What We Offer

What can we learn about our own messy creative process by just listening closely to how others get through theirs?

Since 2018, Curious Neighbours (Gus Guerrero) has sat down with more than 200 people across the Nordics to talk about creativity, identity, and the rhythms of everyday life. Artists, writers, musicians, designers, filmmakers, and many others who make things in their own way and have chosen to build their lives around that. Most of those conversations have never been shared publicly.

The Listening Club opens up this archive as a space for thinking together about our own creative lives. The plan is simple: gather a small group in the same room, play a few audio clips from these interviews, give a bit of context on who's speaking, where the conversation took place, and why that particular moment resonated.

We listen together, then we talk. Someone may say something in passing that changes how you hear a particular clip, or perhaps someone else recognizes their own experience in it, or finds it completely foreign, and just by talking through that, we all end up somewhere unexpected.

Gus co-hosts these session with Chuva, co-founder of Demeter.
The two were introduced by a mutual friend earlier this year and bonded over many conversations about what it actually feels like to make things, and how their experiences shape their work, which is exactly what this evening is about.

The theme of the recordings changes monthly and this month’s theme is “Being seen and unseen”

November 4, 2026 [In Person at Demeter]
18:00 - 20:00

Running is one of the most honest forms of exploration available to us. The repetitive movement allows the mind to release its grip. Our running club is a moving practice for those curious to find out what they're capable of. All paces welcome. Feel free to be social or wear your headphones. We end every run back at demeter where we enjoy coffee and buns and jump into a spotaneous drawing activity. Whatever you create, pays for your coffee.

Tuesday mornings 8:00
We meet at Blox

Thursday mornings 8:30
We meet at Kongens Have

For anyone who wants to paint, whether you’ve never used oil paints before or already have experience and want more time, space, and guidance to develop your work.

This is a relaxed, hands-on oil painting class for every level. Each 2-hour class stands on its own, so you can come for one class or join us throughout the autumn season.

Everyone works at their own pace, with individual guidance from the teacher. If you’re new to oil painting, you’ll learn the basics — how to work with paint, brushes, colour, composition, and different painting techniques. If you already paint, you can use the class to experiment, develop your own work, or get feedback and support.

Each session introduces something to explore, but there is no expectation that everyone makes the same thing or works in the same way. Michael teaches these classes as a working studio: the process matters as much as the finished painting. Bring your curiosity, try things out, make mistakes, and see where the work takes you.

Join a small, intimate group of people with different levels of experience, all making and learning alongside one another.

Click here for all class dates in the 2026–2027 SEASON

Thursdays / 12:00–14:00

Each class stands on its own. Come once, choose a flexible bundle, or make painting part of your regular weekly practice.

How it works: After your purchase, message us to reserve your first class. Each time you’re ready for the next session, send us a quick note, and we’ll save you a seat. The cut-off for class registration is 24 hours before the class.

PRICING
Come once, or make painting part of your regular creative practice.

Each class is 2 hours. Choose the dates that work for you throughout the season.

Single Class: DKK 900
Drop in for one class. No ongoing commitment required.

4-Class Bundle: Save 10%:

6-Class Bundle: DKK Save 20%

8-Class Bundle: DKK Save 25%

Bundles are flexible. Choose your own dates and work at your own pace.

MATERIALS

Materials are provided for your first class, so you can simply come and try oil painting without needing to buy anything in advance.

If you decide to continue, we’ll give you straightforward guidance on what materials to bring or purchase based on what you want to work on. There’s no need to arrive with a fully stocked painting kit.

All courses are taught in English
All levels welcome — no previous painting experience required

Teacher: Michael Sherman
Chuva Featherstone as substitute if needed

For anyone who wants to draw, whether you’re picking up a pencil for the first time or have been drawing for years.

This is an open, exploratory drawing class for all levels. Each 2-hour class stands on its own, so you can come for one class or join us throughout the autumn season.

