Magic Moment

How do children sleep in different regions of the world? How do children sleep in St. Pölten? How big is your bed, where is it and how do you lie when you fall asleep? What rituals help you to fall asleep well?
For example, you can read a book or make the bed cozy. This requires blankets and pillows to rest on. Relax and tell each other your own dreams and draw them on your pillowcases.

From dream to material: sand, earth, pigments as well as clay form the basis of our artistic work. Because we make paint ourselves - using natural and regional materials. We turn the glass cone over the mirror with circular movements. Bright red, brown or yellow emerge from underneath. How liquid should the paint be? And how does it smell? Where can the paint be applied? For testing, there is paper mounted on wood that invites you to paint. 

Watercolor paper is mounted on wooden boards and your painting surface is ready. Dark ink drips onto the damp paper. This creates random patterns that can be drawn on with more ink or fine markers. As in the surrealist technique of automatic writing, gradients, patterns and lines are continued here without thinking. Unconscious images from within thus have room to emerge. Chance inspires creativity.  Coffee, tea, white ink, soda, vinegar or lemon juice and other materials influence the ink and offer scope for expanded artistic experiences.

What stories do old photographs, images in magazines or on slide film tell us? Do they inspire us to create our own visual worlds? And how do small interventions change an existing motif? Using pins, markers, foils, scissors and glue, we can inscribe our own ideas on the film material and newsprint and collage them on top of each other. Layers of time and images overlap and create space for new stories. 

90 minutes—10 euros per child
120 minutes—12 euros per child
Two accompanying participants free of charge

Any additional accompanying persons pay the regular entrance fee of 4.00 euros per person

Groups of fewer than ten participants must pay the fee for ten participants.
We kindly ask that at least one accompanying adult also attends.
Please include younger siblings in the number of participants.
Children should please bring drinking bottles and wear clothes that can get dirty.

Included in the price

• Guided tour by an art educator during the booked event
• Engaging tour of the current exhibition
• Selected artistic workshop presented in the lab or the library
• High-quality materials
• Admission covers participants and two accompanying adults
• Opportunity to explore all areas of the venue independently before or after the educational offering
• Optional: a timeslot to experience Toshi’s Gift (only available for 120-minute sessions, weather permitting and subject to availability)

Catering can be arranged directly with the Das Altoona bistro, which is located in our building. If you wish to bring your own birthday cake, it can be enjoyed at the Altoona for a small fee. For detailed information and to reserve a table, please contact the Altoona team.

E-Mail: bistro@das-altoona.at 
Tel.: 0043 676 37 37 37 9 

Bookings can be cancelled free of charge up to three days prior the booked date. If cancelled two days prior to the booked date, the cancellation fee is 50% of the total amount. Cancellations on the day of the booked date are not possible and NÖ Kulturlandeshauptstadt St.Pölten GmbH must charge a cancellation fee of 100% of the total amount.