Summer Holidays in Poland – creative workshops 2020
27 June 2020 – 31 August 2020
MONDAYS
10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Agathes and other minerals’ exploration in Lubiechowa
- where: we gather at the Sudetic Geoscience Centre, Dobków 66, 59-540 Świerzawa, 400m from Villa Greta and together we drive in our cars to the closed quarry in Lubiechowa
- price: 35 PLN/person / 9 €, family ticket 120 PLN / 30 €
- contact details: +48 796 113 103 (Marcin), [email protected]
- note: when it’s sunny, each participant should have a hat and water. We recommend to take a linen bag for minerals. The price includes hammers and protective glasses which we will provide you with.
- workshops descriprion
Summer holidays 2018 – how about going on a geological expedition? It’s a great detox from tablets!
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Gingerbread workshops
During these workshops, we will Get to know various techniques of icing and decorating gingerbreads, e.g. by the needle method, the application of which makes gingerbread look as if they were decorated with cross-stitch embroidery. Each participant will decorate a gingerbread by the selected technique.
- where: Gościniec Pod Gruszą, Stara Kraśnica 9, 59-540 Świerzawa, 4km from Villa Greta
- price: 30 PLN/person / 7,5 € family ticket 100 PLN / 25 €, children under 3 free
- contact details: +48 575 282 740 (Martyna)
Gingerbread workshops.
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Weavers – Catchers
An exceptional encounter with weaving tradition at Ecomuseum of Weaving and Natural Dyeing in Chrosnica. During these workshops, you will savour a bit of history, tradition combined with creative play with hula-hoop. We will weave catchers of our dreams by ourselves…
- where: Chrosnica 68, 58-508 Jezow Sudecki, 15km from Villi Greta
- price: 35 PLN/person / 9 €, family ticket 130 PLN / 32 €, children under 2 free
- contact details: +48 691 207 224 (Monika)
Ecomuseum of Weaving and Natural Dyeing in Chrosnica.
TUESDAYS
10 a.m. – 12 a.m. Hand-made ceramics – gallery “Under the Angel”
Have a look at how real craftsmen work! Visit the gallery of ceramics and make your own ceramic piece of art! The price includes twofold firing and glazing of the figurine so that it can last hundreds of years! You may collect your piece of art at another time.
- where: gallery “Under the Angel”, Dobków 102, 59-540 Świerzawa, 900m from Villa Greta
- price: 30 PLN/person/hour / 7,5€
- the price includes twofold firing and glazing of the figurine so that it can last hundreds of years! (you may collect your piece of art at another time)
- workshops are effective if you spend there at least 2h x 30 PLN / 2 x 7,5 €
- the price includes twofold firing of figurines!
- contact details: +48 75 713 44 55, +48 785 925 983 (Bogusia, Agata, Zenek), [email protected]
- workshops description
Ceramic workshops – a great plan for summer holidays 2018!
2 p.m – 3 p.m. The history written by a wheel on glass – engraving workshops
Come and visit the engraving workshop which looks as if time stopped 100 years ago and meet a genuine craftsman! All this in a romantic scenery of a tiny village of Radzimowice in the Katshava Mountains.
- where: Glass Manufacture (pl. Szklana Manufaktura), Radzimowice 3, 59-420 Bolków, 12km from Villa Greta
- price: 25 PLN/person / 6 €, family ticket 80 PLN / 20 €, children under 3 free
- contact details: +48 883 286 737 (Marcin)
- workshops description
Glass Manufacture in Radzimowice
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Workshops of natural fabrics dyeing
You will discover the secrets of natural fabrics dyeing and get to know plant and animal dyes, learn the meaning and symbolism of colours. Each participant of workshops receives a T-shirt to dye on their own and then to it take home.
- where: Chrośnica 68, 58-508 Jeżów Sudecki, 15km from Villa Greta
- price: 35 PLN/person / 9 €, family ticket 130PLN / 32,5 €, children under 3 free
- contact details: +48 691 207 224 (Monika)
Workshops of natural fabrics dyeing in Chrosnica.
