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“Out of the mud... these seams” is a morning workshop at the Museo CA2M where we invite groups of pre-school and primary school children to come and share stories connected to other forms of knowledge and transmission, using experiences they already practise: gestures, listening, play, telepathy, imagination, dreams...

The stories are shared in the workshop without the need for words. Sometimes they emerge in the form of stitches, sometimes in gestures or silences. The children explore ways of learning and remembering that are not always taught but are felt. The workshop and the exhibition space are a place to come together, imagine and listen with the body, a place where the ordinary is transformed into the extraordinary, and art emerges without anyone naming it.

Adriana Reyes (anthropologist and creator in the living arts field) and Gregoria Batalla Batalla (teacher at the infant school Zaleo, History of the Americas graduate and revolutionary in the art of educating) know a great deal about all of this, which is why we’ve invited them to design this workshop in which the children will turn something small into a new creation; where the body, collective action and other contemporary art forms will be harnessed to create something wonderful out of something small.

Activity type
Dates
FROM FEBRUARY TO JUNE
Registration
-
Acceso notas adicionales

Maximum 25 people

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“Out of the mud... these seams” is a morning workshop at the Museo CA2M where we invite groups of pre-school and primary school children to come and share stories connected to other forms of knowledge and transmission, using experiences they already practise: gestures, listening, play, telepathy, imagination, dreams...

Subtitle
WORKSHOP FOR PRE-SCHOOL (AGES 4 AND 5) AND PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN
Categoría cabecera
Barros
OUT OF THE MUD 2025–2026
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Picture: Sue Ponce.

Is it a cycle?
Disabled
Duration
TUESDAY 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

“Dancing the neighbourhood”, held every Tuesday evening at the Museo CA2M, is conceived as a permanent meeting space for children, a little community where the ordinary becomes special, where every gathering is an opportunity to discover something new along with other people, a feel-good place in which to explore through the body and movement. 

Last year, children between the ages of 6 and 12 participated in a creative adventure that took them to different parts of the museum... and the city! As well as exploring works by artists such as Sol Calero, María Medem and Santiago Sierra, they went to places like Avenida de la Constitución, Parque Cuartel Huertas and Plaza del Pradillo.

During the sessions, they engaged in body play, designed spaces, created dance scores and recorded an audiovisual experience to discover different forms of dance in Móstoles.
All of this movement prompted multiple questions that continue to energise the project:  Where can dance be found? Who can dance? How can we document our own dances? What do we learn when we dance?

This year we want to go on exploring, opening up new routes and looking at the place where we live with different eyes. Using body play, time and space, we’ll design major choreographic expeditions to imagine and share new ways of dancing together.

The activity is led by Alba Sáenz-López Aumente and Mar Sáenz-López Aumente, dancers, choreographers, cultural mediators and founders of Baiven, a collective that uses dance as a form of cultural mediation and is committed to the horizontal sharing of experiences, perspectives, knowledge and critical thinking. 

You can sign up at any time during the school year.
Places are subject to availability, but we’ll be delighted to welcome you if there are any vacancies.

 

Activity type
Dates
FROM OCTOBER TO MAY
Registration
-
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“Dancing the neighbourhood”, held every Tuesday evening at the Museo CA2M, is conceived as a permanent meeting space for children, a little community where the ordinary becomes special, where every gathering is an opportunity to discover something new along with other people, a feel-good place in which to explore through the body and movement. 

Actividades asociadas
Subtitle
EXTRACURRICULAR DANCE AND MOVEMENT WORKSHOP
Categoría cabecera
Bailar el barrio
DANCING THE NEIGHBOURHOOD 2025–2026
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Picture: Sue Ponce.

Is it a cycle?
Disabled
Duration
Tuesday 5:30pm - 7:00pm

There are some images that rather than appearing fully formed on the celluloid acquire their shape more slowly, little by little. That’s precisely what has happened with the silhouette of a community that has yet to acquire a name: it’s emerged gradually out of workshops, conversations and shared gestures, as a group open to anyone who is curious about films and education, and wants to discover them by watching, listening and imagining. 

This group, which is still in the making, aims to become a space for meeting and working together. A place for sharing experiences, watching films, making films, and thinking about the classroom and what fall outside its remit. We’re interested in sound, image, movement, and all their possible extensions.  

