Chinese New Year 2025 Holiday Workshop

Welcome in the year of the wise, agile Wood Snake with the Arts. Celebrate the spirit of the Lunar New Year with inspiring Spring and Zodiac-themed workshops. In Drama, our 4-6 year olds and 7-10s will get to explore physical acting skills and emotive body language. The youngest ones will craft a Peach Blossom Tree, and the older ones will create a Matisse-inspired scroll. This time around, kids (and adults!) aged 10+ are welcome to join a variety of workshops, from animal and human illustration to Ceramic Underglaze Transfer to the ancient art of Chinese Paper Cutting.

Peach Blossom Tree

VISUAL ART & DRAMA for 4 – 6 yrs

Pick Your Week:
Mon & Tue, 27 & 28 Jan ($1,550)
Mon – Wed, 3 – 5 Feb ($2,250)
10:00 am – 12:30 pm daily

IN VISUAL ART… (Mixed Media, 3D)

Peach blossoms and Spring! What will your Chinese New Year bring? Come and create a sinuous abstract Cherry tree that is blossoming all year round! In this project, inspired by Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao, we will explore using silver, red and black in a celebration of the festive colours of Chinese New Year. We will also explore symbols and patterns associated with wealth and prosperity to decorate our tree!

IN DRAMA… (Dramatic Movement)

Capture the essence of traditional Lunar New Year symbols through movement. Focus on developing a good foundation for dramatic movement to show a range of energies in your performance. From flying lanterns, to crackling sounds of the fireworks and the slithers of a snake. We will explore mimicking all these through the art of movement and the feeling they hold for us.

Floral Scrolls

VISUAL ART & DRAMA for 7 – 10 yrs

Pick Your Week:
Mon & Tue, 27 & 28 Jan ($1,750)
Mon – Wed, 3 – 5 Feb ($2,550)
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily

IN VISUAL ART… (Cut-outs, Scroll Painting)

Plum blossom! Clementines! Daffodils! Design your very own scroll inspired by the vibrant cut-outs of Henri Matisse! Deploying unorthodox implements — white paper and gouache — Matisse cut layered structures of colours and complexity into a world of plants, animals, figures, and shapes. We will design a beautiful scroll featuring floral patterns made from collaging bright colours, transforming the simplicity of paint and paper through vine and petal forms. Design your way into the new year!

IN DRAMA… (Movement, Expression, Storytelling)

Through movement, expression and storytelling, we will explore the traditions of the Chinese New Year and celebrate the year of the Snake! Elevate your physical acting skills with emotive body language to tell a holiday-inspired short story incorporating the iconic fireworks, lantern, and snake.

Zodiac Morph

(Acrylics & Colour Pencil)

VISUAL ART only for 10 yrs +

Pick Your Week:
Mon & Tue, 27 & 28 Jan ($2,050)
Mon – Wed, 3 – 5 Feb ($2,950)
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily

Illustrate yourself morphing into your favourite zodiac animal. Take inspiration from the Vietnamese version of K.A. Applegate’s Animorphs series, illustrated by artist Tidus Fair. Capture a festive and imaginative transformation on paper with acrylics and colour pencil. Contact us for the DIGITAL VERSION of this workshop.

Ceramic Underglaze Design

(Underglaze Transfer on Greenware)

VISUAL ART only for 10 yrs +

Fees: $1,300
Pick Your Day:
Mon, 27 Jan
Wed, 5 Feb
Fri, 7 Feb
10:00 am – 12:30 pm daily

Create a special saucer and cup set for yourself or to gift to a loved one. Each participant will be provided with a pre-made greenware to which they can add their own unique hand-built handles and extra decorations. Then, learn the underglaze transfer technique to transfer your hand-drawn designs from paper to the surface of the cup. Enjoy a cozy hot beverage from a ceramic set of your own creation.

Note: It will take up to 14 days after the workshop for you to receive your glaze-fired wares.

Chinese Paper Cutting 

(Traditional Paper Cutting)

VISUAL ART only for 10 yrs +

Pick Your Week:
Mon & Tue, 27 & 28 Jan ($650)
Mon – Wed, 3 – 5 Feb ($950)
10:00 am – 11:15 am daily

Paper cutting crafts have a rich history in China, as far back as 105 CE! The process of folding, then cutting paper produces symmetrical designs or ‘window flowers’, displayed to celebrate auspicious occasions. Make your own designs to be boxed in a stylish frame to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Chinese New Year 2025 Holiday Workshop

Welcome in the year of the wise, agile Wood Snake with the Arts. Celebrate the spirit of the Lunar New Year with inspiring Spring and Zodiac-themed workshops. In Drama, our 4-6 year olds and 7-10s will get to explore physical acting skills and emotive body language. The youngest ones will craft a Peach Blossom Tree, and the older ones will create a Matisse-inspired scroll. This time around, kids (and adults!) aged 10+ are welcome to join a variety of workshops, from animal and human illustration to Ceramic Underglaze Transfer to the ancient art of Chinese Paper Cutting.

