Attendance open and free while places last

Attendance open and free while places last

What is the relationship between art and incarceration? What role does culture play within a closed institution? What impact does it have? Is the cultural offer in prisons adequate? Do men and women have equal access to culture behind bars?

La Casa Encendida, Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo and the association teta & teta present Envisioning Freedom: Art and Incarceration, a gathering dedicated to reflecting on the role of literature and art in prisons. Over the course of two days and in two different venues, the event invites participants to consider the importance of culture in prisons—closed, isolated and often forgotten institutions, especially where women are concerned.

On 24 June, La Casa Encendida will host a day dedicated A las Olvidadas (To the Forgotten Women), an initiative led by the association teta & teta that collects books donated and dedicated by members of the public, in an attempt to raise awareness of the situation of women in prison and reflect on female incarceration through literature. The full programme is available here.

The 25 June programme at Museo CA2M will revolve around COSMORAMA, an innovative initiative launched by the museum in 2024 in collaboration with the NGO Solidarios para el Desarrollo. Through Cosmorama, Museo CA2M has organised a range of activities—drawing competitions, training courses, workshops and talks—that explore new forms of participation and connection, turning prisons into spaces for experimenting and producing shared knowledge through collective practice and experience.

Over the past year, and with the support of Fundación Sabadell, a range of educational initiatives have been developed at Madrid V Prison (Soto del Real), which even houses an exhibition space bearing the programme’s name where works and projects created by inmates are displayed, challenging conventional ideas about the limits of art and its audiences.

The COSMORAMA Forum at Museo CA2M aims to serve as a space for sharing and reflecting on the experiences generated in the course of the Cosmorama programme, and also as an opportunity to collectively consider the role of art and culture as agents of change within prison institutions: what has already been achieved, the possibilities they offer and the challenges that remain.

PROGRAMME:

10.30: Opening presentation of the COSMORAMA Forum 

11.00: Opening talk by Pastora Filigrana

12.30: Experiences panel: Clemente BernadAntonio Ballester Moreno and Fátima Moreno

Break

16.00: Conversation between inmates from Madrid V Prison (Soto del Real), Álvaro Crespo and Tania Pardo

17.00: Experiences panel: Álvaro Perdices, Marina Roca and Taxio Ardanaz

18.00: Experiences panel: Elena Rosauro Ruiz, Amelia Repetto and Lidia Amalia Mateo

19.00: Collection of letters for people deprived of their liberty

Throughout the day, the artist Quique Palomo will create an illustrated chronicle of the event.

 

Organised in conjunction with:

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In collaboration with:                    With the support of:

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The COSMORAMA Conference aims to serve as a forum for discussion on the events that have taken place during the Cosmorama programme, but also as an opportunity to reflect collectively on the role of art and culture as a tool for change within prisons: what has been achieved, the possibilities it offers, and the challenges that still lie ahead.

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Drawing of a prison cell by an inmate, created for the first “In & Out” Drawing Competition, 2024 (detail)

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What would a verbena (summer fair) shared with the city's birds look like?

What if, for one afternoon, we stopped watching them from below and invited them to celebrate with us?

We invite you to come and find out for yourselves: to share the verbena with our winged neighbours. We will be joined by Lidia Toga, who will help us to discover more about the rich world of urban birdlife. She knows these inhabitants of the skies and rooftops inside out, and will help us to understand their ways of being, moving and gathering.

Perhaps we should begin by looking up. Swifts, forever in motion, trace a rapid, collective dance across the sky that sets the tempo. They may encourage us to move with them, to follow that impulse alongside the groups Bailar el barrio and Baivén, flocking together, occupying space and discovering that movement can also be a way of belonging.

Between flights, we will build our own nests, inspired by the communal weaver bird that visited the preschool and primary workshops alongsid Adriana Reyes y Goya Batalla. Together, we will create collective shelters: shared spaces like the huge nests of monk parakeets, those living structures where there is always someone nearby, company and someone with whom to share things.

