SUMMER COURSES FOR AGES 9 to 14 (2023)
Location Ar.Co – Antigo Mercado de Xabregas, Lisboa
Type occasional
Program Summer Courses for young people (9 to 14 years old) are opportunities for the playful exploration of skills, talent, and sensibility as well as basic introductions to one or several techniques and artistic areas. Ar.Co devised for the Summer of 2023 a group of on-premise experiences in areas such as Drawing, Painting, Illustration/Comics, Animation, Photography and Ceramics.
Notes
26 June to 21 July 2023 - Monday to Friday from 10h to 13h or/and 14h30 to 17h30 (participants can bring lunch or use the cafeteria)
1 Course - 135€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
2 Courses - 240€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
Desconto 10% para inscrições familiares directos.
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Drawing and Painting Workshop for Young People I(ages 9 to 14): “House of the Faun”
Date 26 a 30 Junho 2023
Price 135€ + 0,75€ (ins) - materials inlcuded
Schedule 2ª a 6ª feira das 14h30 às 17h30
Type occasional
Program
This drawing and painting workshop for young people proposes the staging of a Roman villa through drawing and painting. A place of fauns, creatures and fantastic architecture that inhabit an imaginary garden.
Crossing memory and fiction in a theatrical universe, students will develop and experiment with different techniques and materials such as graphite, charcoal, watercolours and acrylic paints.
Teachers
Notes 1 Course - 135€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
2 Courses - 240€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
10% discount for direct family members.
Illustration and ceramics Workshop (9 to 14 years old) “Terracota stories”
Date 26 to 30 June 2023
Price 135€ + 0,75€ (seguro) - materials included
Schedule 2ª a 6ª feira das 10h às 13h
Type occasional
Program
In this workshop, the young students will build terracotta objects that will serve as a support for illustrations of myths and legends, as was done in ancient Greece.
Characters and actions will be created using drawing and illustration techniques with materials such as graphite, markers, and India ink. The compositions will be recreated on the surface of the clay using engobes - paints made of colored liquid clay.
The constructed and painted objects will be fired afterwards.
Teachers
Notes 1 Course - 135€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
2 Courses - 240€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
10% discount for direct family members.
2D Animation techniques workshop: stop motion “Metamorphosis” (9 to 14 years old)
Date 3 to 7 July
Price 135€ + 0,75€ (ins) - materials inlcuded
Schedule Monday do Friday from 10h to 13h
Type occasional
Program In this workshop students will discover how animations were made when computers did not yet exist. Using drawing techniques, with different materials (pencils, felt pens, coloured pencils) on tracing paper, students will build an animated sequence "frame by frame". At the end they will edit their short films by adding sounds, music and subtitles. The drawings will also result in a flip-book.
Notes materials to bring (for those who have these available)
mobile phone with camera or digital camera
Teachers
Notes 1 Course - 135€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
2 Courses - 240€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
10% discount for direct family members.
Photographic Portrait Workshop (9 to 14 years old)
Date 3 to 7 July 2023
Price 135€ + 0,75€ (ins) - materials inlcuded
Schedule Monday to Fridays from 10h do 13h
Type occasional
Program The profusion of selfies seems to point at our growing need to portray ourselves. This workshop aims at improving the quality of these self-representations and make them more complex and creative. The camera, the studio, light and shadow, mask and scenery, expression and posing, will constitute some of the themes of the practical work.
Notes
Necessary materials:
Digital photo camera or mobile phone with camera
Teachers
Notes 1 Course - 135€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
2 Courses - 240€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
10% discount for direct family members.
Illustration and comics Workshop (9 to 14 years old): “An Artist’s book”
Date 3 to 7 July 2023
Price 135€ + 0,75€ (ins) - materials inlcuded
Schedule Monday to Fridays from 10h do 13h
Type occasional
Program In this workshop students will build a book from start to finish. Page by page, folio by folio, through drawings, illustrations, comics, monotypes, collage, writings, etc. Each book will be inspired on a short story or poem, chosen from a selection at the beginning of the workshop.
Teachers
Notes 1 Course - 135€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
2 Courses - 240€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
10% discount for direct family members.
Silkscreen Workshop (9 to 14 years old): “dynographies?
Date 3 to 7 July 2023
Price 135€ + 0,75€ (ins) - materials inlcuded
Schedule Monday to Fridays from 14h30 do 17h30
Type occasional
Program Initiation to 2-color silkscreen printing using stencils and having the Jurassic world as a theme. The final goal is the creation of a collective folder.
Teachers
Analog Photography Workshop for Young People (ages 9 to 14): “Experimentation Lab”
Date 10 to 14 July 2023
Price 135€ + 0,75€ (ins) - materials inlcuded
Schedule Monday to Friday 10h às 13h
Type occasional
Program A playful and creative approach to Photography’s experimental techniques. The light as it draws on the photographic paper; photography-making perforated boxes (pin-hole). Introduction to the black and white lab experience. Alternative printing techniques using sunlight and ecologic materials such as beetroot: Cianotypes and Antotypes.
