Art History CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Students will explore artistic movements from medieval art up to the 20th century.
Art is best enjoyed in person, and for this reason our course includes many visits to the most famous Florentine museums, where you can view in the flesh the works of the greatest masters of art.
Get to know, or deepen your knowledge of art, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, through a first-hand study of the Florentine school, from Giotto to Masaccio, from Leonardo to Michelangelo and Raffaello, and up to Fattori and Signorini, peers of the French Impressionists.
This is a Basic level course, includes the issuing of a Certificate, and is available in both Italian and English.
Program
The course includes a journey through the painting, sculpture and architecture of the Florentine Renaissance. The different trends, works and figures of the artists will be studied through 3 aspects:
1. The artistic techniques
2. The relationship between the artist and society
3. The philosophical background of the artist and the client
Lessons per week: 4 (55 minutes per lesson)
Standard English CourseGeneral
Reduced rate of EUR 180 per week available for those who wish to reserve 20 hours at a time.
Lessons per week: 10 (60 minutes per lesson)
Multimedia Photography ProfessionalEnglish & Photography course
The full duration of this course is 9 months which will cover 9 different models.Learn every aspect of photographic practice, in its many facets, thanks to the Professional Photography course. Acquire all the technical skills, from shooting to post-production, to get yourself inside the market with a high level of professionalism, or even just to deepen this passion at an enhanced level.
Master the solid practical and theoretical foundations of both Digital and Analogue photography, and move towards the world of professionalism with this Professional Photography course !
You’ll use both digital and analogue cameras, you’ll get to learn the History of Photography,
artistic composition, films, development, the pre-visualization of the image, and at the end of the course you’ll create your group-theme project, culminating in a final exhibition of the works produced during the academic year.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Fine Art Analogue PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Learn every aspect of photographic practice, in its many facets, thanks to the Professional Photography course. Acquire all the technical skills, from shooting to post-production, to get yourself inside the market with a high level of professionalism, or even just to deepen this passion at an enhanced level.
Master the solid practical and theoretical foundations of both Digital and Analogue photography, and move towards the world of professionalism with this Professional Photography course !
You’ll use both digital and analogue cameras, you’ll get to learn the History of Photography,
artistic composition, films, development, the pre-visualization of the image, and at the end of the course you’ll create your group-theme project, culminating in a final exhibition of the works produced during the academic year.
From October 21, 2024 to July 26 2025.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Video Production ProfessionalEnglish & Digital Media course
With the Professional Video course you’ll be able to coordinate small productions, and conceive and implement your own ideas, as well as take part in a work group.
You’ll learn how to use a videocamera correctly, and to frame quickly and safely; to manage light and audio sources; to shoot by hand, and fixed or stabilized mobile supports. You’ll also learn to manage filming, and multimedia resources; to choose the shots, to cut them at the right point, and to put them together in editing. You’ll use titling and graphic optimization tools to animate opening and closing credits, captions, subtitles and text panels, logos, graphic elements and photographs.
Acquire all the necessary skills to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to learn to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you intend to work in this field, and are looking for professional training, this is the course for you. It’s also suitable for journalists, bloggers, and people from other areas of communication, who want to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background.
Program:
Analysis of audiovisual language
Short history of cinema through important examples
Television and other forms of video production through important examples: television formats, advertising, musical video clips, TV series and Video Art.
Realize the production of a video.
Pre-production
Production
Post-production
Distribution
Prepare yourself for the job market
The course provides for the development of one or more collective and/or individual themed projects, that will conclude with a final exhibition of the works. Themes and expressive forms will be chosen in the classroom, based on the level of knowledge of the students in the class.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Creative Writing CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
This course focuses on creative writing designed for journalism, web and advertising.With the help of writers, journalists an expert copywriters, you’ll learn to develop your own stylistic and narrative identity, practicing writing in all its diverse aspects. You’ll learn the techniques and methodologies to carry out the narrator’s complex profession – whether it be journalism, fiction, copywriting or non-fiction.
Creativity and writing skills can be learned, stimulated and improved: writing and reading as much as possible are the basis for developing one’s skills to the maximum, but there are techniques and methods, which, with the help of writing professionals, can evolve quickly and successfully.
Discover and develop your poetic side, and narrative skills, learning how to use and modulate writing in all its many areas – from fiction to journalism, and from copywriting to informational.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Basic Painting and Drawing CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Students will learn to interpret the forms of still-life and figurative drawings using live models and various materials.
This course runs as 2 days of 3 hours of lessons per week or as 3 days of 2 hours of lessons per week.
Few people would not like to know how to draw and paint: two art forms, thanks to which you can develop your creativity, relax, have fun, and why not, get results which can also be useful professionally.
With our course you’ll learn these crafts from the ground up, eventually being able to fully develop your latent potential, and finding the style that suits you best.
From charcoal to sanguine (red chalk), then egg tempera, oils and acrylics: with this Drawing and Painting course you will end up with a complete overview of the most important artistic techniques, while being patiently instructed by our art masters.
Program
During the Drawing course the student will be introduced to the use of various materials, such as charcoal, sanguine, and graphite pencil.
With regards to the Painting course, various mediums will be studied, including egg tempera, oil and acrylic paints.
You’ll get acquainted with various materials, through interpreting the forms of Still Life and the Human Figure, using a live model. You can also work on developing your own artistic language, or copying a work of art.
Lessons per week: 6 (55 minutes per lesson)
Basic Sculpture Course English & Arts & Literature course
Students will learn about a wide variety of techniques and media, including clay modelling, marble sculpture, plaster and wood-cut.
This course runs as 2 days of 3 hours of lessons per week or as 3 days of 2 hours of lessons per week. With our Sculpture course you’ll learn the fascinating technique of this art, experience the pleasure of modeling, and bringing an object to life with your own hands – all monitored by expert art masters in their highly equipped “atelier”.
You’ll discover the beauty of this ancient technique, under the watchful and attentive eye of our teachers, who will guide you inside this complex and passionate discipline.
From clay modeling, to marble sculpture, to wood carving; all introduced by drawing, a necessary departure for any realization. Depending on your level and type of course, you can also decide whether to concentrate on one or more specific techniques.
Program:
Within this course there is a wide choice of techniques, from clay modeling to marble sculpture, to wood carving.
Depending on the student’s level, and the type of course chosen, it’ll be possible to focus on one technique, or to choose to work on multiple materials.
At the beginning of the course, there will be an introduction to drawing, based on sculpture, but common to a variety of techniques.
Lessons per week: 6 (55 minutes per lesson)
Basic Fashion Design CourseEnglish for Fashion course
Students will learn about the practical ability of fashion design, the creation of figurines and everything that is fashionable.
This course runs as 2 days of 3 hours of lessons per week or as 3 days of 2 hours of lessons per week.
Create your own original fashion line, in a journey that from Fashion Design will take you from the study and analysis of fashion, to the practical realization of your line, through the design of beautiful sketches, giving life to everything that is fashion.
If you believe that fashion is for you, with us you’ll develop a specific and multifaceted sensitivity regarding everything that makes up fashion, including new trends, technical-stylistic elements of the garments, influences from the history of costume, and first theoretical approaches to working methodology and planning of collections. Enter the fashion world as a professional, and become a designer and stylist!
From anatomy to color, passing through the study of fabric and the history of fashion, and depending on your specific interests and chosen themes, it’ll be possible to concentrate on specific topics, and go deeper into what most interests you: you can analyze the history of costume, study a specific stylist in depth, concentrate on the preparation of a presentation “book”, or dedicate yourself to the design of accessories, bags and shoes.
Lessons per week: 6 (55 minutes per lesson)
Digital Photography MonthlyEnglish & Photography course
Learn to look at and manage everyday reality through a camera viewfinder: this Digital Photography course will provide you with all the skills necessary to successfully explore and practice the world of Digital Photography, in the time of pixel images.
If you’re driven by a creative impetus, but starved of technique and composition skills, you can learn to perfect your images with the right level of post-production. With the guidance of our professionals, you’ll analyse in depth all the various shooting techniques, in order to better master your camera.
From shooting to various digital technologies, from different models of cameras to post production and file export: we’ll guide you from image capture, through to editing and printing onto fine art paper.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Analogue Photography MonthlyEnglish & Photography course
In Analogue Photography you’ll find an oasis, amongst the chaos and speed, a place to slow down, to think and to reflect, a place where the magic of light will bring out your artistic self.
Enter the fascinating world of Analogue Photography, and learn what the various chemical processes are to obtain high quality images, without ever resorting to using a computer. It will all be strictly analog, with film, and in the darkroom.