6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. Drum play workshops
These workshops are based on play with rhythm, facilitating motor coordination and learning the culture and tradition of Western Africa. During these workshops, parents and children learn to play Djembe drums and bass Dundun drums, learn traditional rhythms from Western Africa (Guinea, Mali) and circumstances in which they are played.
- where: Village Cultural Centre, Dobkow 64, 59-540 Swierzawa, 400m from Villi Greta
- price: 30 PLN/person / 7,5 €, family ticket 100 PLN / 25 €
- contact details: +48 509 815 524 (Dorota), +48 695 091 176 (Marcel), [email protected]
Drum play workshops in Poland.
WEDNESDAYS
11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Exploration and processing of agathes in Nowy Kosciol
- where: Stoneworker’s Shop (pl. Pracownia Kamieniarska), Nowy Kosciol, ul. Jeleniogorska 33/1, 59-540 Swierzawa, 14km from Villa Greta
- price: 35 PLN/person / 9 €, family ticket 120 PLN / 30 €, children under 4 free
- contact details: +48 607 706 745 (Piotr), [email protected]
- workshops decription
Exploration and processing of agathes in Nowy Kosciol.
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Paper making workshops
Few workshops engage not only children but also their parents. The secret of this engagement is perhaps hidden in the paper itself – the material from which you can create whole pictures. And all by yourself. During these workshops, each participant will make several sheets of paper which they will decorate with plants or colorful paints.
- where: Gościniec Pod Gruszą, Stara Kraśnica 9, 59-540 Świerzawa, 4km from Villa Greta
- price: 30 PLN/person 7,5 €, family ticket 100 PLN / 25 €, children under 3 free
- contact details: +48 785 881 311 (Ania)
Paper making workshops.
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. Visiting the Sudetic Geoscience Centre with a guide
Come and see how fascinating geology can be! All children over 4 and their parents who visit our Centre discover the incredible geological phenomena and learn many curiosities about volcanoes. Together, we visit all our educational rooms, have fun, play games, experiment, talk… in a casual and friendly atmosphere!
- where: Sudetic Geoscience Centre, Dobków 66, 59-540 Świerzawa, 400m from Villa Greta
- price: 15 PLN/person / 4 €, family ticket 50 PLN 12,5 €, children under 4 free
- contact details: +48 75 617 14 68 from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. except Mondays (Julia, Monika, Justyna, Marcin), [email protected]
- about the Sudetic Geoscience Centre
Visiting the Sudetic Geoscience Centre with a guide.
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Wild tastes: workshops of cooking with common plants and herbs
Do you know which tasty plants can be found in the meadow or in the forest? Which plants look nice and in addition have healing properties? If not, we invite you for culinary workshops! We will visit the field and meadow, get to know edible and medicinal plants which occur in our surrounding, and in the end we will make wild treats: herbal pancakes, green soup, herbal salad and other specialties.
- where: “Green laboratory” (pl. „Zielone laboratorium”), Rzeszówek 33, 59-540 Świerzawa, 12km from Villa Greta
- price: 30 PLN/person /7,5 €, family ticket 110 PLN / 27,5 €, children under 3 free
- contact details: +48 606 571 682 (Maciek), [email protected]
Nettle soup.
8 p.m. – 10 p.m. The life of bats: chiropterological workshops
Bats are amazing animals which for centuries have stimulated human’s imagination and around which many myths and legends have been weaved. During these workshops, we will verify their authenticity and we will open electronic “ear” in the direction of echolocation signals. Workshops take place in the field, so clothing appropriate for the weather is necessary.
- where: we gather next to the Sudetic Geoscience Centre, Dobków 66, 59-540 Świerzawa, 400m from Villa Greta
- price: 15 PLN/person / 4 €, family ticket 50 PLN / 12,5 €, children under 4 free
- contact details: +48 730 663 611 (Julia), [email protected]
The common pipistrelle.
THURSDAYS
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Workshops of gold panning
During these workshops, participants equipped with bowls for gold panning and buckets with sand, in which gold flecks are hidden, will occupy their positions. After washing the gold flecks out, participants can take them home. The play is preceded by a talk about gold and demonstration of the proper usage of the bowl.
