Soil & Soul Sundays // Special Earth paint and Crossed Perspectives: Around Earthbound
Explore, Create, and Connect with the exhibition Earthbound. Worms, Soil, Decay
Join us every Sunday morning for a vibrant immersion into the world of the exhibition Earthbound. Worms, Soil, Decay. Stroll through our spaces, discover the exhibition at your own pace, and engage in a diverse program of activities designed for all ages: young and old, art enthusiasts, science curious, or ecology passionate.
Creative workshops, guided tours, cross-disciplinary perspectives, yoga sessions, vegetable markets, and flea markets... Each Sunday offers a new way to resonate with the themes of the exhibition: soils, decomposition, earthworms, and our connection to the underground world. A Sunday at Bridderhaus is an opportunity to wander, discover, and enjoy a moment of calm and sharing.
Experience the unique atmosphere of our inner courtyard when the weather permits. It's the perfect spot to relax, sip a coffee, savor a carrot cake, and enjoy a pleasant time with family or friends in a laid-back and friendly ambiance.
Open to all.
All activities are without registration.
09:00 - 12:00 | Root Market
As part of the Earthbound. Worms, Soil, Decay project, CIGL Esch invites you to discover a root market on Sunday in the inner courtyard of Bridderhaus in Esch-sur-Alzette.This convivial moment is a great opportunity to meet the locals, neighbors, nature enthusiasts, and curious people, exchange ideas, explore, and stock up on seasonal products. On the program: A market with vegetables and plants, focusing on roots: Carrots, beetroots, and from August, potatoes.A selection of small plants for your garden or balcony, ready to be adopted.Homemade lacto-fermentation jars: A healthy and natural way to preserve vegetables and discover new flavors.
CIGL Esch, a local organization engaged in solidarity economy and the environment, supports professional integration projects while promoting short supply chains, land work, and social connections.
09:00 - 12:00 | Drop-in Family Workshop | Creative exploration of Soil
This workshop will explore the potential of soil as a painting and drawing medium. Using ancient sieving and grinding techniques we will be working with Scottish archived soils along with fresh local soils to create an earthy palette of colours to use as watercolour paints. You will come out of this workshop inspired to look around you for the colours of nature and with new skills to turn the everyday dirt under your feet into beautiful art. We will also be looking at the world of soil in a new way by looking through powerful lenses at tiny soil-dwelling creatures which make organic soil so nutrient rich and precious.
Offered by Natalie Taylor, led by the educational team of the Bridderhaus.
10:00 - 11:30: Crossed Perspectives: Around Earthbound. Worms, Soil, Decay with d-o-t-s and David Porco | FR
Join us for an extraordinary guided tour of the Earthbound exhibition at Bridderhaus — a meeting between artistic sensitivity and scientific expertise surrounding the underground world and its invisible yet essential inhabitants: earthworms.
This dual-voice tour, blending art and science, will address issues related to soils, underground biodiversity, and our collective responsibility for their preservation, in direct dialogue with the artworks… and with you.
Alongside d-o-t-s (Laura Drouet and Olivier Lacrouts), curators of the exhibition, you will meet David Porco, soil biologist and researcher at the Luxembourg National Museum of Natural History (MNHNL), who will provide captivating scientific insights. Specializing in chemical ecology and genetics, he will share his research on the diversity of earthworms in Luxembourg and beyond, as well as his knowledge about the place and role of these animals in ecosystems.
09:00–13:00 | Drinks and breakfast by MESA
Every Sunday morning, MESA offers coffee, tea, and carrot cake in a warm atmosphere — and, when the weather is nice, on the terrace of the Bridderhaus.
09h00 - 13h00: Natural wine selection by The pépins
Discover the curated selection of The pépins: natural wines and non alcoholic fermented drinks made with minimal intervention and maximum soul.
Wine tasting from 11:00 until 13:00.
