29 MAY - 4 JUNE
2025
CERAMICS AND NATURE course
WITH LÍDIA BOŠEVSKI
The Ceramics and Nature Course at Cerdeira Home For Creativity is an approach to ceramics through the five senses: a week of immersion in nature, creativity, and silence characterizes this course.
Observing and following our impulses, attracted by the most incredible details that nature offers us, awaken our creativity, our natural sense of harmony and aesthetics. Free of preconceptions and expectations, we create our ceramic pieces, being part of nature.
Walking through the mountains, we search not only for inspiration but also textures, tools, and materials. Back in the studio, we will investigate and test to select the raw material for the ceramic objects we want to create.
In the Ceramics and Nature Course, we will learn to look further afield to learn about the characteristics of our raw materials, nature and throughout the ceramic process until firing during the ceramic classes.
Participants have the opportunity to create their own collection of ceramic objects inspired by the learning and days of immersion in nature.
Lidia Boševski
Lidia graduated from the Higher School of Applied Arts in Zagreb (Croatia) in 1979. In the first years of her career, she developed an intense activity around textiles, combining batik with painting. Since 2002 her focus has been on ceramics and design. In her studio OWL, she has worked since 2005 in ceramics, researching materials and new approaches.
Natural forms and nature inspire her, so she gladly accepted the invitation to share her knowledge with us in Cerdeira.
Lidia Boševski, a native of Croatia, where she lives and works, has a vast curriculum of exhibitions, not only in her home country but also in Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Poland, England, and Japan.
Learn more here.
course details
PROGRAM:
29 May:
Reception at the workshop. Presentation of the group and theoretical introduction to the course by the trainer. Welcome dinner.
30 May to 4 June:
"See" nature with all the senses - exploring the surrounding nature of the village and collecting natural materials to be used during the course;
Testing and preparing the pastes and materials collected;
Creation of ceramic pieces;
Firing the pieces;
Creating tools from natural materials.
The trainer will provide a course support guide for registered participants.
SCHEDULE:
May 29th:
3 pm: Accommodation and check-in of participants
5 pm: Reception at the Atelier and presentation of the group and trainers;
7:30 pm: Welcome dinner at Casa das Artes
May 30th to June 4th:
course from 10 am to 6 pm, with a two-hour lunch break
June 5th:
Until 11 am: check-out from accommodation
CONDITIONS
Deadline for enrollment: March 29th 2025.
Special discount for members of our community available for early bird registrations by 18/11/2024.
THE COURSE FEE INCLUDES:
Integration in a small group of participants;
Training 5-6 hours a day, speaking in English and in Portuguese;
Lunch during the course;
Free accommodation at the hostel during the course (7 nights)*;
All the materials needed for the course;
Welcome dinner on the first day of the course;
*The hostel is equipped with two dormitories (female/masculine), a kitchen, and two shared bathrooms. The booking includes towels and linen.
ACCOMMODATION UPGRADES AVAILABLE:
Upgrade to 7 nights in a standard schist house shared by 2 participants and breakfast at an additional cost of 490€/per participant. Includes shared room, equipped kitchen, towels, and bed linen.
Upgrade to 7 nights in a standard schist house for single occupancy by 1 participant and breakfast, with an additional cost of 700€/per participant. Includes single room, equipped kitchen, towels, and bed linen.
Please note that all accommodation options have limited availability and will be booked according to the order of registration and payment. This rate is not cumulative with other discounts or promotions. For more information, contact artsandcrafts@cerdeirahomeforcreativity.com.
ENROLLMENTS AND MORE INFO:
artsandcrafts@cerdeirahomeforcreativity.com
+351 913 989 281*
*(call to national mobile network)
CANCELLATION POLICY FOR COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
You may withdraw within 14 days of registration, paying the correspondent transfer fees. Following the EU consumer protection legislation, payments are not refunded past 14 days of registration. The payment will be fully reimbursed if the training cannot be held because of insufficient students.
Suppose the training is canceled by Cerdeira - Home For Creativity for reasons of significant force such as a pandemic, civil disorder, a natural catastrophe, medical or family issues of the teacher, and others beyond our control. In that case, Cerdeira will offer a voucher for a different workshop of your choice. The voucher is valid for two years.
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