Peach Blossom Tree

VISUAL ART & DRAMA for 4 – 6 yrs

Pick Your Week:
Mon & Tue, 27 & 28 Jan ($1,550)
Mon – Wed, 3 – 5 Feb ($2,250)
10:00 am – 12:30 pm daily

IN VISUAL ART… (Mixed Media, 3D)

Peach blossoms and Spring! What will your Chinese New Year bring? Come and create a sinuous abstract Cherry tree that is blossoming all year round! In this project, inspired by Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao, we will explore using silver, red and black in a celebration of the festive colours of Chinese New Year. We will also explore symbols and patterns associated with wealth and prosperity to decorate our tree!

IN DRAMA… (Dramatic Movement)

Capture the essence of traditional Lunar New Year symbols through movement. Focus on developing a good foundation for dramatic movement to show a range of energies in your performance. From flying lanterns, to crackling sounds of the fireworks and the slithers of a snake. We will explore mimicking all these through the art of movement and the feeling they hold for us.

Floral Scrolls

VISUAL ART & DRAMA for 7 – 10 yrs

Pick Your Week:
Mon & Tue, 27 & 28 Jan ($1,750)
Mon – Wed, 3 – 5 Feb ($2,550)
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily

IN VISUAL ART… (Cut-outs, Scroll Painting)

Plum blossom! Clementines! Daffodils! Design your very own scroll inspired by the vibrant cut-outs of Henri Matisse! Deploying unorthodox implements — white paper and gouache — Matisse cut layered structures of colours and complexity into a world of plants, animals, figures, and shapes. We will design a beautiful scroll featuring floral patterns made from collaging bright colours, transforming the simplicity of paint and paper through vine and petal forms. Design your way into the new year!

IN DRAMA… (Movement, Expression, Storytelling)

Through movement, expression and storytelling, we will explore the traditions of the Chinese New Year and celebrate the year of the Snake! Elevate your physical acting skills with emotive body language to tell a holiday-inspired short story incorporating the iconic fireworks, lantern, and snake.

Zodiac Morph

(Acrylics & Colour Pencil)

VISUAL ART only for 10 yrs +

Pick Your Week:
Mon & Tue, 27 & 28 Jan ($2,050)
Mon – Wed, 3 – 5 Feb ($2,950)
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily

Illustrate yourself morphing into your favourite zodiac animal. Take inspiration from the Vietnamese version of K.A. Applegate’s Animorphs series, illustrated by artist Tidus Fair. Capture a festive and imaginative transformation on paper with acrylics and colour pencil. Contact us for the DIGITAL VERSION of this workshop.

Ceramic Underglaze Design

(Underglaze Transfer on Greenware)

VISUAL ART only for 10 yrs +

Fees: $1,300
Pick Your Day:
Mon, 27 Jan
Wed, 5 Feb
Fri, 7 Feb
10:00 am – 12:30 pm daily

Create a special saucer and cup set for yourself or to gift to a loved one. Each participant will be provided with a pre-made greenware to which they can add their own unique hand-built handles and extra decorations. Then, learn the underglaze transfer technique to transfer your hand-drawn designs from paper to the surface of the cup. Enjoy a cozy hot beverage from a ceramic set of your own creation.

Note: It will take up to 14 days after the workshop for you to receive your glaze-fired wares.

Chinese Paper Cutting 

(Traditional Paper Cutting)

VISUAL ART only for 10 yrs +

Pick Your Week:
Mon & Tue, 27 & 28 Jan ($650)
Mon – Wed, 3 – 5 Feb ($950)
10:00 am – 11:15 am daily

Paper cutting crafts have a rich history in China, as far back as 105 CE! The process of folding, then cutting paper produces symmetrical designs or ‘window flowers’, displayed to celebrate auspicious occasions. Make your own designs to be boxed in a stylish frame to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Chinese New Year 2024 Holiday Workshops

Pick Your Week:

Week 1 :  7 – 9 Feb 2024
Week 2 :  14 – 16 Feb 2024

Chinese New Year celebratory Art and Drama Camp opens for those littlie artists / dramatists! Spanning three mornings of festive fun, we will craft, sculpt and dramatise an array of visual arts and storytelling bursting with originality, colour and creativity! Our more seasoned artists will be coached on both physical and digital art in the spirit of jovial familial fondness.

Lucky Fai Chun

(Mixed Media Collage Art)

VISUAL ART & DRAMA for 4 – 6 yrs

Fees : $2,100
Pick Your Week:
Wed – Fri, 7 – 9 Feb
Wed – Fri, 14 – 16 Feb
10:00 am – 12:30 pm daily

IN VISUAL ART…

Bring good luck and prosperity to your home this Chinese New Year with a festive fai chun hanging banners. Use collage techniques to make a vibrant banner decoration embellished with majestic dragons and lucky phrases!