- where: Młyn Wielisław, ul. Młyńska 9/2 Sędziszowa, 59-540 Świerzawa, 8km from Villa Greta
- price: 50 PLN/position / 12,5 € (1 bowl, bucket, gold flecks to be washed out), 70 PLN/2 position / 17,5 €
- contact details: +48 660 018 294 (Aneta), e-mail: [email protected]
Workshops of gold panning.
11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Shaping summer in clay: ceramic workshops at Magic-Art-Gallery
Have a look at how real craftsmen work! Visit the gallery of ceramics and make your own ceramic pieces of art! The price includes twofold firing and glazing of the figurine so that it can last hundreds of years! (you may collect your piece of art at another time). Participation in glazing workshops is possible. Time interval between ceramic and glazing workshops is minimum 3 days.
- where: Magic-Art-Gallery, Dobków 70, 59-540 Świerzawa, 400m from Villa Greta
- price: 30 PLN/person/hour / 7,7 € or 100 PLN/family/hour / 25 €
- the price includes twofold firing and glazing of the figurine so that it can last hundreds of years!
- you may collect your piece of art at another time
- NOTE! Workshops are effective if you spend there at least 2h x 30 PLN / 2 x 7,5 €
- contact details: +48 697 097 624 (Agnieszka), [email protected]
- workshops descprition
Ceramic workshops at Magic-Art-Gallery.
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Workshops “From a sheep to a thread” and visiting an eco-farmstead with animals
Visit the real village farmstead full of animals, learn how to felt wool, make your own felt piece of art and take it home!
- where: Kowalowe Skały, Wrzeszczyn 25a, 58-508 Jeżów Sudecki, 32km from Villa Greta
- price: 25 PLN/person / 6 €, family ticket 80 PLN / 20 €, children under 3 free
- contact details: +48 75 752 44 82, +48 502 252 730 (Agata), [email protected]
- workshop description
From a sheep to a thread.
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m. Hatha-joga
We begin the evening yoga session with meditation with conscious breathing. Then, we move to a warm-up and yoga session focused on quieting the mind after a busy day. The level of difficulty will be adjusted to possibilities of people participating in workshops. We finish exercises with deep relax to sounds of a gong and Tibetan singing bowls.
- where: Villa Greta, room at the ground floor of Arnold’s House, Dobków 59, 59-540 Świerzawa
- price: 25 PLN/person / 6 € or family ticket 80 PLN / 20 €, children under 3 free
- contact details: +48 697 097 624 (Agnieszka), [email protected]
Hatha-joga in Lower SIlesia.
FRIDAYS
10 a.m. – 12 a.m. Hand-made ceramics – gallery “Under the Angel”
Have a look at how real craftsmen work! Visit the gallery of ceramics and make your own ceramic piece of art! The price includes twofold firing and glazing of the figurine so that it can last hundreds of years! You may collect your piece of art on at another time.
- where: Gallery “Under the Angel” / „Pod Aniołem”, Dobków 102, 59-540 Świerzawa, 900m from Villa Greta
- price: 30 PLN/person/hour / 7,5 €
- workshops are effective if you spend there at least 2h x 30 PLN / 2 x 7,5 €
- the price includes twofold firing of the figurine!
- you may collect your piece of art. at another time
- contact details: +48 75 713 44 55, +48 785 925 983 (Bogusia, Agata, Zenek), [email protected]
- workshops description
Hand-made ceramics in Lwer Silesia.
4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Summer cosmetics – workshops of creating natural cosmetics
Meet the family cultivating herbal traditions and have a look into the real home laboratory! Together, you will create natural ointments, sun screens and protective lipsticks, refreshing soaps or other cosmetics useful in the summer.
- where: “Green laboratory” (pl.„Zielone Laboratorium”), Rzeszówek 33, 59-540 Świerzawa, 10km from Villa Greta
- price: 30 PLN/person 7,5 €, family ticket 110 PLN / 27,5 €, children under 3 free
- contact details: +48 606 571 682 (Maciek), [email protected]
- workshops description
Attractions for children (and adults) – soap workshops.
SATURSDAYS
12 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Visiting the Sudetic Geoscience Centre with a guide
Come and see how fascinating geology can be! All children over 4 and their parents who visit our Centre discover the incredible geological phenomena and learn many curiosities about volcanoes. Together, we visit all our educational rooms, have fun, play games, experiment, talk… in a casual and friendly atmosphere!
