Printing your own poster with wooden letters? You can!
GWA Grafische Werkplaats Amsterdam is once again bringing a small printing press, antique wooden letters and ink to the Ambacht in Beeld Festival. With it, you can design and print your own personalised poster.
In its workshop just down the road in the NDSM Loods, GWA has an extensive collection of traditional graphic materials: printing presses, wooden letters, lead letters and everything you need for lino, woodcut and bookbinding. The foundation offers courses and workshops to anyone who wants to work with craft printing techniques themselves. School classes, graphics students, artists and lovers of handmade printing. Step away from the computer!
This workshop is for everyone aged eight years and up. You will work together with one other participant and make your own poster. The poster is not immediately dry; it is best to leave it hanging as long as possible before taking it home – or pick it up later at the Grafische Werkplaats Amsterdam.
During this workshop, you can make your own peanut butter flavour, and in the meantime, learn everything about the tastiest peanut butter in The Netherlands! Let your imagination run wild and come up with a delicious new taste! Your taste may come out best in the test, and you will receive a nice peanut prize!
The idea for a peanut butter shop started at the kitchen table, where Michiel began to combine the first flavours. This bio farmer has been a big peanut butter fan from an early age. Yet he needed more variety in the existing range. After several successful tests, the Peanut Boss decided to take it seriously. The idea of De Pindakaaswinkel was born. And we are still proud of that! A building has been taken into use on the Czaar Peterstraat in Amsterdam, where the name ‘De Pindakaaswinkel’ has been pasted on the window with stickers. Once the store opened its doors in 2016, the response was overwhelming! Now, six years and 18 stores later, we still enthusiastically put peanut butter on the pedestal it deserves!
In addition to the workshop, there is a mini peanut butter shop at the festival, including a tasting table. Everyone can taste, and during the tasting, we happily inform you about the traditional way we make the peanut butter.
Under the guidance of an actual carpenter and his team, you can help build a tiny, tiny house. For small and older children: sawing wood, planing, drilling holes, driving in screws and hammering in nails. Super fun, even if you’ve never done it before, we’ll help you on your way!
Ruud Dubel is a furniture maker and fine woodworker in Amsterdam. He likes fun, crazy, challenging, simple and unexpected ideas, and he likes to supervise the creative building process during the festival.
Will you help build?
Young children must be under the supervision of parents/guardians.
Parents/guardians are responsible for their children at all times. The festival accepts no liability.
Be inspired by the Amsterdam School style, step into the shoes of a real artist and create your own graphic artwork! During this workshop, you will experiment with colour, shape and lines, pull gouges and ink out of the closet and let the printing press run overtime to create a beautiful linocut.
The artists of the Amsterdam School were real all-rounders. Besides the beautiful architecture, furniture and utensils, many were also involved in typography and graphic design. They often used printing techniques to design posters or book covers, for example. And now you can do the same!
Young or old, everyone is welcome at this workshop. For children under eight, special material is available on which they cannot cut themselves. Nice and safe!
This workshop is offered by Museum Het Schip, the museum about the Amsterdam School in architecture, crafts and public housing.
This workshop is continuous. You just buy a ticket and can join when a place is available.
How does a plane stay in the air? Why does the sound of a car change when it passes you? Can you launch a rocket with a bicycle pump? Find out in the surprising and interactive NEMO Science Tour. In 20 minutes, you will see spectacular experiments that amaze young and old, challenge you to participate, and, above all, make you curious!
NEMO Science Museum, the science museum in Amsterdam, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year with a major anniversary programme. With the theme Nederland Curious, NEMO will pay tribute to curiosity both inside and outside the museum walls and encourage people to ask questions. One of the components of the festive programme is the NEMO Science Tour. With a surprising and interactive programme, NEMO will travel throughout the Netherlands this autumn. Have you got a burning question of your own? Submit it at the tour or on the website www.nemo100jaar.nl.
During the previous festival, our youngest visitors made this fantastic animal!
This year, children can again help build and paint a life-size, colourful papier-mâché fantasy animal for free, guided by visual artist Edson Bruno Filho.
This workshop is for all ages.
Leaves can transfer natural colour to the fabric. In eco-dyeing – also known as plant printing – leaves from different plants are used to print a pattern on fabric. Since India Flint’s books, this dyeing technique has become increasingly common. The trick is that the leaf not only leaves a coloured stain, but even the grain is visible in the print. At Textile Institute Hawar, we know precisely how to achieve this. Teachers Harm and Margriet will teach you about the natural dyes of different leaves and how to make a nice sharp print.
In this workshop, you will print a soft and summery scarf from Etamine de Laine with your own pattern of different leaves. You don’t need to bring anything for the workshop (but you can – read on!). We will provide a wide choice of leaves. Part of the workshop is fixing, which takes an hour. Of course, you don’t need to be present for this but keep in mind that you won’t be able to take the scarf with you immediately after the workshop. If you like to experiment, you can bring your own plant, tree or flower leaves. We do not know exactly which colour each leaf gives off, but we know from experience that the surprise often makes the result even more beautiful!
