Baan Unrak

An informal visit turned out to be an incredible experience at Baan Unrak.

The Neo-Humanist Foundation in Thailand as done great work with children, mothers and community at Sangkhlaburi.
This border town with Myanmar is the home for many children, families and communities in poor conditions. Fortunatley there are growing projects with the aim to trully help.

In that first visit Brainstorming Creations was invited to participate in a teacher training at the Baan Unrak Neo-Humanist School.

It turned out to be two months of stories for everyone.

We choose an Australian myth about the world’s creation and adapted it according to different ages. And we showed it to every child in the school. "The Rainbow Snake" played with each class and even inspired the 6th grade to create their own story for school´s ending celebration.

The Teacher Training on storytelling and showing happen during the Neo-Humanist Education Seminar - “Learning through Stories”. Two weeks playing and learning with stories.

Scary Face, Sweet Heart @ Macau Fringe

Scary Face, Sweet Heart

It is Spring…A scarecrow lives in the middle of a wheat field, and because of his scary look, he seems destined to spend his life all alone. The seasons change and with them the wind, the sun and the snow. The scarecrow endures these changes, standing alone in the field, but eventually something will happen, altering his long year of solitude…


A simple and tender story about the cycles of nature told in a curious and inventive way.

For more information visit:

http://www.macaufringe.gov.mo/

http://scaryface.blogspot.com

Saturdays Stories

Saturday Stories sessions at MCDA .


A program for 3 to 6 years old children. A space for stories and guided activities.

Click here to see more!

"Uma mesa cheia de histórias" a proposal to Portugal

We love to present our work in our native country!

For that we created "Uma mesa cheia de Histórias"!

Check more informations at:

http://mesadehistorias.blogspot.com/

Summer to Gather

Summer to Gather- Actividades pelo mundo

Entre 3 e 28 de Julho
De segunda a sexta- das 15:00 às 18:00

Convidamos todas as crianças para se juntarem a nossa viagem imaginária em torno do Planeta terra, passando pelos vários continentes, aprendendo sons, sabores, histórias e tradições entre outras coisas...


Venham buscar o vosso passport, apertem os cintos de segurança que vamos começar esta viagem!

Para crianças dos 4 aos 10 anos


No Instituto Internacional de Macau- Rua de Berlim, Magnificent (Nam Hong) Court, nº 204, 2º andar; NAPE – Macau

Atenção! O limite do prazo para as inscrições é 23 de Junho

Para mais informações contacte-nos:
Brainstorming Creations Ltd. - brainstormingcreations@gmail.com /6586864

Nome e endereço em chines do IIM
澳 門 國 際 研 究 所
澳 門 新 口 岸 ， 新 填 海 區 ， 柏 林 街 ， 南 鴻 花 園 二 樓
電 話 ： 751727 / 751767 傳 真 ： 751797


Summer to Gather- Activities around the world

From July 3rd to July 28
Mondays to Fridays - 15:00 to 18:00

We invite all children to join their own holiday trip around Planet Earth, through Asia, Pacific, Americas, Europe and Africa, getting to know sounds, tastes, stories, costumes, traditions and much more.
The activities will happen as an imaginary holyday trip goes on, traveling between the 5 continents and learning about their culture, essentially through the arts.

Come to pick up your passport, fasten your seat belt and let the journey begin!

For children from 4 to 10 years old


At the International Institute of Macao - Rua de Berlim, Magnificent (Nam Hong) Court, nº 204, 2nd floor; NAPE – Macau (Behind World Trade Centre)

Remember! The deadline for registrations is June 23rd

For more informations contact:
Brainstorming Creations Ltd. - brainstormingcreations@gmail.com /6586864


IIM Chinese Name and address
澳 門 國 際 研 究 所
澳 門 新 口 岸 ， 新 填 海 區 ， 柏 林 街 ， 南 鴻 花 園 二 樓
電 話 ： 751727 / 751767 傳 真 ： 751797

Ox House Art Gallery

Promotion workshops of the Ox House art galery space

Invited by the galery organization, we took our workshops into two schools, so that the schools could know about the goals and possibilities that they have to offer, like art activities, performances and shows.

Music and movement workshop - Taipa SKH School - from 5 to 6 years old

Continuing with the Lap Sap Sounds concept, we showed how the garbage can become music, in a very simple way...Play, explore, construct and play around with music...

Dance and movement workshop - Pi Tao School - from 13 to 15 years old

Through group dinamics bodies gained movement and mind gained consciousness of the importance of posture, expression, breathing and relaxation.

Forest of the Sounds

The Forest of the Sounds
Art’s Week Workshop, with children from 3 to 10 years old
The International School of Macao
Macao, 2005


A three day workshop, developed in English, where the children were involved in a story told by two characters, from the Art’s Land, named Satya and Vanii. That story happened on their way to the school, where they were going to celebrate the art’s week. On the way, while crossing the dense forest of the sounds, something mysterious happened…After listening to the story, each group constructed one of the instruments that represented the story sounds, all with reused materials collected by the children themselves. On the third day, about 150 children went on stage to perform the story in School Assembly.

Mobile Arts Parade

• Mobile Arts Parade – Lap Sap Human Orchestra – Fringe Festival – Macao, October, 2005

The Fringe Festival promotes the arts and the street performances, and is organized in Macao once a year, counting on the participations of artists from all around the world. The BrainStorming Creations participated in this festival by creating and encouraging others to create, working the concepts of reusing and recycling, using the music expression as a vehicle.
The Mobile Arts Parade consisted in the construction of a couch where all the used materials, were reused, collected from many different places. The couch was a musical instrument itself, where lots of people could play music on wheels. The message was understandable: instead of staying home, laying on the couch, come to the streets, create, play music, and try to react to the destruction of the planet.
The parade started at the Ruins of S. Paul and ended at the Senado Square, with the participation of lots of artists and hundreds of people that joined the party.

Lap Sap Sounds Workshop 1

• Workshops “Lap Sap Sounds – When Garbage Becomes Music” – Camões Garden, Fringe Festival – Macao, October, 2005


The workshop had an open structure, where during a period of 4 hours the participants were invited to explore many instruments made of reused materials, and construct them as well. Some group musical dynamics were also created, having a great suitability from the community, that danced and played the constructed instruments with lots of energy. Not only the materials were reused, but also the minds.

Around the Senses

• Project “Around the Senses” – Activities about exploring the 5 senses through art expression and simple scientific experiences - Escola Portuguesa de Macau supported by the Casa de Portugal em Macau – Macao, April, 2005

Two holyday weeks, where every morning we got together to explore the five senses, doing scientific experiments and experiencing and producing games and toys with waste materials.
Glass xylophones, touch boxes, pairs of sounds, delicious toys and optical illusions where some of the activities we made, also presented to the guests on the last day, that went inside the “Senses Laboratory” to learn also something about how easy it is to explore the senses with objects and materials that we have next to us everyday.