SPRING IN SICILY, MAY 6TH - 9TH 2025
w. Francesco Pruneddu & Signe Bay
Spring In Sicily Workshop
May 6th-9th 2025
Catania, Sicily
WELCOME
Join us in Sicily this May for the 5th edition of our bespoke Retreat in Catania, centered on food, flowers, Sicilian beauty and textures, photography & videography, and that will fuel you and give you a new path in your professional and creative life!
We will teach food and stillife styling and photography, videography, we will indeed live next to the traditional food market ‘La Pescheria’, so market atmosphere, fresh produce and lots of photo opportunities are right at our feet.
We will make beautiful scenes in the baroque palazzzo to film and photograph, we will take you on food tour in Catania and surroundings to visit the best producers of Sicilian food with focus on documenting and creating beautiful imagery. We will eat the most delicious food you can ever imagine, and we will cook in the palazzo with our ‘nonnas’. We will talk, share our stories and lift each other up, find amazing inspiration and explore new directions.
Just get to Catania Airport, and from there the palazzo, in the very centre of the historical centre, is just a 10 minutes taxi-drive away. So very easy!
After a long winter, we crave Sicily's spring warmth, bustling markets, and the aroma of ripe produce and baked bread, don’t you?
Regardless of your background, you'll find this workshop fruitful, elevating your creativity through inspiration, connection, and networking over 3,5 intense days.
We are open books and will share everthing we know about commercial and editorial photography, the ups and downs of a creative, freelance life, we will talk about AI and how to use the digital development. We will learn from each other's stories and experiences, laugh, and maybe cry a bit, because that's the Sicilian experience - full of big emotions!
Now maybe is the time to get a few days for yourself, to learn, to be inspired and to invest in yourself and your dreams and business?
A Celebration of Life - La Dolce Vita
We will show you the hidden gems of the beautiful baroque city of Catania that Signe knows inside out. Signe has relatives in Catania and has come here for 25 years and she almost regards herself as more Sicilian than Danish and speaks the Sicilian dialect. Her connection to Italy runs deeper than mere admiration for its beauty and gastronomy. She finds resonance in the Italian way of life, which can also be seen in her work - a celebration of family, food, and ‘la dolce vita’. Together with Francesco from Sardegna we love to pass that passion on to our workshop students!
For Whom
The workshop is for anyone who wants to learn more about creativity. Maybe you are self-employed, working with food, flowers, interior, branding and PR. It could also be that you are a cook, blogger, dietician, graphic designer and want to upgrade your visual expression or need a creative and inspiring boost. Anyone of all levels are welcome, whether you capture with DLSR camera or phone or even draw on paper. We’ve had artists who came to study our styling and our take on natural light and shadows.
A Complete Experience
We put much heart, soul, energy and work in these workshops to make our students feel welcome, seen, inspired and have the best times of their lives!
The workshop is a complete experience from arrival to departure and seats are very limited. The enrollment fee includes single or double occupancy in the beautiful workshop palazzo or the nearby apartment, right in the historical centre of Catania, all meals, drinks, snacks, classes, training, workshop materials, excursions, and transportation during the retreat + a goodie bag on arrival.
The workshop language is easily understood English, but we also speak Italian, Danish, French and quite a bit of German, so everyone is welcome.
You will receive welcome letter with all workshop info and tips on Sicily and Catania one month prior to the workshop.
We can’t wait to welcome you!
With love and arrivederci in Sicily,
Francesco & Signe
What Former Students Said
‘To say that days spent with Signe and Francesco is a photography and videography workshop is a huge understatement. It is an experience for all the senses and you return home enriched both professionally and personally on so many levels.
Thank you, both of you, for sharing your passion for light, art, food, beauty, wine, people and life with us.’ /Sara
‘I am pretty sure we all left something in Sicily and we all take something back with us. Thank you to all of you, it was more than a photography workshop, it was really an experience of Life! Than you so much Signe and Francesco for all these food vibes, energy, spirit and knowledge sharing.
