WORKSHOPS FOR SCHOOL GROUPS

AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE ROMANIAN PEASANT

We imagine, with and for children, ethnology lessons, painting, drawing, DIY, weaving, sewing, linocut and shadow play workshops. It is our way of translating the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant into colors, sounds and events. Children, sometimes adults too, acquire knowledge about the village, the peasant, customs – of yesterday and today. Sometimes they also design “hands”. They learn practical skills – the needle, the aracet are no longer names that bring you to mind beasts and dragons, but become simple tools to create worlds with different sounds, materials, colors and textures. Registrations are made by sending an email to atelieruldecreativitate@gmail.com. The request will include the following data: number of participants, age of participants, day or interval in which you wish to participate, first three workshop options, phone number of the person organizing the registration. Immediately after receiving the email, from Monday to Friday, we will contact you by email or phone, to communicate your availability for the activity you have opted for or to offer you alternatives. Requests are considered in the order of their arrival. Price of a workshop: 35 lei/participant. We continue, of course, the series of workshops for friends from NGOs, schools for atypical people, social centers, refugees, etc. Write to us at atelieruldecreativitate@gmail.com, we talk, to understand the needs of each group, and we organize workshops adapted to the participants.
Workshops with Beatrice Iordan
Workshop to make stamps using the linocut technique (14+)

Linocut is one of the easiest graphic techniques and involves a printing process that leads to the creation of several identical works. It is carved, using chisels, into a linoleum material, and the proposed work is obtained by pressing and using special inks. The workshop is especially aimed at beginners: those who come into contact with this technique for the first time. In this workshop we will create small works, which we can use as stamps to personalize various works. Maximum number of participants: 20 Duration: 1h 30 min Registration on WhatsApp at the phone number: 0723.471.600
Felting spun wool using the water and soap technique (13+)

Jewelry: brooches, beads, braceletsSince ancient times, wool has been the basic material for making clothing, bags and pouches, but also objects that beautify the home: carpets, mats, wall hangings, doormats, etc. In this workshop, we will also make friends with spun wool. We will learn to shape it with water and soap, transforming it into ornaments: brooches, beads, bracelets, good to give to loved ones or to match with your own clothing. Maximum number of participants: 25 Duration: 1h 30 min Registration on WhatsApp at the phone number: 0723.471.600
Felting spun wool using a felting needle (14+)

Broochies, figurines and flowers made of spun woolWe will use special felting needles to shape spun wool, transforming it into small soft and fluffy figurines, good to give to loved ones or to match with clothes in the form of brooches. Workshop dedicated to teenagers who want to make friends with wool and the felting needle. At the end of the workshop, the objects made can be taken home.Number of participants: 20Duration: 1h 30 minRegistrations on WhatsApp at the phone number: 0723.471.600
Mask making workshop using the papier-mâché technique (14 +)

We will imagine never-before-seen worlds, never-before-seen beings, we will use our imagination, but also the proposed technique to give life to various characters from stories: clowns, elves, dragons, fairies and many others, captured in the features of a mask.To bring the characters of folk tales to life, we will first model the clay — our working base for making the papier-mâché technique —, after which we will move on to the actual work of the mask. Once the mask structure is ready, we will paint it with acrylic paints. The works made during the workshop can be taken home. Number of participants: 20 Duration: 2h Registration on WhatsApp at the phone number: 0723.471.600
Shadow theater workshop (5+)

At first, the children will learn what shadow theater is, when and where it appeared: they will be told two legends that talk about the beginnings of shadow theater. Then, based on a simple story, the children will move on to the actual work: they will be divided into teams and will work on the silhouettes representing the characters of the story. At the end, each team will perform a short theatrical performance: they will manipulate the silhouettes they have just built on the board and interpret the story proposed by the coordinator. Workshop dedicated to preschoolers over 5 years old, who know how to handle scissors, and schoolchildren of any age. Duration: 1h Registration on WhatsApp at the phone number: 0723.47

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Paper dolls. Ileana and Prince Charming (8+)

Paper can tell many stories, it is the face on which people have been scribbling, since ancient times, stories from graphic signs that lead to the formation of a word, sentences, phrases, stories. At the paper doll workshop we tell stories by modeling paper, which comes to life in various figurines, characters that populate Romanian fairy tales and snoaves. Duration: 1hRegistrations on WhatsApp at the phone number: 0723.471.600
Brooches made of spun wool - Colored acorns (5+)

We will model spun wool using the water and soap technique, transforming it into small soft and fluffy figurines that will beautify our clothes or those of our loved ones. Duration: 1hRegistrations on WhatsApp at the phone number: 0723.471.600
Stamped stories. Greetings to send to loved ones (5+)