And, like magpies, we will be drawn to all things shiny and bright. Small treasures may appear: bits of paper that catch the light, found objects, fragments whose meaning changes when viewed together. The verbena will be that, too: a chance to pause for a moment and see things from a different perspective.

If at any time we need to slow down, we can pause Pompa y las familias, who have been exploring ways of sharpening the senses: listening more slowly, looking more closely, observing that pigeon from the windowsill, following the magpie in flight, noticing how things change when we truly pay attention.

There will, of course, be a shared spread—delightfully chaotic and generously abundant, just as it should be. Crumbs here and there; food passed around, changing hands, appearing and disappearing; eating on two feet while life unfolds around us.

Join us on 13 June at 5.30 pm to flutter, flock and chatter together as we celebrate the end of the school year.

All kinds of birds, families, and creatures of the earth and sky are welcome.

This verbena will be guided as a collective flight by Lidia Toga, an artist specialising in illustration, painting and muralism; Baiven, the collective formed by the dancers, choreographers and cultural mediators Alba Sáenz-López Aumente and Mar Sáenz-López Aumente; with Adriana Reyes, an anthropologist and creator in the field of live arts; Gregoria Batalla Batalla, a teacher at Zaleo nursery school, historian and provocateur in the art of education; and POMPA, a collective project for cultural management, curating and artistic creation led by Mara Sannia and Irene Aguilera Martín, whose practices intertwine to shape a shared territory of listening, play and transformation.

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On 13 June, we’ll be celebrating the arrival of summer. We’d like to invite you to join us for this street party. What would a street party shared with the city’s birds be like? What if, for one afternoon, we stopped looking up at them and invited them to join in the celebrations?

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Image: A monk parakeet, a wagtail and her chick enjoying a bite to eat beside the River Manzanares, as seen by Lidia Toga. Swifts cross the skies over Móstoles (AI-generated) while, on the rooftop of Museo CA2M, two girls leap into the air in an image by

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On 27 and 28 June, Museo CA2M in Móstoles will host the first edition of Cable: A Festival of Underground Culture.

Cable is a celebration of underground culture, bringing together concerts, film and short-film screenings, talks, and a fair dedicated to books, comics and fanzines. 

Cable seeks to unite artistic and cultural practices that fly under the radar, whether in music, film or literature, and are no less interesting for it. Here, the underground is understood not as a springboard or stepping stone to commercial success, but as a legitimate, enduring and even ideal context for artistic creation. With Cable, we want to champion this spirit and way of working, which feels more necessary now than ever. In an age when culture has largely moved online, counterculture must remain offline: in person, organic, human and immediate.

The complete line-up is as follows:

  • CONCERTS:  Comunión, Cosas bien cosas mal, From, Los lagos de Hinault, Marcelo Criminal, Mordaza, Primera Mort, Sierra and Vosotras veréis.
  • FILMS:  Aliens (Luis López Carrasco), Balearic (Ion de Sosa), Din que non falan (Santos Díaz), Ilusión (Daniel Castro), Inmotep (Julián Génisson), La Panadella (Joel Jiménez), Lo-Tech Reality (Guillermo Galoe), Portales (Elena Duque), El ruido solar (Pablo Hernando), Souvenirs de Madrid (Jacques Duron) and Vivir en un mar bravo (Guillermo F. Flórez).
  • BOOK FAIR: Anoche Press, Apa Apa Cómics, Aristas Martínez, Autsaider, Barrett, Belleza Infinita, Clavos y Chinchetas, Colectivo Bruxista, Comisura, La Felguera, La Granja, Libros Walden, Niños Gratis*, Orciny Press, Pepitas de calabaza and Smol Books.
  • TALKS about magazines, underground culture, bars and more, featuring Andrés Castaño, Blanca Lacasa, Carles Armengol, Eduardo Bravo, Enrique Rey, Javier Rueda, Julián Génisson, Marcelo Criminal, Lorena Iglesias, Rubén Romero, Ruby Fernández and Santi Fernández.

