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Just like home. It's a place apart, a peaceful place teeming with ideas and activities adapted to children, for great moments to share with the whole family. Chris Le Guen Porcheron was the one who dreamt up the idea. People come here for cooking workshops, art workshops, sewing workshops, baby sign workshops, magic moments, massages, sophrology, yoga... and even sports sessions with a coach. In short, moments of well-being and sharing adapted to all ages. CALM is also a coworking space, a tea room and a catering room where you can enjoy delicious dishes created by a market gardener.

Open to beginners and confirmed artists, the school provides students with the various aesthetic practices. Through drawing, painting, living model, the artists of each class exercise their eyes and hands to techniques used since the night of time. Thus, 27 hours of instruction mark the week and allow each age group to come to express its creativity. Teachers, qualified and attentive, will help you to make progress by valuing your efforts and your work.

A graduate of the École des Beaux-arts de Poitiers and C.A.F.A.S., Richard Gautier is an exceptional painter who perfectly masters oil painting, watercolour and of course drawing. It is therefore at his workshop that he proposes to discover his art and teach you the basics, unless you come to perfection in which case, you will be enchanted by his talents to work light. It will teach you, in particular, oil painting, in the way of the Flemish and the Venetians, which allows for more real light than nature.

Theresa and Pierre are booksellers. But Theresa is also a seamstress, she is even tailor-made to be precise. This profession, which has almost no representatives in France, now counts the bookseller who, in the bottom of his armchair (the name of the bookshop) proposes sewing courses. After studying psychology and then becoming a bookseller, Theresa returned to his first love: sewing. It is formed to know everything, the creation of the expert handling of the sewing machine. And she is happy to share her passion today with those who love to do things with their ten fingers.

A few years ago, sewing was a necessity; Don't buy a new trousers as soon as there was a small hole! We recousait, we rapiéçait and for the most creative, we tricotait and created clothes. Who doesn't have a wool sweater knitted by her grandma in his closet? Now, we consume clothes like food, yet knowing how to use a sewing machine is far from useless and the basics get fast. Why not do it? You will be surprised at everything you can learn to do in a little time!

Les Ateliers du Baluchon is a performing arts troupe based in Niort. They offer a variety of courses, from theater and improvisation to musical comedy and singing. Classes are suitable for all levels, from beginner to professional. However, please note that timetables are subject to change.