The meetings will take place during the school year between 5 and 7 pm, like the two hours in real time in which Cleo from 5 to 7 takes place, and which we want to turn into meaningful hours: a parenthesis for listening, creating and shared thinking. 

We’ll continue to shape this image as the year progresses. We don’t yet know its definitive form because we want everyone who takes part in the activity to help build it. We’ll set the dates at each meeting as we go along. In any case, it will be a space to test out ideas, to share imaginaries, to make proposals as they occur to us and to engage fully in whatever emerges.

As the first gesture, the first still image, we’ll get together this autumn for a screening of audiovisuals made by teachers, organised by the local art teachers’ association. This will be our launch pad for starting to watch and listen as a group headed to the same place. 

Aimed at educators, teachers and anyone interested in audiovisuals and education. If you want to join us, fill in the form and we’ll let you know about the meetings and activities. 

 

Dates
ONE WEDNESDAY PER MONTH
Registration
-
Topics
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A place to watch films, make films, think about the classroom and everything outside it. Aimed at teachers, lecturers and anyone interested in audiovisual media and education. This space encourages us to explore new ways of learning, teaching and viewing collectively.

Events
Categoría cabecera
Taller profesorado
FROM 5 TO 7
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Is it a cycle?
Disabled
Duration
FROM 5 PM TO 7 PM

In this last reality bite, we immerse ourselves in brain rot, the infinite scroll where time lost onscreen goes. We are inviting all the artists we have partnered with this year to open up a window onto their private lives through their favourite memes and videos in a unique, shared video-tapping. A relaxed conversation with snacks like a celebration of Internet culture and what unites us on the big screen.

Activity type
Dates
FRIDAY 20 JUNE
Target audience
Topics
Acceso notas adicionales

CAPACITY: 50 PEOPLE

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In this last reality bite, we immerse ourselves in brain rot, the infinite scroll where time lost onscreen goes.

Subtitle
WHERE THINGS CONTINUE
Categoría cabecera
Actividad
INFINITE SCROLL · DIGITAL DISCORD
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Is it a cycle?
Disabled
Duration
2,5 HOURS

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)

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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?
Disabled
Duration
From 11 to 13:30

We are announcing a call for participation to assemble a working group that will engage in different activities with the artist, including inspiring walks, studio tours and the collective creation of a tableau. Over four sessions, we’ll work with the same group of families, exploring and creating together.

We’ll create a tableau made of painted cardboard. It will show the sky and the earth through elements like stars, planets, birds, stones and plants and will be used as a backdrop for the display of a selection of around thirty objects from the collection associated with themes like the landscape, children and play in an exhibition at the museum.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Spain experienced a regenerationist movement influence by Krausism, which connected landscape, education and identity as symbols of modernity. Unfortunately, the movement was interrupted by the Civil War. The Institución Libre de Enseñanza, founded by Giner de los Ríos, promoted an integral pedagogy based on nature and advocated outdoor learning and observation of the landscape.

The members of the institution stressed the value of the landscape in Spanish culture, inspiring a new aesthetic and educational sensibility. Artists from the Vallecas School, like Maruja Mallo, Benjamín Palencia and Alberto Sánchez, upheld the Castilian landscape as a symbol of renewal; they were opposed to industrialisation and strove to revive the rural. In so doing, the landscape became a symbol that transcended the local to reflect on our identity, merging tradition and modernity.

Inspired by the work of those creators, Antonio Ballester Moreno has designed this participatory activity, and all families are invited to join.

Antonio Ballester Moreno

He views art as an educational gesture, not an expression. Based on this idea, he has examined the landscape and context as part of our own identity and formation. The Institución Libre de Enseñanza and the cultural movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are important referents in his work because of their connection to these ideas.

He has held exhibitions at the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid using the pedagogical archive of the sculptor Ángel Ferrán in conjunction with his own work. He examined the topic of education through play and motor activities at ARTIUM in Vitoria. And he took a historical survey of the artists who participated in the regenerationist movements up to the Vallecas School at the Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia in León. He participated as an artist and curator in the 33rd Sao Paulo Biennial, where he displayed all these ideas based on the continuity between the aesthetic experience and natural life processes, breaking with dualist concepts like art versus popular culture, the aesthetic versus the practical and the artist versus ‘ordinary’ people.

After all, every single one of us, bar none, is creative, and the purpose of all creation is not the pure truth of knowledge per se but simply to improve experience.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION:

The timetable may change, in which case the participants will be informed.

