The afternoon classes are based on the system of creative workshops (botteghe): in these classes students are free to express their artistic ideas. The workshops reflect the "botteghe" of the Middle Ages, where teachers and pupils worked together in pursuit of a shared project.
They were introduced for the first time in 1983 and are now the Lab's distinctive feature.
During the workshops, students can employ their creativity in areas of particular interest to them. Young people who are now professional directors, actors, painters, radio and television journalists took their first steps during the Lab's workshops.
Archaeology
Directed by Luca Villa with Elena Spalla, archaeologists. Its aim is to select finds from some excavations of Gemona's area and to exibit them in a communicative way for contemporaneous public.
Photography "off camera"
Directed by Annamaria Castellan, photographer. The alphabet for making a photographic image is tied to the sensitive paper, to the chemical development and drying, to the enlargement and obviously to the light. With the collaboration of Emilio Zangiacomi Pompanin.
Journalism
Directed by Cristiana De Falco, MISMAS, with Ana Álvarez. The aim of the workshop is the publication of La Gazzetta del Gamajun, a news journal about the activity of the Lab and its impact on the local community. The Gazzetta is regularly distributed to all newsagents in the area.
Craftsmanship
Directed by Mila Brollo Messetti, therapist and expert potter. Its aim is to create earthenware pieces and transform them into artistic objects, which will be shown in a final exhibition.
Language learning workshop
Directed by Gianfranco Barbieri, università Bocconi di Milano. The workshop provides a short course of Italian for foreigners.
Video
Directed by Massimo Locatelli, università Cattolica di Brescia, with Piero Passaniti and the collaboration of Mattia Vale. The workshop produces videos, documentaries and.
Directed by Claudio Bernardi, università Cattolica di Brescia, and Laura
Cantarelli, MISMAS, with Domenico Ferrari. The aim
of the theatre workshop is to create a pièce which will be performed both
for the participants of the Lab as well as for the public at large.
Music
Directed by Roberto Lugli and Marta Job. This workshop's aim is to put together different musical traditions through percussion instruments, working with other workshops.
Radio
Directed by Marco D'Andrea and Mauro Missana with the collaboration of Lorenzo Tempesti of Musicologi. Its aim is to provide radio broadcastings on the Lab activities according with Radio onde Furlane.
