CREATIVE LABS

INFORMAL LEARNING FOR SCHOOLS, CREATIVE LABS AND WORKSHOPS

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Addressing people of different ages and cultures, the Foundation ensures a plural educational offer at its headquarters, the monumental complex of Santa Chiara. Here, the Foundation hosts theFriends of Bandera Embroidery Association and two young artists working in permanent residence, Giulia Perin and Lisa Fontana. Making use of the professional contribution of these, the Foundation promotes workshops of artistic texture,  tailoring , embroidery, natural dye e Batik with the use of dyes obtained from plants of the Textile Botanical Garden .

  All this happened not only in the framework of some activities of the "ChieriFacile" project (2019-2021), carried out with the contribution of the Municipality of Chieri and the support of Compagnia di San Paolo in the context of the CivICa tender - projects of culture and innovation civic education, in particular "Nati per Tessere", "Tell us about a story", "The slow factory", and "The civic factory", also in collaboration with the CPIA3 of Chieri for the continuing education of adults and the inclusion of "new citizens” in the active life of the community. Currently, the Foundation is a partner in the project " RestART! ", led by the Municipality of Chieri with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation. The Foundation also contributes to this project with artistic workshops to be held at the Imbiancheria del Vajro to involve artists and beginners of all ages in experimenting with creative processes sustainable textiles.

  The Foundation offers created courses  ad hoc  for school groups, hosted in safety in the multipurpose room of the "Porta del Tessile" for theoretical-practical workshops after the guided tour of the Textile Museum within the monumental complex of Santa Chiara. In 2021, the Foundation welcomed almost 400 middle school, high school and higher education students in the area. Furthermore, a Maris art workshop was hosted, held by the artist Liku Maria Takahashi and aimed at people with visual impairments selected by the Italian Union for the Blind and Visually Impaired (UICI) - Turin section, which sponsored the event. 

  In 2022, the educational offer was expanded and, in the autumn, a private job start-up course in the textile industry will be launched, promoted and entirely financed by the Cotton Textile Association of the Industrial Union of Turin.