The Affûtés experience
A unique experience for your team, an opportunity to share and create together, in a friendly and caring atmosphere!
Overtaking
« The cooking workshop allowed me to make tasty fresh pasta and push my limits! »
Isabelle, Cho America
Skills
« I made my own cutting board! A superb experience combining creativity and know-how! »
Romain, Desjardins
Cohesion
« A real moment of sharing in a warm, relaxed atmosphere! Our team loved it. »
Thao, Futurpreneur
Self-confidence
« Each achievement helped me to improve and feel more confident. A very rewarding result! »
Wiam, Radio Canada
They trusted us
Our workshops
With more than 50 workshops, your team will be able to discover new skills and surpass themselves!
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Make a cutting board
In this workshop you will acquire new woodworking skills while learning to make a wooden cutting board that you can personalise to your taste.
3h / 10 participants -
Build your own urban backpack
In this sewing workshop you will learn a number of useful sewing techniques while you make your own urban style backpack.
4h / 8 participants -
Make your own sweatshirt
In this 3-hour workshop you'll learn sewing skills like pattern cutting and how to make a sleeve to create your own cotton sweatshirt.
3.5h / 8 participants -
Repairing small electrical appliances – Level 1
This 3-hour workshop is here to make you autonomous, by teaching you diagnostic and repair techniques with common household appliances.
3h / 10 participants -
Make your own gifts in wood
In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn how to make 3 wooden objects: a cutting board, a candle holder, and a wine bottle stopper.
3h / 8 participants -
Introduction to Leatherwork – Making a card holder
In this 3-hour workshop you'll learn how to work the leather. You will learn different leatherwork techniques to make a leather card holder.
3h / 8 participants -
Create your entryway shelf in solid wood
During this 3.5 hour workshop, we will make a beautiful, customizable and practical pocket-sized piece of furniture to install in our entryway.
3.5h / 10 participants -
Making fresh pasta: tagliatelle, gnocchi, ravioli
During this 3.5-hr workshop, you'll learn how to make 3 different types of fresh pasta by hand and from scratch.
3.5h / 12 participants -
Pâtisserie – Mastering the art of macaroons – Ganache, macaronage, baking
In this 3.5 hour workshop, we'll discover three ganache recipes. We'll learn the different steps involved in making successful macaron shells
3.5h / 10 participants -
Linocut – print your own botanical greeting cards
During this 3-hour workshop, Sarah takes us into the delicate world of stationery, through the creation of printed greeting cards!
3h / 10 participants
Our locations and capacities
Village – 40 people Mile-Ex – 60 people
Our spaces are accessible to people with disabilities.
Our workshops
We offer 3h, 3h30 or 4h workshops, depending on the subject and your needs.
You can choose the number of participants per workshop depending on your teams.
We can organize up to 6 simultaneous workshops, with privatization of the facilities.
You can choose the language of the workshop according to your teams.
We also offer tailor-made adaptations (time, content of certain workshops); organization of snacks; meeting rooms rental.
Testimonials
What our customers have shared about their experience with us
« We came together as a team to make cutting boards. What a pleasure to work with our hands, to give free rein to our creativity and to laugh together! »
« We really loved the experience! Everyone enjoyed working with the wood, touching it, smelling it. And the result… Magnificent! A very rewarding workshop and great team cohesion. »
« We would like to thank you for an incredible experience! The whole team enjoyed every moment. We were made to feel very welcome and everything went smoothly! »
A committed structure
Les Affûtés emerged as a response to planned obsolescence and the buy-it-quickly-throw-it-away culture. It’s essential to change our ways of doing things, we now know this well, and we believe we can make our contribution by helping everyone become more independent and thus better able to make and repair their own objects.
B CORP
Les Affûtés is a B Corp certified company, the most recognized certification for social and environmental responsibility. We are deeply involved: carbon offsetting, circular economy for our raw materials, local suppliers, etc.
JUSTICE
Getting involved also means providing fair compensation to our trainers, allowing them to make a living from their passion.
KINDNESS
The mission of Les Affûtés is to make manual skills accessible to everyone. We would never mock someone who doesn’t know how to hold a drill. On the contrary, we would be proud to show them how to use it.
Les Affûtés is a certified B Corp
B Corp is the most challenging and most recognized certification for those who want to use the economy to have a positive impact on the world around them. We organized the Affûtés from the beginning with the goal of becoming certified as soon as possible. This is now the case, and we’re very proud of it!
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a workshop cost ?
The price of a private workshop starts at $840 and varies according to the number of people and the time spent. We offer a unique price for each workshop. Contact us for a personalized quote.
Where are we located ?
We are located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We have two locations, one in Mile-Ex and one in the Village. We can also bring certain workshops to your company.
Can I take several identical workshops at the same time?
We only have space and equipment for one workshop at a time, per subject. We can organize several different workshops simultaneously.
Is it possible to follow the workshops in a bilingual version?
Although most of our artisans are bilingual, the length of the workshops means that we can’t provide all the information in both languages. You must therefore choose a main language.
Do all workshops have the same capacity?
The maximum capacity of our workshops varies according to location and subject. We can accommodate from 7 to 12 people per group. Contact us for more details.
Want to know more ?
Once we have received your request, we will contact you within 48 hours to discuss your project in more detail. We will also share our detailed brochures, so that together we can choose the ideal formula for your event!
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