Studio Burdąg - dom pracy twórczej

Studio Burdąg is located right next to the forest, in silence and greenery, away from neighbors, roads and civilization. First, the owners created a house for the family, then a dance hall and accommodation rooms, and today a place dedicated to creative work and development workshops is flourishing here. We invite organizers who organize events and are looking for a place for a few days trip to cooperate with us. Here you will surely find peace, good energy and a lot of space (inside and outside) to use during classes. We rent the studio exclusively. In two buildings, in double and triple rooms we can host 22 people, 26 with added mattresses. Studio consists of: The cowshed – with one of the few workshops in Poland with an area of 120 m² – on the ground floor, an open kitchen and a living room with a fireplace, - 4 rooms on the first floor: 1 room with its own bathroom and a double bed and 3 double rooms with a shared bathroom. Barn – here there is a dining room and a gastronomic kitchen where our team cooks for you, – on the ground floor, a living room with a goat and a kitchenette – 6 rooms on the first floor: 1 double and 1 triple room with private bathrooms and 1 single, 1 double and 2 triple rooms with two shared bathrooms. - has a covered, open terrace, where social life takes place in the warmer months. We also have: – a swimming pool where you can cool down in the summer and swim in the winter – a pond where goldfish and frogs live – an orchard and a vegetable garden from which vegetables used seasonally in our kitchen come from and 2 buildings where part of the team lives and the owners who come from time to time from Warsaw on a visit. We also have pets: the female Szajba and the female Zyta. We love all wet noses, so you can take your pets here too. Just remember to read the rules and ensure the comfort of our animals and other guests. Winter in Burdąg The temperatures in the buildings will be around 19-20° C, so remember to bring warm tracksuits and wool socks. Winter in the countryside is not the tropics. For chilled people, we have a fireplace and a goat, where you can bask as much as you want.

We feed here vegetarian, seasonally and aromatically. Our chef, Aleksandra Doniczka, will nourish not only your bodies, but also your senses, and will offer balanced meals prepared with full mindfulness. Ola is a nutritionist specializing in plant-based diets, and in addition to cooking at workshops, she looks after the Burda patch, conducts culinary workshops, organizes her own events and takes photos. The menu is set separately with each of the Organizers, in order to fully adapt it to the needs of the group. We really want you to be able to recharge your batteries with a nutritious meal during intensive work. In addition to a vegetarian diet, we can offer a vegan or gluten-free diet. What matters to us is the quality, origin of products and their impact on the environment. In summer we use vegetables from our garden. All-day board is with us: breakfast in the form of a Swedish table with oatmeal or millet + two-course lunch with dessert + dinner in the form of a Swedish table with a hot dish. If you need a snack between meals, a fully equipped communal kitchen is at your disposal.

Our offer is addressed to the organizers of various types of events and it is them who take care of filling the time of our guests. We know from experience that there are a lot of activities and sometimes there is not enough time to take full advantage of the charms of the area. Our workshop room gives space for organizing very diverse activities: dance classes, movement classes, martial arts, yoga practices, women's circles, soft skills workshops or stage and acting workshops. We also have a lot of common spaces where our guests can make friends and exchange experiences between classes. However, if someone prefers to take a break from all kinds of stimuli and interactions, he will always find a secluded place to retreat. In your free time - should such a thing happen - you can always: – go for walks in the forest, which is only a few steps away, – go to the nearby Świątajno lake, one of the cleanest in Masuria, – read books in a hammock (you can choose something from our library), – soak your feet in the pond while lying on the platform, – swim in the pool in the summer and swim in the winter, – play ping-pong and badminton matches, - sit in the evening by the fire, – ride a bike, if you happen to have it with you, - go sledding when it snows, – pick raspberries, blueberries and mushrooms in autumn It's rare that someone goes out to explore the area during their stay, but if... – Olsztyn is an hour away from here, so you can go on a trip: a walk around the old town, a beautiful university campus by the lake or for a good coffee at Bless Coffee Roasters, – in Szczytno, in addition to the ruins of the Teutonic castle, Masurian Pofajdoki and the Masurian Museum are waiting for you, – in the charming nearby towns and villages: Pasym (the oldest town in Masuria), Grom, Barczewo or Dźwierzuty, you can admire the post-war architecture and move into the past for a moment, – the nearby Dłużek Lake and the village of Dłużek (such in traditional Prussian street buildings) Melchior Wańkowicz describes in the book “Na tropach Smętka” as the most beautiful in Masuria, – we are almost in the Napiwodzko-Ramucka Forest, and here there are: impenetrable forests, nature reserves, a refuge of wild birds, a war cemetery in Orłowo from World War I or an abandoned Warmian village of Orzechowo.