Come and explore your creativity! Whether you are an adult or a child, our workshops are a great way to learn while having fun, you can share good times alone, with friends or family.
We offer a variety of cultural and scientific workshops related to our current exhibitions, art, crafts, environment or biodiversity: an introduction to artistic techniques, drawing and design of comics, music and songs, an introduction to the traditional use of plants (medicinal plants, plant dyes).
Plant WORKSHOPS (LES “ATELIERS DU VEGETAL”)
Plant paint and dye workshop
Plant dyeing is a dyeing technique based on dyeing plant powders mixed with water. It’s a 100% natural process, with no synthetic products.
To further explore the fascinating use of plants, this workshop offers the opportunity to learn about the Tinctorial Plants of the Parc du Palais de Lomé (indigo, cola, teak, etc.) and the ancestral techniques of the natural dyeing process specific to West Africa.
Duration: 2H
Age: adults, teenagers and children aged 7 and over
Introductory workshop on the use of medicinal plants
To further explore the fascinating uses of plants, this workshop introduces you to the Park’s medicinal plants used in traditional medicine.
Duration: 1 hour
Age: adults, teenagers and children aged 7 and over
Plant-based soap-making workshop
This workshop revives an ancestral technique for making your own plant-based soap.
Duration: 1h
Age: adults, teenagers and children aged 7 and over
BIODIVERSITY WORKSHOPS
Exploring the mangrove ecosystem
The ponds at the Palais de Lomé evoke the Togolese mangrove, an endangered ecosystem in West Africa. This complex ecosystem is home to a rich and diverse flora and fauna (mangroves, water lilies, papyrus, reeds, dragonflies, frogs, fish, moorhens, kingfishers, etc.).
Duration: 1H
Age: adults, teenagers and children aged 7 and over
Birdwatching
Birds are often an unnoticed part of the urban landscape.
41 bird species have been observed in Lomé’s Parc du Palais. This workshop includes taking a stroll and observing birds in the branches, on poles or in the sky, counting their numbers and listening to their songs.
This workshop allows you to identify certain bird species, so you can recognize them and learn more about their roles and characteristics.
Duration: 2H30
Age: adults, teenagers and children aged 7 and over
The Bee workshop
Bees play a vital role in pollinating flowers and enabling plants, including many food crops, to reproduce. This workshop introduces you to the fascinating world of bees, the hive and the profession of beekeeper.
The workshop will introduce you to an often overlooked species, the mellipone bee (apis mellipona), a stingless bee found only in Africa and South America.
Tasting different honeys invites participants to use different senses and makes gourmet learning more palpable for children.
Duration: 2H
Age: adults, teenagers and children aged 7 and over
Drawing biodiversity through drawings and comics
This workshop helps develop participants’ artistic awareness and sharpen their sense of observation of living things (flora and fauna).
A comic strip workshop on biodiversity will enable them to develop their storytelling skills.
Comics are a narrative, graphic and sequential art form that particularly appeals to children and teenagers, thanks to the ease with which words and drawings can be understood.
This workshop will enable participants to learn the basic techniques for producing comic strips whose stories take place in the Palais de Lomé. Participants will observe and reproduce their environment.
Duration: 2H30
Age: adults, teenagers and children aged 7 and over
DRAWING WORKSHOPS
As a center of art and culture, the Palais de Lomé collaborates with many talented artists. An artist leads drawing or painting workshops for children on themes inspired by the Palais (architecture, history, exhibitions) or the Park.
Duration: 2 hours
Age: adults, teenagers and children aged 7 and over
