Why a centre on creativity?  Read the following quotes. Some will be certain to resonate with you.

"Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extaordinary results in human culture." Ken Robinson

"There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all." Edward de Bono

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." Albert Einstein 

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." Maya Angelou

"Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because i f you're passionate about something, you're more willing to take risks." Yo-Yo Ma

"If you're not prepared to be wrong,
you'll never come up with anything original."
Ken Robinson

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." John F. Kennedy

"Creativity is intelligence having FUN." Albert Einstein

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age." Sophia Loren

"Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits." Twyla Tharp

"For us, creativity means thinking about the lives of our audience and how to connect with them." Anna Wintour

"Creativity takes courage." Henri Matisse

"While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness." Gilda Radner

"Creativity is a drug I cannot live without." Cecil B. DeMille

MCCC stands for Margaret Cheung Creativity Centre. It is dedicated to the exploration of ‘self’ through creative activities by providing a space for learning, reflection, meditation, socialization and strengthening, providing leisure programs for adults, in particular, age 45 and above. MCCC is where you can find fun, peace, playfulness, friendship, socialization and engagement with the community. The activities we wish to provide target body, mind and spirit, and are only limited by the space that MCCC provides. This is a holistic approach that provides a space that participants can come to relax, explore, reflect, learn, socialize and engage with their community. Conveniently located in Wanchai and opening in early 2019, we aim to provide programs including (but not limited to) dance, music, fitness, health, technology, crafts, drama, and other interest areas.

On a higher level, MCCC aims to release the mind to allow for more creativity. Creativity is a sought-after resource that can be developed through the use of our body, mind and spirit. We believe that if you work on creativity, technique will come. Conversely, if you only work on technique, creativity will never come. Ken Robinson says, “You can’t be a creative thinker if you’re not stimulating your mind, just as you can’t be an Olympic athlete if you don’t train regularly.” MCCC is the place to provide that kind of stimulation of the mind as well as awareness building in the body and spirit - a platform for self discovery and exploration. Creativity begins with play - we must always remember the power of play. To learn something, there is no substitute for play. We aim to instill (promote, foster, infuse, inspire, inject) a sense of play in everything.

Our objective is not result, but process; our programs are process-based, and process-driven. It matters not that participants do not present high level skills, but be mindfully present during the activities and commit to the experience. Our emphasis is on high sensitivity and low skills.

Even though we do not emphasize on end result, we offer performance opportunities for performance arts programs to showcase our participants’ progress and provide a platform for public sharing. We believe that it is in these public sharing that the participants’ efforts and growth will come full circle when they express themselves in a public setting to an audience, who receives and responds to that showing.
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Our class sizes are small to ensure low teacher-participant ratio. We believe in personal attention and individual correction as each participant’s needs are different.

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Who is Margaret Cheung?

Margaret is a freelance performing artist with over 30 years in theatre, film, performing, teaching, directing, translation and casting experience. Directing credits include China Doll, Love Letters, Les Belles Soeurs, Dining Room, Once On This Island, and The Story of Xi Guan. Performing credits include The King and I, West Side Story, Once On This Island, Man of La Mancha, Damn Yankees, Merrily We Roll Along, Guys and Dolls, South Pacific, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, M. Butterfly, FOB, Much Ado About Nothing, A Doll’s House, The Odd Couple, Antigone and many more.  English and Cantonese voice-over credits include Harry Potter 3: Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter 5: The Order of the Phoenix, Seven Swords, The Lion King, Infernal Affairs 1 & 3 and many more.  Margaret has lectured at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong City University SCOPE Yi Jin Program, Hong Kong Institute for Education and numerous secondary schools.  Margaret is the only certified Mosaic Acting System instructor in Hong Kong, a revolutionary acting system developed by American actor and teacher Jeremy Whelan. Margaret received a Doctor of Creative Industries degree from Brisbane’s Queensland University of Technology.  Her doctoral thesis title is Mending the Broken Heart: Using an ethnodrama to voice to Hong Kong Chinese cancer caregivers, an applied theatre exploration using drama strategies for data collection and ethnodrama for dissemination. She has a Master of Drama Education from Griffith University (Brisbane).

Margaret began studying flamenco dance around 2006 and flamenco singing 2010.  She formed Hong Kong's first home-grown flamenco cuadro (song and dance group) SENTIDO Flamenco Hong Kong in 2016. 

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 張氏是一位自由身演員、歌手、導演、導師、監製、翻譯員及casting director，從事演出工作超過三十年，曾執導舞台劇有《中國玩偶》、《情書》、《姨媽姑姐執到寶》、《飯廳》、《小島情尋夢》及《西關風情》。 曾演出舞台劇包括《蝴蝶君》、《國王與我》、《夢斷城西》、《小島情尋夢》、《拉硬柴之夢遊騎士》、《失魂記》、《那些曾經有過的歡欣歲月》、《紅男綠女》、《南太平洋》、《春城花滿天》、《FOB》、《無事生非》、《玩偶之家》、《單身俱樂部》、《安蒂崗妮》等。英語及廣東話配音項目包括《哈利波特3之阿茲卡班的逃犯》、《哈利波特5之鳳凰會的密令》、《七劍》、《獅子王》、《無間道1及3》等。張氏曾教授學院包括香港演藝學院、香港藝術學院、香港城市大學專業進修學院之毅進計劃、香港教育學院及多間中學。張氏是香港唯一被認可，由美國戲劇導師Jeremy Whelan始創嶄新的Mosaic Acting System演戲方法之導師。張氏曾獲昆士蘭科技大學之創意工業博士學位，其博士論文取題為《彌補心路程：利用人種誌劇場為香港華人癌症照顧者發言》，是一項以戲劇手法為數據收集，而利用人種誌戲劇為研究成果發放方法的研究。張氏曾獲澳洲布里斯班Griffith University 之戲劇教育碩士學位。

張氏2006年開始學習佛蘭明高舞蹈，2010年開始學習佛蘭明高歌唱。2016年張氏組織SENTIDO Flamenco Hong Kong，香港第一隊土生土長的佛蘭明高歌舞組合。