WHEN: Monday April 20th - Friday April 24th (second week of Easter School Holidays NSW)

WHERE: Macmasters Surf Life Saving Club - a spacious venue looking directly over the ocean at Macmasters Beach

WHAT:

Kidztrix Workshop Program provides school age children an opportunity to be inspired by and learn with professional and acclaimed teachers of the creative and cultural arts.

The program has drawn on Local and Sydney Teachers to make available to the children and community a highly qualified body of proffessional facilitators with extensive experience in their field. Included in the series of workshops will be: Drumming, Kids Yoga, Hula Hooping, Indigenous Education, Circus Arts, Screen Printing, Martial Arts, Circus -Yoga and Environmental Sustainability.

This is a community non for profit project designed to build up awareness and access to the Healing, Creative and Cultural Arts on The Central Coast.
By making available to our children in regional communities, a diverse array of learning experiences,  horizons and opportunities in life are broadened,  and our sense of "Australian Culture" is enriched.

Come and be a part of this development!

HOW MUCH:  $100 for week of workshops/ child

                         $10/1 hour  - $15 / 1.5 hours  - $20/2 hour workshop

FOR BOOKINGS : Please call or email Zoe on 0410 564 225 / This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

HULA  HOOPS with Bunny Star

MONDAY 4pm - 5pm 

Hooping is a unique way for children to connect with their individual sense of rhythm, strength, coordination and confidence in a group environment. In creating a learning space to try something different while being physically active and creatively expressive, we encourage children to explore new ways of exercise and movement that involve fun, play and dance.
Drawing on the inspiration and skills of both the circus and dance arts, we offer workshops where children learn a variety of tricks from the very basic saves and turns to more advanced technique and hoop dance moves. We encourage children to take this timeless toy and exercise tool further, to see how it relates to their body and their developing sense of movement.


Bunny Hoop Star is the Director of Hoop Empire. She is a multimedia artist, hoop teacher, and founding member of The Hoopaholics- Australia's one and only hulahoop troupe. She has been hooping for over a decade and now performs and teaches in Australia and throughout the world. Her training includes classic circus hoop technique, American Hoop Dance, Nia Technique /Spirited Movement, Yoga and self-directed dance land groove. With an emphasis on movement and flow her classes range from learning the basics of how to spin a hoop or two... or three or four... to more advanced Hoop Dance moves. She has been teaching the hoopla to both adults and children over the past three years and is accredited with the Australian Sports Commission.

 

KID'S YOGA with Aleena

TUESDAY    3pm - 4pm

THURSDAY 2pm - 3pm

Sprouts Kids Yoga classes encompass stories, songs, rhymes, movement and dance to deliver the joy of yoga to children in a very fun, dynamic and creative way.  We combine postures (asana), meditation and relaxation, Pranyama (breathing) and art activities to allow each child to shine their own inner beauty and individuality.  An awareness of the body and physical strength is established and special emphasis placed on positive thinking and mental focus.  Its all about fun and laughter with Sprouts Kids Yoga, and a class that nurtures your child's mind, body and spirit.

DRUMMING with Rendra 

TUESDAY 4pm -5pm

Rendra has been Inspired by Japanese Taiko and remote music from West Sumatra, Indonesia. His group, The Rhythm Hunters fuse the thunder of taiko drumming with indigenous Islamic music from West Sumatra.  Taiko, frame drums, kettle gongs, bamboo flutes, didgeridoo, log drums and West Sumatran folk songs are woven into a dramatic visual spectacle. Escape to long echoes in hidden valleys of laughter, primal ceremony and the beat of a lone drum. Rendra Freestone is raising the profile of Sumatran music with this dramatic fusion.

Their performance also presents as a visual spectacle with dynamic physical action on stage including dancers, didgeridoo, harmonium, vocals and big spirit.

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY with SupaCycla

WEDNESDAY 2pm -3pm

SupaCycla is a superhero with great power to create interest, awareness and ACTION in sustainable living. He represents SupaCycla.com. He also represents the idea that the Super Cycles of the Universe are the natural state of existence, and that human beings need to get with them and create practices that allow what is here today to be here tomorrow.

He is a real life SuperHero who goes to festivals, events, gatherings, schools - anywhere his presence can make a difference. SupaCycla sings songs about recycling and reusing and sustainability. He makes people laugh and involves children and teenagers.

MARTIAL ARTS with Scarlett

WEDNESDAY 4pm -5pm

ABORIGINAL CULTURAL EXPERIENCE  with Phil

THURSDAY 3pm - 5pm

Since 1999 Phil has devoted much of his time working in community focussing on community development and relationship building, environmental awareness and spiritual connection to land, and youth. He was a founding member of the Ourimbah Protocol in 2003, which facilitated a partnership arrangement between community and State Forests of NSW to co-manage forests on the Central Coast and Hunter region of NSW. Around the same time, he established the Earth Light Project in partnership with the Anglican Parish of Gosford, to “cultivate Indigenous wisdom and spirituality for the benefit of the community.” He is a Director of Pacific Link Community Housing and also works towards reconciliation as an Aboriginal consultant for the Gosford City Council, through his involvement in annual community events such as the ‘5 Lands Walk’ and the Australia Day Lantern Procession at Woy Woy.

Phil has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Charles Sturt University with majors in Economics, Sociology and History. Phil Bligh has worked as a consultant and policy officer within Aboriginal Affairs, with the Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council, the NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC).

This Workshop provides an interactive sensory experience including Storytelling, Traditional facepainting with ochres, Bushtucker, and Dance.  Children are Educated in sharing their unique gifts with the world, while respecting themselves, eachother and environment.