Workshops

Explore the innovative laboratories that animate the Cianfrusaglie project.

CIANFRUSAGLIE WORKSHOPS

From Tuesday, November 4, 2025, to Saturday, November 29, 2025, during office hours, you can request information by calling the number 329 4828149 or by sending a message to the address: info@museodellecianfrusaglie.it

Workshops created for the Cianfrusaglie exhibition

Sculpture and Clay Manipulation: Hands in the Dough
Comics and Storytelling: Alex and Maya. The Mystery Unveiled!
Illustration Art: The Wonderland Room
Theatre: Intermission. Performance Lab for Cianfrusaglie
Foley Artist: Intonarumori

Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Canossian Kindergarten School, Via Dei Paradisi, 4, Trento
9:00 – 9:45, 10:00 – 10:40, 10:50 – 11:30

THE WONDER ROOM

with Isa Nebl, painter, illustrator, and atelierist of the La Coccinella cooperative, and Stefano Giovanazzi. Six boxes for six colors: small things to redesign the world and look far away.


Copy
A creative workshop tracing the innovative thinking of the Agazzi sisters, who, already at the end of the 19th century, with the creation of the “Museum of Jumbles,” recognized the educational value of direct experience with humble and unsophisticated materials.
Discreet custodians of objects of affection, the wonder boxes presented in the workshop—strictly monochromatic—welcome a multitude of precious and everyday materials: small objects recovered from daily life, little boxes, pieces of wood, images, fabric scraps, pages from old books, curiosities, and all kinds of trinkets. These invite us to rethink and redesign our living spaces so they can embrace our inner world with more tenderness and creativity.
Together, we imagine and build unexpected micro-worlds inside a box, starting from the exploration and combination of countless materials, shapes, objects, and words.

Keep readingFrom these boxes of wonders, life will take shape – from time to time – landscapes, stories, explorations, and journeys into worlds never seen before, created collaboratively and in small groups. It is an open and flexible educational proposal designed to foster creativity, sensory exploration, manual skills, observational ability, and collaboration, to nourish children’s imagination, language development, and divergent thinking.
How is it structured? Together, we open the boxes, gather some objects, and compose figures from our imaginary worlds. ISA NEBL (Cles, 1967) lives and works in Cles, where she alternates her activity as a painter and illustrator with that of an atelierist at the La Coccinella cooperative. She holds a diploma in applied arts and specialized at the International School of Etching and Lithography “Il Bisonte” in Florence. She loves inventing dreamlike and enigmatic characters, which she creates through silkscreen printing and mixed media techniques using acrylic paint and collage.

ISA NEBL
She lives and works in Cles, where she alternates her activity as a painter and illustrator with that of an atelierist at the La Coccinella cooperative. Graduated in applied arts and specialized at the International School of Engraving and Lithography “Il Bisonte” in Florence, she loves inventing dreamlike and enigmatic characters, which she creates using screen printing and a mixed technique of acrylic painting and collage. : Workshops

Thursday, October 16, 2025
Pietro Pedrotti Nursery School, via Asilo Pedrotti 2, Trento
10:00 AM – 10:40 AM and 10:50 AM – 11:30 AM

Friday, October 17, 2025
Canossian Kindergarten, Via Dei Paradisi, 4, Trento
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM, 10:00 AM – 10:40 AM, 10:50 AM – 11:30 AM

HANDS IN THE DOUGH

With Stefano Giovanazzi and Giuseppe Marcadent, master craftsman and ceramicist. Creating with odds and ends, Sculpture Workshop – the materiality of things.


Discover the pleasure of how matter changes and transforms. The child loves working with clay: touching, manipulating, playing with the material means shaping the external reality; their action leaves an imprint, and this is an important expression of oneself. When the child makes marks, they are not aiming for any graphic or plastic result; rather, they seek to test the resistance of the material they are working with, discovering the joy of how it changes and modifies. Why clay?

Keep readingClay is a natural material, highly plastic and malleable, and pleasant to the touch; it is a material with just the right thermal sensations, capable of taking on many shapes, and it puts the child in a position to simultaneously coordinate multiple senses—hand, eye, smell, and hearing. It is a material that allows, with a wide variety of movements, infinite constructive ways. It contains attributes such as weight, resistance, and volume. Playing with clay involves emotional, sensory, conceptual, and imaginative investments. Exceptional offers for game documentation and socialization.
How is it structured? In the first session, we knead the clay with our hands: we manipulate, try, and retry, create, and transform. The imprints: shells, bottle caps, wheels, large and small cookie cutters create a fantastic world. A sheet of clay, what surprises! Stecchini, sticks for skewering, digging, drawing in a different way. Little architects: let’s build on the clay plan the flowers, the houses, the cities of our imagination;
• Color on our treasures: yellow, red, blue, green, and orange to bring joy to our creations.: Workshops

Friday, October 17, 2025
Canossian Kindergarten, Via Dei Paradisi, 4, Trento
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM

ALEX AND MAYA. THE ENIGMA REVEALED!

with Luca Salvagno, comic artist. Visual Storytelling. Beginning, development, and end of a story. Comic and storytelling workshop – telling stories through comics and short films.

