Doll Holiday and Workshop Week - Fall 2008 (11-18 October)

The 2008 Paris doll holiday and workshop week will take place in the little village of Cernay La Ville in the Parc de la Haute Vallee de Chevreuse from 11th - 18th of October 2008. It is near Versailles and Paris. At 10 minutes is the Paris underground to the city centre (45 minutes).
The students of the June 2007 week made their own song about the location: "The McKoning Hymne"

Language: English.

Read everything about it in the 2006 Spring Issue of Art Doll Quarterly!!

During this week we will make a complete doll in airdrying clay, clothing included. Alternative program: working with porcelain clay (sculpting in porcelain on head, hands and feet). Click here to see some pictures.

Arrival: Saturday October 11th 2008
Departure: Saturday October 18th 2008

Price includes workshops during 6 days, lodging, welcome meal, breakfasts, coffee and tea during workshops hours and famous french lunches.

There is (limited) room available for family, partners, friends.

Tips: visit the Paris city centre and the
Musée de la Poupée
The Louvre Museum: also dolls made by NIADA members Mirren Barrie, Floyd Bell, Stephanie Blythe, Akira, Blount, Jane Davies, June Goodnow, Dorothy Heizer, Maggie Iacono,Helen Kish, Junko Liesfeld, Anne Mitrani, Sylvia Natterer, Susanna Oroyan, Lynn & Michael Roche, Robert Tonner, Ellen Turner and R. John Wright
Isabel Art Gallery
or
Shopping near the Sacre Coeur and the Notre Dame
Paris Flea Markets
Shopping in Paris
Bookstore Shakespeare and Company (Quartier Latin)
Drink coffee in Les Deux Magots (Jean-Paul Sartre and Hemingway)
More about Café Litéraire Les Deux Magots


Useful links:

More information and registration:
Marlaine Verhelst
tel. +31 13 4670504 and
e-mail: marlaine@home.nl
http://marlaineverhelst.com