Our association offers workshops based on the links between art, nature and plants: raising awareness of biodiversity. These participatory artistic activities, rich in exchange, are designed to appeal to a wide range of audiences and raise awareness. Just as pencils and paints, visual artists today use plants in their creations: grass, flowers and trees have become veritable materials in recent years. Artists' enduring attraction to this material echoes the diversity of contemporary issues surrounding environmental themes. Inhabited today by an acute awareness of the fragility of our ecosystem, these practices often reveal a hidden plea for the environment.
vegetal art
Our association offers workshops based on the links between art, nature and plants: raising awareness of biodiversity. These participatory artistic activities, rich in exchange, are designed to appeal to a wide range of audiences and raise awareness. Just as pencils and paints, visual artists today use plants in their creations: grass, flowers and trees have become veritable materials in recent years. Artists' enduring attraction to this material echoes the diversity of contemporary issues surrounding environmental themes. Inhabited today by an acute awareness of the fragility of our ecosystem, these practices often reveal a hidden plea for the environment.
workshops with plants
zero waste
zero waste workshops
36 million bottles are thrown away every day in France, and only 58% of those made of plastic are recycled. France ranks fifth in the world in terms of plastic bottle consumption, behind Mexico, Thailand, Italy and Germany. One of our concerns is to run workshops to raise awareness of the need to reuse materials in the region. In 2023, our association organised a walkabout to collect bulky items, before encouraging participants to transform them into extraordinary sculptures.
Discover our zero waste project for Est Ensemble 2023
art and light
Workshops on the play of light and shadow in art.
light workshops
art and sport
Sport is omnipresent in our lives and affects our everyday behaviour, evoking surpassing ourselves, achievement, commitment, tension, confrontation and rupture. Art periodically feeds off this energy, exploring the rich reservoir of objects, forms, gestures and myths that sport offers. This is the fertile ground from which artistic workshops resonate with sport practices and the public space, laboratories, where artistic expression meets the raw energy of sport.
Through this fusion, art and sport engage in a dialogue, revealing a universal language of human expression through movement and artistic materialisation.
workshops around sport
art and food
workshops with food
In today's society, marked by growing economic and social challenges, the question of food is becoming of paramount importance. We are faced with issues such as education on nutrition, eating well and the fight against food waste. In response to this reality, we are offering innovative artistic workshops that combine creativity with cooking.
We encourage an experimental approach, where participants are invited to use edible materials and create ephemeral and original works.
During and after each workshop, we commit to using no more food than we can consume, taking the time to explain our approach. Finally, any leftovers at the end of the session, such as peelings, cores or parts that cannot be eaten, are disposed of in bins dedicated to bio-waste or compost, or reused in ‘zero waste’ workshops.
pixel art
Pixelating and simplifying images, using symmetry, drawing inspiration from the world of technology.
pixel-based workshops
casual workshops
one workshop per month carried out for members of the association
Various images are omnipresent in our daily lives, it's important to take the time to look at them with curiosity and care, to understand them and appreciate their uses. Learning to look at, describe and analyse a work of art, then experimenting with different techniques through artistic practice while learning about the creative process: these workshops are a time for meeting, exchanging and sharing, where participants are given plenty of opportunity to have their say. They are also an opportunity to offer them tools to help awaken and train their visual and creative skills, fostering links between knowledge and sensitivity.
art in 4 seasons
The project was based around a series of workshops combining art history and artistic practices. Through this cycle, the project aimed to preserve residents' access to culture through artistic practice, and used art as a means of preventing loss of autonomy.
The workshops, led by 2 speakers each time (an art historian and a visual artist), were divided into two parts: a short lecture in images dedicated to the discovery of a colour approached through the history of art, followed by an artistic practice workshop linked to the colour approached.
Much more than the final result, the practical workshop was intended to be a privileged opportunity to experiment with the creative process and the pleasure it can generate.
art history microlectures and practical art workshops on colour for senior citizens
Wednesday workshops
in Torcy
introductory art workshops
Our association offers workshops in Torcy's leisure centres. These workshops take place every Wednesday morning during the school year, with a final presentation before the summer holidays.
We work with children on a variety of themes, including art and nature, art and sport, art and ecology, and so on.
Each workshop is an opportunity to experiment with a variety of visual arts: plant-based painting, clay modelling, creating a ‘zero waste’ modular system, etc.
