by Colour My World | Jan 24, 2020 | News
Happy New Year of The Rat!
Wed, Thu & Fri, 29, 30 & 31 Jan 2020
(Enquire separately for Wed, Thu & Fri, 22, 23 & 24 Jan 2020 programme)
In addition to an array of visual and performing arts, motion and creativity, we now offer Communication Skills and Music & Lyrics! Enrol now for our exiting New Year workshops to find your voice and put it to good use!
Animated Cheese Mouse
(Storyboarding, Collaborative Animation)
VISUAL ART & DRAMA for 4 – 6.5 yrs
Fees : $1,750
10:00 am – 12:30 pm daily
Let’s come together to create a lively story about the Rat who’s lost his cheese! Starting with narrative and storyboard creation to understand sequence and movements, design props and paper cut outs of still photography to create a computer animation. The outcome will be a collaboratively created animation clip to share with family and friends.
The Inked Piper
(Book Illustration, Ink Drawing)
VISUAL ART & DRAMA for 6.5 – 10 yrs
Fees : $1,850
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily
Be mesmerized by ‘The Pied Piper of Hamlin’ and illustrate a frame that depicts a moment from the classic German fairytale. On this course, you will learn how to illustrate from a story, developing skills in book illustration and sequential art. Amass a knowhow for ink drawing, and understand the core principles of composition and contrast. Informed by John Tenniel’s illustrative style for the ‘Alice In Wonderland’ series.
IN DRAMA…. Junior Masterclass in Presentation Performance
For 4 – 6.5 yrs & 6.5 – 10 yrs
Introducing CMW’s School of Drama! Come and attend a crash course of drama where each day will be dedicated to in-depth training of a performing arts skill that participants can bring to the stage. Our 3-morning programme will be split into juniors and advanced levels to give the most effective learning experience for all ages.
Junior Skills (4 – 6.5 yrs) cover Vocal Training, Confidence Boosting and Presentation Performance inspired by the movie Ratatouille.
Advanced Skills (6.5 – 10 yrs) offer Vocal Training, Mime, and Improvisation Performance inspired by Aesop’s Fable The Lion and the Mouse.
Are You A Town Mouse Or A Country Mouse
(Drawing, Paper Craft, Textile, Mixed Media)
VISUAL ART only for 10 yrs +
Fees : $2,050
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily
Want to learn a set of specialist art and design skills by manipulating printed images? Then join us for a series of workshops in free-hand drawing, paper cut, and weaving to create your very own experimental mixed-media artwork. Develop skills in composition and learn principles of art to design a unique triptych, inspired by the ever-adaptable rats.
NEW Junior Masterclass –
Public Speaking by Jonathan Daly
For 8 – 13 yrs
Fees : $1,850
10:00 am – 12:00 nn daily
This Speak Aloud course by speech communication specialist Jonathan Daly offers a unique crash course in Public Speaking. Over three-mornings, you will acquire foundation level public speaking, from how to write an effective speech to practical presentation and performance skills. Come and increase your speech fluency, build your confidence, and develop your understanding of the skills necessary to be a successful Public Speaker.
NEW Fiction-Writing
by Mark McPherson
For 9 yrs +
Fees : $2,500
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily
With a focus on establishing a writer’s habit and creating ideas through clustering, free writing and prompt, this fiction-writing workshop by creative writer Mark McPherson is designed for anyone who has an urge to write stories. With an introduction to story structure, character, conflict, setting and dialogue, participants will be guided from their initial ideas to a first draft. Ideal for lovers of words, books and storytelling!
Rodent Rhythm by Roy Cheung
For 4 – 7 yrs
Fees : $600 / 2-morning enrolment
11:45am-12:45pm daily on 29 & 31 Jan 2020
With the rat’s surprising win in the Chinese Zodiac Race, we will celebrate the Year of the Rat in a music workshop dedicated to the song Best Day of My Life by American Authors. Singing with a keyboard and background music, we’ll find your beat and rhythm in a variety of games! Learn melodies and explore your vocal range, before recording a professionally engineered recording of your performance to download and play for family and friends!
