«Glass and light»: take part in this workshop and make your own stained glass window!

Name: «Glass and light»: take part in this workshop and make your own stained glass window!
Start: 2022-09-17T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Église Saint-Martin

The art of the stained glass window is invited to Pessac! Young and old curious, learn how to make a stained glass of multicolored papers as a family. For lovers of creative workshops!

Saturday 17 September 2022, 10:30Passed

Conditions

Free. On registration within the limit of places available at the Culture & Tourism Kiosk of the City of Pessac.

Registration

kiosque@mairie-pessac.fr 05 57 93 65 40

©Ville de Pessac

The art of the stained glass window is invited to Pessac! Young and old curious, learn how to make a stained glass of multicolored papers as a family. For lovers of creative workshops!

Open to the family from the age of 7, this workshop, led by Laetitia Bélanger, art historian and animator of Heritage, immerses you in this age-old art by combining history and plastic art. A meeting conceded for budding creators!

About the location

Église Saint-Martin

Place de la Ve République, 33600 Pessac

Gironde
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The church of Pessac no longer has architectural remains from the Romanesque period, at which time the church is attested. The term Saint Martin indicates an ancient origin of this church, before the XII century. The archaeological excavations, the historical archives and the architectural analysis of the present church, tell us about the history of the building over the centuries.
It is built on the site of a Gallo-Roman villa and on a probable Merovingian cemetery. This is evidenced by the discovery, in 1882, of a pavement of Gallo-Roman mosaic and that of a limestone sarcophagus.
The base of the bell tower, from the medieval period, is currently the oldest part of the building, with foundations dated to the end of the Gothic period. In the 17th century, the Jesuits of the Collège de la Madeleine restored the church: the bell tower rebuilt and raised, is topped with a pavilion roof; an elegant portal framed by flat pilasters, crowned with a pediment opens on the ground floor.
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