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ART & HISTORY FAMILY STUDIO 2030 – AUGUST 2024
Want to go further? Then sign up for the Festival Specials! On Thursdays, we will dive deeper into the Festival’s theme: Belgium’s (upcoming) 200th anniversary.
Too sunny to stay indoors? Come play at the Outdoor Pavilion, a small wooden construction, something between a beach cabin and a tree house. Play folk games, build large-scale constructions and experiment with flying contraptions; hold water balloon competitions or sessions of pétanque.
So bring friends and family and play, relax and enjoy.
PRACTICAL
Art & History Museum
Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels
From Tuesday 06/08 through Sunday 01/09/2024Read more
ABC HOUSE SCHOOL VISITS 2024-2025
ARCHITECTURE STUDIO
In this studio, we invite school classes on a fascinating journey of discovery through the world of architecture, the mother of all arts. Together we explore basic principles such as form, structure, color, and light; and discover proportions such as the golden ratio and masterful constructions from the animal world.
From floor plans to scale models, from gardens to landscapes, from bridges to utopian houses, we will design and build with a variety of materials.
The emotional relationship we have with our environment will also be addressed. What makes you feel at home? How do people in different cultures care for their homes? And what influence does high-quality architecture have on society?
We will experiment using our full body to experience space in different ways. An abundance of images, play materials, and stories, guide the quest to shape your future and become an architect of your own life.
SCHOOL VISITS ABC-HOUSE SEPTEMBER 2024 – JUNE 2025
Registrations – Wednesday 11/09/2024 at 9 am – only by phone 02 502 00 27
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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).
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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 HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS 2024
Fully booked!
Holiday courses 2024
Holiday workshop 1: from 01/07 to 05/07/2024
Holiday workshop 2: from 26/08 to 30/08/2024
More information about the holiday courses can be found here
PRACTICAL
– In Dutch
– ABC holiday courses are focused on primary school children (first to sixth grade). We provide a mix of playful, creative and energetic activities.
– Children are divided by age into groups of max. 10, support is provided by experienced ABC-guides.
– Opening hours: from 9:00 to 16:00 – additional care is possible beforehand from 8:30 and afterwards until 17:00.
– Price: 150 euros /first child, 140 euros /second child, 120 euros/third child (family) / 60 euros Paspartoe reduction rate.
– Bring a packed lunch.
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. Give us a call if you want to come, fresh coffee will be waiting for you!
PRACTICAL
Monday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
10/06, 24/06, 08/07, 05/08 and 19/08/2024
Tuesday from 5.30 p.m. tot 9.30 p.m.
04/06, 18/06, 16/07, 30/07 and 13/08/2024
Other consultation times are available by appointment.
POSTA SILENZIOSA 07/2024
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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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 …
