Workshops
for Schools
JOSEFINA'S SUITCASE
If the schools cannot go to Josefina, Josefina goes to the schools!
Due to space constraints , Oficina Josefina can only receive small groups, so it's Josefina's turn to pack her bag and take the workshop to school.
In addition to the techniques that we can usually find at the Workshop, with Josefina's Bag a world of new possibilities opens up, they are special materials and artists to discover without having to leave!
BABIES
8 - 36m
1h
With the little ones in mind, Josefina has two workshops focused on sensory experiences. Playing is exploring the world, experiencing what's cold and what's soft, the lights and sounds it makes. Opening and closing things, crossing passages, touching, hearing and smelling are actions that give us sensations and knowledge.
Maze of Textures
Is it soft? Is it rough, fluffy or hard? Does it have feathers, or leaves? Do you have wool or corks? A pot with grain another with beans and the biggest of all can be full of cotton! Cover and uncover the big pots and stir what's inside them! In this colorful labyrinth with doors for hiding places, we are going to discover the things that are hidden in it!
Labyrinth of Lights
Blink, shine and reflect! Boxes with light, colored sand or fluorescent drawings... Yellow triangles, blue squares, red circles projected on the wall! See the world with other colors! Through the corridors of this labyrinth, let's peek at the lights there to play with!
CHILDREN
3-10 years
1h30
What things do artists think about? And then, how are works of art made? They can be paintings or sculptures, or even have sounds mixed in! These workshops aim to make art known through contemporary Portuguese and foreign artists and to encourage artistic expression through plastic experimentation.
clay heads
Marisa Merz / Sculpture / Clay
Wood, metal or clay? Lights, glass or flowers? Lines, ribbons and colors! Italian artist Marisa Merz used many different materials in his artworks and many of his works are heads. Let us also create a clay head!
Mushrooms, Hands and Peanuts
José de Guimarães / Sculpture / Drawing
A red mushroom. A spotted hand. One
striped stone? Painting in front and drawing in the back, that's how this sculpture is made! Let's discover the work of José de Guimarães and build a sculpture too! But so... where are the peanuts?
Inhabited Paintings
Helena Almeida / Photography / Painting
One patch of blue looks like it's being eaten, another looks like it's being pocketed...? But if a stain cannot be grasped how can it be held!? Let's discover Helena Almeida's works of art that combine photography and painting, and how the artist seems to inhabit it.
broken score
John Cage / Music / Drawing
Straight lines or patches of color. Words or collages. Drawings or paintings. Musicians use the scores to write the songs they compose. Let's discover that artists like John Cage, Iannis Xenakis or Ligeti explored other ways of composing, “drawing” music! That the sounds of our daily lives are very important and silence can also be music! Let's also draw a song to play at the end!
YOUNG PEOPLE
11-18 years
2h
Can a drawing be poetry and can poetry also be a drawing? Can a work of art be sound and not be music, and can it be music but not sound? How can this be? Contemporary art often presents itself as a strange place, often questioning what is presented to us as certain. Art does not intend to give answers, but by asking questions it allows us to think about the world and create our perception. These workshops aim to make contemporary art known through contemporary Portuguese and foreign artists and to encourage artistic expression through plastic experimentation.
(un)common movements
Steve Paxton / Trisha Brown / Performance
Now watch your hands for a few moments... Raise your glass, put on your pants, take off your glasses, stretch. Repeat now. And he does it all over again. These gestures in repetition and for a prolonged period of time, they cease to have their initial meaning and become something else. Artists such as Trisha Brown, Yvone Rainer or Steve Paxton bring us a performative perspective on our everyday life, let's discover them and create a composition of movements inspired by everyday life.
broken score
John Cage / Music / Drawing
Straight lines or patches of color. Words or collages. Drawings or paintings. Musicians use the scores to write the songs they compose. Let's discover that artists like John Cage, Iannis Xenakis or Ligeti explored other ways of composing, “drawing” music! That the sounds of our daily lives are very important and silence can also be music! Let's also draw a song to play at the end!
Daninha Poetry
EM Castro / Anna Hatherly / Experimental Poetry
The form of the words. The reading of the llllletters. The meaning of READing. It makes sense, changes its meaning, creates new meanings, ceases to make sense, unravels the meaning and challenges the meaning. Poetry in the visual, visuality in poetry. Experimental poetry, visual poetry, concrete poetry. Let's get to know works by artists such as EM Castro, Augusto Campos, Ferreira Gullar or Anna Hatherly who use the word in its multiple meanings and possibilities. On this journey of ours we will also create our harmful poetry ready to be born with any fway!
Art of Book Making
Ulises Carrión / Artist's Books
Paper books or string books. Books with a hundred pages or without a page. Books without history or memory books? Glass books or book books! The new art of making books is the manifesto that the artist Ulises Carrión wrote in 1975. In this activity we will explore this concept, meet some artists who use this way of conceiving works of art and also create our artist's book.