Werkstatt Week: The Workshops Reopened
Weaving, metal, carpentry and the print shop all open at the same time, staffed by people who make things for a living rather than explain them.
You can watch, and in four of the seven rooms you can work. Places are handed out each morning at nine on the door, twelve per room, no list.
The weaving workshop runs the oldest looms in the building and has the longest queue, so it opens an hour earlier than the rest. Threading a loom takes most of a morning, and visitors who commit to it are given a place for the whole week.
Evening talks are held in the canteen because that is where they were held. They start at eight, run under an hour, and are followed by no reception whatsoever.
The metal workshop is the loudest room and the one children ask to go back to. Ear protection is on the wall by the door.
Upcoming events
Paper and Press: Three Centuries of Dutch Type
Punches, matrices and proofs from Enschedé, laid out beside the machines that cut them.
Blue Hour: Cyanotypes from the Raval
Forty prints made with river water and morning sun, hung in a former dye works on Carrer de Joaquín Costa.
Form Follows Feeling: A Bauhaus Retrospective
One hundred objects that taught the century how to sit, read and pour. Curated with the Dessau archive.
Spiegelgasse Salon: Four Evenings of New Music
Four evenings in a first-floor room that seats sixty, with the composer in the third row each time.
Chromatic Studies: Albers to Now
Homage to the square, continued. Colour interaction from 1950 to the present in twelve rooms.
Refshaleøen Winter Market
Forty stalls in an unheated shipyard hall, open four hours a day for three weekends.