Through this course you’ll learn the difference between various types of film cameras, you’ll study the problems related to correct exposure, and the theory and practice of developing negatives, ultimately arriving at printing fine art
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Video Production MonthlyEnglish & Digital Media course
With the Video Production course, you’ll learn how to use a videocamera correctly, and to frame quickly and safely; to manage light and audio sources; to shoot by hand, and fixed or stabilized mobile supports. You’ll also learn to manage filming, and multimedia resources; to choose the shots, to cut them at the right point, and to put them together in editing.
Acquire the basic skills to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to learn to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you intend to work in this field, and are looking for professional training, this is the course for you. It’s also suitable for journalists, bloggers, and people from other areas of communication, who want to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background.
Program:
Pre-production
Production
Post-production
The course provides for the development of one or more collective and/or individual themed projects. Themes and expressive forms will be chosen in the classroom, based on the level of knowledge of the students in the class.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Editing and Storytelling MonthlyEnglish & Arts & Literature course
If you love Photography, you may know that the term “Storytelling” is a recent one, but not the art of telling stories through images – an indispensable ability for anyone working in this field, which you can learn and develop with us. Using this skill, you’ll be able to integrate yourself more easily into the workplace, in the areas of both journalism and advertising, as well as evolving your own personal poetic narrative.
Follow with us an educational journey, through the art of storytelling through imagery, which focuses on the study and understanding of the construction and putting together of a static film, a narration through photography that will enable you to offer your work for any end, either commercial or personal.
You’ll participate in a serious and professional Editing and Storytelling course, aimed at both beginners and professional photographers.
You’ll learn to bring out the facts by transmitting a pathos worthy of a playwright, with parallels, symbolism and metaphors, transforming something that was to be a simple news article, into something more like a work of literature. This is a technical and artistic skill that involves various different fields, including photography, with a particular focus on photojournalism.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Video Editing MonthlyEnglish & Digital Media course
With the Editing course you’ll learn one of the most important techniques of video production: Editing. If you are intending to work in the sector, and you’re looking for professional training, this is a fundamentally important skill, as it is also for journalists, bloggers, and people working in other fields of communication, who wish to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background.
Audiovisual editing is based on 2 simple and repeated gestures: Cut and Paste. We these two gestures we can create films of every kind. It doesn’t matter how beautiful, long or what type they are, this course will enable you to understand how to manage filming and all the available audiovisual material; choose the shots, cut them at the right point, and synchronize them correctly.
For editing you’ll use Adobe Premier Pro, the main and most used software on the market, and you’ll be shown the correct use of all the basic features. The course also involves the development of one or more collective and/or themed projects. We’ll choose together the ideas and expressive forms on which to work, for some real and authentic video editing.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Video Titles and Graphics MonthlyEnglish & Digital Media course
With the Graphic Titling course, you’ll learn to use titling tools, to optimize the graphics and photos for video, and to animate everything: opening and closing titles, captions, sub-titles and text-panels, logos, graphics and photographs, key frames.
The style of a graphic, or the choice of a font can change the look of a film. They provide a different visual aesthetic, but can also change their use. In fact, titles and graphics also work to transmit useful information in a clear and direct way.
The course will use Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Photoshop, and you’ll be taught the basic features, to use this software correctly.
The course is aimed at anyone who wishes to improve their knowledge of video editing, using basic notions of animated graphics, and titling; but also at journalists, bloggers and people in other fields of communication, who want to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background. Finally, to photographers who wish to create an animated video portfolio.
Program:
Titling tools in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Writing titles, sub-titles and credits in a video.
The use of Adobe Photoshop to optimize graphic and photographic elements for video.
The use of Key Frames for animating graphic and photographic elements.
Inserting a custom graphic into a video.
Creation of animated photo galleries.
Writing captions and text panels with animated graphic elements.
Video export in multiple formats.
The course provides for the development of one or more collective and / or individual projects. Topics and forms of expression will be chosen in the classroom, based on the level of knowledge of the students in the class.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
One-to-One Creative Writing CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
This course focuses on creative writing designed for journalism, web and advertising.
Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week.
With the private Creative Writing course you’ll discover and develop your poetic side, and narrative skills, learning how to use and modulate writing in all its many areas – from fiction to journalism, from copywriting to informational, based on your own personal attitudes and needs.
Creativity and writing skills can be learned, stimulated and improved: writing and reading as much as possible are the basis for developing one’s skills to the maximum, but there are techniques and methods, which, with the help of writing professionals, can evolve quickly and successfully.
With the help of writers, journalists and expert copywriters, you’ll learn to develop your own stylistic and narrative identity, deepening your writing with a program tailored to your personal style, your aims, and your own unique creative identity.
Program:
Methodologies, bibliography, the birth and development of an idea, creative thinking, styles, narrative structures; everything that you need to pursue a career in journalism, fiction, non-fiction or copywriting, totally based on you. Contact our teachers to find out what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Food Storytelling MonthlyEnglish & Culture course
With the aid of the Food Storytelling course, you’ll learn how to communicate food, wine, and “terroir” effectively, using various different channels. This is an indispensable skill if you want to work as a photographer for restaurants, food companies, and everything else related to the culinary world.
From journalism to marketing, Food and Wine narration is the means that allows us to convey a concept and a story in a precise and documented way, but at the same time, engaging, stimulating empathy, and creating a real and truly immersive experience, helped by new technology.
Through classroom lectures and external lessons, this course offers you the opportunity to learn the linguistic codes, the method, and the platforms to build stories that don’t just talk about food and its protagonists, but rather, TELL it. At the end of the course you’ll present your own personal and original project, linked to a chosen theme ( a tradition, a dish, or a typical Tuscan product )
Lessons per week: 50 (55 minutes per lesson)
Semi-Intensive Painting and Drawing Course English & Arts & Literature course
Students will learn to interpret the forms of still-life and figurative drawings using live models and various materials.
Few people would not like to know how to draw and paint: two arts through which you can develop your creativity, relax, have fun, and why not, get useful results professionally as well.
With our course you will learn these techniques from their basics, coming to fully develop your latent potential to find the technique that suits you best.
From charcoal to sanguine, moving on to tempera, oil color and acrylic: with the drawing and painting course you will have a complete overview of the main artistic techniques, patiently followed by our art masters.
Program:
During the course you will introduce the student to the use of various materials such as charcoal, sanguine and graphite (lapis), as far as drawing is concerned.
As for painting, tempera, oil color and acrylic color will be studied.
One will become acquainted with various materials by interpreting the forms of still life and the figure of the live model. You will also be able to work on developing your own language or copying a work.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Semi-Intensive Fashion Design CourseEnglish for Fashion course
Students will learn about the practical ability of fashion design, the creation of figurines and everything that is fashionable.
Create your own original fashion line, in a journey that from Fashion Design will take you from the study and analysis of fashion, to the practical realization of your line, through the design of beautiful sketches, giving life to everything that is fashion.
If you believe that fashion is for you, with us you’ll develop a specific and multifaceted sensitivity regarding everything that makes up fashion, including new trends, technical-stylistic elements of the garments, influences from the history of costume, and first theoretical approaches to working methodology and planning of collections. Enter the fashion world as a professional, and become a designer and stylist!
From anatomy to color, passing through the study of fabric and the history of fashion, and depending on your specific interests and chosen themes, it’ll be possible to concentrate on specific topics, and go deeper into what most interests you: you can analyze the history of costume, study a specific stylist in depth, concentrate on the preparation of a presentation “book”, or dedicate yourself to the design of accessories, bags and shoes.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Semi-Intensive Sculpture CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Students will learn about a wide variety of techniques and media, including clay modelling, marble sculpture, plaster and wood-cut.
With our Sculpture course you’ll learn the fascinating technique of this art, experience the pleasure of modeling, and bringing an object to life with your own hands – all monitored by expert art masters in their highly equipped “atelier”.
You’ll discover the beauty of this ancient technique, under the watchful and attentive eye of our teachers, who will guide you inside this complex and passionate discipline.
From clay modeling, to marble sculpture, to wood carving; all introduced by drawing, a necessary departure for any realization. Depending on your level and type of course, you can also decide whether to concentrate on one or more specific techniques.
Program:
Within this course there is a wide choice of techniques, from clay modeling to marble sculpture, to wood carving.
Depending on the student’s level, and the type of course chosen, it’ll be possible to focus on one technique, or to choose to work on multiple materials.
At the beginning of the course, there will be an introduction to drawing, based on sculpture, but common to a variety of techniques.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Jewelry Design Intensive Course (3 months)Super Intensive (+35h) course
Registration deadline: 29 Dec.For you, the elegant and rich art of Jewelry design will no longer hold any secrets, thanks to this course, entrusted to the Florentine Goldsmith Arts Laboratory (LAO).