Registrations for families who can attend all four sessions will be prioritised.

Registration begins 7 April via a form on the website.

Regarding age: If there are little ones in your family, they are more than welcome. We’ll try to make sure that they have a good time and that we can share the creation space. However, families with children over the age of six will be prioritised due to the nature of the activity (walks, cutting implements, etc.).

If places become free as the activity proceeds, we will contact people on the waiting list who may still be interested in joining.

 

Activity type
Dates
Sábados, 26 ABRIL, 10 MAYO, 24 MAYO y 7 JUNIO
Target audience
Acceso notas adicionales

AFORO: 25 PERSONAS

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We are inviting families (neighbours, friends, chosen families, etc.) to participate in the activity that the artist Antonio Ballester Moreno has planned for the CA2M Museum.

Subtitle
CALL FOR FAMILIES TO CREATE ALONG WITH ANTONIO BALLESTER MORENO
Categoría cabecera
Cielo-Tierra
SKY AND EARTH
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Crédito: "El cielo y la tierra". Antonio Ballester Moreno

Is it a cycle?
Disabled
Duration
Dos horas (11:30 a 13:30)

Welcome to Fuga! Here, no programmes are imposed and there are no hierarchies. FUGA is an open space where young people aged 16 to 23 who are interested in culture and art can get involved in the museum’s cultural programming. It’s a space where they can share interests and learning, connect with artists and design their own project.

There is no programme, no plan and no prefabricated script. We come to set up an artistic hangout with autonomy, freedom and lots of exploration. No one will tell us what to do, because we write the programme here.

In the first phase, which will be held between January and June 2025, FUGA invites its members to participate in creating their own programme by exploring and defining its structure using a speculative design methodology that allows them to design and imagine what a committee of young people in a museum might be like and how it might work.

Activity type
Dates
UNTIL JUNE
Target audience
Acceso notas adicionales

Maximum capacity: 20 people.

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Welcome to Fuga! Here, no programmes are imposed and there are no hierarchies. FUGA is an open space where young people aged 16 to 23 who are interested in culture and art can get involved in the museum’s cultural programming. It’s a space where they can share interests and learning, connect with artists and design their own project.

Subtitle
THE POWER OF IMAGINING A DIFFERENT MUSEUM TOGETHER.
Events
Categoría cabecera
fuga
FUGA
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Is it a cycle?
Disabled
Duration
SATURDAYS 11:00- 14:00

Are the sounds of silence driving you crazy? Banish them and come and invoke the spirit of Lolita Versache and Samuel Mariño with us.

Come with your voice, you’ll be fine, you’ll be fine. It’s all fine with your voice, it’s all fine with your choir.

Voices, voracious mouths. We bawl, bellow, bleat and be heard. Come on, don’t be shy. Come onnnn!!!

Footless, headless beast of many mouths, an otherworldly body that bellows noiselessly with shrieks and spasms. The house gets drenched, my lips close and you all come.

Decontextualisation of sound and silence. Silence after the din or gasping for breath after the din? Silence gasping for breath, the din yet to come.

Maybe all this after it all ends.

An amateur choir is a creative project in which any kind of voice is welcome to participate. Every other Thursday, the choir does its own research sessions as well as sessions with artists who work with voice and listening.  

Our Amateur Choir has featured Sonia Megías, Itziar Okáriz, Jaume Ferrete, María Salgado and Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca, Rocío Márquez, Alma Söderberg, Ainara Lagardon, Jhana Beat, Lolita Versache, Bea Narcoléptica, Luz Prado, Los Torreznos, Makiko Kitago, Julián Mayorga, Agnès Pe, Paloma Carrasco, Anto Rodríguez, Elisa C. Martín, Elena Murcia Pinto with Marina Peralta Murcia, Inma Marín with Jon Cañal and Tania Arias Winogradow with Milo-Andrey Ulises, Rolando San Martín, Amalia Fernández, Elena Córdoba, Raquel G. Ibáñez, Alex Reynolds, Black Tulip, tacoderaya, Mónica Valenciano, Ruth Abellán and Arturo Moya, Ojo Último, Monserrat Palacios and Fátima Miranda, Sole Parody, Enrico Dau Yang Wey, Coco Moya, Veza Fernández, Patricia Leguina, Jesús Burrola and Noela Covelo.     

