Welcome to the kids section. We will be adding fun and educational content to this section over time.

Museums 2 Go, a program of the Terri Lynn Lokoff Foundation, has included ADHK onto their roster to bring art to underprivileged youth in Philadelphia. ADHK teaches 1-2 hour mask making and movement workshops at day care centers, pre-schools, elementary and high schools.

Net Centers in Philadelphia brings art to in-home at risk juveniles. ADHK taught 10 workshops, including archetypal mask movement and hip hop dance classes. In combination with The Bad Moods and Consequences Detective Hand Book, created by ADHK’s art director Alan Bell, the kids discuss their internal feelings and learn to express their emotions in positive [...]

Alan Bell continues to teach “Protest Art in the Age of Apartheid” classes at Colleges and Universities. A native of South Africa, Alan dreamed of creating an art form that would unite the people of his country in an awe-inspiring way. He has since created ArcheDream for HUMANKIND and gives lectures on his experience growing [...]

ADHK members Jessica Kroboth, Jacqui Tichenor, Dan Sposato, Glenn Weikert and Alan Bell participated as in-school teachers for the Conflict Resolution Crew in Chicago, IL. This week long residency allowed ADHK to work with the Conflict Resolution Crew everyday for 6 hours to teach them mask making, mask movement, hip hop, modern and lyrical dance, [...]

A partnership with the University of Pennsylvania, ADHK holds mask making and hip hop dance workshops through the MAPGPI program. MAGPI is an Internet 2 technology that creates interactive classes through the Internet. This technology allows ADHK to reach multiple schools across the country simultaneously. While sitting in their own classroom, students can see and [...]

Before performing Jessica’s Story for the Warrenville Youth Correctional Facility in Chicago, IL, ADHK performers were invited to hold an archetypal mask movement workshop with the institution’s group, the “Fabulous Females.” Using archetypal masks and physical movement, the “Fabulous Females” and their counselors explored a new and unique way to express the emotions associated with [...]

Girls on the Move founder and former ADHK performer Emily Nussdorfer, along with ADHK member Jacqui Tichenor, hold ongoing workshops with at risk female youth in Philadelphia. “Girls on the Move” is a 13 week program designed to open communication and increase self awareness through mask and costume making, poetry writing and story telling. Through [...]

For the past 4 years ADHK has instructed at Prescott, Arizona’s “Circus Camp”, a week-long children’s summer camp that ends with a group performance at Prescott’s annual, all-ages, Tsunami on the Square Festival. Each year, the children participate in learning circus skills such as poi spinning, hula hooping and drumming, and ADHK teaches mask making, [...]

Do It Yourself Theatre” is a 10-week after school program that ran for the first time at New Foundation’s Charter School in Northeast Philadelphia. ADHK member Tara McCann designed a program to guild each student, along with their classmates, through different elements of theater. By the end, the 8-10 year old after-care students had created [...]

ArcheDream is always looking for ways to bring our love of art into the community. Because the arts are primarily the medium of communication they play an important part in holding society together. The arts by nature are communal and bring people together. They also add to our rich tradition of culture and nurture the [...]