You’ll learn to use watercolors to render beautiful jewelry, and you’ll become a goldsmith designer, taken in hand by this course, which starts from basic concepts, within anyone’s reach. You’ll be shown a refined technique, requiring both time and patience, but which ensures wonderful results, and offers future designers the opportunity to show their customers a realistic preview of how the final jewelry-piece will look.
At the same time, you’ll examine in detail the technical characteristics required for the design of various types of jewelry, including rings, bracelets, earrings, and necklaces, both with and without stones. During the last phase, with the help of our instructors, you’ll realize some design ideas for the creation of coordinated sets of jewelry.
from January 08 until March 30, 2024
(registration deadline: Dec/29/23)
The exact days and times will be communicated 1 week before the beginning of the course.
Lessons per week: 5 (55 minutes per lesson)
One-to-One Editing and Storytelling PrivateEnglish & Culture course
If you love Photography, you may know that the term “Storytelling” is a recent one, but not the art of telling stories through images – an indispensable ability for anyone working in this field, which you can learn and develop with us. Using this skill, you’ll be able to integrate yourself more easily into the workplace, in the areas of both journalism and advertising, as well as evolving your own personal poetic narrative.
Embark on an educational journey, through the art of storytelling through imagery, which focuses on the study and understanding of the construction and putting together of a static film, a narration through photography that will enable you to offer your work for any end, either commercial or personal.
You’ll participate in a serious and professional Editing and Storytelling course, aimed at both beginners and professional photographers. You’ll learn to bring out the facts by transmitting a pathos worthy of a playwright, with parallels, symbolism and metaphors, transforming something that was to be a simple news article, into something more like a work of literature. This is a technical and artistic skill that involves various different fields, including photography, with a particular focus on photojournalism.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
One-to-One Video EditingEnglish & Digital Media course
With the Private Editing course you’ll be able to perfect your editing skills, or carry through a project with the help and support of professionals in the sector. If you are intending to work in the field of video, editing is a fundamentally important skill, as it is also for journalists, bloggers and people working in other areas of communication, who wish to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background.
Audiovisual editing is based on 2 simple and repeated gestures: Cut and Paste. We these two gestures we can create films of every kind. It doesn’t matter how beautiful, long or what type they are, this course will enable you to understand how to manage filming and all the available audiovisual material; choose the shots, cut them at the right point, and synchronize them correctly.
Adobe Premiere, file acquisition, sound effects, titles, volume, fades, post-production…..editing has many aspects and techniques, which you can deepen or learn with us, to enter a working context, or to carry out your own projects.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
One-to-One Video ShootingEnglish & Digital Media course
Starting dates available on request.With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
One-to-One Video ProductionEnglish & Digital Media course
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
One-to-One Digital PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. Learn to look at and manage everyday reality through a camera viewfinder: this Private Digital Photography course was created to provide you with, or deepen all the skills necessary to successfully explore and practice the world of Digital Photography, in the time of pixel images. Learn all the necessary skills, from shooting to post-production, for those who practice digital photography!
From shooting to various digital technologies, from different models of cameras to post production and file export: we’ll guide you from image capture, through to editing and printing onto fine art paper, planning everything together with you, according to your needs and professional requirements.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
One-to-One Analogue PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. In Analog Photography you’ll find an oasis, amongst the chaos and speed, a place to slow down, to think and to reflect, a place where the magic of light will bring out your artistic self.
Learn about the fascinating world of Analog Photography, based on your interests and knowledge, under the exclusive guidance of our photography professionals. All this without ever resorting to using a computer. It will all be strictly analog, with film, and in the darkroom.
Being a private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, depending on your personal and professional needs.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Creative Writing CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
This course focuses on creative writing designed for journalism, web and advertising.
Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the private creative writing course you will discover and develop your poetics and your narrative skills, to learn how to use and modulate writing in all its many fields - from fiction to journalism, passing through copywriting and dissemination, according to your personal attitudes and needs.
Creativity and writing ability can be trained, stimulated and improved: writing and reading as much as possible are the basis for developing one's skills to the fullest, but there are techniques and methods which, with the help of writing professionals, they can evolve quickly and successfully.
Thanks to expert writers, journalists and copywriters, you will learn to develop your stylistic and narrative identity, deepening your writing with a program tailored to your style, your requests and your creative footprint.
Program:
Methodologies, bibliography, the birth and development of an idea, creative thinking, styles, narrative structures; everything you need to embark on a career in journalism, fiction, non-fiction or copywriting, according to your needs and requests. Contact our teachers to find out what's right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Stone Setting Intensive Course (3 months) English & Arts & Literature course
This course covers stone setting techniques related to the great classics and contemporary Florentine style. Registration deadline for the course starting between 08 Jan to 31 Mar: 29 Dec.
Registration deadline for the course starting 07 Oct to 20 Dec: 15 Sep.With the Stone Setting course you’ll learn a complex technique necessary to carry out the daily work of a goldsmith, whether you are a young apprentice or an expert craftsperson.
Enter a well-equipped goldsmith’s workshop, and learn the art of setting gems, through demonstrations and exercises that will cover all the stages of metal setting, using semi-finished silver, and synthetic stones, predominantly high-quality cubic zirconia, offering a perfect imitation of actual precious stones.
The techniques taught are related to the great Florentine style, both classic and contemporary. Starting with relatively simple embedding techniques, such as bezels and claws, you’ll soon advance to more complex work, such as pavé.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Creative Writing CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
This course focuses on creative writing designed for journalism, web and advertising.
Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the private Creative Writing course you’ll discover and develop your poetic side, and narrative skills, learning how to use and modulate writing in all its many areas – from fiction to journalism, from copywriting to informational, based on your own personal attitudes and needs.
Creativity and writing skills can be learned, stimulated and improved: writing and reading as much as possible are the basis for developing one’s skills to the maximum, but there are techniques and methods, which, with the help of writing professionals, can evolve quickly and successfully.
With the help of writers, journalists and expert copywriters, you’ll learn to develop your own stylistic and narrative identity, deepening your writing with a program tailored to your personal style, your aims, and your own unique creative identity.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Editing and Storytelling PrivateEnglish & Culture course
If you love Photography, you may know that the term “Storytelling” is a recent one, but not the art of telling stories through images – an indispensable ability for anyone working in this field, which you can learn and develop with us. Using this skill, you’ll be able to integrate yourself more easily into the workplace, in the areas of both journalism and advertising, as well as evolving your own personal poetic narrative.
Follow with us an educational journey, through the art of storytelling through imagery, which focuses on the study and understanding of the construction and putting together of a static film, a narration through photography that will enable you to offer your work for any end, either commercial or personal.
You’ll participate in a serious and professional Editing and Storytelling course, aimed at both beginners and professional photographers. You’ll learn to bring out the facts by transmitting a pathos worthy of a playwright, with parallels, symbolism and metaphors, transforming something that was to be a simple news article, into something more like a work of literature. This is a technical and artistic skill that involves various different fields, including photography, with a particular focus on photojournalism.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Video ShootingEnglish & Digital Media course
Starting dates available on request.Students have 6 lessons 3 hours a day.With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Video ProductionEnglish & Digital Media course
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Analogue PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. In Analog Photography you’ll find an oasis, amongst the chaos and speed, a place to slow down, to think and to reflect, a place where the magic of light will bring out your artistic self.
Learn about the fascinating world of Analog Photography, based on your interests and knowledge, under the exclusive guidance of our photography professionals. All this without ever resorting to using a computer. It will all be strictly analog, with film, and in the darkroom.
Being a private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, depending on your personal and professional needs.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Video EditingEnglish & Digital Media course
Starting dates available on request.Students have 6 lessons 3 hours a day.With the Private Editing course you’ll be able to perfect your editing skills, or carry through a project with the help and support of professionals in the sector. If you are intending to work in the field of video, editing is a fundamentally important skill, as it is also for journalists, bloggers and people working in other areas of communication, who wish to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background.
Audiovisual editing is based on 2 simple and repeated gestures: Cut and Paste. We these two gestures we can create films of every kind. It doesn’t matter how beautiful, long or what type they are, this course will enable you to understand how to manage filming and all the available audiovisual material; choose the shots, cut them at the right point, and synchronize them correctly.
Adobe Premiere, file acquisition, sound effects, titles, volume, fades, post-production…..editing has many aspects and techniques, which you can deepen or learn with us, to enter a working context, or to carry out your own projects.
Program:
Being a Private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, according to your professional needs. Adobe Premiere, video acquisition and export, clip selection and assembly, volume, sound effects, post-production……contact our instructors to develop a program tailored to your specific requirements.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Digital PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Starting dates available on request.Students have 6 lessons 3 hours a day. Learn to look at and manage everyday reality through a camera viewfinder: this Private Digital Photography course was created to provide you with, or deepen all the skills necessary to successfully explore and practice the world of Digital Photography, in the time of pixel images. Learn all the necessary skills, from shooting to post-production, for those who practice digital photography!