/Eva
When
Tuesday the 6th of May to Friday the 9th of May 2025
Where & How To Get There
Catania, Sicily. A 15 minutes drive from CATANIA AIRPORT (Fontanarossa).
The workshop venue is an antique palazzo with the most amazing ceiling frescos in the middle of the old and beautiful historic centre of Catania. The whole palazzo is exclusively for our group during the 3 days. Some of you will sleep in the palazzo and some will sleep in a nearby apartment, and teachers and assistants are staying in a nearby apartment too. Part of the workshop-palazzo is with original interior, part is with modern furniture. We will teach our classes in the old part. The palazzo is located in the middle of La Pescheria, the antique and vibrant food market of Catania and right around the corner we’re at Piazza Duomo.
It is a very short trip from the airport of Catania (Fontanarossoa) to the palazzo, approx. 15 min. by car. You can take both taxi or bus. More info will follow in the welcome letter and don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions on how to get there:
info@signebay.com
Programme & Your Experience
Day 1
Check in from 17-17.30
At 18 o’clock we begin with welcome brindisi and snacks, at the palazzo, together we can get to know each other a little better and share who we are and what expectations we have for these days.
In the evening we have a delicious welcome dinner made by our chef and create wonderful memories, new contacts and the beginning of new network. We will sleep well in either double or single rooms at the palazzo or in the next door apartment and wake up well rested and with new ideas.
Day 2
We will have a wonderful breakfast at the palazzo, followed by a walk down to the incredible local market to get fresh produce and to shoot images and videos of the beautiful and vibrant market. We will then immerse ourselves in abundant flower and stillife setting when we come back, experiment with manipulating light and show how you easily can set up a small home studio. We will set the table for lunch and document all the lovely dishes and do some beautiful tablescape photos and videos.
After a small siesta after lunch, we will focus on food videography, when we will take you through the whole process of how to create a cake recipe video.
A lovely dinner followed by talks and stories around the long table will end this inspiration packed day.
Day 3
After Sicilian breakfast at the local café we will head on a food tour in Catania and surroundings, visiting producers and taste local products, while enjoying the Sicilian culture. There will be nice photo and video opportunities and one on one guidance along the way. We will have lunch on the tour.
When we head home it is time for a short break and then we’ll go to the nearby amazing baroque Palazzo Biscari to have a shooting in the incredible rooms. Afterwards we’ll be back at our palazzo and we will focus on editing, showing you our different styles and techniques in Lightroom Classic as well as how to edit a reel in Premiere Pro. We will also come around several efficient editing apps for both still and video., while talking about how to keep your style consistent in portfolio and grid.
Just before dinner it’s time for Brindisi and some Q&A.
We will have a scrumptious farewell dinner and finish the day with much meaningful connection and talks.
Day 4
We will have our last breakfast together at the palazzo for this time, and it’s time to say goodbye.
Check out at approx. 10 o’clock.
Investment
Price for the workshop in shared double accommodation, separate beds: 1780€
Price for the workshop in single room accommodation: 2080€
If you would like to pay in two installments, 50% now and 50% MAY 1st, then that’s no problem, just write us: info@signebay.com
The educational service provided is VAT-exempt. (For Danish citizens: Momsfritagelse for undervisning og faglig uddannelse).
If you have a company reg. no. (EIN in the US), please add this number at check out!
Included
4 Days, 3 Nights all inclusive workshop-retreat with the best homemade food (from local produce).
Room and meals, wine, snacks are included as well as classes and class materials and tour. All transportation during the workshop.
Not included: Airplane ticket, transportation to and from the airport to the palazzo.
Bring
Bring the device you shoot on; Whether it be your DSLR, compact camera or iPhone. If you’d like to edit photos during the workshop, you can bring your laptop. if you prefer to shoot on a tripod, you can bring that as well. We also have a couple to lend out.
Due to logistics and all our partners involved, the workshop is non refundable. However, if you should be prohibited from attending, we will do our best to help find another participant, but unfortunately we can not guarantee it. We recommend to get a travel insurance in case of flight cancellation or other unforeseen events.
