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Children's workshops "Great Murcian artisans teach small artisans" during the month of July at the Murcia Regional Craft Center
During the month of July, the General Directorate of Consumption and Crafts, launches a new proposal for children's workshops for children during the summer period called "Great Murcian artisans teach small artisans".
The hours are from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., specifically the workshops will be held from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. and the guided tour will take place from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
The maximum capacity allowed per activity is 10 students.
The cost of each workshop will be €8 per child and the age range will be from 6 to 12 years.
For all activities it is recommended to use babi so that they do not dirty their clothes. It is essential to wear a mask, take temperature at the entrance and a safety distance.
Registration will take place at the Murcia Regional Craft Center, located at Calle Francisco Rabal, 6 de Murcia (next to the Gunpowder Garden), telephone 968 35 75 37 / 36 or by email centroartesaniamurcia@salzillosi.com. Group registration can be done.
Next, the activities to be developed by the Murcia Regional Craft Center are detailed, consisting of the free guided tour that will be carried out for all the groups that are received in said center and the children's craft workshops.
- OFFER OF CHILDREN'S WORKSHOPS "ARTISAN SUMMER"
| Days | Workshop | Craftsman |
| Monday | Painting workshop | Andrea Lopardo |
| Tuesday | Creative bread workshop | Francis Xavier Moreno |
| Wednesday | leather goods workshop | Angel Luis Molina |
| Thursday | basketry workshop | Antonio Narvaez |
| Friday | pottery workshop | Veronica McCorin |
- PAINTING WORKSHOP (Monday)
Teaches: Andrea Lopard.
Practical painting workshop focused on children with artistic interests, who wish to develop a personal project experiencing the learning of different techniques. The main objective of the workshop is to pretend that the student is the protagonist of his own work, which, in turn, is transformed into a free personal projection of his own emotions, which he will be able to express from the basic notions of painting following his creativity. .
Goals:
- Develop creativity and sensory perception through painting.
- Learn organization skills and task planning promoting socialization.
- Learn and develop the tools and techniques necessary to understand the characteristics of painting.
- Analyze and experiment with general aspects of visual language (focused on their own interests) such as elements of composition, importance of color, expression, figuration-abstraction, brushwork...
- CREATIVE BREAD WORKSHOP (Tuesday)
Teaches: Francisco Javier Moreno García, artisan baker.
Collaborate: Fornet, SL
Manipulative and practical workshop that allows schoolchildren to learn about the process of making bread in an artisanal way, working with the materials that compose it (flour, sugar, eggs, chocolate), developing the sense of taste, smell, manual dexterity, motor skills and creativity, giving shapes to the dough, to create your bun with different shapes and observing how the ingredients are transformed through its preparation.
Goals:
- Assess the importance of food hygiene habits and promote health education.
- Develop creativity and sensory perception through cooking.
- Discover the benefits of a healthy and balanced diet.
- Learn organization skills and task planning promoting socialization.
- LEATHER GOODS WORKSHOP (Wednesday)
Teaches: Ángel Luis Molina Guillén, saddler craftsman
Plastic creation activity, in which it is intended that schoolchildren come into contact with this noble material such as leather, and experience the sensation of dealing with manual tools for embossing, to configure a bracelet with their hands and their imagination.
Goals:
- Recognize the artisan trades of our municipality.
- Develop manual dexterity through embossing leather.
- To bring schoolchildren closer to the trade of crafts.
- Carry out an artisan work, making your own bracelet.
- BASKET WEAVING WORKSHOP (Thursday)
Teaches: Antonio Narvaez Guerrero.
In this workshop the student will learn the handling of wicker and esparto grass. The teacher will teach them to shape a rounded shape starting from the manual braiding of the different natural fibers that they use to make a small basket. The workshop works on imagination, psychomotricity.
Goals:
- Recognize the artisan trades of our municipality, specifically the esparto grass.
- Develop manual dexterity by making a wicker or esparto basket.
- Raise awareness of the use of natural fibers for the realization of objects.
- To bring schoolchildren closer to the trade of crafts.
- Carry out craft work, making your own basket.
- CERAMICS WORKSHOP (Friday)
Teaches: Verónica Maccorín, artisan registered as potter-ceramist and sculptor.
Plastic creation workshop where schoolchildren will create their own handmade and personalized sculpture, having a direct experience with clay and observing its transformation, acquiring a new language related to crafts and arts, recognizing the forms, their technical and aesthetic characteristics.