Everyone works at their own pace, with individual guidance from the teacher. Beginners can learn the fundamentals step by step, while more experienced participants can deepen their practice, experiment with new techniques, or pursue their own work.

We’ll explore observational drawing, sketching, mark making, scale, proportion, materials, and other techniques that can make drawing more intuitive and expressive. Each session introduces a focus, such as a technique, a question, or a material, for students to explore.

There are no prescribed outcomes and no pressure to keep up with the group. Join a small, intimate group of people at different stages and with different backgrounds, each following their own curiosity through drawing.

Try one class, or build your drawing practice over the autumn and spring.

Class is on Wednesdays / 18:00–20:00
Click here for all class dates in the 2026–2027 SEASON

PRICING

Single Class
Drop in for one class. No ongoing commitment required.
DKK 900

Class Bundles
Choose your own dates and work at your own pace.
4-Class Bundle: Save 10%:

6-Class Bundle: Save 20%:

8-Class Bundle: Save 25%

*Materials are provided for your first class, so you can simply come and try drawing without needing to buy anything in advance.

If you decide to continue, we’ll give you straightforward guidance on what materials to bring or purchase based on what you want to work on. There’s no need to arrive with a fully stocked drawing kit.

All courses are taught in English
All levels welcome — no previous drawing experience required

Teacher: Michael Sherman
Chuva Featherstone as substitute as needed

For anyone who wants to explore drawing on an iPad, whether you are completely new to digital drawing or want to become more comfortable using Procreate as a creative tool.

This is a relaxed, hands-on digital drawing class for every level. Each 2-hour class stands on its own, so you can come once or join us regularly throughout the season.

Using Procreate, we’ll explore the essential tools for drawing digitally, including brushes, layers, opacity, colour, selection tools, and simple effects. We’ll keep things straightforward, working with a small set of tools so you can focus on drawing rather than getting lost in the software.

Everyone works at their own pace, with individual guidance from the teacher. Beginners can learn Procreate and digital drawing step by step. More experienced participants can experiment, develop their own work, or use the iPad as a digital sketchbook alongside an existing art or design practice.

The emphasis is on becoming comfortable and confident with the medium through drawing, experimenting, making mistakes, and finding a way of working that feels natural to you.

Try one class, or make a digital drawing part of your regular creative practice.

Mondays / 16:30–18:30 (excluding last Monday of the month which is Fix It Workshop)

Click here for all class dates in the 2026–2027 SEASON

How it works: After your purchase, message us to reserve your first class. Each time you’re ready for the next session, send us a quick note, and we’ll save you a seat. The cut-off for class registration is 24 hours before the class. 

PRICING

Come once, or make digital drawing part of your regular practice.

Each class is 2 hours. Choose the dates that work for you throughout the season.

Single Class: DKK 900
Drop in for one class. No ongoing commitment required.

4-Class Bundle: DKK 3,240
Save 10%: DKK 810/class

6-Class Bundle: DKK 4,320
Save 20%: DKK 720/class

8-Class Bundle: DKK 5,400
Save 25%: DKK 675/class

Bundles are flexible. Choose your own dates and work at your own pace.

WHAT TO BRING

Bring your own iPad, charger, and stylus. Please have Procreate installed before your first class.

All courses are taught in English.
All levels welcome. No previous digital drawing or Procreate experience required.

Teacher: Michael Sherman
Chuva Featherstone as substitute if needed

The youngest group at Demeter is given the most open invitation. At this age, play and making are still the same thing, and these sessions are built to protect that. Children work with paint, collage, clay, and a range of materials, following their own curiosity with Chuva alongside them: present, encouraging, and always allowing the outcome to belong to the child. What begins as instinct starts, at this age, to become something a child can return to on purpose — the first sense of themselves as someone who makes things, and trusting themselves to do so.