From shooting to various digital technologies, from different models of cameras to post production and file export: we’ll guide you from image capture, through to editing and printing onto fine art paper, planning everything together with you, according to your needs and professional requirements.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Creative Writing Course English & Arts & Literature course
This course focuses on creative writing designed for journalism, web and advertising.
Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the private Creative Writing course you’ll discover and develop your poetic side, and narrative skills, learning how to use and modulate writing in all its many areas – from fiction to journalism, from copywriting to informational, based on your own personal attitudes and needs.
Creativity and writing skills can be learned, stimulated and improved: writing and reading as much as possible are the basis for developing one’s skills to the maximum, but there are techniques and methods, which, with the help of writing professionals, can evolve quickly and successfully.
With the help of writers, journalists and expert copywriters, you’ll learn to develop your own stylistic and narrative identity, deepening your writing with a program tailored to your personal style, your aims, and your own unique creative identity.
Program:
Methodologies, bibliography, the birth and development of an idea, creative thinking, styles, narrative structures; everything that you need to pursue a career in journalism, fiction, non-fiction or copywriting, totally based on you. Contact our teachers to find out what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Miniatures English & Arts & Literature course
Students will learn how to produce a miniature on parchment paper or onboard following the Italian tradition.With the Miniatures course you’ll have the privilege of learning and trying, with our artisans, an ancient and precious art, that of the Miniature, that even now, few know and understand how to practice this meticulous and incomparably elegant technique.
Enter the ancient world of the decoration of codes, live an experience that dates back to the Middle Ages, and retrace the systems and roles of copyist craftsmen! You too will learn how to weave delicate and intricate miniatures on parchment.
From the design to the gold leaf, pigments, parchment and the decorative Capital letters…….our expert craftsmen will patiently guide you in this elaborate technique, until you’re able to produce your own miniatures.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Trompe l’oeil CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Students will learn about the historical background and introduction to the technique of depth by focusing on drawing and painting exercises to render an effective perspective and the 3D look of a distant subject.
With the Trompe l’oeil course you’ll learn this ancient and fascinating technique of illusionist art, to create beautiful decorations, or to amaze others and yourself with these wonderful visual illusions.
Learn how to transform an anonymous wall or window into a beautiful decoration or landscape, change the look of the material thanks to incredible optical techniques, and decorate in the best way even small and characterless spaces.
The course includes drawing and painting exercises of various materials (wood, fabric, glass) to produce particular visual effects such as the effect of softness, roughness and wetness.
Program:
Design of a trompe l’oeil.
Enlarging the design using the squaring technique.
Execution of a trompe l’oeil on canvas or board.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Editing and Storytelling PrivateEnglish & Culture course
If you love Photography, you may know that the term “Storytelling” is a recent one, but not the art of telling stories through images – an indispensable ability for anyone working in this field, which you can learn and develop with us. Using this skill, you’ll be able to integrate yourself more easily into the workplace, in the areas of both journalism and advertising, as well as evolving your own personal poetic narrative.
Follow with us an educational journey, through the art of storytelling through imagery, which focuses on the study and understanding of the construction and putting together of a static film, a narration through photography that will enable you to offer your work for any end, either commercial or personal.
You’ll participate in a serious and professional Editing and Storytelling course, aimed at both beginners and professional photographers. You’ll learn to bring out the facts by transmitting a pathos worthy of a playwright, with parallels, symbolism and metaphors, transforming something that was to be a simple news article, into something more like a work of literature. This is a technical and artistic skill that involves various different fields, including photography, with a particular focus on photojournalism.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Video EditingEnglish & Digital Media course
Starting dates available on request.Students have 6 lessons, 3 hours a day. With the Private Editing course you’ll be able to perfect your editing skills, or carry through a project with the help and support of professionals in the sector. If you are intending to work in the field of video, editing is a fundamentally important skill, as it is also for journalists, bloggers and people working in other areas of communication, who wish to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background.
Audiovisual editing is based on 2 simple and repeated gestures: Cut and Paste. We these two gestures we can create films of every kind. It doesn’t matter how beautiful, long or what type they are, this course will enable you to understand how to manage filming and all the available audiovisual material; choose the shots, cut them at the right point, and synchronize them correctly.
Adobe Premiere, file acquisition, sound effects, titles, volume, fades, post-production…..editing has many aspects and techniques, which you can deepen or learn with us, to enter a working context, or to carry out your own projects.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Video ShootingEnglish & Digital Media course
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Video ProductionEnglish & Digital Media course
Starting dates available on request.With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Decoration on Wood CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Students will learn about the preparation of the wood and explanation with a practical demonstration for the reproduction of different effects.Learn to transform an anonymous piece of wood, or an old piece of furniture, into a work of art, with our course in Wood Decoration.
You’ll immerse yourself in an ancient and wonderful art, which will result in you developing a new and deeper relationship with this versatile and natural material, to the point where you’ll be able to create your own beautiful decorations.
From the preparation of the wood to working on it, using monochrome for bas-relief, “Shabby” style, Craquelè, Arte Povera and the Venetian style… the possibilities offered by this art are many, and you’ll be able to fully explore them together with our master craftsmen.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Pyrography on WoodEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Students will learn about the reproduction of the chosen design on wooden board using different techniques to create depth.Learn the fascinating technique of “writing with fire” (“pyrography” in ancient Greek), an art that is based on a technique of hot engraving on wood. Using a special kind of pen, you can mark your designs on wood, and develop your creativity.
The results are very effective and beautiful, and even though the technique is complex, it’s within anyone’s reach: become a Fire Artist with our Pyrography course!
You’ll choose a design that will then be reproduced on a wooden support by burning, creating delicate “chiaroscuro” (light and dark) effects.
Program:
Choice of design
Reproduction and tracing
Burning onto wood using Pyrography
Chiaroscuro effects to create depth
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Analogue PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Starting dates available on request.In Analog Photography you’ll find an oasis, amongst the chaos and speed, a place to slow down, to think and to reflect, a place where the magic of light will bring out your artistic self.
Learn about the fascinating world of Analog Photography, based on your interests and knowledge, under the exclusive guidance of our photography professionals. All this without ever resorting to using a computer. It will all be strictly analog, with film, and in the darkroom.
Being a private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, depending on your personal and professional needs.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Digital PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Starting dates available on request.Students have 6 lessons, 3 hours a day. In Analog Photography you’ll find an oasis, amongst the chaos and speed, a place to slow down, to think and to reflect, a place where the magic of light will bring out your artistic self.
Learn about the fascinating world of Analog Photography, based on your interests and knowledge, under the exclusive guidance of our photography professionals. All this without ever resorting to using a computer. It will all be strictly analog, with film, and in the darkroom.
Being a private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, depending on your personal and professional needs.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Egg Tempera Painting CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Students will learn about painting with egg tempera and pouncing technique.
This is an ancient technique that became very popular and widely spread in the Middle Ages, and in the early Renaissance period. The main reason for this success was probably due to the fact that tempera paintings were particularly long-lasting: painters like Masaccio or Piero della Francesca were aware that using this technique would make the vivid colors of their works eternal. Finally, another no less important peculiarity of tempera is that it dries quickly.
Program
Preparation of the board using Bologna chalk and rabbit-skin glue
Choosing the subject and pouncing technique
Painting the subject using egg tempera
Golf leaf gilding on some parts of the painting
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Marbled PaperEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Students will learn about the production of decorated paper sheets using the Florentine marbling technique.During the Marbled Paper course, you’ll be shown how to actually produce it, and then use it to amaze all your friends, young and old, creating gift paper, packaging, original coverings and decorations. In our course you’ll learn all the secrets of this ancient craft.
It’s an elegant way of working, highly visual, and at the same time very relaxing to do, producing impressive aesthetic results: Paper Marbling.
In marbled paper the different colors drip onto a very particular liquid, made gelatinous by a seaweed extract. The colors thus remain on the surface, without blending into each other, and thanks to the use of combs, rods and other tools, the spots take on more symmetrical forms, such as the well-known “peacock tail”, or designs similar to actual marble veins, which give their name to this technique.
Program:
° Theory on the preparation of the glue, and colors.
° Explanation of the necessary tools to create the paper sheets.
° Creation of decorated paper sheets using the Florentine marbling technique.
° Using these sheets to cover cardboard objects, and making a folder to hold the sheets produced during the course.
The course is held with a minimum of 1 participant, and a maximum of 4 participants.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Fresco Painting Course English & Arts & Literature course
Students will learn about historic notes and ancient recipes as well as Fresco painting with pigments.With the Fresco course you’ll learn one of the oldest pictorial techniques in the world, which from prehistoric times, and up until today, has always characterized the work of man. A fresco consists of painting on fresh plaster, with pigments of mineral origin diluted in water,
until it fixes the work on the wall, thanks to a particular chemical process. In this way it can resist both water and wear.