IN DRAMA…

Unleash your inner fire and dance into the Year of the Dragon! Embark on a journey of artistic expression with choreography inspired by the majestic dragon. Dive into the depths of dynamic movements, perform for a recorded video, and share this experience with your loved ones this holiday!

Dancing Dragon

(Papercraft, 3D Sculpture)

VISUAL ART & DRAMA for 7 – 10 yrs

Fees : $2,500
Pick Your Week:
Wed – Fri, 7 – 9 Feb
Wed – Fri, 14 – 16 Feb
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily

IN VISUAL ART…

The Dragon is on the loose this Chinese New Year!  Young artists will create their own dancing puppet dragon to celebrate the festivities. Painting their own golden and shiny papers for textured scales, learning folding techniques, cutting, gluing, and constructing this elaborate scaly creature to dance into the new year.

IN DRAMA…

The year of the dragon is upon us! Join us in performing the tale of The Great Race, a playful and poetic rendition of the Chinese zodiac myth. Hone your acting skills and explore diverse characters. Join in the world of narration, script reading, and devised performance this holiday!

New Year’s Past

(Watercolour Ink Illustration)

VISUAL ART only for 10 yrs +

Fees : $2,850
Pick Your Week:
Wed – Fri, 7 – 9 Feb
Wed – Fri, 14 – 16 Feb
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily

Take inspiration from the Chinese folk art of old Nianhua (New-Year pictures) to create your own New Year scene. Bring a photo of your family’s festive celebrations and turn it into a contemporary watercolour and liner illustration. Use a lightbox to trace key details from your photograph, infuse the composition with auspicious symbols, and use a limited colour palette to complete your retro festive scene.

Dragon Symmetry

(Digital Illustration)

VISUAL ART only for 10 yrs +

Fees : $2,850
Pick Your Week:
Wed – Fri, 7 – 9 Feb
Wed – Fri, 14 – 16 Feb
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily

Experience art creation that draws upon digital technology this Chinese New Year. Create a groovy yet majestic-looking dragon using digital illustration and symmetry tools on an iPad or laptop! Investigate the history of the Zodiac and its five elements in Chinese mythology to generate a strong design concept, exploring exquisite patterns and hues. Learn how to work smart with digital tools to generate your illustration to create complex uniformity and vibrant symmetry.

(Note student to provide own digital tool, iPad with Procreate or Laptop with Photoshop. Contact us ahead of workshop if unsure).

ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE SERIES WORKSHOP

Geometry Symmetry

(Geometric Drawing, Digital Editing)

For 9 yrs+

Fees : $2,950
Pick Your Week:
Wed – Fri, 7 – 9 Feb
Wed – Fri, 14 – 16 Feb
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily

Unleash the creative potential of mathematics! Whether it’s the drawings of MC Escher or the architecture of the Islamic world, maths has been used by artists and designers for centuries. Guest STEAM facilitator Alex Dutton will coach you through three ways of mathematically developing a repeat pattern into complex figuration as well as through mathematical randomness. Then, Colour My World facilitator Jem Perks will teach you ways to make use of digital art software to create complex tessellations from your work quickly and easily! No advanced maths knowledge needed.

About the Facilitators :

Alex Dutton is a tutor, teacher and founder of STEM education NGO Phoenix Space. He brings his deep knowledge of maths gained during his studies as astrophysics and combines it with a fresh, creative perspective that is hard to find in the classroom. He coaches Days 1 & 2 Geometric Drawing.

Jem Perks is an illustrator and designer who works with both digital and traditional media. He has been commissioned to illustrate for a variety of purposes including book covers, product packaging, and event promotion. He coaches Day 3 Digital Editing.

Fantastical Landscape Cinemagraph

(Photo Manipulation, Digital Collage)

For 9 yrs+

Fees : $2,850
Pick Your Week:
Wed – Fri, 7 – 9 Feb
Wed – Fri, 14 – 16 Feb
10:00 am – 12:30 pm daily

Dive into the digital with this photo-manipulation workshop introducing the basics of video editing (masking, layering, colour-editing) on Adobe Photoshop. Use digital image manipulation and animation to create a ‘still’ moving image – or cinemagraph. Combining images from various visual sources, we will create a multi-layer, fantasy-inspired digital collage complete with moving elements designed to delight and surprise.

About the Facilitator : Trained as a video producer, editor and photographer, Savannah is a freelance artist, whose work has been featured in multiple exhibitions including a recent group show with the Hong Kong Arts Collective. She is also art director to numerous live performances. When she is not teaching art, she runs her brand SKR studios for photo and video production.

