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ABC HOUSE HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS 2025

Online registration on Wednesday, 23/04/2025 at 9 a.m.

Holiday courses 2025
Holiday workshop KLEUR ALCHEMIE: from 07/07 to 11/07/2025
Holiday workshop IN MOTION: from 25/08 to 29/08/2025

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: 175 euros /first child, 165 euros /second child, 145 euros/third child (family) / 60 euros Paspartoe reduction rate.
– Bring a packed lunch.

ABC-STUDIO FAIS-MOI SIGNE – LaM / 5 APRIL – 6 JULY 2025

 

Fais-moi signe. Le langage secret des artistes – LaM / Ferme d’en Haut Villeneuve d’Ascq
At the Ferme d’en Haut in Villeneuve d’Ascq, in the exhibition Fais-moi signe, you can discover a selection from the collection of the museum LaM – Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut.
In the ABC-studio young and old can participate in a playful way around the different aspects of the of the artistic creation process and the artists’ language.
Read more

PRACTICAL
from 05/04 to 06/07/2025
Ferme d’en Haut
Rue Jules Guesde 268
59650 Villeneuve d’Ascq

A collaboration between ART BASICS for CHILDREN and LaM with the support of the Flemish Community and the Hauts-de-France Region (COOPF).

ABC-HOUSE ERFGOEDDAG GAME ON 27th OF APRIL 2025

FOOTBALL!
You either love it or feel nothing for it, but you cannot escape it. It is one of the most popular sports in the world, including in Belgium. Ever since an Irish student introduced the game at a college in Melle in 1863, the ball started rolling here too.
Referees and linesmen, football coaches and supporters, club managers and groundsmen, reporters and canteen managers, drivers and sponsors, stewards and football parents… besides the players, football brings together a whole team of people.
For one day, the ABC House is transformed into a stadium of football.
We weave balls, design new T-shirts for the referees, learn to whistle and toss a coin.
We support the underdog or cheer for happiness, massage our feet, design giant tifos, draw sidelines, goal lines, back lines and centre lines, invent juggling choreographies… and much more.
For families with children from 5 years old, for younger siblings we set up a play area.

PRACTICAL
Sunday 27/04/2025
ABC House
From 10am to 12.30pm or from 1.30pm to 4pm
Please let us know which session you would like to join at mail@abc-web.be

 

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

The workshops are FULLY BOOKED. To register for the waiting list

10/12/2024 Barbotine
25/02/2025 Kamishibai and creative storytelling
25/03/2025 Weaving
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-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
19/04, 17/05 and 21/06/2025 – FULLY BOOKED
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.
05/05, 19/05, 02/06 and 16/06/2025
Tuesday from 4 p.m. till 8 p.m.
15/04, 29/04, 13/05, 27/05, 10/06 and 24/06/2025

Download ABC house – Book Collection

 

POSTA SILENZIOSA 04/2025

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