This oldest artistic tradition meets the modern with new painting techniques, which are often used to embellish and decorate private houses, shops, parks and gardens. Learn how to turn an anonymous wall into a work of art!
From historical background to various painting techniques – curling, dusting and fixing – this technique will no longer be a mystery to you.
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Creative Writing CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
This course focuses on creative writing designed for journalism, web and advertising.
Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the private Creative Writing course you’ll discover and develop your poetic side, and narrative skills, learning how to use and modulate writing in all its many areas – from fiction to journalism, from copywriting to informational, based on your own personal attitudes and needs.
Creativity and writing skills can be learned, stimulated and improved: writing and reading as much as possible are the basis for developing one’s skills to the maximum, but there are techniques and methods, which, with the help of writing professionals, can evolve quickly and successfully.
With the help of writers, journalists and expert copywriters, you’ll learn to develop your own stylistic and narrative identity, deepening your writing with a program tailored to your personal style, your aims, and your own unique creative identity.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Jewelry Design Intensive CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Students learn the techniques and concepts relating to jewelry design such as technical drawing, design and rendering.
Registration Deadline: 15th of JuneFor you, the elegant and rich art of Jewelry design will no longer hold any secrets, thanks to this course, entrusted to the Florentine Goldsmith Arts Laboratory (LAO).
You’ll learn to use watercolors to render beautiful jewelry, and you’ll become a goldsmith designer, taken in hand by this course, which starts from basic concepts, within anyone’s reach. You’ll be shown a refined technique, requiring both time and patience, but which ensures wonderful results, and offers future designers the opportunity to show their customers a realistic preview of how the final jewelry-piece will look.
At the same time, you’ll examine in detail the technical characteristics required for the design of various types of jewelry, including rings, bracelets, earrings, and necklaces, both with and without stones. During the last phase, with the help of our instructors, you’ll realize some design ideas for the creation of coordinated sets of jewelry.
Lessons per week: 30 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Video ProductionEnglish & Digital Media course
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Editing and Storytelling PrivateEnglish & Culture course
Begins any Monday.If you love Photography, you may know that the term “Storytelling” is a recent one, but not the art of telling stories through images – an indispensable ability for anyone working in this field, which you can learn and develop with us. Using this skill, you’ll be able to integrate yourself more easily into the workplace, in the areas of both journalism and advertising, as well as evolving your own personal poetic narrative.
Follow with us an educational journey, through the art of storytelling through imagery, which focuses on the study and understanding of the construction and putting together of a static film, a narration through photography that will enable you to offer your work for any end, either commercial or personal.
You’ll participate in a serious and professional Editing and Storytelling course, aimed at both beginners and professional photographers. You’ll learn to bring out the facts by transmitting a pathos worthy of a playwright, with parallels, symbolism and metaphors, transforming something that was to be a simple news article, into something more like a work of literature. This is a technical and artistic skill that involves various different fields, including photography, with a particular focus on photojournalism.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Video ShootingEnglish & Digital Media course
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Digital PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. Learn to look at and manage everyday reality through a camera viewfinder: this Private Digital Photography course was created to provide you with, or deepen all the skills necessary to successfully explore and practice the world of Digital Photography, in the time of pixel images. Learn all the necessary skills, from shooting to post-production, for those who practice digital photography!
From shooting to various digital technologies, from different models of cameras to post production and file export: we’ll guide you from image capture, through to editing and printing onto fine art paper, planning everything together with you, according to your needs and professional requirements.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Video EditingEnglish & Digital Media course
Starting dates available on request.With the Private Editing course you’ll be able to perfect your editing skills, or carry through a project with the help and support of professionals in the sector. If you are intending to work in the field of video, editing is a fundamentally important skill, as it is also for journalists, bloggers and people working in other areas of communication, who wish to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background.
Audiovisual editing is based on 2 simple and repeated gestures: Cut and Paste. We these two gestures we can create films of every kind. It doesn’t matter how beautiful, long or what type they are, this course will enable you to understand how to manage filming and all the available audiovisual material; choose the shots, cut them at the right point, and synchronize them correctly.
Adobe Premiere, file acquisition, sound effects, titles, volume, fades, post-production…..editing has many aspects and techniques, which you can deepen or learn with us, to enter a working context, or to carry out your own projects.
Program:
Being a Private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, according to your professional needs. Adobe Premiere, video acquisition and export, clip selection and assembly, volume, sound effects, post-production……contact our instructors to develop a program tailored to your specific requirements.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Analogue PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. In Analog Photography you’ll find an oasis, amongst the chaos and speed, a place to slow down, to think and to reflect, a place where the magic of light will bring out your artistic self.
Learn about the fascinating world of Analog Photography, based on your interests and knowledge, under the exclusive guidance of our photography professionals. All this without ever resorting to using a computer. It will all be strictly analog, with film, and in the darkroom.
Being a private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, depending on your personal and professional needs.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
MosaicsEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Students will learn to make an actual mosaic, choosing the direct or indirect method.The Mosaics course will introduce you to the design, preparation of the base, cutting of various materials, and the various laying techniques, to then begin to experiment and develop your own style, using the direct or indirect method.
Explore the ancient technique of Mosaic, elegant and long-lasting, used for the decoration of walls, floors, internal and external structures. It’s a precious and eternal art, which only a few, like our craftsmen, still know how to practice with skill.
You’ll learn the different techniques of this art, from the disparate types of mosaic, to the use of color and various materials. The secret of mosaic is hidden in every detail, from the play of shadows, to the illusion of movement, the use of colors, and perspective…
Lessons per week: 10 (55 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Video EditingEnglish & Digital Media course
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the Private Editing course you’ll be able to perfect your editing skills, or carry through a project with the help and support of professionals in the sector. If you are intending to work in the field of video, editing is a fundamentally important skill, as it is also for journalists, bloggers and people working in other areas of communication, who wish to pursue their trade with a qualified technical background.
Audiovisual editing is based on 2 simple and repeated gestures: Cut and Paste. We these two gestures we can create films of every kind. It doesn’t matter how beautiful, long or what type they are, this course will enable you to understand how to manage filming and all the available audiovisual material; choose the shots, cut them at the right point, and synchronize them correctly.
Adobe Premiere, file acquisition, sound effects, titles, volume, fades, post-production…..editing has many aspects and techniques, which you can deepen or learn with us, to enter a working context, or to carry out your own projects.
Program:
Being a Private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, according to your professional needs. Adobe Premiere, video acquisition and export, clip selection and assembly, volume, sound effects, post-production……contact our instructors to develop a program tailored to your specific requirements.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Video ShootingEnglish & Digital Media course
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Digital PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. Learn to look at and manage everyday reality through a camera viewfinder: this Private Digital Photography course was created to provide you with, or deepen all the skills necessary to successfully explore and practice the world of Digital Photography, in the time of pixel images. Learn all the necessary skills, from shooting to post-production, for those who practice digital photography!
From shooting to various digital technologies, from different models of cameras to post production and file export: we’ll guide you from image capture, through to editing and printing onto fine art paper, planning everything together with you, according to your needs and professional requirements.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Analogue PhotographyEnglish & Photography course
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. In Analog Photography you’ll find an oasis, amongst the chaos and speed, a place to slow down, to think and to reflect, a place where the magic of light will bring out your artistic self.
Learn about the fascinating world of Analog Photography, based on your interests and knowledge, under the exclusive guidance of our photography professionals. All this without ever resorting to using a computer. It will all be strictly analog, with film, and in the darkroom.
Being a private course, you’ll be able to agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher, depending on your personal and professional needs.
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Video ProductionEnglish & Digital Media course
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the Private Video course you’ll be able to perfect your skills, or venture into this exciting sector, to the point where you’ll be able to develop small productions and conceive and implement your own specific project.
Acquire the skills you need to offer yourself as a video maker in newsrooms, multimedia agencies, television and film production houses. Video production has taken a global dimension that needs more and more professional and qualified people. You too can become a video maker!
If you want to perfect your method to document and/or build stories using audiovisual language, if you are looking for professional training, or if you have a project to discuss and deepen with professionals in the sector, this is the course for you.
Program:
Being a private course, you can agree a very personalized lesson program with your teacher. Realization of a video, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, leads on the job market…….contact our teachers to understand exactly what is right for you!
Lessons per week: 9 (55 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Editing and Storytelling PrivateEnglish & Culture course
Begins any MondayIf you love Photography, you may know that the term “Storytelling” is a recent one, but not the art of telling stories through images – an indispensable ability for anyone working in this field, which you can learn and develop with us. Using this skill, you’ll be able to integrate yourself more easily into the workplace, in the areas of both journalism and advertising, as well as evolving your own personal poetic narrative.
