Education

It was already super-late and there was still plenty of light. Right, right. There was plenty of light. We also talked about this because, of course, it was so far west and it was very rare, as if people who were already deep into the night were sending us photos of their darkness. But we remained in broad daylight. Right. But there was no sun. It was daytime. Right. Plus, the light was really fragmented. Right, right. Like haze in the background because there was no mist nearby. It was like a kind of warm mist. Of course. I mean, the time came when you couldn’t see the horizon. The horizon was erased. Right, right, like when you looked it seemed like the horizon line had disappeared. Like it had been erased with Photoshop. Of course. This idea that the sky merges with the sea. Right. But like just a part of it. Right. Of the horizon line. Not all of it. That’s right. And like a speck that was the sailboat, and we were going there, that was really strange, right? You could see a bit of light in part of the sea, but then there was nothing. Of course. It was a place of mirages. So then we looked and we all said that it’s not going to cross. Yes, yes, it’s going to cross. No, it’s impossible, it's going to wend, it's going to wend, because that was the edge, and beyond the sea falls away. Maybe that’s why the line couldn’t be seen, because we were already on the other side.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME 2024-2025

Preschool and primary school

• DE AQUELLOS BARROS. Workshop for preschool and primary school groups.

• SOFT HOUSE. Project in conjunction with the Móstoles children’s residence.

• A PIECE OF LINT, A SPECK, A SEQUIN ON THE GROUND THAT ALMOST NOBODY SEES. 0-6 research group.

• Fieldwork. Project in conjunction with the CEIP Federico García Lorca of Móstoles.

• SUMMER CABIN. Age 6 and up. One week in July.
   

Secondary school

• Donkey ears. Visit-workshop for secondary school and baccalaureate groups. Until January.

• MAKING A HOUSE. Collaboration project between students from the U.F.I.L. Pablo Neruda, the children at the Móstoles children’s residence and the CA2M Museum. During the school year. 

• Projector of opaque bodies. Collaboration with the IES Europa

Teacher training

• Darkroom. Performance and education workshop with Jorge Satorre.

• Darkroom. Collaboration project between Fine Arts and Art history at the Complutense University and the CA2M. All school year

• STEPS, CHAINS, MURMURS. Audiovisual and educational workshop. In spring.

Youths

• NAILS AND THUMBTACKS. All school year
• WHERE THINGS CONTINUE. Research group for former under-21 participants. All school year
• Under-21. Starting January

Families

• Architects of silence. Family workshop.

• Morning session

Everyone

• AN AMATEUR CHOIR. Voice creation workshop. Starting January.
• ODD DANCE. All school year.
• Last night I dreamed that I found myself (again). Last night I dreamed. Reading group. All school year.
• Ciudad Sur. Green spectrums: From thyme green to radioactive green. All school year.
• Plant Lab Móstoles. Garden on the terrace. All school year.
• Zafra or how to harvest rebellion. Weekend tours of the exhibitions.
• Group tours. Group tours of the exhibitions. All school year.
• Beyond the sea falls away. Universidad Popular. In spring.

NIBBLES OF REALITY

‘If you’ve ever dreamed it, it’s real. If you’ve ever felt it, it’s real. If you’ve ever experienced it, was it real? Are the place you occupy in the world and that way you think no longer the same as before? Do you get lost in the onslaught of information today? Do you no longer know whether that voice in your head is stable? Take a nibble of reality before all that gets to you! Perhaps you’re wondering how you got here; I don’t know. I don’t even exist; I’m just a voice that comes to life in your head through words. But from there I can invite you to explore dissociation, the construction of the story and illusion, and that may even include a panoramic visit to the uncanny and other places yet to be deciphered. And no prior experience is needed! Liminal instructions to play in reality: reality twists. Reality expands. Reality blurs. Reality breaks. The reality we build. Now we’re where things continue (talking through the voice that reads in your head), a group (and perhaps, too, an unreachable place) made up of ex-under-twenties which is generated from restlessness and curiosity through the museum and its practices.’

Where Things Continue is a group made up of former participants in the youth programmes with an interest in culture, art and community work. The project aims to redefine the relationships with the museum by fostering its members’ self-management and getting them involved in building the programming targeted at young people.

This year we want to focus our programme on endings. At your school, don’t you get the feeling that you don’t know how things are supposed to end? How do you deal with saying farewell to your pupils? For example: How should the final production of the children’s play turn out? A colleague once said to us: If I see that my daughters’ play is flawless, I worry about the process. We’re not good at achieving a satisfactory ending – or we find it difficult If we see that things end in a clean, perfect way, we believe that something hasn’t quite gone as it should. We call it tying a ribbon around the workshop: when we say goodbye with a conclusion and people leave with smiles on their faces and even applaud (the worst thing is when they applaud), then there’s something we feel that’s not quite right. That’s why we want to think about what happens to us and broaden the commonly held narrative about what should happen in the end.

We’ll work throughout the year with the material we’ve created over the previous fifteen courses until we run out: the information sheets for the educational programme are made from 58.4 kilos of paper from documents, images and archives from all these years of activities, which have been processed by the Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades. This programme for youngsters will work with the left over materials from the museum. In this year’s performance workshop, we’ll make a school with the blankets that last year were made into a kite; and we’ll make a house with material from dismantled exhibitions.

“Using up” to create and learn together what nobody teaches us: how to say goodbye to things, places and people. We want to accompany and take care of how processes end, doing so as if there were no tomorrow. We want to end things in the best possible way, to enjoy the beauty of the last moment and to cross boldly over to the other side.
 

Teacher training

• MAKING A SCHOOL. Performance and education workshop.
• FOOTSTEPS, CHAINS, DOORS, MURMURS AND EXPLETIVES FROM AN UNSEEN CROWD. Audiovisual and educational workshop. April (spring).
• MISSING A CLASS. In collaboration with the UAM’s Department of Artistic, Plastic and Visual Education. Throughout the school year. 

Pre-school and primary school students

• OUT OF THE MUD. Workshop for pre-school and primary school groups.
• SOFT HOME.  MAKING AFTER-DINNER CONVERSATIONS LONGER. Project in collaboration with the Móstoles children’s home.
• FLUFF, A SPECK, A SPECK ON THE GROUND THAT HARDLY ANYONE SEES. 0-6 research group.
• PORTRAITS OF A MONSTER, A PLACE FOR WHAT’S WILD. Collaboration project with the CEIP Federico García Lorca in Móstoles.
• SUMMER HUT. For children from 6 years of age and up. One week in July.

Secondary school students

• LEAVING FEAR BEHIND. Visit-workshop for Secondary and Baccalaureate school groups. Throughout the school year. 
• MAKING A HOUSE  Collaboration project with U.F.I.L. students Pablo Neruda, children from the children’s home in Móstoles and the Museo CA2M. During the school year.

Youngsters

• NAILS AND TACKS. Open workshops for youngsters aged13 to 21. With the Quiosco Clandestino collective. Every other Friday until July. 
• WHERE THINGS CONTINUE. Research group for former under-21 team members. October to February. 

Families

• WHERE THE TIGER EATS THE CHILDREN. Lullaby workshop
• SONGS AND SWEETS. Spring workshop

Everywhere

• AN AMATEUR CHOIR. Creative voice workshop.
• UNEVEN DANCE.
• COVEN OF FANZINES. Reading group.
• MEDIATION FOR FIVE HANDRAILS. Visiting the exhibitions.
• TRAILS THROUGH THE MUSEUM. Group visits to the exhibitions. Throughout the school year. 
• EASY. Thoughts on inclusion. Throughout the school year. 
• WITNESSING THE END Universidad Popular