Our approach is called Holistic Arts whereby we use all art forms as a ‘way’ to explore ourselves, each other, and where we are (in this case, Bali, Indonesia) and to express ourselves both individually and collectively in an atmosphere of openness, fun, intuition, and respect.
Our Programs
Early Years Creative Play
For 4 Years and under (with Caregiver)
Next Dates: 2024 Jan 22nd – Feb 16th
Monday – Wednesday – Friday
This is a bilingual program (English/Indonesian) designed to bring families and caregivers with children together to develop kinesthetically, linguistically, socially, and emotionally through song, dance, creative movement, storytelling, drumming, and visual expression. The program also supports cross-cultural connection, knowledge sharing, and relations between parents and caregivers.
Lunar New Years
Saturday, Feb 10th
Join us in celebrating the Lunar New Year. We will be celebrating the year of the Wood Dragon with a shadow play and workshop about the origin of the Wood Dragon.
We have 2 shows:
9:30-10:15 For children 2.5-5yrs
11:00-12:15 For children 5-12
Must RSVP – yellowcoco@rocketmail.com / +6282145848210
Red Earth- Root Medicine Women’s Healing Arts Journey
Feb 7th – April 3rd 2024
Wednesdays 1-3pm (plus 3 site visits)
Week of March 11 off/Nyepi Balinese New Year
Enter into a space of deep connection and shared reflection. Create from within through movement, sounding, clayworks, textile and visual expression, nature work and art, site visits, writing and music.
The intention of this series is to call in women who yearn to connect to and through the body, womb and root energies for healing, insight, guidance and wisdom.
1. Finding Ground – Earthwork (Feb.7)
2. All Our Relations (Feb. 14)
3. Weaving Our Lives (Feb. 21)
4. Womb Stone (Site visit) Feb 28
5. Embodied Story (Mar 6)
6. Way of the Flower (Mar 20)
7. Nourish (Mar 27)
8. Healing Waters (April 3)
Must RSVP – yellowcoco@rocketmail.com / +6282145848210
Ancient Dragons of the Five Elements: A Holistic Arts Drama Journey
For Children 6-12yrs
Dates: Feb. 5th – April 20, 2024
Mondays, from 4:00-5:30pm – At Yellow Coco Creative Nest
Join us for the Holistic Arts Dramatic Journey into the elemental realms of Dragons. In this process, children will design and create their own dragon (complete with its terrain, powers, protection, and character/elemental nature) from recycled textiles and other materials. We will build a story drama stimulated and inspired by the dragons in Bali and dragon stories and beliefs found throughout the Archipelago and beyond. We will also be engaging in an exploration of the nature of the 5 elements (Earth, Wood, Metal, Fire, and Water).
Join us in this celebration of the Year of the Dragon!
Family Presentation of our Process, Saturday April 20th, 2024.
Contact – yellowcoco@rocketmail.com / +6282145848210
Earth Puppet Project
For Women
Dates: 3 Consecutive Thursdays Feb. 1st, 8th, and 15th, 2024
From 6:00-8:00pm – At Yellow Coco Creative Nest
Join us in this New Earth Puppets project to co-create with other women, a story that holds the power to unlock potential and possibility in times of challenge or difficulty (related to our environments, relations and/ or ourselves ).
Limited to 8 women, by donation.
In association with VPR-SEA (Virtual Puppetry Residency – Southeast Asia)
Information or RSVP to – yellowcoco@rocketmail.com / +6282145848210
Body, Nature and Creativity:
Exploratory Anatomy, Inner Listening, Creativity and Culture
(for adults)
How is a lotus like our heart? A tree like our bones? Water like our blood? The ocean like our breath? How is the sky like fascia? Our joints like a puppet?
Join us in playing with these connections and more in:
Thursdays 930-1130am at Yellow Coco
Feb. 23- April 27, 2023
Each week we will explore different aspects of our body and life force through, movement, writing, artistic expression and sharing. Over the course of 9 sessions we will experientially explore our skeletal system, bones, joints, muscles, nervous system, alignment, cellular breathing, sensory awareness, touch, emotions and patterns and sound and movement. Playful connections to the artistic cultures of Java and Bali will be nurtured.
This program is for anyone interested in connecting deeper with the body, nature and felt sense as a place of curiosity and creativity. The arts are tools in the enhancement this exploration (sound, imagery, writing, music, weaving, clayworks, dance and puppetry).
Register by Feb. 21, 2023
Details: yellowcoco@rocketmail.com
The Way of the Arts: Holistic Foundations
For Educators
Feb 24-26, 2023
Enrich teaching with a holistic approach that:
- Honours & utilizes lived experience
- Bridges local culture, story and place
- Uses arts as diverse ways of knowing/being/expressing.