Follow with us an educational journey, through the art of storytelling through imagery, which focuses on the study and understanding of the construction and putting together of a static film, a narration through photography that will enable you to offer your work for any end, either commercial or personal.
You’ll participate in a serious and professional Editing and Storytelling course, aimed at both beginners and professional photographers. You’ll learn to bring out the facts by transmitting a pathos worthy of a playwright, with parallels, symbolism and metaphors, transforming something that was to be a simple news article, into something more like a work of literature. This is a technical and artistic skill that involves various different fields, including photography, with a particular focus on photojournalism.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Intensive Sculpture Course English & Arts & Literature course
Students will learn about a wide variety of techniques and media, including clay modelling, marble sculpture, plaster and wood-cut.
With our Sculpture course you’ll learn the fascinating technique of this art, experience the pleasure of modeling, and bringing an object to life with your own hands – all monitored by expert art masters in their highly equipped “atelier”.
You’ll discover the beauty of this ancient technique, under the watchful and attentive eye of our teachers, who will guide you inside this complex and passionate discipline.
From clay modeling, to marble sculpture, to wood carving; all introduced by drawing, a necessary departure for any realization. Depending on your level and type of course, you can also decide whether to concentrate on one or more specific techniques.
Program:
Within this course there is a wide choice of techniques, from clay modeling to marble sculpture, to wood carving.
Depending on the student’s level, and the type of course chosen, it’ll be possible to focus on one technique, or to choose to work on multiple materials.
At the beginning of the course, there will be an introduction to drawing, based on sculpture, but common to a variety of techniques.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Intensive Painting and Drawing Course English & Arts & Literature course
Students will learn to interpret the forms of still-life and figurative drawings using live models and various materials.
Few people would not like to know how to draw and paint: two arts through which you can develop your creativity, relax, have fun, and why not, get useful results professionally as well.
With our course you will learn these techniques from their basics, coming to fully develop your latent potential to find the technique that suits you best.
From charcoal to sanguine, moving on to tempera, oil color and acrylic: with the drawing and painting course you will have a complete overview of the main artistic techniques, patiently followed by our art masters.
Program:
During the course you will introduce the student to the use of various materials such as charcoal, sanguine and graphite (lapis), as far as drawing is concerned.
As for painting, tempera, oil color and acrylic color will be studied.
One will become acquainted with various materials by interpreting the forms of still life and the figure of the live model. You will also be able to work on developing your own language or copying a work.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Intensive Fashion Design CourseEnglish for Fashion course
Students will learn about the practical ability of fashion design, the creation of figurines and everything that is fashionable.Create your own original fashion line, in a journey that from Fashion Design will take you from the study and analysis of fashion, to the practical realization of your line, through the design of beautiful sketches, giving life to everything that is fashion.
If you believe that fashion is for you, with us you’ll develop a specific and multifaceted sensitivity regarding everything that makes up fashion, including new trends, technical-stylistic elements of the garments, influences from the history of costume, and first theoretical approaches to working methodology and planning of collections. Enter the fashion world as a professional, and become a designer and stylist!
From anatomy to color, passing through the study of fabric and the history of fashion, and depending on your specific interests and chosen themes, it’ll be possible to concentrate on specific topics, and go deeper into what most interests you: you can analyze the history of costume, study a specific stylist in depth, concentrate on the preparation of a presentation “book”, or dedicate yourself to the design of accessories, bags and shoes.
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
One-to-One Graphic Design Private One-to-One course
With the private Graphics course you’ll be able to learn or perfect this important profession, arranging the program according to your specific needs. Develop all the IT and theoretical skills for the realization of a perfect design, agreeing the teaching modules with us, according exactly to your level!!
The ever-growing importance of communication in contemporary society makes the graphic designer for advertising and illustration an eclectic, hybrid and highly in-demand figure in the workplace.
You’ll learn to analyse, conceive and develop visual and verbal communication, managing to convey messages with the utmost ease and effectiveness. You’ll be able to perfect your skills in the main graphic suites, such as Adobe Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator, Affinity Photo and Affinity Design.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Graphic Design Private One-to-One course
With our private Graphics course you’ll be able to learn or perfect this important profession, arranging the program according to your specific needs. Develop all the IT and theoretical skills for the realization of a perfect design, agreeing the teaching modules with us, according exactly to your level!!
The ever-growing importance of communication in contemporary society makes the graphic designer for advertising and illustration an eclectic, hybrid and highly in-demand figure in the workplace.
You’ll learn to analyse, conceive and develop visual and verbal communication, managing to convey messages with the utmost synthesis and effectiveness. You’ll be able to perfect or learn the principal graphic suites, such as Adobe Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator, Affinity Photo and Affinity Design.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
One-to-One Food StorytellingEnglish & Culture course
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day.With the aid of the Food Storytelling course, you’ll learn how to communicate food, wine, and “terroir” effectively, using various different channels. This is an indispensable skill if you want to work as a photographer for restaurants, food companies, and everything else related to the culinary world.
From journalism to marketing, Food and Wine narration is the means that allows us to convey a concept and a story in a precise and documented way, but at the same time, engaging, stimulating empathy, and creating a real and truly immersive experience, helped by new technology.
Through private classroom lessons, and outside lessons, this course offers the opportunity to go deeper and learn this interesting technique, with a considered program, aimed at the realization of your project, or your objectives.
Lessons per week: 6 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Graphic Design Private One-to-One course
With our private Graphics course you’ll be able to learn or perfect this important profession, arranging the program according to your specific needs. Develop all the IT and theoretical skills for the realization of a perfect design, agreeing the teaching modules with us, according exactly to your level!!
The ever-growing importance of communication in contemporary society makes the graphic designer for advertising and illustration an eclectic, hybrid and highly in-demand figure in the workplace.
You’ll learn to analyse, conceive and develop visual and verbal communication, managing to convey messages with the utmost synthesis and effectiveness. You’ll be able to perfect or learn the principal graphic suites, such as Adobe Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator, Affinity Photo and Affinity Design.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Two-to-One Food StorytellingEnglish & Culture course
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day.With the aid of the Food Storytelling course, you’ll learn how to communicate food, wine, and “terroir” effectively, using various different channels. This is an indispensable skill if you want to work as a photographer for restaurants, food companies, and everything else related to the culinary world.
From journalism to marketing, Food and Wine narration is the means that allows us to convey a concept and a story in a precise and documented way, but at the same time, engaging, stimulating empathy, and creating a real and truly immersive experience, helped by new technology.
Through private classroom lessons, and outside lessons, this course offers the opportunity to go deeper and learn this interesting technique, with a considered program, aimed at the realization of your project, or your objectives.
Lessons per week: 6 (55 minutes per lesson)
Three-to-One Food StorytellingEnglish & Culture course
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day.With the aid of the Food Storytelling course, you’ll learn how to communicate food, wine, and “terroir” effectively, using various different channels. This is an indispensable skill if you want to work as a photographer for restaurants, food companies, and everything else related to the culinary world.
From journalism to marketing, Food and Wine narration is the means that allows us to convey a concept and a story in a precise and documented way, but at the same time, engaging, stimulating empathy, and creating a real and truly immersive experience, helped by new technology.
Through classroom lectures and external lessons, this course offers you the opportunity to learn the linguistic codes, the method, and the platforms to build stories that don’t just talk about food and its protagonists, but rather, TELL it. At the end of the course, you’ll present your own personal and original project, linked to a chosen theme (a tradition, a dish, or a typical Tuscan product).
Lessons per week: 6 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Graphic Design Private One-to-One course
With our private Graphics course you’ll be able to learn or perfect this important profession, arranging the program according to your specific needs. Develop all the IT and theoretical skills for the realization of a perfect design, agreeing the teaching modules with us, according exactly to your level!!
The ever-growing importance of communication in contemporary society makes the graphic designer for advertising and illustration an eclectic, hybrid and highly in-demand figure in the workplace.
You’ll learn to analyse, conceive and develop visual and verbal communication, managing to convey messages with the utmost synthesis and effectiveness. You’ll be able to perfect or learn the principal graphic suites, such as Adobe Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator, Affinity Photo and Affinity Design.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Four-to-One Food StorytellingEnglish & Culture course
Starting dates available on request.Students have lessons 3 hours a day. With the aid of the Food Storytelling course, you’ll learn how to communicate food, wine, and “terroir” effectively, using various different channels. This is an indispensable skill if you want to work as a photographer for restaurants, food companies, and everything else related to the culinary world.
From journalism to marketing, Food and Wine narration is the means that allows us to convey a concept and a story in a precise and documented way, but at the same time, engaging, stimulating empathy, and creating a real and truly immersive experience, helped by new technology.
