CURRENT
ABC-HOUSE WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS 12/2024 – 05/2025
During the workshop for adults, you will each time explore a particular aspect from the ABC ateliers and the library. Accompanied by an experienced guide, you will try out different activities and get a lot of inspiration to continue working at home or in the classroom.
You can register for the whole series or per theme workshop. Read more
10/12/2024 Barbotine
25/02/2025 Kamishibai and creative storytelling
25/03/2025 Weaving – FULLY BOOKED
29/04/2025 Architecture / outdoor
27/05/2025 Ink
PRACTICAL
ABC House, Place Gaucheret 13, 1030 Brussels
Tuesday evening from 18h to 21h30
Price: 50 euros + 21% VAT per workshop or 220 euros + 21% VAT for the whole series (5 workshops).
Register via mail@abc-web.be
ABC – MEDITATION COURSE 15/12/2024 AND 16/02/2025
For children and adolescents from 8 to 18 years of age
This course teaches the technique of Anapana meditation, a preparatory step for Vipassana meditation.
Anapana means the observation of natural, normal breathing and offers children and young people a valuable tool for learning to cope with restlessness, anxiety, worry, tension or stress.
In collaboration with the Vipassana Meditation Center in Dilsen.
ABC HOUSE WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP FOR YOUNGSTERS 2024-2025
Do you like to leave the beaten path? Do you like to read between the lines? You are welcome to the ABC House for afternoons surrounded by materials, books, art and ideas.
We will design, connect, imagine, explore, and learn new techniques. We will take time: to try, create, fail, and be surprised by what emerges.
We work in thematic series of five Wednesdays. You may sign up per series or for the whole year (3 series, 15 workshops).
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 euro Paspartoe
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
ABC-HOUSE – BARBOTINE / WORKSHOP FOR PARENTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN 2024-2025
‘Barbotine’ is the French word for the liquid mixture of clay and water that ceramists use to attach (or glue) different particles of clay together.
During the Barbotine workshop, we will work with hands, feet and small tools to explore and experience the material in all its forms.
For parents and children between 2 and 4 years old.The workshop is given in Dutch and French.
One session takes place each month, please register for only one date so that everyone can get their turn.
Easy clothes that can get dirty and a set of clean clothes for after the workshop are recommended.
PRACTICAL
ABC House
Saturday from 9:30 am to 11:30 am
18/01, 15/02, 15/03, 19/04, 17/05 and 21/06/2025
Registrations zoe@abc-web.be
CONSULTATION DAYS ABC LIBRARY
ABC RESEARCH CENTER
FREE RESEARCH – CONSULTATION DAYS ABC LIBRARY
Several days a month the house is open for free research and consultation in our library. Teachers, educators, students, parents, scientists, artists and other interested parties can spend an entire afternoon or evening finding inspiration, researching, preparing lessons, working on internship projects and meeting each other. Upon request, we are happy to give a tour of our collection or introduction to our way of working. An ABC staff member can support you in your research.
PRACTICAL
Monday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
02/12, 16/12/2024, 13/01, 27/01, 10/02, 17/02, 10/03 and 17/03/2025
Tuesday from 4 p.m. till 8 p.m.
10/12/2024, 07/01, 21/01, 25/02 and 25/03/2025
POSTA SILENZIOSA 12/2024
Every first day of the month ABC sends a mail: “Posta silenziosa.” A powerful image, a provocative quote, a poetic thought, etc., coming from the ABC collection or the web, and sometimes linked to one of our current projects, but mainly just because we like to surprise you. An eye- or heartcatcher, or call it ‘a healthy form of emotional irritation.’
Sign up here if you want to receive Posta Silenziosa.
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TO READ
ARTS & EDUCATION
What can education learn from the arts about the practice of education? Elliot W. Eisner argues that the distinctive forms of thinking needed to create artistically crafted work are relevant not only to what students do, they are relevant to virtually all aspects of what we do, from the design of curricula, to the practice of teaching, to the features of the environment in which students and teachers live. Originally given as the John Dewey Lecture for 2002, Stanford University. Read more … WikiPedia …
Wat kan het onderwijs van de kunsten leren ? Elliot W. Eisner stelt dat de specifieke denkvormen die vereist zijn voor het creëren van kunstwerken niet alleen van belang zijn voor wat leerlingen doen, maar voor nagenoeg alles wat we doen, van het vormgeven van curricula, het onderwijzen zelf, tot het ontwerpen van de omgevingen waarin leerlingen en leraars leven. Origineel uitgesproken in 2002 als John Dewey Lecture aan de universiteit van Stanford. Lees meer … WikiPedia …
CREATIVITY & EDUCATION
RESPONDING TO CHILDREN’S ART
Lindy Anne Solomon, Creative Beginnings
A hands-on innovative approach to art making for adults and children. © STE Publishers, Johannesburg, 2005