Questions
We can assure you that we do out very best to give you a unique experience that will give you so much on many levels. Both professionally and personally. If you have any questions prior to booking your spot, please don’t hesitate to contact us: info@signebay.com
Programme may be due to smaller changes.
What former students said
‘I’ve participated in several of Francesco and SIgne’s workshops in Sicily. Why? The two of them are so talented in so many ways and the time spent in these workshops is immersed in beauty from start to end. New experiences, new friends, more knowledge and wonderful food. So, I recommend to everyone: Go!!! ‘/Kajsa
“More people need to experience you guys talent. You were both amazing hosts also, we were truly spoilt. Thanks again, it was truly a spectacular and eye opening experience for me. I learnt so much from you both and enjoyed connecting with you all. I hope you will do it again next year!” - Verity
Your Teachers
Francesco Pruneddu, whom everyone calls Checco, is a food artist, a food photographer and videographer. Francesco photographs by observing food, in its broadest sense. Food photography shows the beauty of the dishes, narrates their evolution and transformation, in the same way that it is customary to tell a landscape, a monument, a story. It starts from a table that sets up like a theatrical stage: food, flowers, hands and objects, which are beautifully mixed. His great inspiration is painting, mainly the compositions of the seventeenth century, which he reworks with the fertile taste of a young artist of the third millennium food, using images to capture emotions and forbidden dreams. Francesco has won great acknowledgement for his food videos and Reels on Instagram.
Signe does commercial styling, photography and creative direction within food, flowers and interior for various International brands such as Georg Jensen, Handvärk, WMF. Signe is an educated teacher and worked as such, before she went fulltime as a single mum into styling and photography 7 years ago to have more time with her kids and to decide the pace of life herself. The light in the Danish master’s work as well as nature and its changing seasons are her daily inspiration. Signe’s work has been featured in VOGUE, New York Magazine and numerous other International magazines. Being able to create atmospheres and working with natural light is her passion, as well as the business side of being self-employed and connecting with other creatives. Thus Signe organizes a couple of exclusive workshops a year to gather likeminded and to inspire and be inspired. Signe has family in Sicily and regards herself as more Italian than Danish and she speaks the Sicilian dialect.
Terms:
CANCELLATION BY YOU AND REFUNDS
Unfortunately due to the involved logistics & upfront costs of the workshops and retreats, we have a no-refund and no-cancellation policy regardless of circumstance. No refunds will be provided for any reason for the unused portion of a trip once the trip begins, including if you leave a trip for any reason. We encourage you to purchase independent travel insurance.
The trip price is a package cost and refunds are not available for services not used. If you need to cancel we will happily try to help find a replacement traveler for your spot, but we can not guarantee it.
Write us here: info@signebay.com if you have any questions prior to booking your seat.
w. Francesco Pruneddu & Signe Bay
Spring In Sicily Workshop
May 6th-9th 2025
Catania, Sicily
WELCOME
Join us in Sicily this May for the 5th edition of our bespoke Retreat in Catania, centered on food, flowers, Sicilian beauty and textures, photography & videography, and that will fuel you and give you a new path in your professional and creative life!
We will teach food and stillife styling and photography, videography, we will indeed live next to the traditional food market ‘La Pescheria’, so market atmosphere, fresh produce and lots of photo opportunities are right at our feet.
We will make beautiful scenes in the baroque palazzzo to film and photograph, we will take you on food tour in Catania and surroundings to visit the best producers of Sicilian food with focus on documenting and creating beautiful imagery. We will eat the most delicious food you can ever imagine, and we will cook in the palazzo with our ‘nonnas’. We will talk, share our stories and lift each other up, find amazing inspiration and explore new directions.
Just get to Catania Airport, and from there the palazzo, in the very centre of the historical centre, is just a 10 minutes taxi-drive away. So very easy!
After a long winter, we crave Sicily's spring warmth, bustling markets, and the aroma of ripe produce and baked bread, don’t you?
Regardless of your background, you'll find this workshop fruitful, elevating your creativity through inspiration, connection, and networking over 3,5 intense days.
