Creative workshop LISTENING TO THE SOIL with Arūnė Baronaitė

Over two days — Friday 17 July at 18.00 and Saturday 18 July at 11.00 — the Art Yard of the Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre (KCCC) (Daržų g. 10) hosts the creative workshop “Listening to the Soil” with the artist Arūnė Baronaitė, in which we will both take a slow walk collecting soil samples and later create soil prints.

In soil, minerals, plants, micro-organisms, water, processes of decay and human activity all meet. It is not neutral: it accumulates the marks of use, care, neglect, digging, displacement and transformation. What often goes unnoticed on the surface can reveal itself through the colours, lines, sediments and unexpected structures of the material.

On the first day we will set off on a slow walk, observing our surroundings through the senses — the colour, texture, moisture and smell of the soil, the presence of plants, surfaces and the marks left by people. We will collect soil samples and talk about taking them responsibly, and about what it means to approach the earth not as a resource but as a living environment.

On the second day we will work with the collected samples and create soil prints. Using specially prepared paper and a light-sensitive reagent, the substances in the soil will gradually form rings, lines, fields of colour and subtle structures. This is how unique soil portraits emerge — images not fully made by a human hand, but brought out by the material itself.

This workshop brings together art, ecology and slow enquiry. What matters here is not only the final print but the whole process: walking, collecting, waiting, observing and trying to hear how soil speaks through its own material. It is an invitation to slow down and rethink our relationship with the earth — not as a backdrop, but as a living, sensitive system that holds stories.

The workshop is for those who want to experience making through material, to explore their surroundings with a more attentive eye, and to see how soil can leave an image of itself.

How the two days run:

Day I — a slow walk and sample collecting

Observing the site, collecting soil samples, and a conversation about responsible collecting, the traces of human activity and soil as a living archive.

Day II — creating soil prints

Working with the collected samples, the process of soil chromatography, watching the prints form, and discussing the soil portraits created.

Tickets are sold by Bilietai.lt; you will find the ticket link here.

Please note that participants may appear in photographs and video recordings of the event published in various media. More information at www.kkkc.lt