Handicraft · Nature · Sport

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An experience can be only the beginning.

We create gatherings for learning, making, watching and sharing; spaces to slow the pace and discover new ways of relating to what surrounds us.

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Chile · 33°S — 51°S

Who we are — our way of seeing

Umbral exists between the known and what is still to be discovered. We create gatherings around different disciplines, bringing together knowledge, practice and people in small, carefully tended experiences built with intention.

Some experiences stay with us long after they are lived.

Two ways in

Hands cupping a ball of clay on a wooden table

01 — Handicraft

Learning through the hands

Ceramics, basketry, textiles, goldsmithing and other crafts that invite you to meet the materials, the processes, and the people who keep them alive.

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Two surfers on the sand at sunset, boards under their arms

02 — Sport

Moved by nature

Experiences where movement becomes another way of knowing, observing and relating to what surrounds us.

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A long table set for dinner outdoors in a green landscape at dusk

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

Table & nature

The table and nature as an essential part of every gathering.

Nature sets the rhythms, the materials, and the way we relate to what surrounds us.

The table, in turn, takes us somewhere familiar: that moment of sitting down around a good meal, talking without hurry, sharing, and letting the gathering carry on.

At Umbral we value both of these deeply, and we look for them to be present, in one form or another, in every experience.

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Hands shaping a clay vessel on a banding wheel

Handicraft

◦ Viña del Mar · Half day – 2 days

Ceramics

An experience that approaches clay through making: getting to know the material, working with your hands, and discovering how time and fire transform each piece.

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Two surfers on the shore at sunset, boards under their arms

Sport

◦ Costa de Ñuble · 7 days

Surf & Skimboard

A way of approaching the sea through movement, observation and practice. Reading its changes, understanding its rhythms, and learning to move with them.

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The granite towers of Torres del Paine above a glacial valley

Photo by Peter Winckler on Unsplash

Sport

Trekking

Walk the granite towers and glacial valleys of Patagonia, ending each day around a shared table.

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This is how we do it

The people who receive you

Sebastián & Gabriela · Founders, Umbral

Umbral was born from the way we share what inspires us: the crafts, movement, nature, the table, and the encounter with others. We think through, build and accompany every experience ourselves, making sure everyone who takes part feels received from the very first moment.

Who accompanies you

On every experience we are joined by people who know deeply what they share: artisans, cooks, athletes, makers and other specialists who are part of each gathering.

Sebastián Lecaros
Co-founder · Skimboarder · Santiago
Skimboarder and co-founder of Umbral. His way of seeing is bound up with movement, the coast, and learning by doing. He takes part in planning and building every gathering, above all where sport, logistics and exploration are concerned.
Gabriela Campos
Co-founder · Ceramicist · Santiago
Ceramicist and co-founder of Umbral. She thinks each experience through from the details, the materials, the table, the spaces, and the way we receive people. She is behind the creative direction and the building of every gathering.
Valentina Pascual
Photographer · Valparaíso
Abadi Venega
Filmmaker · Santiago
Sebastián Campos
Chef · Santiago

And who was already there

The makers, cooks and guides whose places you visit. We would rather you heard about them from the guests who met them.

“I came for a souvenir and left with a bowl that is genuinely bad and genuinely mine. Rosa never once took my hands off the clay to fix it.”
Hannah R. · LondonOn Rosa Muñoz
“Diego had us reading the water before we ever touched a board. Three days later I could tell which wave was mine, and which ones were not.”
Javiera C. · SantiagoOn Diego Vera
“Rosa taught my hands and Gabriela fed us both. I have been to workshops before; I had never been looked after like that.”
Matías O. · ValparaísoOn Rosa Muñoz and Gabriela Campos
“Elba let a whole hour pass without correcting me. When she finally did it was one word, and I have not forgotten it.”
Pilar Y. · SantiagoOn Elba Rojas

“I came for a souvenir and left with a bowl that is genuinely bad and genuinely mine. Rosa never once took my hands off the clay to fix it.”
Hannah R. · LondonOn Rosa Muñoz
“Diego had us reading the water before we ever touched a board. Three days later I could tell which wave was mine, and which ones were not.”
Javiera C. · SantiagoOn Diego Vera
“Rosa taught my hands and Gabriela fed us both. I have been to workshops before; I had never been looked after like that.”
Matías O. · ValparaísoOn Rosa Muñoz and Gabriela Campos
“Elba let a whole hour pass without correcting me. When she finally did it was one word, and I have not forgotten it.”
Pilar Y. · SantiagoOn Elba Rojas

“I came for a souvenir and left with a bowl that is genuinely bad and genuinely mine. Rosa never once took my hands off the clay to fix it.”
Hannah R. · LondonOn Rosa Muñoz
“Diego had us reading the water before we ever touched a board. Three days later I could tell which wave was mine, and which ones were not.”
Javiera C. · SantiagoOn Diego Vera
“Rosa taught my hands and Gabriela fed us both. I have been to workshops before; I had never been looked after like that.”
Matías O. · ValparaísoOn Rosa Muñoz and Gabriela Campos
“Elba let a whole hour pass without correcting me. When she finally did it was one word, and I have not forgotten it.”
Pilar Y. · SantiagoOn Elba Rojas