We are open books and will share everthing we know about commercial and editorial photography, the ups and downs of a creative, freelance life, we will talk about AI and how to use the digital development. We will learn from each other's stories and experiences, laugh, and maybe cry a bit, because that's the Sicilian experience - full of big emotions!
Now maybe is the time to get a few days for yourself, to learn, to be inspired and to invest in yourself and your dreams and business?
A Celebration of Life - La Dolce Vita
We will show you the hidden gems of the beautiful baroque city of Catania that Signe knows inside out. Signe has relatives in Catania and has come here for 25 years and she almost regards herself as more Sicilian than Danish and speaks the Sicilian dialect. Her connection to Italy runs deeper than mere admiration for its beauty and gastronomy. She finds resonance in the Italian way of life, which can also be seen in her work - a celebration of family, food, and ‘la dolce vita’. Together with Francesco from Sardegna we love to pass that passion on to our workshop students!
For Whom
The workshop is for anyone who wants to learn more about creativity. Maybe you are self-employed, working with food, flowers, interior, branding and PR. It could also be that you are a cook, blogger, dietician, graphic designer and want to upgrade your visual expression or need a creative and inspiring boost. Anyone of all levels are welcome, whether you capture with DLSR camera or phone or even draw on paper. We’ve had artists who came to study our styling and our take on natural light and shadows.
A Complete Experience
We put much heart, soul, energy and work in these workshops to make our students feel welcome, seen, inspired and have the best times of their lives!
The workshop is a complete experience from arrival to departure and seats are very limited. The enrollment fee includes single or double occupancy in the beautiful workshop palazzo or the nearby apartment, right in the historical centre of Catania, all meals, drinks, snacks, classes, training, workshop materials, excursions, and transportation during the retreat + a goodie bag on arrival.
The workshop language is easily understood English, but we also speak Italian, Danish, French and quite a bit of German, so everyone is welcome.
You will receive welcome letter with all workshop info and tips on Sicily and Catania one month prior to the workshop.
We can’t wait to welcome you!
With love and arrivederci in Sicily,
Francesco & Signe
What Former Students Said
‘To say that days spent with Signe and Francesco is a photography and videography workshop is a huge understatement. It is an experience for all the senses and you return home enriched both professionally and personally on so many levels.
Thank you, both of you, for sharing your passion for light, art, food, beauty, wine, people and life with us.’ /Sara
‘I am pretty sure we all left something in Sicily and we all take something back with us. Thank you to all of you, it was more than a photography workshop, it was really an experience of Life! Than you so much Signe and Francesco for all these food vibes, energy, spirit and knowledge sharing.
/Eva
When
Tuesday the 6th of May to Friday the 9th of May 2025
Where & How To Get There
Catania, Sicily. A 15 minutes drive from CATANIA AIRPORT (Fontanarossa).
The workshop venue is an antique palazzo with the most amazing ceiling frescos in the middle of the old and beautiful historic centre of Catania. The whole palazzo is exclusively for our group during the 3 days. Some of you will sleep in the palazzo and some will sleep in a nearby apartment, and teachers and assistants are staying in a nearby apartment too. Part of the workshop-palazzo is with original interior, part is with modern furniture. We will teach our classes in the old part. The palazzo is located in the middle of La Pescheria, the antique and vibrant food market of Catania and right around the corner we’re at Piazza Duomo.
It is a very short trip from the airport of Catania (Fontanarossoa) to the palazzo, approx. 15 min. by car. You can take both taxi or bus. More info will follow in the welcome letter and don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions on how to get there:
info@signebay.com
Programme & Your Experience
Day 1
Check in from 17-17.30
At 18 o’clock we begin with welcome brindisi and snacks, at the palazzo, together we can get to know each other a little better and share who we are and what expectations we have for these days.
In the evening we have a delicious welcome dinner made by our chef and create wonderful memories, new contacts and the beginning of new network. We will sleep well in either double or single rooms at the palazzo or in the next door apartment and wake up well rested and with new ideas.
