Hands in clay, minds at ease.
Three year-round programs from our base in Sülgoja, run by MTÜ AADE — a registered non-profit (Reg. 80346296). Sessions are free or at material cost, and every single one welcomes beginners.
Community Workshops
Our longest-running program. Weekly sessions in ceramics, drawing, painting and simple printmaking rotate through village halls and school rooms across Räpina parish. Groups are deliberately mixed — a grandparent next to a teenager next to a newcomer — because skill travels sideways in a room like that.
- Weekly sessions, September to June, evenings and Saturdays
- All materials, tools and firing included
- Children’s groups (8+), adult groups and mixed-family days
- 96% of sessions free; the rest at material cost only
Creative Wellbeing Sessions
Slow, structured making for people carrying stress, grief, burnout or loneliness. Run in closed groups of six with a local care worker present, these sessions are not therapy in the clinical sense — they are a quiet table, good material and no pressure to talk.
- Closed groups of six, eight-week arcs
- Run in cooperation with parish care workers
- Always free of charge; referral or self-signup
- No experience, no talking required — just come
Rural Exhibitions & Artist Support
Each season we turn a barn, library or village hall into a gallery — pairing work by South Estonian artists with pieces made in our own workshops. Participating artists get a venue, an audience and a small materials stipend; villages get an opening night worth walking to.
- Three to four seasonal exhibitions per year
- Workshop participants’ work always included
- Free entry, free opening events, all ages
- Visiting artists lead one public masterclass each
Three steps. No forms longer than a postcard.
Write to us
Email info@aadearts.org with your name, your village and what you’d like to try. Estonian or English, both fine.
We find your seat
Within a week we reply with the nearest group and the next open session. If a group is full, you go on the list for the next arc.
Just show up
Come as you are. Aprons, clay, tools and tea are waiting. The first session is always free, always.
Ready to make something?
One email is all it takes — info@aadearts.org