Teach, Entertain with Origami

I'd like to share with the community some of the "tricks" I've acquired or developed over the years in teaching and demonstrating with Yami Yamauchi and Joe Hamamoto. It's a way to bring in a bit of showmanship and entertainment while demonstrating, lecturing, sharing, and teaching origami to an audience/public. Specifically, I'd like to cover Robert Neale's $butterfly (performance aspect as well as how I fold it so quickly), share with everyone the ancient secret folding technique of origami invented 10 years ago by Yami Yamauchi; origami presented as magic tricks; my favorite storigami (Deg Farrelly's butterfly with Anne Bedrick's teaching tale). And I'd like to also open it up for group discussion and sharing, inviting others to also provide their input, experience, and ideas so that the class is collaborative. It'd be great for anyone besides myself to also share their favorite storigami and methods of public entertainment through origami. The Robert Neale model is the most complicated model we may be folding; all others on my agenda are less complex or do not involve all of us actually folding the model. Much of this workshop is about sharing and stimulating ideas for how to captivate and present origami to an audience and make teaching it comedic and entertaining. Materials provided for the class: scissors, exacto knife -- or some form of cutting tool-- and paper bags.