Harm Harms is a teacher and owner of the family business Hawar Textile Institute, where teachers from home and abroad pass on knowledge and skills in the large and atmospheric workshop. There is also a very extensive shop and an inspiring gallery, making it an incubator where new and old materials and textile techniques are (re)discovered. During the festival, Harm will give workshops together with Floor de Bruijn. She was a designer at Humanoid and teaches reuse and restyling of clothes and fabrics at Hawar.
Ibrahim is from Sudan and is a carpenter. He is very skilled in wood and worked in Sudan as a furniture maker, using recycled wood.
In these workshops, children of all ages can learn basic woodworking skills. You will build a small boat from wood and textiles, which will float in the water.
The minimum age is 12 years.
Language: English.
Got a broken piece of clothing? Let’s extend its life by repairing it. We will teach the participants new skills to mend their clothing during the workshop. We test these new skills on a piece of dead stock test fabric supplied by Makers Unite. The participants will be guided step by step and learn how to sew on a button and repair a seam. When the participants are familiar with basic sewing skills, they can repair their personal items and shift the mindset of discarding towards a mindset of repairing.
We want to offer our participants a repair workshop, where they can acquire basic knowledge on how to repair their clothes and also get some clothes repaired in the learning process. Participants can bring their clothes to repair, and in the workshop, they will learn basic repair techniques.
Our repair workshop is a unique experience where the facilitators are newcomers who become part of our community after graduating from our Makers Unite Creative Lab program. They bring creative talents to the host society and the knowledge to make the repair workshop a unique experience.
Santa, one of our facilitators from Latvia, is creative, passionate about art and craft, and loves nature. Samin, our facilitator from Iran, has worked as a Makeup Artist, fashion designer and journalist for over 20 years. He has a keen eye for detail and is ready to transmit his knowledge about embroidery.
“With everything I make, I aim to connect creativity and function. I put lots of positiveness, care and love in everything I do, and I truly wish that through my work, people can feel my good intentions and love and, in turn, share this with others” (Santa).
Makers Unite’s mission is to support newcomers with access to the job market through the collaborative design and production of sustainable products, in the process shifting narratives around migration globally.
Have you always wanted to know more about the ancient Japanese repair technique Sashiko and what beautiful things you can make with it? This is your chance to get started.
During this workshop, you will learn the basics of the Sashiko technique, and with it, you can turn your jeans (with holes and scuffs) into a wearable and unique work of art! Don’t have a pair of suitable jeans? No problem; you can also make a ready-made patch or a collage of pieces of denim and other woven textiles. You can bring your own or not. Needles and thread will be provided. After the workshop, you will have turned your jeans into a unique piece of art. Or your own ‘unique textile art’, for yourself or to give as a present to someone close to you. For you have made it with love and attention.
Sashiko is an ancient embroidery technique originating from northern Japan. Sashiko (pronounced Sash-ko) is a running stitch and means prick or stitch. Boro refers to rags and worn textiles and is a form of visible repair using the Sashiko basting technique. Sashiko & Boro, perfect and imperfect. There can be Sashiko without Boro, but no Boro without Sashiko.
Sashiko is a sustainable way to repair and upcycle worn-out denim. By using the Sashiko technique, you add value back to worn-out jeans.
By hand sewing, stitch by stitch, patches of fabric over and under worn spots, the textile always gets a unique look. There is no sewing machine involved; everything is done by hand.
For this workshop, you do not need any experience, just an interest and some manual dexterity. Yarn, needles and practice materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own jeans or woven fabrics (no jersey/tricot). You can also make a collage from patches of denim, cotton or linen, to frame or serve as the basis for a bag or other project.
With her company Yukkuri Studio, Helly Coppens focuses mainly on upcycling denim, giving new value to discarded jeans. There is no straightforward translation for many Japanese words. This also applies to Yukkuri. It means something like slow speed, without hurry, at ease, restful. This fits perfectly with her drive to create sustainably, working with textiles, mainly denim. Yukkuri products are unique and handmade as a response to mass and overproduced clothing globally.
Helly enjoys working with tangible materials, with needles and thread. It is mainly old-craft Japanese repair techniques that inspire her, where quality always precedes quantity. This way of working is Slow Design, which is very calming. This is a welcome effect because our world is fast and fleeting. It is always a challenge to make something new out of leftovers. It gives new value to worn-out or discarded clothes. Repairing jeans and reusing denim instead of throwing them away and replacing them. And thus reduce waste. Working with residual materials comes with limitations. It is precisely these limitations that determine her design choices and ensure that her creativity is constantly challenged.
Wall Hanging Sashiko stitches on denim
Festival address:
NDSM Loods
NDSM-Plein 85
1033 WC Amsterdam
Postal address:
Stichting Ambacht in Beeld
Kalf 158
1509AH Zaandam
The Netherlands