Music & Lyrics by Roy Cheung
(Lyric Composition/Sound Recording)
For 8 yrs +
Fees : $1,500 / 2-morning enrolment
10:00am-11:30am daily on 29 & 31 Jan 2020
Combine creative lyric writing with music and sound recording! Starting with pop song structures and lyric analysis, brainstorm and rewrite new lyrics to create your own parody version of the song! Learn to sing with diction, articulation, breathing and intonation. You also have the chance to record and take home your very own recording to share with family and friends. Come and start your musical journey here!
by Colour My World | Jan 15, 2020 | Blogs
Join Colour My World as we celebrate our 20th Anniversary
Yes, that’s right, Colour My World has been expanding and collaborating with artistic minds since 2000. Over the coming months we will be marking this milestone in a variety of exciting ways, including our 20th Anniversary production, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Director, Daryl Walker, has said that ‘everything from the acting to designing the sets is coming together’ and that ‘the performers are doing some great things that they can’t wait to show you’. Colour My World’s version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream will take place on March 14th and 15th 2020 at Y-Studio, Youth Square in Chai Wan. This pop musical of Dream resonates our 2005 production performed at dusk in Hong Kong Park. Tickets going on sale at URBTIX starting from 7 Feb 2020!
In other news, we have some amazing collaborations coming up, including Art Basel, where we will be hosting art tours and activities at the UBS Junior Art Hub. Stay tuned for more info!
Last but not least, don’t forget to check out our Chinese New Year workshops. We have some fantastic courses on offer, and more details can be found on our Facebook page and website.
For all the latest news and updates follow our Facebook and Instagram pages, and if you feel inspired by anything you see, leave a comment and we’ll get back to you!
by Colour My World | Nov 20, 2019 | News
Colour My World X’mas 2019
Visual Art Camp
O’ Christmas Tree, O’ Christmas Tree
Week 1: Wed-Fri, 18-20 Dec
Week 2: Mon-Tue & Fri, 23-24 & 27 Dec
Week 3: Mon-Tue & Fri, 30-31 Dec & 3 Jan
Mould, paint and craft your way across a panorama of Christmas symbols and traditions. Reinvent and remember the true meaning of Christmas this holiday season.
This holiday season, participants of 4-6.5 yrs will get to explore Painting and 3D Art when the 6.5 yrs+ will choose two projects from Painting, 3D Fibre Art and Animation to complete an inspiration-filled week.
VISUAL ART for 4 – 6.5 yrs
Fees : $1,950
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily
Join us and learn about building, painting and mixed media appreciation in this combo visual art camp.
Painting – Our youngest artists will paint patterned trees with a stamped silhouette of snowflakes and stars. Warm-toned pastel colours will inspire the Christmas spirit.
3D Art – Create your own 3D tree using fibre and paper to hang from a blue pine tree. Decorate it to your heart’s delight with an assortment of sequins and beads.
VISUAL ART for 6.5 – 10 yrs
Fees : $2,250
10:00 am – 1:05 pm daily
Gather round this visual art-based holiday course and pick and choose your favourite media.
Painting – Create a painting of ‘The Trees Within the Tree.’ Here’s your chance to produce an acrylic art piece with simmering tone and hues in a stylized composition, all around the wintry landscape of pines and firs.
3D Fibre Art – Construct free-standing fabric tress, stuffed with wadding, decorated with glitter and sparkles.
Animation – Produce a stop-motion animation based on a list of Christmas carols. Develop your own characters, sets and props to create a magical stage. Choose a carol, design a storyboard, set up the scene and start shooting! Wrap up your mini movie with music and sound effects and screen to family and friends!
by Colour My World | Oct 18, 2019 | Blogs
With the October opening of Tai Kwun Contemporary’s brand-new group exhibit, “Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk In the Year of the Future”, comes brand new Family Day creative workshops. As always, we relate the art activities to the exhibit theme, which in this case revolve around grand futuristic visions and thoughts about our ever-evolving technological strides. Thanks to the imagination and skills of Colour My World team, we have come up with two projects for the family visitors. “Animatronics Armour” lets us create and design a functioning “mechanical” arm that, through the kinetic effect of rings and strings, encourages foundation engineering as well as personal artistic flair. Simultaneously, “Cyber Metropolis” focuses on how to assemble and enhance with decorative illustration our very own future city-night lamp out of card and florescent colour.
We aspire to match playfulness with education by letting our young learners try their hands at fun, creative challenges, and if the responses from our opening Family Day is anything to go by, this concept is working better than ever. And hey, if parents continue to re-discover the joy of the creative process as adults, that’s a huge plus as well.
After witnessing a full day of family joy with collaboration and friendly competition, I leisurely strolled around the fair grounds. As I entered the contemporary art exhibit, I took out my sketchbook and, through the lens of my own artistic interpretations, jotted down some of the various masterpieces on display. The final result ended up being a summary of my experiences within the amazing new exhibit.
By Andreas von Buddenbrock
18 October 2019
by Colour My World | Oct 11, 2019 | News
Visual Arts Programme Guide
REFLECT ON THE OLD AND EMBRACE THE NEW!