Through private classroom lessons, and outside lessons, this course offers the opportunity to go deeper and learn this interesting technique, with a considered program, aimed at the realization of your project, or your objectives.
Lessons per week: 6 (55 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Food StorytellingEnglish & Culture course
Starting dates available on request.
Students have lessons 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. With the aid of the Food Storytelling course, you’ll learn how to communicate food, wine, and “terroir” effectively, using various different channels. This is an indispensable skill if you want to work as a photographer for restaurants, food companies, and everything else related to the culinary world.
From journalism to marketing, Food and Wine narration is the means that allows us to convey a concept and a story in a precise and documented way, but at the same time, engaging, stimulating empathy, and creating a real and truly immersive experience, helped by new technology.
Through private classroom lessons, and outside lessons, this course offers the opportunity to go deeper and learn this interesting technique, with a considered program, aimed at the realization of your project, or your objectives.
Lessons per week: 6 (55 minutes per lesson)
Five-to-One Graphic Design Private One-to-One course
With our private Graphics course you’ll be able to learn or perfect this important profession, arranging the program according to your specific needs. Develop all the IT and theoretical skills for the realization of a perfect design, agreeing the teaching modules with us, according exactly to your level!!
The ever-growing importance of communication in contemporary society makes the graphic designer for advertising and illustration an eclectic, hybrid and highly in-demand figure in the workplace.
You’ll learn to analyse, conceive and develop visual and verbal communication, managing to convey messages with the utmost synthesis and effectiveness. You’ll be able to perfect or learn the principal graphic suites, such as Adobe Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator, Affinity Photo and Affinity Design.
Lessons per week: 18 (55 minutes per lesson)
Stone Setting Intensive CourseEnglish & Arts & Literature course
Lessons held in the workshop (for students and goldsmiths) with techniques related to the great classic and contemporary Florentine style.Registration deadline: 15 Jun.With the Stone Setting course you’ll learn a complex technique necessary to carry out the daily work of a goldsmith, whether you are a young apprentice or an expert craftsperson.
Enter a well-equipped goldsmith’s workshop, and learn the art of setting gems, through demonstrations and exercises that will cover all the stages of metal setting, using semi-finished silver, and synthetic stones, predominantly high-quality cubic zirconia, offering a perfect imitation of actual precious stones.
The techniques taught are related to the great Florentine style, both classic and contemporary. Starting with relatively simple embedding techniques, such as bezels and claws, you’ll soon advance to more complex work, such as pavé.
Lessons per week: 30 (55 minutes per lesson)
Mamma's Recipes Cooking CourseEnglish & Culture course
The incredible experience of living in a private Italian house, and learning how to cook typical Tuscan dishes with “la mamma”.
During these sessions, you’ll not only learn the recipes and tricks of home cooking, but you’ll also communicate in Italian, improving your spoken language in an authentic family environment.
An experience that includes accommodation in the “mamma’s” house, in a single room with or without breakfast. The four cookery sessions take place from Monday to Thursday in the late afternoons and conclude with a friendly shared dinner.
Activities:
Preparation of a typical Tuscan menu and dinner. Here’s a sample menu: bruschetta or mixed crostini, homemade pasta with porcini mushrooms, meat rolls with sautéed artichokes, and panna cotta with a berry sauce.
4 cookery sessions, from 17:00, lasting 3-4 hours, from Monday to Thursday (Friday is a free day).
The price includes: 4 cookery sessions with the mamma, with dinner. Single or double room with breakfast, in a private house, from Sunday to Saturday.
Lessons per week: 4 (55 minutes per lesson)
Italian and Cookery English & Cooking course
This course consists of 20 morning Italian classes from Monday to Friday. In the afternoons there will be a culinary activity for between 2 and 5 hours. This could include a tour, wine tasting, cooking course, a trip to a farm and one dinner. With the help of the Italian and Cookery course, you’ll not only learn the Italian language, but also refine the palate, because you’ll taste and learn to cook the best and most typical Tuscan dishes.
A cultural and gastronomical trip to Florence, sampling splendid Tuscan wines, and exploring the flavor of the local “cuisine” – a language course has never been so much fun!
A course that offers you high-level gastronomic tastings, the teaching of Italian language and cooking, cultural, food and wine tours in Florence, and much more. Don’t miss this chance to explore Italian cuisine and culture!
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Book Binding Basic - Binding on Canvas English & Arts & Literature course
Students will learn to bind with canvas.This course can be for one or two students.
With the basic bookbinding course you will be able to learn the history and practice of this discipline with the help of our expert craftsmen; from folding to finishing, you will immerse yourself in an ancient and suggestive art.
Explore the ancient and evocative world of bookbinding; an elegant and precious art that only a few expert craftsmen practice and pass on.
Folding, cutting, naming, preparing the sheets and the book, sewing with twine, gluing … you will even prepare the glue, to create a precious book that you can keep and show to friends!
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Standard 15General
Florence is one of Italy’s most iconic cities, and certainly a favourite destination for visitors from all over the world. It’s in this beautiful city that you will study Italian for 15 hours per week, all while living in your teacher’s home and benefitting from a full board meal plan and access to conversation in Italian practically whenever you want it.
This is a city where most attractions and places of interest are within walking distance of each other, so you will find it easy to move independently once you start exploring Florence for yourself outside of class hours. Your host family will give you the best advice on how to move around while not getting too caught up in the tourist areas - one of the many ways that you will benefit from their local expertise.
All teachers working with the home tuition programme are fully qualified, so you can expect carefully designed and delivered lessons on your course. To communicate any issues, HLI asks guests to get in touch with their Local Organisers working in Florence.
The original and most popular programme for adults. The programme completely immerses you in the target language and culture. You enjoy full board accommodation, private language lessons, and free time outside lessons and mealtimes to explore on your own or share the daily life of your host family. Your host family will show you around the area, local shops, public transport, and help you organise excursions and activities during your stay. Learn your target language fast with an intensive language programme. Choose from 15, 20, 25, or 30 hours of one-to-one language lessons with your host teacher per week.
• Full board accommodation in your teacher’s home
• 15 to 30 hours private language lessons per week
• Recommended age 18+
Lessons per week: 15 (60 minutes per lesson)
Senior Special (Standard 10 + 5 hrs Activities)Senior (50 plus) course
Extra 5 hours of activities: EUR 305.The programme with activities offers you the unique opportunity to put your language skills to immediate use after your lessons with activity-based learning. Activities may include visits to local places of interest, parks, shopping, cooking traditional foods, afternoon tea, bowling, mini-golf, board games, etc. These will depend on the family location and local events as well as your personal interests. Please indicate which activities are of particular interest to you as this will help with the selection of the most suitable host family.
Host families are selected within your age group to match your own interests and background whenever possible.
Choose from 10, 15, 20 or 25 hours of one-to-one language lessons with your private teacher plus 5, 10, 15 or 20 hours of activities per week.
• Full board accommodation in your teacher’s home
• 10 to 25 hours private language lessons per week
• 5 to 20 hours activities including entrance fees and transport (where applicable)
Lessons per week: 15 (60 minutes per lesson)
Kids & Teens (Standard 10 + 5 hrs Activities)Junior (<18 years) course
For students aged 13 or under, close supervision is compulsory (EUR 165 per week).
Extra 5 hours of activities: EUR 305.You stay in your teacher’s home, have one-to-one language lessons and continue to use and practise your language skills sharing the daily life of your teacher’s family during meals, conversations, visits and activities, as they all take place in the language you are learning. Activities may include visits to local places of interest, national parks, shopping, cooking traditional foods, afternoon tea, bowling, mini-golf, swimming, board games, etc. These will depend on the family location and local events as well as your personal interests.
The programme includes the following:
• Fully-inspected family homes
• Private comfortable bedroom
• 3 meals a day with your host family
• Local organisers to help with your stay
• 24-hour helpline
• Qualified, experienced host teachers
• 10 to 25 hours of one-to-one language lessons plus 5 to 20 hours of activities per week (ALL costs included)
Lessons per week: 10 (60 minutes per lesson)
Standard 20General
The original and most popular programme for adults. The programme completely immerses you in the target language and culture. You enjoy full board accommodation, private language lessons, and free time outside lessons and mealtimes to explore on your own or share the daily life of your host family. Your host family will show you around the area, local shops, public transport, and help you organise excursions and activities during your stay. Learn your target language fast with an intensive language programme. Choose from 15, 20, 25, or 30 hours of one-to-one language lessons with your host teacher per week.
