Artisan workshops in Bologna

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• A handmade Christmas in Bologna: the Santa Lucia fair, the nativity scenes and a workshop for your presents

  Under the Servi portico nativity figurines have been sold for centuries, in Bolognese nativity scenes someone is always asleep, and the best present can be made by hand. A December day in Bologna, from the fair to the workshop.

• What to do in Bologna as a couple: a workshop for two, from the wheel to silver

  After the third dinner in the centre the question changes: what can you do together that is not sitting across a table? The crafts that work for two, how booking works on Handsome, and how to build a day in Bologna around the workshop.

• Adult birthday party in Bologna: a private craft workshop instead of the usual dinner

  You make something instead of consuming it: two or three hours at a Maker's table, a handmade object for everyone and a bill agreed upfront. How many people to invite, which craft to pick and how to organise it with a single request.

• Onboarding new hires in Bologna: a craft workshop instead of the welcome lunch

  A welcome lunch introduces two colleagues and a menu. A hands-on workshop puts new hires side by side on the same task and ends with an object. Formats, techniques, what to ask, and how to do it with one point of contact.

• A weekend in Bologna with a craft workshop on the schedule: two days built around one session

  Not a list of things to see: a weekend with one fixed appointment in a workshop and the rest of the hours arranged around the neighbourhood it sits in. Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning, how to choose, how booking works, what you take home.

• Organising a craft market in Bologna? Event page, tickets and exhibitor call in one place

  Permits stay with the City; dates, venue and criteria are yours. Event page, free QR tickets, an open call that reaches Makers in the province and linked workshops come from Handsome, free of charge.

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  Workshop space in Bologna: how to choose it and what to ask

  The four ways to run workshops without your own studio, the technical checklist on water, air, power and capacity, and who is liable for damage towards participants.

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  Filling a workshop in Bologna in one week: where the people who book actually are

  Workshop published, date approaching, three sign-ups out of eight. One action a day for seven days, colleague to colleague: where the people who book in Bologna actually are, and what to do when seats are still empty three days out.