The Child's Chiostro

The Children’s Academy
The Chiostro del Bramante (Bramante’s Cloister) opens its doors to children by inaugurating the Children’s Academy, theatre and visual arts workshops where kids can experiment with all the languages of art through fairy tales, gestures and images. This is a different way of stimulating creativity and imagination, and of exploring your own potential and that of others in the charming, unique atmosphere of the Chiostro del Bramante.
The courses will conclude with an open lesson for families and the presentation of the “logbook”.

The courses run by very experienced teachers who are also theatre animators are aimed at two different age groups, 3- to 6-year-olds and 7- to 11-year-olds, and are held once a week.

Courses begin on Wednesday 26 October 2011

Timetable and cost
7- to 11-year-olds every Wednesday from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
3- to 6-year-olds every Thursday from 5 pm to 6.30 pm
Maximum number of participants: 15
The course costs 65 euros a month (including the enrolment fee)

Programme of the month

Bare-handed in the woods
A whole stick of celery can become a very tall tree, a cauliflower a large oak tree, half an onion dipped in blue paint can be a little lake, a courgette with its flower a dangerous carnivorous plant … Fingers become legs, fingertips become feet that walk bare-handed in an evergreen wood.

All by myself
What can we do all by ourselves? Climb to the top of a tree, do a somersault, eat a huge plate of spaghetti, dance on points … And what do we want to learn to do? Skate or ride a bike without steadying wheels, write, count to a hundred, run faster than our big brother …
A large board for noting little-big conquests day by day.

Luckily
Has it ever happened to you that the day you decide to go to the sea it begins to pelt with rain? Luckily there are sun umbrellas to shelter under, unluckily a terribly strong wind blows them away, luckily … A book of unexpected happenings to be invented so that you are ready for every eventuality.

Art in colour
Matisse’s dancers are a vivid red, Fontana’s slit is ultramarine, Rothko’s surfaces are lemon yellow, Magritte’s apples are pink, yellow and blue … We’ll create our chromatic scale with a little help from art history and we’ll have an (almost) complete range of colours in all their different shades.

A Snack for the Kids and an Aperitif with the Mums
From 20 October, every Thursday from 5 pm to 8 pm, the Caffetteria Bistrot Le Sibille at the Chiostro del Bramante will welcome mums for an aperitif and kids for a snack. A time when mothers can relax and children can play together and take part in the Children’s Academy, the educational workshop that has been held at the Chiostro del Bramante for nearly a year now.

For further information: Tel. 06.68809035 - info@chiostrodelbramante.it