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Culture, Food, Wine, History
Discover Orvieto is offered each of three weeks in May and September/October, running concurrently with the Creative Exploration Workshops at right.  The Girlfriend Getaway is our women's only trip offered twice a year. We offer both of these trips to small groups of at least 6 any time of the year.
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Trip summaries are below. Each links to a full trip description and registration.

May 2010
"Bella Italia: Orvieto Sketchbook"
Drawing, watercolor painting with Jane LaFazio
"Transformational Postcards from Italy"
Mixed media found object collage with Ellen Kochansky
"The Healing Art of Photography: How Our Images
Change the World"

Photography with Jan Phillips
Create an illustrated journal of your adventures in
Orvieto under the careful guidance of Jane. Record your impressions, and develop skills you will use for a lifetime,
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"Italian Inspirations: Blending Photos with Fabric"
Photography and fabric with Mary Ellen Kranz
Mary Ellen enables you to capture Orvieto's glories with a camera, learn the techniques
to transfer the images to fabric, and do so in creating book covers, scarves and purses.
For Couples and Friends
Adventures in Italy is perfect for couples and friends,
allowing you to choose the trip that suits your
individual interest! Choose the Discover Orvieto trip
while your companion takes a Creative Workshop,
vice versa, or both on the same trip. Any way you
choose, you'll share exciting cultural activities
together each afternoon. The best of all worlds.


Included in Every Trip
• Introduction to the simple joys of Italian culture.
• You cook a delectable meal with a fabulous Italian
  chef, while learning the secrets of using fresh local
  ingredients.

• Visit a vineyard and meet the owner as he tells you
  his philosophy for creating wines with character. Sip
  several of his favorites and learn how each is unique -
  a most intimate wine tasting.

• Shop as the locals do at the weekly market, where
  fresh local produce makes tempting ingredients for a
  picnic lunch.

• Discover the history and production of olive oil as you
  take part in an olive oil tasting in an historic Etruscan
  cave.

• Linger as you explore the finest Gothic cathedral in
  all of Italy.

Culture, Food, Wine, History
Each of the following three weeks:
May 9 - 15
May 16 - 22
May 23 - 29
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Creative Exploration Workshops
                   
  May 9 - 15, 2010
Spend each day photographing different parts of historic Orvieto. Jan guides beginner and experienced alike in taking photos that are beautiful
and compelling.
           May 16 - 22, 2010
            May 23 - 29, 2010
Creative Exploration Workshops
Wanting to explore your creativity, develop your talents, and discover yourself, all while immersing yourself in Italy's magic? Choose any of our outstanding learning vacations suitable for all skill levels.
Trips - Journeys of Discovery

We view travel in Italy as a “journey of discovery”. With us you experience Italy authentically and thoroughly. Learn about Italian food, wine and culture - or enjoy a learning vacation on any of our popular creative exploration courses. Through each of these “journeys of discovery” you will savor, experience, and delight in all Italy's richness.

                                                       
We offer two kinds of trips
Read the latest developments of upcoming trips on our blog Make Haste Slowly. See pictures of the Orvieto experience and what fun your "journey of discovery" will be. To understand how and why we do our trips visit
About Us. Sign up for our Newsletter. View Past Trips.
Creative Exploration Workshops September 12 - 18, 2010


September - October 2010

           September 19 - 25, 2010
  September 26 - October 2, 2010
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Italia Ispirato: Journal Painting a Sojourn
Paint and collage journal with Tracie & Marylin Huskamp
The Huskamps guide you in creating art pages that capture the memories of your fantastic trip. Transfer photos into hand painted images on canvas. No drawing skills needed.
All Hands on Deck: Exploring Metal, Cloth, Paper
Three unique art decks with Leighanna Light
Explore metal working for three days, and cloth and paper for two in creating art decks that serve as remembrances of your time in Italy.
Wandering with Passion: Creating Art from the Soul
Painting, drawing, journaling with Misty Mawn
Make your own hand made journal and then build texture and depth with drawing, paint, and image transfers. No experience required.
Textured Treasure: Italy Inspired
Surface design and beading with Lisa Walton
Create a fabric art piece drawing from the inspiration of Orvieto using rubbings, collage, stamping, painting and beading.
Place, Color, and Word: Creating Your Atlas of Experience
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Patti Digh, author of "Life is a Verb"  and her partner David Robinson lead a workshop in which participants will explore their "personal geographies" and how they create the landscapes of their lives.
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The Gatherings: A Study in Ancient Shadow & Light
Jewelry and mixed media with Nina Bagley
Let the colors, light and shadows of Orvieto inspire you as you create a rosary style necklace with a bronze gate from Nina's collection, and a shadow box to house the necklace.
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May 2011


Discover Orvieto
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Food, wine and cultural adventures in each of three weeks:
May 8 - 14
May 15 - 21
May 22 - 28
Creative Exploration Workshops May 8 - 14, 2011
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Illuminated Mandalas: An Art & Soul Pilgrimage
Mixed media Mandala with Heidi Darr-Hope
Discover your visual vocabulary by creating a mandala using camera, blind contour drawing, writing, and painting. The mandala is a sacred circle within a square or rectangle used by many cultures to lead to introspective meditation or prayer.
A Personal Portrait of Italy
Mixed media, photography with DJ Pettitt
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Create a hand bound journal, filling it with found treasures and by altering and painting photographes you take in Orvieto. Sample of altered photo can be seen at left.
  October 3 - 9, 2010
"Mapping Your Sensorial Everyday Life"
Mixed media map book and space design with Gina Foglia
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Visit Orvieto's public & private spaces, developing an understanding of space design. Then color, paint, draw, collage, and sew your experiences and impressions into a mixed media map book.
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Join Ellen in scavenging material from Orvieto's many wonderful spaces to make a series of transparent postcards, using silk vellum and glue, all housed in a collaged postcard book of your making.
  May 15 - 21, 2011
Italy Inspired Travel Journal
Mixed media journal with Kristin Steiner
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Let the food, culture, wine, history, people and sites of Orvieto inspire a journal recording your week. Kristi leads the novice to experienced in using treasures you find to create your travel journal.
Caligraphy
With Lisa Engelbrecht
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Details coming soon
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For women only
May 9 - 15
Discover Orvieto
Girlfriend Getaway
Discover Orvieto
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Each of the following four weeks:
Sept 12 - 18
Sept 19 - 25
Sept 26 - Oct 2
Oct 3 - 9
Girlfriend Getaway
For women only
Oct 3 - 9
Culture, Food, Wine, History

September - October 2011
Culture, Food, Wine, History

Discover Orvieto
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Each of the following four weeks:
Sept 18 - 24
Sept 25 - Oct 1
Oct 2 - 8
Girlfriend Getaway
For women only
Oct 2 - 8
Creative Exploration Workshops September 25 - Oct 1, 2010
  May 22 - 28, 2011
Travel Journal: Italian Flora and Fauna Inspired
Fabric Journal Quilt with Sue Spargo
Use hand dyed wool and textural fabrics to create a "journal quilt" capturing the memories of your week in Orvieto. Your contemporary folk design journal will be one of a kind.