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Matera_Artisan Workshop: do your ceramic artefact!
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Matera: artisan workshop. Do your ceramic artefact!

By CREA Experience
Free cancellation available
Price is $86 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview
  • You will experiment with some techniques from local craftsmanship
  • You will learn to give new life to ancient handcraft traditions
  • The object will represent your indelible memory of the most authentic Lucania.
  • The object can be customised, taken home or shipped, on request
  • This experience is ideal to combine with a Sassi Tour

Activity location

    • Matera
    • Matera, Basilicata, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Biagio Lamberti will wait you, when you arrive, in his handicraft studio.
    • Matera, Basilicata, Italy

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Matera: Artisan Workshop Tour and do it your masterpiece!!!
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h3h
  • English
Starting time: 5:00pm
Price details
$85.62 x 1 Adult$85.62

Total
Price is $85.62

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedThe visit of a Sassi typical artisan studio
  • What's includedWhat's includedThe basic principles of wheel thrown pottery
  • What's includedWhat's includedEquipment for working and making the artefact
  • What's includedWhat's includedA fascinating story telling of 2 hours by an architect and ceramist from Lucania who, in his workshop, creates design objects with raw materials skilfully chosen locally and worked with his own hands
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedThe shipping of the artefact
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedFood and drinks are on request, but optional

Know before you book

  • Not suitable for: People with mobility impairments, People with recent surgeries, People with respiratory issues, Visually impaired people

What you can expect

You will be able to discover the architectural and scenic beauty of the city of Matera and you will be able to experience at first hand, inside a craft workshop, the ancient art of pottery making. The workshop will enable us to learn and experiment with some techniques resulting from local craftsmanship.
During the workshop you will make a small ceramic artefact, like a cup or a pot, for example, by modelling and shaping on a potter's wheel. The object that will gradually take shape can be customised. At the end of the activity, you could take home the object you've made, if possible, as working with terracotta is not so simply: it will represent your indelible memory souvenir of the most authentic Lucania.
In the beginning they were everyday objects such as amphorae, jugs, plates and glasses made from dried or baked clay, then with the passage of time they became true artistic and aesthetic elements, also thanks to pictorial decoration.
Roughness and ripples of mineral and telluric ceramics that recall the gullies between Aliano and Montalbano Jonico, creating a bridge with the cultural landscape of Basilicata. “This land speaks to us,” says the architect and designer, “it frees with its signs the voices that groan in it. I listen to it, I pick up its voice and build objects that interpret it'. Directing the workshop, as well as our work, will be Biagio, an architect and ceramist from Lucania who, in his workshop, creates design objects with the raw material wisely chosen local raw material and worked with his own hands.

At the end of this experience you could taste, on request, with an additional cost also typical food and wine products.

Location

Activity location

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    • Matera
    • Matera, Basilicata, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Biagio Lamberti will wait you, when you arrive, in his handicraft studio.
    • Matera, Basilicata, Italy