At this time of the year, we explore the theme of antiquity and regard for Lost Art, embracing new outlook on Restoration and Reconstruction through a range of media and techniques such as sculpting our favourite museum lost treasure, embroidering recovered fabrics, painting a beautifully restored porcelain piece, illustrating our favourite things to campaign powerful publicity and many more!
To find out more about our Visual Arts Workshops, visit:
www.colour-my-world.com/visualarts
ENROL NOW: Term starts from 30 October!
Existing students do NOT need to re-enrol.
Core Art Yearly Focus – Fine Art and Design
Compose compelling original artwork and expand your skills in design. From Japanese contemporary art to early 20th century Russian Avant Garde, you will discover how the visual language of fashion, product and graphic design can be used for advertising campaigns and commercial messaging.
Explorer’s Art (3 – 4.5 yrs)
Go Stone Age
Design your own Neolithic characters, animals and patterns in this prehistorically focussed term of ‘Go Stone Age’. Imitate primitive paintings using crude tools to create a textured ‘cave wall’ and create a stylised sculptural deity of your imagination. Add some earth tones and your work will stand alongside some of the oldest art ever discovered.
Core Art (4.5 yrs+)
Lost Art
Go in search of the world’s lost art! We will be exploring how artists recreate artwork that has vanished! Inspired by the likes of Michael Rakowitz’s, looted masterpieces will be reimagined. Join us to create a 3D clay model, rich in texture and a relief collage that plays with volume and space. Sign up now for your chance to rediscover a lost treasure.
Ready-Set-Draw Yearly Focus – The Art of Illustration
Explore the roles of illustration in areas of storytelling, persuasion and commentary over a myriad of themes and subjects. This upcoming year focuses on in-depth exploration of illustration and practical techniques such as realism through lighting, texture, perspective and tone. Expand your expertness on fabric and wood and follow your story over themes and subjects.
Ready-Set-Draw (8 yrs+)
Illustrative Publicist
Create your own product-focused-ad-illustration through sketching, watercolour and typography to create an illustration based on a classical painting. Referencing the realistic renderings of Joe McKendry and Norman Rockwell your aim will be to produce a piece of publicity art that is both clever and humorous.
NEW Junior Ready-Set-Draw (6 – 8 yrs)
Creative Sketchbooks
Art courses for 6-8 year olds with themes centering on narrative, animals landscapes, portraiture and comics, coming soon! Please contact Colour My World for more information.
Tactile Textile (10 yrs+)
Embroidery – Textile Adornment
Drawing on the conservation project at CHAT (The Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile at The Mills) embroidery techniques will be applied to printed or painted fabrics. Practise your textile skills to produce contextualised backgrounds, which will bring your embroidered work to life.
Sculpture Culture (Pottery-Ceramics 8 yrs+)
Fundamentals Master Class
Learn to build three-dimensionally and excel in creation that takes form in art ware, figurines, sculpture, decorative and applied art objects. Acquire fundamental skills from pinching, coiling, slab to wheel-throwing, we shall experiment with new materials whilst utilizing techniques of slip casting, clay modeling, and surface texturing.
The Digital:Hub – Animation, DSLR & Filmmaking (8 yrs+, 10 yrs+)
Filmmaking (10 yrs+)
Superhero Trailer
Join us for an extensive look into pre-production planning, timing and visual story telling. Develop your advance storytelling skills and basic camera techniques to create a 30 second trailer, around the Superhero theme.
DSLR – Digital Photography (10 yrs+)
Cutout Montage
Explore the boundaries of experimental photography. French photographer Jean Faucheur’s fragmented photography plays with perspective and dissects portraiture to create stylised compositions. Learners will acquire DSLR portrait techniques, lighting set-ups and creating optical illusions in this digital photography course, playing with geometric cutout and image manipulation.
Stop Motion Animation (8 yrs+)
Compile still photography to create computer animation. Narrative and story board creation.
Sketchbook Studies / Painting (10 yrs+)
Deconstruction / Reconstruction
Enter the reconstructed world of the deconstructed. Broken ceramics will be reformed and then observed and recreated in drawings. With a focus on the principles of design, balance, rhythm and dominance, our budding artists will be directed to convey the emotional qualities of abstract creations with oils on canvas. All the more informed by artist Yee Sookyung’s imperfect sculptures composed from mismatched broken pieces of porcelain.
Mentor Studio (13 yrs+)
For art enthusiasts who are considering Art for GCSE, A-Levels, IGCSE or IB; or who simply enjoy being stretched artistically. Mentor Studio is open to any participants who want to strengthen their skill repertoire, build on their collection of portfolio-worthy artworks, or explore challenging themes through open-end self-enquiry guided closely by a mentor. Acquire in-depth knowledge and understanding of art-form, techniques and styles used as we guide you through various artistic decision and pathways to artistic achievement.
