Girls and boys from 6 years old

Girls and boys from 6 years old

Lots of things happen in the summertime that don’t seem as possible throughout the year: you meet new people, eat more ice cream than allowed, stay out later… Time streeeeeetches out, like when you step on chewing gum with your shoes. When we were little, we may have gotten bored, especially those of us who stayed in the city. There are hours when you can’t go outside unless you want to fry like an egg, and that’s when the maddest ideas are hatched.
How about we mix chocolate and sausage?
Those of us who already have a few summers under our belts are trying to conserve this spirit, and we wonder… what if Madrid’s asphalt turned into the sea? Could an art centre be a shell for a hermit crab? Could the CA2M Museum be a refuge for children in the summer? What about all year round?

On Hermits and Shells aims to turn the museum into a portal to a reality where these ideas may be possible, beginning with constructing our own space for and with children: a coral reef, a giant shell, a summer home… with views of the sea? Hairy walls? No adults?
Then we’ll see if we want to head out to explore our new habitat, leaving a slime trail like snails but in fluorescent colours so we don’t forget our way back and in case we want to invite anyone to enter.

Through performative games, installations and textile sculptures, we’ll also create our own portable homes so we can carry all our wishes and scatter them around the corners, hoping to communicate with other beings, in other spaces, in other seasons… beyond summer.

Massa Salvatge is a work cooperative located in Valencia that imagines, develops and promotes educational and cultural spaces for action, where critical imaginaries are explored in relation to the social issues that affect us. They work from an ‘anti-adult’ perspective of education, art and culture, placing the focus on children’s rights and needs. The group has drawn from the diverse backgrounds, knowledge and expertise of its members, using artistic tools and strategies, cultural mediation and education as their foundation, and they have blended these practices with research and participatory action, cultural management and training.

 

 

 

Activity type
Dates
From 8 to 11 July
Acceso notas adicionales

Workshop for 12 persons (Registration from 9 June to 8 July)

Entrance

Summer workshop for children with Massa Salvatge.

Subtitle
Summer cottage
Categoría cabecera
Caracolas
ON HERMITS AND SHELLS SUMMER CABIN
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Picture: Massa Salvatge

Is it a cycle?
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Duration
From 11 to 13:30

This summer, we’ll all be fish. The children in the summer cabin will become a huge school of fish. Fish without a sea and with just one place to swim: in the museum.

We need three things to dance: body, space and time. What happens when we interplay these three elements?

Swimming suddenly becomes a way of dancing.

We share a space. We have a museum. We walk around the museum; we dance around the museum. We guide, follow and seek a common respite. How do we choose which direction to go in? Who chooses the direction of our route? If we all stop, will we keep dancing?

We are inviting children aged 6 to 12 to dive through the depths of this ocean along with Baiven. Just like every year, the CA2M Museum is scheduling this activity with the goal of creating a space where artists and creators can share their inquiries with the participants. This time, the sessions will revolve around the body, dance and groupwork.

The workshop will be taught by Alba Sáenz-López Aumente and Mar Sáenz-López Aumente. They are dancers, choreographers, sisters, cultural mediators and the founders of the Baiven collective, a group that uses dance to foster the horizontal exchange of experiences, perspectives, knowledge and critical thinking.

They develop activities that explore the performing arts and education. They seek engagement and interaction with communities and territories and try to expand art’s professional arena by creating accessible, diverse spaces where anyone can find a place, regardless of their situation, body and mind.

Activity type
Dates
9-12 JULY
Target audience
Registration
-
Acceso notas adicionales

CAPACITY: 12 PEOPLE.

Entrance

This summer, we’ll all be fish. The children in the summer cabin will become a huge school of fish. Fish without a sea and with just one place to swim: in the museum.

Categoría cabecera
cABAÑA
THERE MAY BE FISH WHERE THERE IS NO BEACH
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Picture: Sue Ponce.

Is it a cycle?
Disabled
Duration
11:00-13:30

During the summer vacation, all the children who want to can join us in a workshop to call for rain, thunder and lightning, both inside and outside the museum. We will dance until it starts to thunder, we will light up the darkness and we will get soaked to the skin. Perhaps we will get magical powers but, if not, at least we will cool down.

In this workshop, girls and boys can take over the museum and transform it into a hideout where that can have a wonderful summer.

Children over the age of six

From 19 to 22 de July.

From 11:00 to 13:30h

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Activity type
Dates
From 19 to 22 de July
Acceso notas adicionales

CAPACITY 15 PEOPLE

Entrance

WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN OVER SIX

Subtitle
WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN OVER SIX
Categoría cabecera
Tormenta de verano
SUMMER STORM
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Picture: Sue Ponce.

Is it a cycle?
Disabled
Duration
11:00-13:30