Activity type
Dates
ALTERNATE THURSDAYS
Target audience
Entrance

An amateur choir is a creative project in which any kind of voice is welcome to participate. Every other Thursday we do our own research sessions and also with artists who work with voice and listening.

Subtitle
CREATIVE WORKSHOP WITH THE VOICE
Categoría cabecera
coro 2025
AN AMATEUR CHOIR 2025
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Image made by the Amateur Choir and the Education Department of the CA2M Museum.

Is it a cycle?
Disabled
Duration
17:00 - 20:00

The Ha-ha is a deceptive mechanism that plays a role in the construction of the landscape. It generates an illusion of breadth and camouflages its real purpose: to control the movements of certain individuals or species. The name ‘ha-ha’ was used for the first time in the 1709 Dezallier d’Argenville book The Theory and Practice of Gardening, in which he explained that the name came from the exclamation of surprise from spectators when they recognised the optical illusion.

When I was asked to lead this tour, the first thing that came to mind was the title: Ha-ha Wall. It was almost an immediate association, perhaps induced by the huge contrast between this term and the immense work that presides over this show: 1,502 people facing the wall. It’s a laughable wall that is not remotely funny. It is a starting point, given that my and Santiago’s work have little in common at first glance. I have used the word ‘ha-ha’, which is a joke in itself, as a way of breaking the ice and beginning an unlikely dialogue between two generations, between two very different ways of approaching artistic production. Contrast again. And the contrast between light and shadow is what allows us to see… although not always. Shadows conceal or reveal, and looking directly at light can blind us. I want to approach this tour positioned from the paradoxes of looking, from the devices of visibility and concealment used to present facts, from the constant suspicion that in everything we are given to see, something remains hidden.

The CA2M Museum’s Education and Public Activities Department has a line of work aimed at developing thematic tours in which artists and creators are invited to discuss the exhibitions with spectators through the lens of their own practices. In this way, we avoid the presumed objectivity of the narratives that the exhibitions offer to instead break with hegemonic discourses. It is a space of inquiry which encourages each person to make their own interpretation of the image and the story in order to use them to generate new imaginaries.

Dates:

  • Saturday 14 December 12 pm
  • Sunday 15 December 6 pm

Ángela Cuadra inquires into images that discuss concealment techniques used throughout recent history in a broad phenomenological study of invisibility. Based on different sources with pre-existing historical and semantic meanings, she aims to find new layers of meaning in artistic expression. Grounded on collage and approached with intuition, her works are developed in multiple media, ranging installations to video, drawing and expanded painting.

She has held exhibitions at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Today Museum (Beijing), Centro del Carmen (Valencia), Sant Andreu Contemporani (Barcelona), Fundación Cultural de Providencia (Providencia, Chile) and Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC) (Santiago de Compostela), among others. Since 2013, she has been working on the project space Salón, which she directs with her husband, Dai K S. She is also one of the founders of the first international fair of nonprofit spaces in Madrid, Supersimétrica.

Activity type
Dates
DECEMBER
Target audience
Topics
Acceso notas adicionales

CAPACITY: 20 PEOPLE

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The artist Ángela Cuadra invites us on a guided tour of the exhibition 1502 people facing the wall, where she will approach the artist's work from the paradoxes of the gaze, the devices of visibility and concealment with which the facts are presented to us.

Subtitle
Visits to the exhibition 1502 people facing the wall with artist Ángela Cuadra
Categoría cabecera
visitas posicionadas
HA-HA WALL. POSITIONAL VISITS
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Picture: Sue Ponce. © Santiago Sierra. VEGAP, Madrid, 2024.

Is it a cycle?
Disabled
Duration
1 HOUR

Our migrants’ suitcases are filled with twenty-three kilos of life per crossing. Overweight again? What do you carry when you go? When you come back? Yerba mate to while away the time? Coca leaf to blow on God? How much does a house weigh? Did you squirrel away enough money to bring your dog? Was the skin of the soursop still bristly when you unpacked it? What does your baggage smell like? In these four sessions, we’ll be pulp and seed, green and travel, tenderness and bark to recount the southerly-to-southerly winds that blow over the invented territory of the diaspora. Four encounters to open the soursop (not the melon) and use storytelling to explore the interstices of all our creatures/children.