Objectives
- Offer a basic learning of the use of clay as a raw material, manipulating and using tools typical of the potter's trade.
- Have the opportunity to experience clay as a natural and changing material.
- Recognize the crafts of our municipality and its historical importance.
- Learn about the process for making ceramic containers: extraction, cleaning, kneading, conservation and firing of the pieces.
GUIDED VISIT TO THE REGIONAL CENTER OF CRAFTS OF MURCIA
The Murcia Craft Center is located in the heart of the city, next to the Salitre Garden (also known as the Gunpowder Garden). It is managed by the General Directorate of Consumption and Crafts, dependent on the Ministry of Business, Employment, Universities and Spokesperson.
In it you can learn about and buy any product made by artisans officially registered in the Artisan Registry of the Region of Murcia. Free guided tours for groups where they will learn about the different crafts, as well as live demonstrations. Enjoy activities such as temporary exhibitions, workshops, training courses or live demonstrations. Contemplate the Winning Works of the Regional Crafts Awards.
HOURS: Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Saturdays 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sundays closed. July and August Saturdays closed.
The guided tour consists of three phases: Welcome, description of the different crafts that are developed in the Region and Regional Crafts Awards.
WORKSHOPS “MY CITY TEACHES”
The Regional Craft Center of Murcia, for the third consecutive year, has been included in the training program called "My city teaches" of the Department of Education and Nursery Schools of the City of Murcia, coinciding with the school calendar. Where all schools belonging to the municipal perimeter can access this
During the 2019-2020 school year, the scheduled workshops have been the following:
- Leather goods workshop: This workshop was held on Mondays from October 2019 to February 2020, taught by the artisan Ángel Luis Molina Guillén. The recipients were third and fourth grade students. In this plastic creation activity, it is intended that schoolchildren come into contact with this noble material such as leather, and experience the sensation of dealing with manual tools for embossing, to configure their own bracelet made with their hands and their imagination.
- Creative cooking workshop: This workshop was held on Tuesdays in October 2019 and was scheduled to end in May 2020, taught by the team of Francisco Javier García Moreno, manager of La Madrugada Backery. For the development of this activity, an oven was necessary to bake the bread, provided free of charge by Fornet SL Aimed at children aged three, four and five. It's a teamanipulative and practical workshop that allows schoolchildren to learn about the process of making bread in an artisanal way, develop the sense of taste, smell, manual dexterity, motor skills and creativity, giving shapes to the dough, previously made in the workshop, to create their own bread with different shapes of dolls, and observing how the ingredients are transformed through its preparation.
- pottery workshop, Taught by the artisan Verónica Maccorín. It was held on Wednesdays since October 2019 and was scheduled to end at the end of May. The recipients are first and second grade students. Plastic creation workshop where schoolchildren create their own piece of handmade and personalized pottery, having a direct experience with the clay and observing its transformation, how its appearance changes, acquiring a new language related to the trade and the arts, recognizing the forms and the use of ceramic containers, their technical and aesthetic characteristics. Getting to know and handling an authentic potter's wheel and becoming a potter for a day.
- Sculpture workshop: Taught by the artisan Verónica Maccorín. This workshop is held on Thursdays of the school calendar. Aimed at three, four and five year olds. Plastic creation workshop where schoolchildren model a sculpture in clay to express their creativity in a sculptural piece, in an entertaining and didactic way, through textures, volumes, colors and shapes, using modeling tools to create their sketches, obtaining as a result end a very nice bust.
As a complement to this training offer and in order to publicize the different crafts that are currently active in the Region, a free guided tour is carried out at the Regional Craft Center of Murcia. The duration of these activities is from ten to twelve in the morning and the students come from the Schools of the City of Murcia with a cost per child of three euros.
This initiative has been very favorable for increasing the notoriety of the Regional Craft Center of Murcia and disseminating and promoting the Crafts of the Region of Murcia, since all children acquire basic notions of the craftsmanship and each one takes, in addition to the product they create. .
OFFER OF ARTISAN TRADES COURSES MARCH 2020
5.”Painting and drawing course” taught by the artisan Lidia Cassi, Wednesdays in March, May and June. Hours: 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Price: €55 per student (monthly fee). €15 session.
7.”Fabric decoration course” taught by the craft company Colourstudio of Alfredo Caral. Scheduled for Thursdays from March to June from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at a cost of €55 per month per student.
