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Are you looking for Mask Making Workshops for your school or charity? Well you have arrived at the right place for Mask Making Workshops - keep reading to find out more!
Our Mask Making Workshop is an incredibly popular visual arts workshop, which encourages individuality, originality, and personal style. Learning from top artist’s participants will learn the history, origin and influence of mask making on the chosen culture. Using a range of materials participants will get a chance to make their own masks such as paints, feathers, cotton wool, sequins, pipe cleaners, glitter, coloured paper, card and tissue.
Just as an example, we can offer:
African Mask Making
Venetian Mask Making Workshop @ The Astley Cooper School
Our Mask Making Workshop is a traditional experience not to be missed! Whether you choose African Mask Making or Beijing Opera Mask Making Workshops; all are fun, lively engaging and enjoyable. The aims of all the Mask Making Workshops are to educate participants on various cultures and the traditions from which they originate.
Our prices are very competitive and worth every penny! Prices start from as little as £260.00 per workshop and we can give you a customised quote for your project.
Mix & Match Any 5 Workshops For £1,500 (Was £1,925)
Try Something New With our Multicultural Workshops!
Book your workshops for the Summer Term today with Trap Media and save big with our bulk workshop offer designed to give you the best saving possible.Trap Media have a wealth of experience in providing workshops, for children and adults, throughout the UK, and our prices are always competitive. We have decided to offer our customers this amazing deal designed to help you with your budget.
To qualify for the offer, you must book by 25th May 2012. Fill out the form below today to secure your discount. Alternatively, please call our bookings line FREE today on 0800 689 9909.
Examples of Combinations:
1. African Drumming + Bollywood + Henna + Street Dance + Samba Drumming = 5 For £1500
2. Anti Bullying + Sex & Relationships + Conflict Resolution + Drugs + Enterprise = 5 For £1500
3. Mask Making + African Dance + Musical Theatre +Capoeira + Chinese Dance = 5 For £1500
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Terms of Offer:
*(a) Offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion. (b) Offer only available when booking 5 Full day workshops (c) All workshops are exclusive of VAT, travel expenses and materials & expenses incurred. (d) offer only valid between 18/05/12 - 25/05/12.
The Importance of Mask MakingMask making is an art that may date as far back as 20,000 years. Masks have been used in religion, the arts and for entertainment purposes throughout the world. Materials and styles may have changed, but the process and use of masks lives on. Masks in traditional societies are not thought of as art objects. They are functioning sacred objects imbued with tremendous power and have a strong symbolic meaning.
Origins
No one is certain exactly when or why people began to create masks. One theory is that hunters created masks to try to sneak up on animals. Another theory is that masks were used to appeal to animal spirits and deities.
Features
Early masks were made of natural materials that were easy to find and readily available in hunter/gatherer societies, such as animal skins, animal bones, branches, grasses, leaves and feathers.
Ritual
As masks became a significant part of religious ritual in primitive societies, they became more elaborate and ornamental. They were carved out of stone, wood or gourds or were moulded from clay. Some were painted, or decorated with shells, leaves and other objects.
Theatre
The Greeks and Romans embraced the use of masks in early theatrical productions. Plaster was a common material for mask making. The Greeks developed metal masks that were shaped to act like megaphones to project an actor's voice.
Revelry
Masks are now primarily used for fun at costume parties, carnivals, festivals and at Halloween. Children enjoy using them for dress-up and imaginative play. They are made from a range of materials, including rubber, paper mache, plastic and porcelain.
Mask Making Workshops Overview
Participants will be introduced to a project and the objectives will be indicated, weather you have an up and coming play/event or you just want to engage and educate Mask Making is a great format to use. Questions will be asked and answered surrounding the purpose, meaning and uses of masks within a particular culture. Examples of masks will be shown to help participants visualise what they will be creating and understand the different styles, materials and uses.
Participants can brainstorm in order to create a personal characterisation for their mask focusing on their own background, culture, likes and dislikes and their appearance and how they may exaggerate their individual traits visual and emotional to dramatic effect.
Participants can watch an Artist demonstrate how to cast your face in modrock as to form the basis of a mask this is done by priming the face with Vaseline then dipping modrock (plaster bandage) in water then placing it in smooth layers over the face. This is taken off when hard after about 15mins or the participants can then cast each other’s faces.
Participants will then discuss the masks that have been created; a small performance /parade to show off the masks can be a good option, particularly in a special assembly or end of term event.
Mask Making CulturesVarious Cultures can be chosen depending on what you are looking for here are a few examples to help get you started!
African Mask Making
African masks play an important role in the life of the village. Generally they are used for religious rites, funeral rites, and ceremonies related with agriculture or initiation, in which each young man has to participate to be a member of the community.
Venetian Mask Making
The festival known as Carnival occurs throughout much of the Roman Catholic world. Americans, Catholic or not have attended the festivities in New Orleans (Mardi Gras). But in Venice, Carnival traditional go all the way back to the Renaissance. The 10-day period before Lent, from the day after Christmas until Shrove Tuesday, The Masked revelers enjoying pageants, concerts and balls
Japanese Mask Making
In Japan the Noh mask are used for Theater and Musical performances. Each Mask represents a certain person, hero, devil, ghost, or legendary animal, depending what the character is in the performance. Mask have been used since the Jomon period of time (10,000 B.C.-300 B.C.) Japanese masks are made out of material such clay, dry lacquer, cloth, paper and wood.
Mexican Mask Making
Masks and mask making have had a long-standing tradition in Mexico that has been embedded into the culture from its native roots, through the conquest of Mexico in the 16th century, and into modern day. Today the many battles between good and evil taken from myths and religious stories as well as scenes from everyday life are represented in carnivals and celebrations. Through the use of masks and dance, people share their cultural experiences and their history. Most of the traditional Mexican masks are made for acting out dramas during the Holy Week processions.
Read Our Testimonials
Hi Trap Media,
All the workshops Trap Media provided was great from Masks to the drama workshop - the feedback from the schools that participated was very positive.
Jamie McGachy - West Ham United Learning Zone
Dear Trap Media. Thank you for sending such amiable and professional workshop leaders (Origami Worshops and Indian Drumming) to us this week! Could you pass my thanks on to them, I have had nothing but positive reviews from all of the staff and students who had the chance to be in the sessions.
Kind Regards
F. Melmoe – East Surrey College
Dear Trap media, just a note to say thank you very much for sourcing Wendy for our beadmaking workshops at Wychwood Festival at Cheltenham racecourse.
She was fantastic, and was very popular - the children loved the workshops and the jewellery they were able to make. The workshops really contributed to the success of our exhibit so many thanks. No doubt we will have more festivals lined up in future, so will be in touch when we have some more dates for the exhibit confirmed.
Many thanks
S Lisowiec - World Vision Childrens Charity UK
Dear Trap Media, Just to let you know overall all 38 workshops provided for the Girl Guide celebrations were excellent! The facilitators were all very pleasant and several commented that they had learned a lot about the Guide movement. I would definitely recommend you to others.
Best wishes,
Eirlais Tomkins (Mrs), Girlguiding Wolverhampton
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