We invite you to journey through this writing laboratory made up of four interconnected sessions led by Sudakasa: Lucrecia Masson, Gabriela Wiener, Chinî and Hildy Quintanilla Ocampo (Q´inti- Colibrí).

The workshop dates are:

  • Friday 29 November 6:30–8:30 pm
  • Saturday 30 November 12–2 pm
  • Friday 13 December 6:30–8:30 pm
  • Saturday 14 December 12–2 pm

Participants must attend three of the four sessions to earn an attendance certificate.

Sudakasa is a community writing and creation space based on migrant experiences; it is a refuge-home and artistic residence that has come to cover our lack of a ‘people’, because our people are across the sea. We have re-appropriated this parcel of olive and almond trees and grapevines from insult and turned it into body, identity and memory of the diasporas so together we can weave other stories of resistance that confront the violences against those from down under.

Lucrecia Masson Córdoba. With impurity as a principle, she is a writer, artist and researcher whose main topics of inquiry are bodies, animalities and other-than-humans. From an anti-colonial stance, she works in different artistic registers, primarily experimenting with writing. What interests her in theory is imagination, and she willingly believes that we cannot think without the body. She published Epistemología rumiante (2017) and Escrituras rumiantes. Cuerpo, exceso, animalidad (2022) and has participated in numerous anthologies. She is a member of the Colectivo Ayllu, with whom she has published Devuélvannos el oro (2018) and participated in events like the Sydney Biennial (2020 and the 35th São Paulo Biennial (2023).

Gabriela Wiener. She is a Peruvian writer and journalist living in Madrid. She has published the books Sexografías, Llamada perdida, Nueve Lunas, Huaco retrato and Dicen de mí and the poetry collections Ejercicios para el endurecimiento del espíritu and Una pequeña fiesta llamada eternidad. Her first stories were published in the narrative journalism magazine Etiqueta Negra. She was a columnist for The New York Times in Spanish and the editor-in-chief of Marie Claire España and has contributed to many international media. She publishes a weekly column for publico.es. She won the National Journalism Award in Peru with a report on a case of gender violence. She is the creator of different performances that she has staged with her family. She wrote and starred in the play Qué locura enamorarme yo de ti. She is a member of@Sudakasa, a collective migrant art and writing project. Undiscovered, the English translation of her novel Huaco retrato, was a finalist for the 2024 International Booker Prize and PEN America. @gabrielawiener

Chinî. She was born in Ka'aguasu, Paraguay, in 1987 during the Alfredo Stroessner dictatorship. She is a poet and marica 108, studied biology and researches frogs and toads from Piribebuy. She migrated to Madrid in 2019, following her mother and sister. She has been a Guaraní Jopará speaker since childhood and adores tereré and mbeju. Professionally, she is currently an arborist and keeps watch over the El Pardo forests in Tres Cantos. She is working on her poetry collection Corpus infecciosa/ 30 comprimidos/ suspensión oral, which examines the wound of HIV-AIDS, migratory sorrow and the traumas of a healthy-ill body. She thinks that the virus has come to her body to rummage through her past and heals it with plant-based remedies. She has been dreaming in Guaraní from the Paraguayan city of Ka'aguasu surrounded by soy harvests and the absence of her mother.

Hildy Quintanilla Ocampo (Q´inti- Colibrí). She is a stage creator, poet, willakuq (storyteller), researcher of Andean theatricalities and oralities and a Qoyllirit’i pilgrim as part of the Quispicanchi nation. In Madrid, she is developing the self-managed Arguedas, Oraliteca Migrante project, which brings Andean and Latin America orality and literature and teaches the Quechua language via Escuelachallay, my little Quechua school in Madrid, as practices that aim to strengthen migrant identities and intercultural dialogue in Spain.

Activity type
Dates
NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER
Target audience
Topics
Acceso notas adicionales

CAPACITY: 20 PEOPLE

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We propose a four-session writing workshop in dialogue with the exhibition Buscando guanábana ando yo by the artist Sol Calero. A workshop that looks for connections between migration, kilos of suitcases and the fruits and plants that travel with us.

Categoría cabecera
taller escritura
MY MOTHER SLIPPED A SOURSOP INTO MY SUITCASE. WRITING WORKSHOP FROM THE SOUTH
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Picture: Sudakasa.

Is it a cycle?
Disabled
Duration
2 HOURS PER SESSION: TOTAL 8