art Design)

For 10 yrs+

Fees : $1,500
Fri, 4 Feb

10:00 am – 2:30 pm with a 30-min lunch
(bring your own lunch)

Here’s your chance to give this sequential art a try. Take in and adapt the origin story of the Chinese Zodiac into your own design of 5-6 action-packed frames. Learn the basics of this medium as you experience the creative process of comic art design from scripting, structuring and designing ideas into storyboard form, to plotting and character design, as you grow your personal artistic style.

Persuasion & Animation

(Persuasive Writing | Presentation | Animation)

For 10 yrs+

Fees : $1,500
Fri, 4 Feb

10:00 am – 2:30 pm with a 30-min lunch
(bring your own lunch)

Attention animal lovers: the zodiac animals are looking for a new friend to join them. You have been nominated to choose the next animal candidate to join the zodiac!

IN WRITING & PRESENTATION…

Research, write and record a powerful persuasive speech video to present your favourite animal as a candidate.

IN ANIMATION…

Create a stylized motion graphic to preface your presentation video. Use a computer and mouse to draw and animate your animal of choice via Photoshop.

Notes: If participant has an iPad, stylus and/or Procreate, please bring it along. The edited video will be shared via link.

Animalia Emotion

(Abstraction | Expressionism | Acrylic Painting)

VISUAL ART only for 12 yrs +

Fees : $1,500
Fri, 4 Feb
10:00 am – 2:30 pm with a 30-min lunch
(bring your own lunch)

Let the beasts teach you their ways… Follow key figure of German Expressionism Franz Marc on his journey to abstract representation of animals in nature. Gain an understanding of the Blue Rider art movement. Associate distinct meanings to colours. Paint your own stylized animal on canvas using sharp angles, bold colours, and gradations.