Day 2
We will have a wonderful breakfast at the palazzo, followed by a walk down to the incredible local market to get fresh produce and to shoot images and videos of the beautiful and vibrant market. We will then immerse ourselves in abundant flower and stillife setting when we come back, experiment with manipulating light and show how you easily can set up a small home studio. We will set the table for lunch and document all the lovely dishes and do some beautiful tablescape photos and videos.
After a small siesta after lunch, we will focus on food videography, when we will take you through the whole process of how to create a cake recipe video.
A lovely dinner followed by talks and stories around the long table will end this inspiration packed day.
Day 3
After Sicilian breakfast at the local café we will head on a food tour in Catania and surroundings, visiting producers and taste local products, while enjoying the Sicilian culture. There will be nice photo and video opportunities and one on one guidance along the way. We will have lunch on the tour.
When we head home it is time for a short break and then we’ll go to the nearby amazing baroque Palazzo Biscari to have a shooting in the incredible rooms. Afterwards we’ll be back at our palazzo and we will focus on editing, showing you our different styles and techniques in Lightroom Classic as well as how to edit a reel in Premiere Pro. We will also come around several efficient editing apps for both still and video., while talking about how to keep your style consistent in portfolio and grid.
Just before dinner it’s time for Brindisi and some Q&A.
We will have a scrumptious farewell dinner and finish the day with much meaningful connection and talks.
Day 4
We will have our last breakfast together at the palazzo for this time, and it’s time to say goodbye.
Check out at approx. 10 o’clock.
Investment
Price for the workshop in shared double accommodation, separate beds: 1780€
Price for the workshop in single room accommodation: 2080€
If you would like to pay in two installments, 50% now and 50% MAY 1st, then that’s no problem, just write us: info@signebay.com
The educational service provided is VAT-exempt. (For Danish citizens: Momsfritagelse for undervisning og faglig uddannelse).
If you have a company reg. no. (EIN in the US), please add this number at check out!
Included
4 Days, 3 Nights all inclusive workshop-retreat with the best homemade food (from local produce).
Room and meals, wine, snacks are included as well as classes and class materials and tour. All transportation during the workshop.
Not included: Airplane ticket, transportation to and from the airport to the palazzo.
Bring
Bring the device you shoot on; Whether it be your DSLR, compact camera or iPhone. If you’d like to edit photos during the workshop, you can bring your laptop. if you prefer to shoot on a tripod, you can bring that as well. We also have a couple to lend out.
Due to logistics and all our partners involved, the workshop is non refundable. However, if you should be prohibited from attending, we will do our best to help find another participant, but unfortunately we can not guarantee it. We recommend to get a travel insurance in case of flight cancellation or other unforeseen events.
Questions
We can assure you that we do out very best to give you a unique experience that will give you so much on many levels. Both professionally and personally. If you have any questions prior to booking your spot, please don’t hesitate to contact us: info@signebay.com
Programme may be due to smaller changes.
What former students said
‘I’ve participated in several of Francesco and SIgne’s workshops in Sicily. Why? The two of them are so talented in so many ways and the time spent in these workshops is immersed in beauty from start to end. New experiences, new friends, more knowledge and wonderful food. So, I recommend to everyone: Go!!! ‘/Kajsa
“More people need to experience you guys talent. You were both amazing hosts also, we were truly spoilt. Thanks again, it was truly a spectacular and eye opening experience for me. I learnt so much from you both and enjoyed connecting with you all. I hope you will do it again next year!” - Verity
Your Teachers
Francesco Pruneddu, whom everyone calls Checco, is a food artist, a food photographer and videographer. Francesco photographs by observing food, in its broadest sense. Food photography shows the beauty of the dishes, narrates their evolution and transformation, in the same way that it is customary to tell a landscape, a monument, a story. It starts from a table that sets up like a theatrical stage: food, flowers, hands and objects, which are beautifully mixed. His great inspiration is painting, mainly the compositions of the seventeenth century, which he reworks with the fertile taste of a young artist of the third millennium food, using images to capture emotions and forbidden dreams. Francesco has won great acknowledgement for his food videos and Reels on Instagram.
