Series 1: SOUND ART
06/11, 13/11,  20/11,  27/11 and 04/12/2024

“Take a walk at night. Walk so quietly that the bottoms of your feet become ears.” – Pauline Oliveros

Listen… The maple leaves and ivy turn yellow, the ground begins to freeze. Sound is everywhere and we can perceive it with all our senses. During this autumn workshop, we will immerse ourselves in the shimmering universe of vibrations that constantly surrounds us, but to which we rarely pay attention. What is actually the difference between hearing and listening?
We will explore how the way you hear sound affects your experience of the world around you. We go out with recording equipment to collect field recordings that we transform into a sound collage. We will meet Pauline Oliveros, a pioneering American composer and artist who dedicated her life to the search for new sounds, with experimental music, sound sculptures, and pirate radio.
Furthermore, we will go on an excursion to QO2, an arts laboratory for experimental music and sound art, in the Brussels canal zone.
Will you come surf the invisible sound waves with us?

Series 2: Himalaya
08/01, 15/01, 22/01, 29/01 and 12/02/2025

The Himalayas is a high mountain range in central Asia, with an area twenty times larger than Belgium, where you will find the highest peaks of our earth. According to Tibetans, the peaks are inhabited by gods and goddesses with nine-headed turtles and horses with blue-green manes.
The name Himalaya comes from Sanskrit and is an amalgamation of the words hima हिम cold/snow) and ālaya ((आलयdwelling/home), a “dwelling place in the snow.”
During this workshop series, we will discover the mysteries of this extraordinary area.
How do people, animals and plants live on the “roof of the world”? For example, did you know that the dung from yaks is used as fuel in stoves that heat houses? We will make butter tea, a drink based on salt and butter that provides energy in this extreme mountain climate. We will study the “thangkas” (symbolic flags), get inspired by the “tsakli” to create our own miniature paintings and experiment with sand mandalas. Finally, we visit Kaygu Samye Dzong, a Tibetan Buddhist meditation center dedicated to world peace and well-being. Should there be a Buddha slumbering within ourselves?

Series 3: Ink
12/03, 19/03, 26/03, 02/04 and 09/04/2025

A pig-pink squid in a deep blue ocean squirts a pitch-black cloud and disappears into nothingness.
How many colors can you see? As many as a thousand! How many colors can you make?
For centuries, people have used ink to write and draw. Just think of the ancient Egyptians, medieval monks or school desks that provided a compartment for a jar of ink.
Mixing colors, you’ve probably done it before, but how do the contents of such a paint jar actually come about? How are the different colors manufactured and how are they stored so they can be used at any time? In this workshop we will try ourselves!
We discover which plants and objects give off colorful substances, how to make them storable and how to work with them.
Are you also curious what shades will emerge from our alchemical experiments?

PRACTICAL
On Wednesdays from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For young people aged 12 to 15 years
Cost, including materials: 60 euros per series of 5 workshops or 150 euros for 3 series (15 workshops), 60 euros Paspartoe kansentarief.
Registration via mail@abc-web.be

Theme 1: Sound Art
06/11, 13/11,  20/11,  27/11 and 04/12/2024
Theme 2: Himalaya
08/01, 15/01, 22/01, 29/01 and 12/02/2025
Theme 3: Ink
12/03, 19/03, 26/03, 02/04 and 09/04/2025