Cable will be held at Museo CA2M in Móstoles on Saturday, 27 June, from 11 am to 9 pm and Sunday, 28 June, from 11 am to 3 pm.

Admission is free on a first-come, first-served basis.

Cable is a project by Libros Walden, a Madrid-based publishing house specialising in books on popular culture and cult authors. The team is led by Manuel Moreno and Ruby Fernández, editors, writers and cultural managers with more than twenty years’ experience organising festivals, fairs, concerts and events such as Autoplacer, Niebla, Festichachi and Nuevo Anochecer at public and private venues in Madrid and beyond.

Information also available at: @cablesumergido / www.cable.cab 

 

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MORDAZA | Sábado 27 | 12:00

En palabras de Eric Sueiro, Medalla:

Mordaza
 "Por favor, trata de arrancarlo. Parece mentira que un grupo, cuyo nombre  proviene de un objeto usado para evitar que abras la boca, te provoque unas  ganas irremediables de ponerte a gritar. Así son Mordaza, un puñetazo  distorsionado que oscila entre lo viejo y lo nuevo.

El cuarteto madrileño formado en 2024 conjura todas sus influencias en un vórtice de fuego. Su centro de gravedad pone la contundencia en medio del meollo, pero su espíritu melódico se arraiga hasta el tuétano. Encasillarlos en el post-punk, el noise pop o el punk rock sería vago e inexacto. Mordaza van mucho más allá. Un sonido honesto, potente y con un mensaje antigeneracional. Ya basta de himnos generacionales, valga la redundancia. Lo que necesitamos son bandas como Mordaza y canciones que pongan un cuchillo en la garganta del estatus quo. Como las suyas." Spotify | Instagram


COMUNIÓN | Sábado 27 | 13:00

COMUNIÓN es el nuevo proyecto musical de Goulash! y Paula JJ. Ambas creen en el trabajo colectivo y les gusta Comunionsubir acompañadas al escenario. Por eso, han adoptado la idea de apoyo mutuo para lanzarse a producir música en solitario, pero de la mano de una buena compañera. Juntas consiguen algo más grande que la simple suma de las partes. Los directos de Comunión son un explosivo b2b en el que Tábata y Paula comparten stage para potenciar al máximo sus respectivos temas. 

Goulash! es el primer proyecto en solitario de Tábata Pardo, ex miembro de proyectos como Fuckaine y Rayo. Con Goulash! explora una mezcla de géneros como el electroclash, synth pop y beats de hip hop con actitud punk.

Vocalista en Las Odio y Dúo Divergente, Paula JJ presenta aquí su primer trabajo sin guitarras. Una nueva propuesta que ha definido como “bedroom punk”, con un sonido electrónico y experimental, pero manteniendo intacto su espíritu riot. Web | Web


PRIMERA MORT | Sábado 27 | 17:00Primera mort

Pop de habitación, con unos dulces toques de tristeza desde la isla de Mallorca. Web | Instagram 

 

 


SIERRA | Sábado 27 | 18:00Sierra

Sierra vuelve al escenario con lo que mejor sabe hacer: canciones que se quedan. Tras un recorrido que empezó  con “Tiene mucha fuerza” —un EP que agitó el underground— y que cristalizó en “A ninguna parte”, definido  como  un “pop redondo, intenso y honesto” por la prensa,el proyecto regresa en formato esencial: sin banda, sin  artificio, solo canciones. Un concierto para reencontrarse con ese pulso directo, entre lo luminoso y lo melancólico, que convirtió a Sierra  en una de las propuestas más personales del pop independiente. Spotify | Instagram

 


los lagosLOS LAGOS DE HINAULT | Sábado 27 | 19:00

Los lagos de Hinault es un proyecto desarrollado por Carlos Ynduráin que, tras seis discos a sus espaldas, está ya consolidado como uno de los grandes referentes del pop underground español. En otoño de este año publicarán su séptimo elepé y en el concierto de Cable presentarán algunas de esas nuevas canciones. 