• Full board accommodation in your teacher’s home
• 15 to 30 hours private language lessons per week
• Recommended age 18+
Lessons per week: 20 (60 minutes per lesson)
Senior Special (Standard 15 + 5 hrs Activities)Senior (50 plus) course
Extra 5 hours of activities: EUR 305.The programme with activities offers you the unique opportunity to put your language skills to immediate use after your lessons with activity-based learning. Activities may include visits to local places of interest, parks, shopping, cooking traditional foods, afternoon tea, bowling, mini-golf, board games, etc. These will depend on the family location and local events as well as your personal interests. Please indicate which activities are of particular interest to you as this will help with the selection of the most suitable host family.
Host families are selected within your age group to match your own interests and background whenever possible.
Choose from 10, 15, 20 or 25 hours of one-to-one language lessons with your private teacher plus 5, 10, 15 or 20 hours of activities per week.
• Full board accommodation in your teacher’s home
• 10 to 25 hours private language lessons per week
• 5 to 20 hours activities including entrance fees and transport (where applicable)
Lessons per week: 20 (60 minutes per lesson)
Book Binding Basic - Leather English & Culture course
Students will learn to bind with leather.
This course can be for one or two students. With the basic bookbinding course you will be able to learn the history and practice of this discipline with the help of our expert craftsmen; from folding to finishing, you will immerse yourself in an ancient and suggestive art.
Explore the ancient and evocative world of bookbinding; an elegant and precious art that only a few expert craftsmen practice and pass on.
Folding, cutting, naming, preparing the sheets and the book, sewing with twine, gluing … you will even prepare the glue, to create a precious book that you can keep and show to friends!
Program:
Lesson 1 – Presentation of the course, history of the book and nomenclature, types of bindings, styles of stitching, disassembly of the book, restoration of signatures, preparation of the guard sheets, preparation for sewing.
Lesson 2 – Folding of the sheets, sewing on tape, wrapping, capital, capital application.
Lesson 3 – Cutting the blanket boxes, blind points, corners, ribs, construction of the detached deck, recessed.
Lesson 4 – Folding of the sheets, preparation of the book for twine stitching, back gluing, capital on twine paper, wrapping, preparation of the blanket.
Lesson 5 – Preparation of the vegetable glue, covering the half canvas, covering the full canvas, tie rods and recessed, finishing, tag.
Each student will take the book with them.
Lessons per week: 24 (55 minutes per lesson)
Kids & Teens (Standard 15 + 5 hrs Activities)Junior (<18 years) course
For students aged 13 or under, close supervision is compulsory (EUR 165 per week).
Extra 5 hours of activities: EUR 305.You stay in your teacher’s home, have one-to-one language lessons and continue to use and practise your language skills sharing the daily life of your teacher’s family during meals, conversations, visits and activities, as they all take place in the language you are learning. Activities may include visits to local places of interest, national parks, shopping, cooking traditional foods, afternoon tea, bowling, mini-golf, swimming, board games, etc. These will depend on the family location and local events as well as your personal interests.
The programme includes the following:
• Fully-inspected family homes
• Private comfortable bedroom
• 3 meals a day with your host family
• Local organisers to help with your stay
• 24-hour helpline
• Qualified, experienced host teachers
• 10 to 25 hours of one-to-one language lessons plus 5 to 20 hours of activities per week (ALL costs included)
Lessons per week: 15 (60 minutes per lesson)
Book Binding Advanced English & Arts & Literature course
Students will learn about briefcase and book finishing.This course can be for one or two students. With the advanced Bookbinding course you’ll be able to perfect your knowledge of this beautiful discipline, in the company of our artisans; from decoration to leather binding, you’ll gain more and more experience in an ancient and suggestive art.
Deepen your familiarity with the historic and poetic world of bookbinding; an elegant and precious art that very few artisans practice and pass on to others.
Leather binding, decoration, folders, finishing and lining……you’ll create a high-quality book, which you can keep and exhibit!
Lessons per week: 20 (55 minutes per lesson)
Senior Special (Standard 20 + 5 hrs Activities)Senior (50 plus) course
Extra 5 hours of activities: EUR 305.The programme with activities offers you the unique opportunity to put your language skills to immediate use after your lessons with activity-based learning. Activities may include visits to local places of interest, parks, shopping, cooking traditional foods, afternoon tea, bowling, mini-golf, board games, etc. These will depend on the family location and local events as well as your personal interests. Please indicate which activities are of particular interest to you as this will help with the selection of the most suitable host family.
Host families are selected within your age group to match your own interests and background whenever possible.
Choose from 10, 15, 20 or 25 hours of one-to-one language lessons with your private teacher plus 5, 10, 15 or 20 hours of activities per week.
• Full board accommodation in your teacher’s home
• 10 to 25 hours private language lessons per week
• 5 to 20 hours activities including entrance fees and transport (where applicable)
Lessons per week: 25 (60 minutes per lesson)
Standard 25General
The original and most popular programme for adults. The programme completely immerses you in the target language and culture. You enjoy full board accommodation, private language lessons, and free time outside lessons and mealtimes to explore on your own or share the daily life of your host family. Your host family will show you around the area, local shops, public transport, and help you organise excursions and activities during your stay. Learn your target language fast with an intensive language programme. Choose from 15, 20, 25, or 30 hours of one-to-one language lessons with your host teacher per week.
• Full board accommodation in your teacher’s home
• 15 to 30 hours private language lessons per week
• Recommended age 18+
Lessons per week: 25 (60 minutes per lesson)
Kids & Teens (Standard 20 + 5 hrs Activities)Junior (<18 years) course
For students aged 13 or under, close supervision is compulsory (EUR 165 per week).
Extra 5 hours of activities: EUR 305.You stay in your teacher’s home, have one-to-one language lessons and continue to use and practise your language skills sharing the daily life of your teacher’s family during meals, conversations, visits and activities, as they all take place in the language you are learning. Activities may include visits to local places of interest, national parks, shopping, cooking traditional foods, afternoon tea, bowling, mini-golf, swimming, board games, etc. These will depend on the family location and local events as well as your personal interests.
The programme includes the following:
• Fully-inspected family homes
• Private comfortable bedroom
• 3 meals a day with your host family
• Local organisers to help with your stay
• 24-hour helpline
• Qualified, experienced host teachers
• 10 to 25 hours of one-to-one language lessons plus 5 to 20 hours of activities per week (ALL costs included)
Lessons per week: 20 (60 minutes per lesson)
Senior Special (Standard 25 + 5 hrs Activities)Senior (50 plus) course
Extra 5 hours of activities: EUR 305.The programme with activities offers you the unique opportunity to put your language skills to immediate use after your lessons with activity-based learning. Activities may include visits to local places of interest, parks, shopping, cooking traditional foods, afternoon tea, bowling, mini-golf, board games, etc. These will depend on the family location and local events as well as your personal interests. Please indicate which activities are of particular interest to you as this will help with the selection of the most suitable host family.
Host families are selected within your age group to match your own interests and background whenever possible.
Choose from 10, 15, 20 or 25 hours of one-to-one language lessons with your private teacher plus 5, 10, 15 or 20 hours of activities per week.
• Full board accommodation in your teacher’s home
• 10 to 25 hours private language lessons per week
• 5 to 20 hours activities including entrance fees and transport (where applicable)
Lessons per week: 30 (60 minutes per lesson)
Standard 30General
The original and most popular programme for adults. The programme completely immerses you in the target language and culture. You enjoy full board accommodation, private language lessons, and free time outside lessons and mealtimes to explore on your own or share the daily life of your host family. Your host family will show you around the area, local shops, public transport, and help you organise excursions and activities during your stay. Learn your target language fast with an intensive language programme. Choose from 15, 20, 25, or 30 hours of one-to-one language lessons with your host teacher per week.
• Full board accommodation in your teacher’s home
• 15 to 30 hours private language lessons per week
• Recommended age 18+
Lessons per week: 30 (60 minutes per lesson)
Kids & Teens (Standard 25 + 5 hrs Activities)Junior (<18 years) course
For students aged 13 or under, close supervision is compulsory (EUR 165 per week).
Extra 5 hours of activities: EUR 305.You stay in your teacher’s home, have one-to-one language lessons and continue to use and practise your language skills sharing the daily life of your teacher’s family during meals, conversations, visits and activities, as they all take place in the language you are learning. Activities may include visits to local places of interest, national parks, shopping, cooking traditional foods, afternoon tea, bowling, mini-golf, swimming, board games, etc. These will depend on the family location and local events as well as your personal interests.
The programme includes the following:
• Fully-inspected family homes
• Private comfortable bedroom
• 3 meals a day with your host family
• Local organisers to help with your stay
• 24-hour helpline
• Qualified, experienced host teachers
• 10 to 25 hours of one-to-one language lessons plus 5 to 20 hours of activities per week (ALL costs included)
Lessons per week: 25 (60 minutes per lesson)
You can find additional courses in our section of English courses & camps for teenager and children in Florence.
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