Today, people are using handwriting less and less to send messages to their loved ones. Letters and greetings are no longer "in fashion". But what a joy when, nevertheless, we find something else in the mailbox, besides invoices and other official notices! In this workshop we will create personalized stamps and use them to embellish the letters or greetings that we want to send to our loved ones. The workshop is aimed at preschoolers over 5 years old, who know how to handle scissors, and schoolchildren of any age. Duration: 1hRegistrations on WhatsApp at the phone number: 0723.471.600
Stamped stories. Map of an imaginary village (8+)

Starting from old images from the archive, we will try to recreate, in our own way, the world of the Romanian village of old. We will observe different types of houses and settlements, the relief forms where the villages were located, the animals that roamed through the house yard, the gardens full of flowers and vegetation, the people who animated the village, the church, the fiddlers... All of this will be placed in a large-scale work, using the stamps created and worked by the participants. The work will remain at the workshop or, in the case of a school group, it can be taken home. The workshop is aimed at schoolchildren over 8 years old. Duration: 1h Maximum number of participants: 20 Registration on WhatsApp at the phone number: 0723.471.600
Small scene printing workshop (4+)

Through a simple drawing technique, by scratching, we will create simple molds that can then be printed using special inks - one of the simplest manual printing techniques. The works produced at the workshop can be taken home. Duration: 1h Registration on WhatsApp at the phone number: 0723.471.600
Broochies and figurines made of dried herbs (9 +)

In this workshop we will learn a little bit about the ancient craft of braiding with dried herbs. Using dried herbs or other dried herbs, we will learn to make figurines and floral objects that we will then transform into small brooches to wear on our chests, on clothes or bags. Duration: 1h Registration on WhatsApp at the phone number: 0723.471.600
Playful needle (10 +)

Using a needle, colored threads, beads and felt, we will make small ornaments to wear on our hands (bracelets), on our heads (headbands), around our necks (necklaces) or on our chests (brooches). We will get acquainted with the needle, but also with beads, trying to discover some of the old embroidery techniques.Maximum number of participants: 15Duration: 1hRegistrations on WhatsApp at the phone number: 0723.471.600
Workshops with Raluca Oprea-Minoiu
Storytelling – Like salt in food (+5)

We start from the story Like salt in food, how else?, in which we will imagine some royal menus. And a few ways to declare our love, of course. We will also imagine all kinds of năstrușnicii, from sarmale cooked in sugar syrup to spinach with honey, then we will draw the winning menus on a napkin or kitchen apron. Participation in this workshop is only possible with a full stomach! Venue: Creativity Workshop Duration: 1h 30 min Registration at atelieruldecreativitate@gmail.com
A story – The Tree of Life (+6)

I will start with a story from a long time ago. But if I replace the word "baobab" with "oak", you will swear that it is a silly story about friendship, greed, the power of giving and how man reacts to anger. The tree, sorry, not the man. Then we will walk through the museum and try to discover why the peasant considered trees so important that he even imagined his own life as a tree. Then, we will imagine our tree on a piece of cloth, to bring a patch of wall to life, according to the old rule. Venue: Creativity Workshop and Permanent Exhibition Duration: 1h 30 min Registration at atelieruldecreativitate@gmail.com
Storytelling – Map of Sounds (10-99 years old)

I will share a story “received” from a storyteller from England, Jem, at a busy intersection, around dusk, in Brașov. A story about sounds and noise and about being different. Then we will try to figure out how sounds act on the body, emotions, thoughts. We will frolic through busy intersections, as 

fields and forests, construction sites, beehives, oceans and playgrounds, grandparents' houses or through a child's playroom, here in our workshop. We will notice what makes us happy, what "makes us happy", what shakes us, what hurts us from the unseen, but so present world of sounds. Then, each one will experience the peace of making a map of good sounds. Let it be there, when there is too much noise around us. PS: Be careful with what tone you suggest children come to this workshop. Not too dramatic, not too serious, not too authoritarian, you know... Duration: 1h 30 minRegistration at atelieruldecreativitate@gmail.com
Personal museum (+14)

Could your headphones, the bracelet from the concert 3 years ago or the scooter you go to school with be part of a museum collection? A personal one or one for a generation or two? A local museum or a national one, or even a universal one?! But the mask, the stones collected from everywhere and the sweatshirt with the sleeves frayed, that you can't bear to throw away? Or the stuffed toy hidden well, because you're big, but still, ungiveable? What do the objects have to transmit? And what stories would they tell, if they could talk? Who would they want to sit next to, what kind of label would they want to wear and on what poster? Let's take two objects that you love (or hate) to the museum, let's make them famous for an hour or two. You go back home with them, but also with many stories about connections, resources, people from everywhere and at any time, about emotions, about being or not being original and so on. Plus the answers to the questions above. Or with many other questions? Venue: Creativity Workshop and permanent exhibition Duration: 1h 30 min – 2h. Registration at atelieruldecreativitate@gmail.com
Workshop to tame a museum (+15)

Another day wasted at a museum: I don't understand anything, I don't hear what's being said, I don't feel like reading what's written on the walls, my feet hurt! Frustration, boredom, fatigue.