Teachers
Notes 1 Course - 135€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
2 Courses - 240€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
10% discount for direct family members.
Drawing and Painting Workshop for Young People I(ages 9 to 14): “Alter-ego - The new portrait”
Date 10 to 14 July 2023
Price 135€ + 0,75€ (ins) - materials inlcuded
Schedule monday do Friday from 10h to 13h
Type occasional
Program The drawing and painting workshop “Alter-ego - The new portrait” will have the representation of the portrait as its starting point. Through drawing or painting exercises and using different techniques and materials (graphite, charcoal, gouache, monotype, collage), each student will explore the human face and figure, creating a mask or a character that represents an alter-ego (another me).
Teachers
Notes 1 Course - 135€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
2 Courses - 240€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
10% discount for direct family members.
3D Animation workshop in stop motion (9 to 14 years old) “Time Explorers”
Date 10 to 14 July 2023
Price 135€ + 0,75€ (ins) - materials inlcuded
Schedule Monday to Fridays from 14h30 do 17h30
Type occasional
Program In this workshop, students will discover how three-dimensional figures were animated when computers did not exist. Using plasticine of various colors, it is possible to create movement. Molding and photographing the plasticine, “frame by frame” sequences are created that accelerate in order to create an animated volume.
Notes materials to bring (for those who have these available)
Cellphone with camera or digital photo camera
Teachers
Notes 1 Course - 135€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
2 Courses - 240€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
10% discount for direct family members.
Ceramics Workshop (9 to 14 years old) “A museum of natural history”
Date 17 to 21 July 2023
Price 135€ + 0,75€ (ins) - materials inlcuded
Schedule Monday to Fridays from 10h do 13h
Type occasional
Program In this workshop, students will learn to model and build scenes and figures in clay using various techniques such as modelling, gluing, and carving. Participants will use drawing and collage techniques to explore animals and their habitats. Throughout the sessions, they will also learn about the properties of clay in its different stages of drying. The shapes created by each student will be painted, fired and glazed.
Teachers
Notes 1 Course - 135€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
2 Courses - 240€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
10% discount for direct family members.
SC Illustration Workshop (from 9 to 14 years) – Language of dreams
Date 17 to 21 July 2023
Price 135€ + 0,75€ (ins) - materials inlcuded
Schedule Monday do Friday from 10h to 13h
Type occasional
Program In this workshop students will develop illustrations based on dreams, creating an imaginary and personal alphabet. Through drawing techniques with various illustration-oriented materials, such as collage and mixed media, we will create books, games, and illustrations.
Teachers
Photography Workshop (9 to 14 years old): The Trunk
Date 17 to 21 July 2023
Price 135€ + 0,75€ (ins) - materials inlcuded
Schedule Monday to Fridays from 14h30 to 17h30
Type occasional
Program
We will look at the photographs as if they were trunks, choose what is kept inside and how to look at it. A game of filling images: what one chooses is photographed by all. The first photograph contains only one thing and the last one contains all that was chosen by everyone. We will experiment different ways of photographing, and in the end we will be able to observe that everyone has produced different photographs with similar objects.
We will learn and experiment with composition, placing, studio light and natural light, connections between images, sequences, selecting and printing the photographs taken each day and building an exhibition.
Notes
Necessary materials:
Digital photo camera or mobile phone with camera, miscellaneous objects
Teachers
Notes 1 Course - 135€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
2 Courses - 240€ + 0,75€ (seguro)
10% discount for direct family members.
Price 110,00€ + 0,75€ (seg.)
Type occasional
Program The Summer Courses offer the opportunity to explore capacities and talent by introducing the students to one or more techniques and disciplinary fields.
Country Field Trip with Pedro Tropa
Date 1st July 2023
Price 10€
Schedule Sábado das 10h -17h
Type occasional
Program
A practical introduction to hiking as part of the creative process.
Walking is a simple form of transforming the abstract experience of chronological time in a contemplative experience of an “elastic” time. The particular effects of physical and psychic involvement that the landscape awakens in us when hiking has long been known of philosophers and nature lovers.
This one-day workshop is dedicated to a reflexive practice on the art of walking. Participants should bring along whatever material they feel comfortable with in order to make annotations (written, graphic or photographic).
Notes Local: de Sintra - Cabo da Roca.
Teachers
Price 140€ + 0,75€ (ins) - basic materials included
Schedule monday do Friday from 10h to 13h
Type occasional
Program Introduction to analog photographic techniques and to the darkroom. Properties of paper and photographic films, pin-hole camera and photograms. Introduction to developing film and to printing processes.
Teachers
Price 130€ + 0,75 insurance
Schedule Monday to Friday from 10h to 13h00
Type occasional
Program
Practical observation exercises aimed at the development of the participants’ capacities for representation and expression, while providing a deeper knowledge of materials used in drawing: India ink, watercolors, oil pastels, charcoal and graphite. Contour, line and stain; contrast; light and shadow; representation of surfaces and textures; representing space, far and near; the human figure.
