Activity

There are many pottery pieces in the CA2M Museum workshop that were shaped by the groups that visited us in 2022. They were very carefully fired, each in a school’s kiln. There they released all the water they contained, and when it evaporated, it dispersed through the air of Móstoles. There are also legions of small clay pieces that harbour the sorrows brought by the children who came with their class to the ‘De aquellos barros’ workshop last school year.

Clay contains four elements: soil, water so it can be shaped, air to dry and fire to be baked. Nana Baruque, one of the oldest goddesses of Candomblé, is the goddess of mud, clay, the marshes, drizzle. She welcomes you when you are born and bids you farewell when you die.

Tuesday mornings, on the Nana celebration day, the CA2M Museum activates a ritual that choreographs the entire session. In this workshop, where the children will be the mediums, we invoke the power of clay and the aliveness of objects. This workshop is a space of imagination, creation and magic, such necessary ingredients in our learning spaces.

We invite preschool and primary school classes to participate in this activity, in which we imagine a response to the question: What can we do with that clay? Leave school and enter a museum to touch, change, break, make noise and soften.

Adriana Reyes (anthropologist and creator in the field of the live arts) and Goya Batalla (teacher at Escuela Infantil Zaleo with a degree in American History, and a provocateur in the Art of Educating) know a lot about this. We have invited them to design this workshop in which children will make a new creation from something small, where the body, collective action and other contemporary art forms will be put into practice to turn something small into something extraordinary.

We are Nails and Thumbtacks, a little group devoted to artistic experimentation through self-publishing and DIY, always creating through play. We aim to discover and generate multiple ways of materialising our ideas as a group. We explore different media like paper, video, sound, performance and even intangible things, playing with constant constructions and deconstructions.

If you’re between the ages of 13 and 21 and you’re interested in art, this is a space where you can freely experiment. You don’t need any prior knowledge, and you don’t need to be an extrovert; here we invent everything from scratch, together.

This year we’re focusing on transformation to explore what emerges from endings and new beginnings. We’ll invite guests who work in different disciplines like performance, textiles, image and film. We’ll also take trips and appropriate the museum for our creations.

Join us and discover the power of collective creation through play and artistic experimentation.

Odd Dance is a workshop for all kinds of bodies with all types of experience on dance floors and in festivals and ballrooms, where you can practise classical couple dances in a trio. It’s harder to keep the beat and steps of a dance with three people dancing, but this is precisely what makes us learn new ways of moving.

Odd Dance is a workshop where the simple action-question of translating classic couple dances for two into trio dances for three, or five, or seven, will provide us with the framework of joint investigation and creation in which we’ll get in touch with each other and our own bodies, the bodies of others and the world around us using movement and dance as a means of bonding and creative expression.

Oihana Altube is a dancer and choreographer who is also trained in dance movement therapy. She works on the margins of dance and the live arts.

Ciudad Sur is a space of shared experimentation that was launched in 2021 and aims to inquire into the many facets and riches that generate a sense of belonging in cities around Madrid’s outskirts, taking Móstoles as its point of departure.

In this fourth edition of Ciudad Sur, green is going to take us through different landscapes that that have marked the history of Móstoles and of what Móstoles is not in this and other times. With spectral green, we’ll take leaps through time in each session, which will propose a look at more specific issues in this city south of Madrid while also projecting it on a more global scale and connecting with other neighbourhoods and places in order to share and debate different issues that particularly concern us in this tumultuous political and social context.

In this 2024–2025 edition, the coordinators will once again be: Irene de Andrés, the La Liminal collective and the reporting of Blanca Sotos, accompanied by Estrella Serrano, head of the Education and Public Activities department at the Museo CA2M. Registration will be opened on the website at least 15 days in advance for participation in each session. The sessions are held on Tuesdays from 6 to 8 pm. The dates for this year’s edition are:

• 22 October
• 12 November
• 3 December
• 21 January
• 18 February
• 18 March
• 29 April
• 20 May

Irene de Andrés was born in one of the most popular destinations, the island of Ibiza, which has inevitably led her to inquire into the evolution of the concept of leisure and the very meaning of travel throughout history, from the first colonists to tour operators. Spas, cruise ships and discos are key settings for the artist, who uses films, sculptures and graphic works to create journeys through time and around different waters, connecting different historical deeds that make us reflect on the tourist consumption model, which is especially designed for the working class.

La Liminal is a cultural mediation collective which inquires into the city and uses urban routes as a tool for analysing the public space collectively. Our goal is to experiment with the urban landscape to suggest new interpretations that focus on the stories that have been rendered invisible over time, those that we have not valued, in order to build alternative discourses that are based on collective learning and allow us to reappropriate the idea of public space as a common good.

Blanca Sotos (Madrid, 1978) thinks, reads, writes, translates, corrects, edits and publishes different textualities. She has worked as an editor in ministries, publishers and museums and has directed artbook fairs. She has also taught courses and delivered lectures at the Casa del Lector-Matadero, CA2M Museum, Casa Encendida, Sala Mendoza of Caracas, Centro Nacional de las Artes of Mexico, Centro Cultural de España in Mexico, Tenerife Espacio de Artes, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Community of Madrid. She has directed marcablanca since 2018, and she and Ramón Mateos are in charge for the first edition of MiraLookBook, the International Meeting of Publications Specialising in Contemporary Culture. She is currently a professor at American University and is pursuing a PhD in the Faculty of Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid.

We are celebrating the arrival of summer on 14 June, and we want to invite you to participate. It will be a kind of celebration where you can remember and enjoy a different kind of evening. We are inviting you to participate in this festival, led by the artists with whom we’ve worked this year in the families project.

We’ll begin with Ángela Segovia and Luz Prado, with whom we’ve created new lullabies in the workshop entitled ‘Donde el tigre se come a los niños’ [Where the Tiger Eats the Children], this time to get mothers to sleep. We’ll close our eyes, and perhaps someone will whisper something in our ear. We may sing or recall the songs from our childhood, or perhaps not because they’ve changed and now there are other songs.

This happened with Ruiseñora in the workshop called ‘Las canciones y los dulces. Mi casa sin patio’ [Songs and Sweets. My House without a Courtyard], in which the popular Spanish children’s song ‘El patio de mi casa’ [The Courtyard of my House] will never be the same again. Now, after the workshops we’ve held, this popular courtyard has a tree that blossoms in the autumn, as well as a Jacuzzi, bologna and pickles.

After that, for dessert, we’ll have De fruta, pastel—we’ll sample the sweetness of dulce de leche, the glazed texture of Portillo pastries and the scent of the honey flowers that flavoured our childhood. And with the aftertaste of so many memories still in our mouths, after dinner we’ll listen to Ruiseñora, who will hold a concert on the museum’s terrace, where her songs will also seem familiar yet different.

• 6 pm Toma mi mamó. Ángela Segovia and Luz Prado. (SUI)
• 6:30 pm De fruta, pastel. (terrace)
• 7 pm Ruiseñora concert (terrace)