- Nurtures the imagination
- Connects you to your inner wellspring of creativity
Register by Feb 21, 2023
yellowcoco@rocketmail.com
Rainbow Connection: Exploring Colour, Imagination, Culture, and Felt Sense through Holistic Drama
Mondays from Jan. 16– April 22, 2023
4pm – 5:30pm, for children 5-12yrs
A playful exploration of colour that honours each child’s felt sense of the colours through creative processes with the natural world, fabric arts, visual expression, drama, storytelling, creative movement, music and food tasting. We will look at the cultural meanings of different colours in Bali and beyond and share stories about rainbows across cultures to include Java/Bali, North America and Southeast Asia.
Each week uncovers the magic and mystery of 1 colour by investigating through multi-modals arts, natural colour experimentation, rainbow foods and colours found in nature. Through storytelling and drama exploration, we will slowly work towards our own Mythic Rainbow Drama which will be presented at the end along with other artistic expressions and discoveries.
Info: yellowcoco@rocketmail.com
Soul Path: Uncover Your Unique Soul Journey through the Arts
(for Adults) At Yellow Coco Creative Nest
With creativity as the container and the arts as the way, we’ll delve into a deeply reflective process of uncovering the direction our soul has been giving us throughout our lives.
According to Gary Zukov, our souls are on a path and our personality may or may not be aligned with the soul’s trajectory. This path is uniquely ours. Our soul will guide us if we listen but because of life pressures we may not clearly hear its voice. When we learn to listen, we can align our personalities with this path and let our lives unfold as they are meant to be.
Dates
Join us for one or all of these unique and rich arts- based explorations :
Shadow Play
Earthworks (clay and nature arts)
Painting and Drawing
Sound, Voice and Spoken Word
Mixed Media
Creative Movement
Magical Garden
A cooperative, participatory and healing arts journey into the creation of one’s own sacred, magical garden. Designed to nurture communication and emotional connection and understanding through visualization. Magical Garden takes the process into active arts based exploration and expression of what the children choose to design as their own sacred place.
Each section of the journey of their own unique creation of their space are explored with diverse arts forms of pastel, coloured markers, collage, clay works, puppet creation, watercolor and nature installation. Children also nurture the Yellow Coco Magic garden, planting seeds and seedlings, creating natural fertilizer, building trellises, harvesting, weeding, watering and working with compost.
Rainbow Bridge
A playful exploration of colour honouring each child’s felt sense of the colours through creative processes with the natural world, fabric arts, visual expression, storytelling, creative movement, music and food tasting.
Each week uncovers the magic and mystery of 2 colours by investigating through multi-modals arts, natural colour experimentation, rainbow foods and colour in nature to end with an exhibition and presentation of our process and finished pieces that put the rainbow all together.
Red Earth Root Meditation
A program integrating the work of Tami Lynn Kent, Wild Feminine, and Susan’s Holistic and Expressive Arts Journeying created to help women enter a space of deep connection and shared reflection.
The intention of this series is to call in women who yearn to connect to and through the womb and root energies for healing, insight, guidance and wisdom.
Activities include creating from within through movement, sounding, clay works, textile and visual expression, writing and music. The final session is a journey to a special site dedicated to the sacred womb.
Holistic Arts Foundations for Educators: The Way of the Arts
For : Adults
Connecting to the source of our creativity, each other and where we are to unleash the flow of energy and inspiration held within. participants receive guidance in creating programs, classes, curriculum from a Holistic Arts model. Experiencing diverse artistic modalities in a variety of ways to understand the true definition of intelligence, creativity and wisdom.
Gateways to Creativity
A Day Retreat of Renewal and Insight for Adults
Designed to seed, blossom, flower and cross-pollinate an inner connection to our own creative channels, this program will stimulate diverse access points (doorways) to creativity found in all of us.
It will also build connection and understanding between people with reference to the different and unique ways we know bringing to light a new way to creatively work through challenges individually and collectively.
We will engage in an inner and outer journey through our subtle and physical energetic centres through expressive arts, movement work, tactile and visual exploration, voicework and writing.
What is Your Medicine?
(One on One Sessions)
One on one sessions using the arts as a tool to uncover/discover that which wants to come to the fore in you. Using Diverse Ways of Knowing we nurture the connection between you and your creative source. Bring a a project, idea or challenge to the table to work with in this rich session or series of sessions.
Creative Events with Yellow Coco
Custom creative, expressive arts and nature based activities for small groups, parties, teams, organizations now available! Combine visual arts with movement-based expression, mindfulness and yoga activities, shadow play, storytelling, drama and clay works, earthworks and earth arts in the garden.
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