Alex and Maya. The Enigma Unveiled! is a Visual Storytelling workshop for preschool children, led by Luca Salvagno. The workshop begins with a short narration that introduces children to an imaginary world. Here’s the ‘story opening’: “In a futuristic city, a young detective named Alex discovers a mysterious symbol appearing in various corners of the city. The comics he read as a child, full of heroes and adventures, inspire him to investigate. His curiosity leads him to meet a talented hacker, Maya, who has noticed the same symbol in computer codes. Together, they decide to join forces to uncover the mystery behind this enigmatic sign.”

Keep readingHow it is structured: IMAGINATIVE PHASE: Brainstorming. All ideas are collected and written down.
PLANNING PHASE 1: Division into small groups (four or five members). Development of different narrative lines.
PLANNING PHASE 2: Transformation of notes into a screenplay/storyboard. Division of tasks (dialogues and captions, backgrounds, characters, objects, sounds). EXECUTION PHASE: Creation of the panels.
CONCLUSION: Presentation of the panels and group reports. : Workshops

Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Pietro Pedrotti Kindergarten, Asilo Pedrotti 2, Trento
10:00 AM – 10:40 AM and 10:50 AM – 11:30 AM

Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Canossian Kindergarten, Via Dei Paradisi, 4, Trento
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM

INTERVALLO. Performance Lab for Knick-knacks

with Alessio Kogoj, actor and playwright. Theater workshop – actions are an element of life.

Within the exhibition dedicated to Knick-knacks ‒ non-copyrighted materials, a legacy of the pedagogical experience of Rosa and Carolina Agazzi ‒ Alessio Kogoj’s performance titled “Intervallo” opens a magical space within the display, a space for discovery and surprise. The immediate reference is to gestures and minor techniques that overlap and interact, requiring and presupposing the use of ‘junk’ materials.

Keep readingAccording to the Agazzian method, “cianfrusaglie” are everyday objects and materials of little value that are presented for what they are: concrete, simple, evocative items such as buttons, coat hangers, bottle caps, slats, bottles, and vases. These are objects that, when used by children, have the ability to transform small events into opportunities for linguistic and perceptual learning. In a suspended time— a performative moment of viewing and listening—unexpected materials emerge from a large box, revealing themselves one after another and provoking wonder and amazement. Each spectator, seduced by unexpected suggestions, allows themselves to be carried by emotions. : Workshops

Friday, October 24, 2020
Primary School La Vela, Via Saibanti, Rovereto (TN)
10:00 – 10:40, 10:50 – 11:30

INTONARUMORI. The Foley artist’s knick-knacks

With Mirko Porta and Daniele Marinelli
Foley Artist Workshop: how to create ambient sounds, ‘room noises,’ for cinematic works. In collaboration with Massimiliano Prezioso, Marco Ciorba, and the Sound Creators Association, Rome.


INTONARUMORI LABORATORY: THE TRASH OF FOLEY ARTISTS introduces one of the fundamental moments in the creation of an audiovisual work, namely the post-production of sound effects. Not many know that, typically in cinema, the sound events recorded during filming are mainly the actors’ voices on set. All other sounds, including sound effects and the film’s soundtrack, are produced at a different time from the filming. Sound effects are composed of ambient sounds—traffic, rain, wind, etc.—that characterize a scene from beginning to end; special sounds—cars, airplanes, gunshots, fires, etc.—that are synchronized with specific events in the scene; and finally, room or Foley sounds—footsteps, fabric rustling, object movements, etc.—that reproduce the sounds and noises produced by the actors on set. In particular, Foley artists use everyday objects, often simple “junk” or “odds and ends” arranged on a work surface in a specially equipped recording studio.

Keep readingThe role of the Foley artist: to record the sounds and noises that give ‘spatiality’ to the scene imagined by the director and screenwriter, transforming a ‘work print’—with image sequences lacking sound—into the film we can watch in cinemas. Sound effects are a fundamental component of a film: imagined by particularly ‘creative’ people, they are the ones that make the ship ‘breathe’ in Tornatore’s “The Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean,” or that make us relive the tragedy of the “Vajont,” or that animate the stories told in “Once Upon a Time in America,” “The Postman,” or “Life is Beautiful.” The Association of Sound Creators represents almost all the sound effect creators in Italy.

ACS Associazione Creatori di Suoni
The Creators of Sounds Association was founded in Rome in 1998 under the name ARI Italian Rumorists Association. Today, it represents nearly all Italian sound effect creators. Few people know that, typically in cinema, the sound events recorded live are mainly the voices of the actors on set. All other sounds, including sound effects and the film’s soundtrack, are produced at a different time from the filming. Sound effects are composed of ‘ambiences’ — traffic, rain, wind, etc. — which characterize a scene throughout; ‘special’ effects — cars, planes, gunshots, fires, etc. — synchronized with specific scene events; and ‘production sounds’ or ‘Foley’ — footsteps, fabric rustling, object movements, etc. — which reproduce the sounds and noises produced by the actors on set.
In particular, Foley artists use everyday objects, often simple ‘knick-knacks,’ arranged on a work surface in a specially equipped recording studio. The Foley artist’s task is to record the sounds and noises that give ‘spatiality’ to the scene imagined by the director and screenwriter, transforming a ‘working copy’—with image sequences lacking sound—into the film we enjoy in cinemas.
: Workshops