The workshop will include a nude live-model drawing session.
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Teachers
SC ALMADA – Ceramics Workshop: Liquid porcelain
Date 3 to 7 July 2023
Price 130€ + 0,75€ (ins)
Schedule Monday do Friday from 10h to 13h
Type occasional
Program
Introduction to liquid porcelain exploring its many possibilities through molds, collage, plate making, printing, and incorporating organic materials.
Pieces will be fired at high temperature at the end of the workshop.
Teachers
Photography Workshop: Alternative processes / Printing on gold leaf
Date 3 to 7 July 2023
Price 140€ + 0,75€ (ins) - basic materials included
Schedule monday to Friday from 18h00 to 21h
Type occasional
Program Photographic printing workshop using the palladium and platinum processes on translucent papers and gold, silver or copper foil. This process obtains printed images with their respective metallic tones.
Teachers
SC ALMADA – Traditional tile techniques workshop
Date 3 to 7 July 2023
Price 130€ + 0,75€ (ins)
Schedule monday to Fridays from 14h do 17h
Type occasional
Program
Introduction to raw or fired tile painting: majolica and watercolor technique. Participants will elaborate a panel.
The tiles will be fired at the end of the workshop.
Teachers
Price 130€ + 0,75€ (ins)
Schedule Monday to Friday from 18h00 to 21h
Type occasional
Program
The workshop aims at integrating the multi-disciplinary study of colour, practical and theoretical. Colour-Light and Colour-Matter; Grammar and colour separation; tonal variation and dominant colour; harmonies, transparencies and colour degradation.
Some of the authors approached in the workshop: Isaac Newton, Goethe, Joseph Albers, James Turrell, Johannes Itten, Giorgio Morandi, David Hockney, Sol Lewitt, among others.
Teachers
Price 130€ + 0,75€ (ins)
Schedule Monday do Friday from 10h to 13h
Type occasional
Program Introduction to the processes of capturing, editing and photo treatment of the image in lightroom and photoshop environment
Teachers
Price 160€ + 0,75€ - materials included
Schedule Monday to Friday from 10h to 13h00
Type occasional
Program Learning and practicing construction on the potter’s wheel. Exploration of the expressive and artistic potential of this medium. Firing in conventional kiln.
Teachers
SC - Introduction to Painting Workshop
Date 10 to 14 July 2023
Price 130€ + 0,75€ (ins)
Schedule Monday to Fridays from 10h to 13h
Type occasional
Program Using paper, canvas, and media such as water based paints or oils, drawing tools and brushes, participants will discover new ways of visual expression, through practical observational exercises, using a variety of models and sets.
Teachers
Introduction to Analog Photography Workshop
Date 10 to 14 July 2023
Price 140€ + 0,75€ (ins) - basic materials included
Schedule Monday to Friday from 18h00 to 21h
Type occasional
Program Analog photography workshop. Participants will learn the process of developing black and white film and printing on silver paper.
Teachers
SC- Digtial Drawing Lab Workshop
Date 10 to 14 July 2023
Price 130€ + 0,75€ (ins)
Schedule Monday to Friday from 18h00 to 21h
Type occasional
Program In this workshop participants will be challenged to recreate a painting using only digital drawing tools (Adobe Photoshop), with the support of a pen tablet. Each participant will explore the elements of the image graphically, from line to texture. The workshop will result in the edition of a collective fanzine.
Teachers
SC- Jewellery Workshop - Basic Metal techniques
Date 10 to 14 July 2023
Price 130€ + 0,75€ (ins)
Schedule Monday to Friday from 18h00 to 21h
Type occasional
Program Practical introduction to Contemporary Jewellery as a multi-disciplinary and artistic area of knowledge. Executing one or more pieces with basic metal techniques, such as sawing, filing away, sanding, folding, piercing, texturing, and welding.
Teachers
SC ALMADA – Ceramics Workshop- Building techniques – Ceramic Vessels
Date 10 a 14 Julho 2023
Price 130€ + 0,75€ (ins)
Schedule Monday do Friday from 10h to 13h
Type occasional
Program
Building a collection of containers connected to the history of Ceramics but also to the history of the world and of material culture. From the original bowl, on the palms of the hands, to the funeral urn, learning how to build and finish a ceramic object using basic techniques such as the slab, the roll, the block, the slip.
Understanding the origin and convenience of the forms of revolution, the various parts that make up a ceramic object and their constructive and functional usefulness. The cup, the amphora, the vase (Greek), the box. At the end of the workshop the pieces will be fired in the conventional kiln.
SC - Introduction to silkscreen workshop - a poster
Date 17 to 21 July 2023
Price 140€ + 0,75€ (ins) - basic materials included
Schedule Monday do Friday from 10h to 13h
Type occasional
Program This workshop concerns the creation of a poster using silkscreen techniques with 3 layers or elements: photographic, handpainted and graphic (text). Using photographic images, participants will elaborate a poster to be processed for silkscreen printing and execution of a small edition.
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