Signe does commercial styling, photography and creative direction within food, flowers and interior for various International brands such as Georg Jensen, Handvärk, WMF. Signe is an educated teacher and worked as such, before she went fulltime as a single mum into styling and photography 7 years ago to have more time with her kids and to decide the pace of life herself. The light in the Danish master’s work as well as nature and its changing seasons are her daily inspiration. Signe’s work has been featured in VOGUE, New York Magazine and numerous other International magazines. Being able to create atmospheres and working with natural light is her passion, as well as the business side of being self-employed and connecting with other creatives. Thus Signe organizes a couple of exclusive workshops a year to gather likeminded and to inspire and be inspired. Signe has family in Sicily and regards herself as more Italian than Danish and she speaks the Sicilian dialect.
Terms:
CANCELLATION BY YOU AND REFUNDS
Unfortunately due to the involved logistics & upfront costs of the workshops and retreats, we have a no-refund and no-cancellation policy regardless of circumstance. No refunds will be provided for any reason for the unused portion of a trip once the trip begins, including if you leave a trip for any reason. We encourage you to purchase independent travel insurance.
The trip price is a package cost and refunds are not available for services not used. If you need to cancel we will happily try to help find a replacement traveler for your spot, but we can not guarantee it.
Write us here: info@signebay.com if you have any questions prior to booking your seat.
w. Francesco Pruneddu & Signe Bay
Spring In Sicily Workshop
May 6th-9th 2025
Catania, Sicily
WELCOME
Join us in Sicily this May for the 5th edition of our bespoke Retreat in Catania, centered on food, flowers, Sicilian beauty and textures, photography & videography, and that will fuel you and give you a new path in your professional and creative life!
We will teach food and stillife styling and photography, videography, we will indeed live next to the traditional food market ‘La Pescheria’, so market atmosphere, fresh produce and lots of photo opportunities are right at our feet.
We will make beautiful scenes in the baroque palazzzo to film and photograph, we will take you on food tour in Catania and surroundings to visit the best producers of Sicilian food with focus on documenting and creating beautiful imagery. We will eat the most delicious food you can ever imagine, and we will cook in the palazzo with our ‘nonnas’. We will talk, share our stories and lift each other up, find amazing inspiration and explore new directions.
Just get to Catania Airport, and from there the palazzo, in the very centre of the historical centre, is just a 10 minutes taxi-drive away. So very easy!
After a long winter, we crave Sicily's spring warmth, bustling markets, and the aroma of ripe produce and baked bread, don’t you?
Regardless of your background, you'll find this workshop fruitful, elevating your creativity through inspiration, connection, and networking over 3,5 intense days.
We are open books and will share everthing we know about commercial and editorial photography, the ups and downs of a creative, freelance life, we will talk about AI and how to use the digital development. We will learn from each other's stories and experiences, laugh, and maybe cry a bit, because that's the Sicilian experience - full of big emotions!
Now maybe is the time to get a few days for yourself, to learn, to be inspired and to invest in yourself and your dreams and business?
A Celebration of Life - La Dolce Vita
We will show you the hidden gems of the beautiful baroque city of Catania that Signe knows inside out. Signe has relatives in Catania and has come here for 25 years and she almost regards herself as more Sicilian than Danish and speaks the Sicilian dialect. Her connection to Italy runs deeper than mere admiration for its beauty and gastronomy. She finds resonance in the Italian way of life, which can also be seen in her work - a celebration of family, food, and ‘la dolce vita’. Together with Francesco from Sardegna we love to pass that passion on to our workshop students!
For Whom
The workshop is for anyone who wants to learn more about creativity. Maybe you are self-employed, working with food, flowers, interior, branding and PR. It could also be that you are a cook, blogger, dietician, graphic designer and want to upgrade your visual expression or need a creative and inspiring boost. Anyone of all levels are welcome, whether you capture with DLSR camera or phone or even draw on paper. We’ve had artists who came to study our styling and our take on natural light and shadows.
