Workshops for Children and Adults
Mask-Making
Chakra Yoga Dance and Yoga Arts Classes for Kids
Arts Therapy and Clown
Healing through Sacred Ritual
The Voice and Performance
Storytelling and Character Development
Hand-Carving Wooden Puppets, Shadow Puppetry
*Workshops are available in English and Cantonese.
Please contact us for more information on our services and working together!
Educational Mask Theatre Workshops:
Why masks?
- Masks were one of the first forms of artistic expression, dating back to ancient tribal cultures and traditional art history from around the world.
- Masks are sacred tools used by shamans and actors to connect with primal energy, human truths and spiritual wisdom.
- Masks help people who are interested in performing to quickly embrace new characters while feeling less inhibited, enabling them to more easily engage their own dynamic flow of emotions.
Workshops
1. Mask Family Fun! For children accompanied by one or two parents, this entertaining, educational two-hour workshop engages imaginations with the playfulness of masks. Become a tiger in the jungle, a bird-of-paradise flying the skies, a beautiful lady by the river or an old man with a story to share. Learn some basic history of world mask culture, have a chance to play with more than 30 handmade paper-mache masks, and delve into a world of colour and joy together with your family!
2. Mask Character Development: Basic Introduction for secondary-school students. This two-hour workshop gives participants hands-on experience, with a colourful array of hand-made masks from All Theatre Arts Association's collection, warm-up games, and the skills of knowing how to first touch and work with a mask. By exploring the five senses of character development and having the chance to play with many unique personalities within the world of mask, this basic intro is fun and inspiring.
3. Find the Soul of the Mask: A week-long master class and performance for drama students and professional actors 18+. Blending a wide range of hand-made, paper-mache masks, students personally experience finding "the soul of the mask". This comprehensive, lively workshop involves morning warm-ups including movement, vocals and character development, with scene development and rehearsals in the afternoon. On the Saturday and Sunday nights, workshop participants offer their solo performances under the direction of Maggie Blue and Hoi Chiu.
We welcome the opportunity to work with you!
Unity Consciousness Theory:
-A 2 hr. arts therapy/ecstatic dance workshop
-Delve deep into your mind/body/heart/spirit connection
-Explore the evolution of unity: from oneness consciousness, out into what makes us feel separate and find our way into the flow of unity again.
With guided meditations, toning, sacred movement, yoga asana, writing poetry and singing, inner contemplation, forgiveness ceremony and laughing games we will bravely and blissfully face our shadows, learn to embrace our whole being, return to our joyful selves and remember our harmonious connection with each other.
Facilitated by Maggie Blue O’Hara
$400 per person
5 people min
100 people max
An introduction to Sacred Clown…
What is Sacred and profane?
In this workshop we will play with costumes, learn mindfulness techniques, work with our mind/body/emotion/soul connection, find our inner angel and demon, discover our own “bag of tricks”, learn about ritual ceremony, sacred symbols and how to laugh at ourselves and lighten up!
Maggie Blue O’Hara is a professional actress, dancer, clown, singer from Canada and Co-Artistic Director of All Theatre Art Association, living/working in Hong Kong. She has also been studying healing with Reiki, Angels, Yoga and Vispassana meditation, Radiant Child Yoga, The Shambhala path and Earth/Galactic Lightwork for 18 years.
Maggie Blue studied clown with master David MacMurray Smith in Vancouver, Canada http://www.fantasticspace.com/courses/clownology.htm She blends clown skills she has learned from him along with her own 30 years of professional performing experience and training as a Lightworker.
3 days, 3 hrs each day, $1,200 per person