Date: 30 April.
Time: morning and afternoon. From 11 am to 2 pm, workshop at the CA2M Museum. From 3:30 to 6 pm, activity at the cemetery.
Length: 3 hours in the morning, 2 1/2 hours in the afternoon.
Venue: CA2M Museum (morning) and Old Parish Cemetery of Móstoles (afternoon)
Registration: Via the form starting on 23 April at 6:30 pm.
Maximum capacity 20 people.
Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, ‘To die will be an awfully big adventure’.
This is what Peter Pan heard in his soul as the tide was rising and the islet where he was standing was becoming smaller and smaller. Injured by Captain Hook, he did not have the strength to fly. And we are using those words to try venturing an idea of the Great Beyond, first in the museum and later in the Móstoles cemetery. What will it be like to transition to this unknown place, impossible to know from here but possible to imagine? What type of ghosts will we be? The only thing not accepted in this workshop is absolutely nothing, death as the end of everything, because the goal is precisely to penetrate the Great Beyond as an excuse to make up stories about the unknown. This doesn’t mean that people who don’t believe in Something-Else-Afterward are not allowed, but they may have to make a greater effort to come up with stories.
Activity guide:
Sabina Urraca (San Sebastián, 1984) Writer and publisher. She grew up in Tenerife and has been living in Madrid for over twenty years. She is the author of the novels Las niñas prodigio (Fulgencio Pimentel, 2017), the winner of the Javier Morote Award granted by CEGAL; Soñó con la chica que robaba un caballo (Lengua de trapo, 2021); Chachachá (Dueto) (Comisura, 2023); El celo (Alfaguara, 2024), chosen 2024 book of the year by El Cultural and Escribir antes (Comisura, 2025), published by the Argentinian publishing house Bosque Energético under the title of Diario de novela. She has contributed to media like El País, El Cultural and Zenda and was the resident editor of the Caballo de Troya imprint (Penguin Random House) in 2023 and 2024. In 2020, she received the MFA in Spanish Creative Writing scholarship at the University of Iowa. In 2022, she received a Leonardo grant for creators from the Fundación BBVA.
Picture: Ediciones Menguantes