A Complete Experience
We put much heart, soul, energy and work in these workshops to make our students feel welcome, seen, inspired and have the best times of their lives!
The workshop is a complete experience from arrival to departure and seats are very limited. The enrollment fee includes single or double occupancy in the beautiful workshop palazzo or the nearby apartment, right in the historical centre of Catania, all meals, drinks, snacks, classes, training, workshop materials, excursions, and transportation during the retreat + a goodie bag on arrival.
The workshop language is easily understood English, but we also speak Italian, Danish, French and quite a bit of German, so everyone is welcome.
You will receive welcome letter with all workshop info and tips on Sicily and Catania one month prior to the workshop.
We can’t wait to welcome you!
With love and arrivederci in Sicily,
Francesco & Signe
What Former Students Said
‘To say that days spent with Signe and Francesco is a photography and videography workshop is a huge understatement. It is an experience for all the senses and you return home enriched both professionally and personally on so many levels.
Thank you, both of you, for sharing your passion for light, art, food, beauty, wine, people and life with us.’ /Sara
‘I am pretty sure we all left something in Sicily and we all take something back with us. Thank you to all of you, it was more than a photography workshop, it was really an experience of Life! Than you so much Signe and Francesco for all these food vibes, energy, spirit and knowledge sharing.
/Eva
When
Tuesday the 6th of May to Friday the 9th of May 2025
Where & How To Get There
Catania, Sicily. A 15 minutes drive from CATANIA AIRPORT (Fontanarossa).
The workshop venue is an antique palazzo with the most amazing ceiling frescos in the middle of the old and beautiful historic centre of Catania. The whole palazzo is exclusively for our group during the 3 days. Some of you will sleep in the palazzo and some will sleep in a nearby apartment, and teachers and assistants are staying in a nearby apartment too. Part of the workshop-palazzo is with original interior, part is with modern furniture. We will teach our classes in the old part. The palazzo is located in the middle of La Pescheria, the antique and vibrant food market of Catania and right around the corner we’re at Piazza Duomo.
It is a very short trip from the airport of Catania (Fontanarossoa) to the palazzo, approx. 15 min. by car. You can take both taxi or bus. More info will follow in the welcome letter and don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions on how to get there:
info@signebay.com
Programme & Your Experience
Day 1
Check in from 17-17.30
At 18 o’clock we begin with welcome brindisi and snacks, at the palazzo, together we can get to know each other a little better and share who we are and what expectations we have for these days.
In the evening we have a delicious welcome dinner made by our chef and create wonderful memories, new contacts and the beginning of new network. We will sleep well in either double or single rooms at the palazzo or in the next door apartment and wake up well rested and with new ideas.
Day 2
We will have a wonderful breakfast at the palazzo, followed by a walk down to the incredible local market to get fresh produce and to shoot images and videos of the beautiful and vibrant market. We will then immerse ourselves in abundant flower and stillife setting when we come back, experiment with manipulating light and show how you easily can set up a small home studio. We will set the table for lunch and document all the lovely dishes and do some beautiful tablescape photos and videos.
After a small siesta after lunch, we will focus on food videography, when we will take you through the whole process of how to create a cake recipe video.
A lovely dinner followed by talks and stories around the long table will end this inspiration packed day.
Day 3
After Sicilian breakfast at the local café we will head on a food tour in Catania and surroundings, visiting producers and taste local products, while enjoying the Sicilian culture. There will be nice photo and video opportunities and one on one guidance along the way. We will have lunch on the tour.
When we head home it is time for a short break and then we’ll go to the nearby amazing baroque Palazzo Biscari to have a shooting in the incredible rooms. Afterwards we’ll be back at our palazzo and we will focus on editing, showing you our different styles and techniques in Lightroom Classic as well as how to edit a reel in Premiere Pro. We will also come around several efficient editing apps for both still and video., while talking about how to keep your style consistent in portfolio and grid.
Just before dinner it’s time for Brindisi and some Q&A.
We will have a scrumptious farewell dinner and finish the day with much meaningful connection and talks.