This is what you think can happen to you for an hour. But what would it be like to experience this for two hours? Three days? A month? A lifetime? Anywhere?

Come to a workshop where you can help me transform at least the "museum" into something that can be seen, heard, experienced. First, we will discover, firsthand, what the physical or intellectual limits of various people are in accessing the exhibition, then we will divide into several groups and try to give meaning to one object or another for a person who cannot see or hear and does not understand.

The workshop is aimed at high school students and adults, poets, painters, computer scientists, corporate professionals, specialists in tik-tok and the latest gadgets, and I will use the materials resulting from this workshop to create a specialized tour, adapted to people with special needs.

Duration of a workshop: one and a half hours

Registrations at atelieruldecreativitate@gmail.com

Workshops with Ilinca Pop
Drawing in the museum (+7)

We sit on pillows, directly on the museum floor, and draw what we see, feel or imagine looking at the objects on display. Amidst peasant stories, carved wood (in the shape of the princess-backrest, the cut-out heart, the horses) and the colors of the past (can you even name each of the colors you see in the museum?), time slows down and the hand begins to follow the contours differently. We will not learn to draw "correctly", but to look carefully, to notice details and to find our own way of putting them on paper. Venue: Permanent exhibition Duration: 1h 30 min Registration at atelieruldecreativitate@gmail.com
Guided round-trip tour (+7)

During the tour, we walk together through the museum, tell stories, discover objects and imagine their secret life together, and during this time we draw, take notes or not, capture them in new stories - or let ourselves be fascinated by the old ones. We leave marks on the floor next to our favorite objects, – let's not forget! – to stop again next to them, on the way back. On the way back, you are the guides. Where did you leave a mark? What object caught your attention? Why? What did he draw there? A horse, a cactus? A kangaroo? Venue: Permanent Exhibition Duration: 1h 30 min Registration at atelieruldecreativitate@gmail.com
Large puzzle from small museum pieces (10-15 years old)

A puzzle is an image that we build from small, mixed fragments. Usually, we take them out of the boxes where they are stacked and put them in their place in a whole image. This is what happens in the museum: but here, each piece tells its own story, and together they tell a new story each time, according to the imagination of those who join the fragments. After walking through the museum, we choose objects, symbols, colors and shapes that we draw on small canvases and tie them together with colored threads in a larger story. Venue: Creativity Workshop and permanent exhibition Duration: 1h 30 min Registration at atelieruldecreativitate@gmail.com
Houses from what you have or what you want (7-15 years old)

Peasant houses were built according to the wisdom of craftsmen-builders or, sometimes, even according to the taste of those who were going to live in them. This way of making your own house, according to the rules and skills known from the wisdom of the place and not together with an architect, belongs to the construction that historians and theorists call "vernacular architecture". The wisest thing, when you make your own house, is to use what you have at hand: if you live near a forest, you use wood, and if you have somewhere to bring it from nearby, you can also use stone. What would you make your house out of? What would you make your house out of? From stuffed toys, bark, Lego pieces or French fries? Or maybe from ideas-words and that's it? Venue: Creativity Workshop and permanent exhibition Duration: 1h 30 min Registration at atelieruldecreativitate@gmail.com

Workshops with Catrinel Rădoi

Recording Devices I: Video Journal (Autofiction)
Ages 14–18

The workshop is aimed at teenagers interested in autobiographical writing, memoir, or autofiction in visual form. Starting with a visit through the museum, participants will choose an object, a room, or a detail of the museum and connect it to a personal experience. In the first part of the workshop, they will write a short first-person narrative text describing that experience, and in the second part, they will create a video filmed in the museum using their own phones. The text written in the first part will then be recorded and combined with the video material, resulting in a video journal that brings personal life into dialogue with the story of the museum. The workshop thus proposes a contemporary way of connecting heritage with the everyday languages and technologies of teenagers.

We will provide materials that participants can use as inspiration for their own texts/videos.

Duration: 2h 30
Registration: atelieruldecreativitate@gmail.com

Recording Devices II: Video Essay (Autotheory)
18+

The workshop is aimed at people interested in theoretical thinking, visual/museum art, and self-reflective writing. Starting from the concept of the “device,” we will explore how personal experience is always mediated by images, frames, languages, and forms of interpretation. Following a museum visit, participants will choose an object, a room, or a detail of the museum and connect it to a question or personal reflection on the proposed concept. In the first part, they will write a short autotheoretical text, and in the second, they will create a video filmed in the museum using their own phones. The text written in the first part will then be recorded and combined with the video material, resulting in an exercise of visual and conceptual reflection that brings personal experience, theory, and the story of the museum into dialogue.

We will provide materials that participants can use as inspiration for their own texts/videos.

Duration: 2h 30
Registration: atelieruldecreativitate@gmail.com