Chinese New Year 2024 Artists-In-Residence Series Workshop

Pick Your Week:

Week 1 :  7 – 9 Feb 2024
Week 2 :  14 – 16 Feb 2024

This Chinese New Year, we are hosting two unique artist-in-residence workshops. Introducing Savannah Russell specialising in the realm of Photography & Videography, and Alex Dutton, in Art & Maths through creative STEAM classes.

Geometry Symmetry

(Geometric Drawing, Digital Editing)

For 9 yrs+

Fees : $2,950
Pick Your Week:
Wed – Fri, 7 – 9 Feb
Wed – Fri, 14 – 16 Feb
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily

Unleash the creative potential of mathematics! Whether it’s the drawings of MC Escher or the architecture of the Islamic world, maths has been used by artists and designers for centuries. Guest STEAM facilitator Alex Dutton will coach you through three ways of mathematically developing a repeat pattern into complex figuration as well as through mathematical randomness. Then, Colour My World facilitator Jem Perks will teach you ways to make use of digital art software to create complex tessellations from your work quickly and easily! No advanced maths knowledge needed.

About the Facilitators :

Alex Dutton is a tutor, teacher and founder of STEM education NGO Phoenix Space. He brings his deep knowledge of maths gained during his studies as astrophysics and combines it with a fresh, creative perspective that is hard to find in the classroom. He coaches Days 1 & 2 Geometric Drawing.

Jem Perks is an illustrator and designer who works with both digital and traditional media. He has been commissioned to illustrate for a variety of purposes including book covers, product packaging, and event promotion. He coaches Day 3 Digital Editing.

Fantastical Landscape Cinemagraph

(Photo Manipulation, Digital Collage)

For 9 yrs+

Fees : $2,850
Pick Your Week:
Wed – Fri, 7 – 9 Feb
Wed – Fri, 14 – 16 Feb
10:00 am – 12:30 pm daily

Dive into the digital with this photo-manipulation workshop introducing the basics of video editing (masking, layering, colour-editing) on Adobe Photoshop. Use digital image manipulation and animation to create a ‘still’ moving image – or cinemagraph. Combining images from various visual sources, we will create a multi-layer, fantasy-inspired digital collage complete with moving elements designed to delight and surprise.

About the Facilitator : Trained as a video producer, editor and photographer, Savannah is a freelance artist, whose work has been featured in multiple exhibitions including a recent group show with the Hong Kong Arts Collective. She is also art director to numerous live performances. When she is not teaching art, she runs her brand SKR studios for photo and video production.

Pick Your Week:

Week 1 :  19 – 20 Jan 2023
Week 2 :  26 – 27 Jan 2023

Begin the year of the Water Rabbit by participating in our food-themed two-morning art & drama camps for 4-10 yrs. They shall pay homage to food through poetry, dim sum menus and collage. For those aged 10+, we are hosting a glowing illusion soft pastel still-life class.

My Dim Sum House

(Illustrated Collage Art)

VISUAL ART & DRAMA for 4 – 6 yrs

Fees : $1,450
Pick Your Week:
Thu – Fri, 19 – 20 Jan
Thu – Fri, 26 – 27 Jan
10:00 am – 12:30 pm daily

IN VISUAL ART…

Pay homage to your favourite dim sum in this mixed-media illustrated menu workshop. Gain a little experience in layout design and illustration techniques. Use a range of methods such as stamping, drawing, cutting and pasting.

IN DRAMA…

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with lots of food… and poems! Our Friday intensive drama workshop will be dedicated to reciting poetry themed around festive food. Participants will learn fun poems and act them out using props and costumes!

Auspicious Food Collage

(Illustrated Collage Art)

VISUAL ART & DRAMA for 7 – 10 yrs

Fees : $1,650
Pick Your Week:
Thu – Fri, 19 – 20 Jan
Thu – Fri, 26 – 27 Jan
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily

IN VISUAL ART…

Celebrate the joyous, auspicious, pun-filled origins traditional Lunar New Year foods. Create a collage poster to celebrate your personal top lucky food and its lucky origins. Use photographic references to recreate the food’s form and fill it with a variety of festive printed paper.

IN DRAMA…

We are celebrating the new year by creating our own collaborative poem! Work as a team to pen your very own food poetry as you make word choices, develop rhythm and rhyme, performance and self-awareness skills. Time to get thinking about all the tasty treats we shall eat!

Tooker’s Lantern

(Soft Pastel on Paper)

VISUAL ART only for 10 yrs +

Fees : $1,850
Pick Your Week:
Thu – Fri, 19 – 20 Jan
Thu – Fri, 26 – 27 Jan
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily

Take two mornings to immerse yourself in soft pastel still-life. Observe the soft, diffused lighting of George Tooker’s artwork In the Summerhouse. Depict a still-life from a combination of life and photo references to depict your very own illusory glowing Lunar New Year lantern.