*All courses are taught in English
*All materials provided
Ages: 6 - 8
Teacher: Chuva Featherstone [Michael Sherman as substitute if needed]
Time: Saturdays: 9.30-10.30 OR 13.00 - 14.00
Duration: 5 weeks

At this age, children are developing a more conscious relationship with the world — and with the work they make in it. These sessions build on that growing awareness, introducing observation drawing, narrative through image, collage, and mixed media, while keeping the exploratory spirit of the earlier group fully intact.

Everything here is investigation: what do you notice? What do you want to say? What happens when you try it a different way? Chuva teaches this group with the same foundational belief that runs through everything at demeter — that every child in the room already has a creative voice. The work is to help them hear it.

*All courses are taught in English.
*All materials provided
Ages: 9 - 12
Teacher: Chuva Featherstone [Michael Sherman as substitute as needed]
Time: Sunday afternoon, 13:00 - 14:00
Duration: 5 weeks

Teenagers. The age when the world begins to ask harder questions of you, and of everything you thought you understood. It is the age when complexity arrives, and with it, the opportunity to develop your own ways of seeing, thinking, and moving through things that don't yet have a clear answer.

Every session opens with an artist: their life, their practice, their particular way of solving the problem of how to make something meaningful. Not as a history lesson, but as a living conversation: here is how someone before you wrestled with the same questions you are wrestling with now, and here is what they made from that. Then we carry that inspiration into our own work. Young people enter those ideas as collaborators, working across charcoal, acrylic, collage, and mixed media, developing their own visual language alongside artists who are inside the same process of inquiry.

What builds over a term is more than a portfolio. It is a set of capacities that travel well beyond the studio — the ability to hold complexity without rushing toward a simple answer, to develop a habit of looking and making and looking again, to move through difficulty with curiosity rather than frustration. Young people at this age are navigating enormous social and emotional terrain. Creative practice is one of the most powerful tools they can develop for doing that with confidence and with a strong sense of who they are.

*All courses are taught in English.
*All materials provided
Ages: 13 - 17
Teacher: Chuva Featherstone [Michael Sherman as substitute as needed]
Time: weekday afternoons, 15:00 - 16:30
Duration: 5 weeks

For young people who want to draw, paint, or make, and have a schedule that doesn't always allow for a 5-week-long course. Drop in, and join a guided creative session based on the theme and project we are currently exploring.

All courses are taught in English
All materials provided
Teacher: Chuva & Michael
This can only be used for ONE class.
Select Age and Time at checkout

Practical home repair for beginners

Ever wished you knew how to hang a shelf properly, tighten a loose cabinet door, fix a dripping tap, or assemble furniture without wondering whether you’re doing it right?

Fix It Yourself is a hands-on, two-hour workshop for anyone who wants to feel more confident tackling the small repairs and projects that arise in daily life. Each workshop focuses on a few practical skills.

We’ll learn by doing: how to choose and use basic tools, understand different walls and fixings, measure and hang things, tighten and adjust hardware, assemble and repair furniture, troubleshoot simple household problems, and recognise when a job is better left to a professional.

The workshops are built around the basic IKEA TRIXIG 15-piece tool kit, which includes a hammer, adjustable wrench, pliers, screwdriver and common bits.  

Each class offers an opportunity to practice, ask questions and make mistakes. Come for a single workshop or return each month: every session will have a different focus.

Teacher: Michael Sherman
Michael is an artist and experienced maker who has worked in production for sculptors and international galleries, as well as for a custom-build carpenter in Brooklyn, before moving to Copenhagen.

All levels welcome. No previous experience required.
Classes taught in English.

Schedule

Last Monday of every month, 16:30–18:30

September 28, October 26, November 30, December 28 2026 and January 25, February 22, March 29, April 26, May 31 2027

Price: DKK 900
Bring a friend and they join for 50% off.

Tools are provided for the workshop.  If you want your own basic kit at home, we’ll show you what you actually need—and what you probably don’t.