Seven days with a master and a few companions, to learn a craft of this place: the dry-stone wall that holds the trulli up, the writing its worlds were born from. It happens off-season, eight people at most. You arrive with an idea; you leave with something made with your own hands.
A dry-stone wall with a local master, a day of climbing in a ravine, evenings by the fire. At night, the masseria's rooms.
The tools of screenwriting for any story, a novel included — and the house exercise: inventing an author who doesn't exist.
The weeks take the Romans' otium seriously: time taken away from business to think, read, write, learn. They happen in the low season, when the place is quiet and the people who live here have time for you.
What otium is →Tell us which week you're interested in: the people who live here will answer.