Day 4
We will have our last breakfast together at the palazzo for this time, and it’s time to say goodbye.
Check out at approx. 10 o’clock.
Investment
Price for the workshop in shared double accommodation, separate beds: 1780€
Price for the workshop in single room accommodation: 2080€
If you would like to pay in two installments, 50% now and 50% MAY 1st, then that’s no problem, just write us: info@signebay.com
The educational service provided is VAT-exempt. (For Danish citizens: Momsfritagelse for undervisning og faglig uddannelse).
If you have a company reg. no. (EIN in the US), please add this number at check out!
Included
4 Days, 3 Nights all inclusive workshop-retreat with the best homemade food (from local produce).
Room and meals, wine, snacks are included as well as classes and class materials and tour. All transportation during the workshop.
Not included: Airplane ticket, transportation to and from the airport to the palazzo.
Bring
Bring the device you shoot on; Whether it be your DSLR, compact camera or iPhone. If you’d like to edit photos during the workshop, you can bring your laptop. if you prefer to shoot on a tripod, you can bring that as well. We also have a couple to lend out.
Due to logistics and all our partners involved, the workshop is non refundable. However, if you should be prohibited from attending, we will do our best to help find another participant, but unfortunately we can not guarantee it. We recommend to get a travel insurance in case of flight cancellation or other unforeseen events.
Questions
We can assure you that we do out very best to give you a unique experience that will give you so much on many levels. Both professionally and personally. If you have any questions prior to booking your spot, please don’t hesitate to contact us: info@signebay.com
Programme may be due to smaller changes.
What former students said
‘I’ve participated in several of Francesco and SIgne’s workshops in Sicily. Why? The two of them are so talented in so many ways and the time spent in these workshops is immersed in beauty from start to end. New experiences, new friends, more knowledge and wonderful food. So, I recommend to everyone: Go!!! ‘/Kajsa
“More people need to experience you guys talent. You were both amazing hosts also, we were truly spoilt. Thanks again, it was truly a spectacular and eye opening experience for me. I learnt so much from you both and enjoyed connecting with you all. I hope you will do it again next year!” - Verity
Your Teachers
Francesco Pruneddu, whom everyone calls Checco, is a food artist, a food photographer and videographer. Francesco photographs by observing food, in its broadest sense. Food photography shows the beauty of the dishes, narrates their evolution and transformation, in the same way that it is customary to tell a landscape, a monument, a story. It starts from a table that sets up like a theatrical stage: food, flowers, hands and objects, which are beautifully mixed. His great inspiration is painting, mainly the compositions of the seventeenth century, which he reworks with the fertile taste of a young artist of the third millennium food, using images to capture emotions and forbidden dreams. Francesco has won great acknowledgement for his food videos and Reels on Instagram.
Signe does commercial styling, photography and creative direction within food, flowers and interior for various International brands such as Georg Jensen, Handvärk, WMF. Signe is an educated teacher and worked as such, before she went fulltime as a single mum into styling and photography 7 years ago to have more time with her kids and to decide the pace of life herself. The light in the Danish master’s work as well as nature and its changing seasons are her daily inspiration. Signe’s work has been featured in VOGUE, New York Magazine and numerous other International magazines. Being able to create atmospheres and working with natural light is her passion, as well as the business side of being self-employed and connecting with other creatives. Thus Signe organizes a couple of exclusive workshops a year to gather likeminded and to inspire and be inspired. Signe has family in Sicily and regards herself as more Italian than Danish and she speaks the Sicilian dialect.
Terms:
CANCELLATION BY YOU AND REFUNDS
Unfortunately due to the involved logistics & upfront costs of the workshops and retreats, we have a no-refund and no-cancellation policy regardless of circumstance. No refunds will be provided for any reason for the unused portion of a trip once the trip begins, including if you leave a trip for any reason. We encourage you to purchase independent travel insurance.
The trip price is a package cost and refunds are not available for services not used. If you need to cancel we will happily try to help find a replacement traveler for your spot, but we can not guarantee it.
Write us here: info@signebay.com if you have any questions prior to booking your seat.