- where: Sudetic Geoscience Centre, Dobków 66, 59-540 Świerzawa, 400m from Villa Greta
- price: 15 PLN/person / 4 €, family ticket 50 PLN / 12,5 €, children under 4 free
- contact details: +48 75 617 14 68 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except Mondays (Julia, Monika, Justyna, Marcin), [email protected]
- about the Sudetic Geoscience Centre
Sudetic Geoscience Centre in Poland.
3 p.m. – 5 p.m. Our Eco-farm
A walk in the eco farm and feeding animals, stories about their habits and preparation of eco mascots from wool of Polish heath sheep.
- where: Kowalowe Skały, Wrzeszczyn 25a, 58-508 Jeżów Sudecki, 32km from Villa Greta
- price: 25 PLN/person / 6 €, family ticket 80 PLN / 20 €, children under 3 free
- contact details: +48 75 752 44 82, +48 502 252 730 (Agata), [email protected]
A walk in the eco farm and feeding animals.
SUNDAYS
11 a.m. – 12 a.m. Glass wonders – engraving workshops
Come and visit the engraving workshop which looks as if time stopped 100 years ago and meet a genuine craftsman! All this in a romantic scenery of a tiny village of Radzimowice in the Katshava Mountains.
- where: Glass Manufacture (pl. Szklana Manufaktura), Radzimowice 3, 59-420 Bolków, 12km from Villa Greta
- price: 25 PLN/person / 6 €, family ticket 80 PLN / 20 €, children under 3 free
- contact details: +48 883 286 737 (Marcin)
- workshops description
Engraving workshops.
12 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Visiting the Sudetic Geoscience Centre with a guide
Come and see how fascinating geology can be! All children over 4 and their parents who visit our Centre discover the incredible geological phenomena and learn many curiosities about volcanoes. Together, we visit all our educational rooms, have fun, play games, experiment, talk… in a casual and friendly atmosphere!
- where: Sudetic Geoscience Centre, Dobków 66, 59-540 Świerzawa, 400m from Villa Greta
- price: 15PLN/person / 4€ or family ticket 50 PLN / 12,5€. Children under 4 free.
- contact details: +48 75 617 14 68 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except Mondays (Julia, Monika, Justyna, Marcin), [email protected]
- about the Sudetic Geoscience Centre
Sudetic Geoscience Centre.
Wednesday 15 August
THE HERBAL PICNIC ON THE OCCASION OF THE FEAST OF THE BLESSED MOTHER OF HERBS (THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION)
The folk tradition requires to bless herbs on this day so that they gain extraordinary values and powers. Medicinal plants, crops, fruits were collected and usually woven into harvest wreaths. Do you know what else was in this aromatic bouquet? A family of herbalists invites you for an exciting day. During the picnic: a walk combined with making harvest wreaths, culinary workshops focused on using wild plants and in the end workshops devoted to the preparation of first aid measures, you may choose from: St. Jacob ointment for pilgrims, St. John ointment for skin diseases, St. Dominic ointment for children or teas for colds, calming down or good digestion.
- where: “Green Laboratory” (pl. „Zielone Laboratorium”) in Rzeszówek (Rzeszówek 33)
- price: 45 PLN/person / 11€, family ticket 180 PLN / 45€, children under 3 free
- time: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. (it can take longer)
- contact details: +48 606 571 682 (Maciek), [email protected]
The herbal picnic in Rzeszowek.
Saturday 25 August
THE KATSHAVA ARTISTIC WORKSHOPS AND OPEN DAY AT THE SUDETIC GEOSCIENCE CENTRE in Dobków.
The family open-air event with many interesting workshops and stands with local handicraft. You will not find here: plastic toys and inflatable bouncy toys. You will find: much creative, family fun with clay, herbs, paper, stone and other exciting things!
- where: the area of the Village Community Room in Dobków and Sudetic Geoscience Centre in Dobków
- price: admission is free, open event, without registration
- contact details: +48 75 617 14 68 (Julia), [email protected]
The Katshava Artistic Workshops in our village.
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