Hobby workshops for "working girls"
The workshops are organized by “Support for debut”, under a project supported by the "Amateur Creativity" Program of the NFK.
Art therapy through ceramics, knitting and textiles brings together working ladies with a hobby for handicrafts. With the skillful guidance of master trainers Veselin and Dolya Andreevi, Elena Ganeva, Svetla Dimitrova and Yagodinka Lazarova, the ladies create their "masterpieces" from clay, yarns and textiles.
The workshops are organized by "Support for debut", under a project supported by the "Amateur Creativity" Program of the NFK.
The hobby workshops are held from 6 p.m., right after the Creative Children's Schools for "craftsmen", from August 8 to 18, 2022, in the "Support for Debut" Studio, in the right wing of the “chitalishte” (public library - community center) in the village of Lokorsko.
About the organizers:
Debut Support Association is an organization of enthusiastic volunteers who support and encourage the first public appearances of young artists in the fields of arts and crafts, design and applied arts. The association periodically organizes competitions, workshops, exhibitions, reviews - accompanied by media promotions.
"Support for Debut" successfully organized four projects financed under the "Youth in Action" program:
"Faces of Europe in Fashion and Design" in 2009;
"Ethno relay - learn, preserve and pass on" - master workshops for learning through work in Sofia, Lokorsko and Etara in 2010;
"Artistic crafts - a field for the expression of young talents" in Sofia, Lokorsko and a two-day workshop in Chiprovtsi in 2011;
"Youth craft workshops - first skills in entrepreneurship" in Sofia and Lokorsko. Two-day workshop and Round table in Oreshaka in 2013.
The association also successfully implemented three projects financed by the Sofia Capital Program "Culture": "Traditions meet the future in 2019";
"Tradition Meets the Future, Part Two, Episode Two, 2020";
"Creative workshops Support. Future of the Past, year 2021".
The projects aim to acquaint and train young people, mainly students of applied arts, with traditional Bulgarian crafts - embroidery, artistic knitting, pottery, weaving, dyeing with natural dyes, to acquire practical skills for hand-crafting art crafts, such as acquire basic knowledge of art entrepreneurship.
The products we made during the trainings are modern, attractive, made according to old techniques and technologies. The workshops became an object of great public interest.
Within the projects, the Association created two documentaries about artistic crafts - "Traditions meet the Future" and the sequel "Traditions meet the Future - Guardians", as well as a film about the held "Art Fest - Location Lokorsko" and "Summer cinema under the stars". The association established the Experimental Design Laboratory. Creates and maintains the site www.podkrepazadebut.eu.
More than 60 young specialists in applied arts have received practical training through the workshops organized by the "Support for Debut" association.
The association is the recipient of an honorary diploma from the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for introducing young people to traditional cultural heritage and directing them to craft and art entrepreneurship.
"Support for Debut" is a public benefit association. Its Management Board includes: Slava Hinkova (Chairman), Atanas Burzakov, Mihail Hinkov.