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MARCELO CRIMINAL | Sábado 27 | 20:00

Marcelo Criminal es el nombre artístico que lleva usando años Marcelo García (1997) para hacer canciones pop enMarcelo Criminal su cuarto. En 2016 empezó a publicarlas de forma autoeditada, hasta que a finales del año 2018 Carolina Durante y Amaia (ganadora de Operación Triunfo), versionaron una de ellas: Perdona (Ahora Sí que Sí). El éxito no fue inmediato solo por juntar a dos figuras tan relevantes y antagónicas, sino porque la canción era, simplemente, maravillosa: un par de párrafos hicieron falta para partirnos el corazón y dar forma al gran himno de (des) amor de esta generación.Su último trabajo "La Última Casa de Apuestas" ha supuesto un antes y un después en su carrera, consolidando la presencia de Marcelo Criminal en el panorama alternativo nacional.

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vosotrasVOSOTRAS VERÉIS | Domingo 28 | 12:00

Este proyecto creativo nace en Madrid, en el barrio de Carabanchel en 2018. Sus integrantes: Ángela, Mari, Simone y Dani, se mueven entre el power pop y el punk rock, con letras divertidas que nos transportan a experiencias vividas por todos.

Tras su primer EP Preámbulo (editado por Hurrah! Música 2021), disco celebrado igualmente por crítica y público, en 2024, la banda lanza los singles “Sí Quiero”, “Mañana Es Lunes” y “No Llores Al Salir”, nuevos himnos con melodías sin freno, estribillos para tatuar y matrícula de honor en pogo. A los que se suman “Ahora Sé” y “Yo Nunca He”, para dar forma al LP “Vamos Tarde” con Carlos Hernández a los mandos de la producción y los video Karaoke de Rodri Chrome.xyz. SpotifyInstagram


cosas bienCOSAS BIEN COSAS MAL | Domingo 28 | 13:00

Cosas bien cosas mal es el proyecto en solitario de Tomás Avilés, de Carabanchel. También conocido por su trayectoria en Noise Nebula y Carrera. Esta nueva propuesta nace de la idea de componer canciones a partir de un teclado Casio de juguete y una 808 como elementos principales. Así, el potencial de sus canciones se encuentra reducido a su expresión más mínima, la raíz. Canciones cortas y letras inmediatas bajo capas de lo que él define como “soniditos y texturitas”. Que todo recuerde a un boceto es la idea final, pues según él, “la música del presente está tan super producida que ya no resulta natural ni cercana”. Este nuevo álbum presenta un giro inesperado, ya que, en vez de ser música que funciona como desahogo personal, pasa a ser música para que  la gente pueda hacerlas suyas.  Spotify | Instagram


fromFROM | Domingo 28 | 14:00

From es el alias de Fernando Romero, activo desde 2019. Fernando comenzó grabando en solitario, atraído por lo analógico, las voces cercanas y las pequeñas imperfecciones de trabajar sin pulir. Sus primeras canciones se inclinaban hacia un pop luminoso y artesanal, pero poco a poco fueron derivando hacia algo más incierto. Tras trasladarse a los Países Bajos, su música se volvió más pausada y expansiva. El espacio y la repetición pasaron a ocupar un lugar central, y su voz se alejó de la confesión directa para adoptar una presencia más contenida. En los últimos años, elementos del post-punk, el dub o la coldwave se han ido filtrando en su lenguaje sin convertirse en gestos estilísticos evidentes.  Spotify | Instagram


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el ruidoEl RUIDO SOLAR - PABLO HERNANDO  

Sábado 27 | 11:15 y 15:00 

Ficha: 2020. 16 minutos. 

Una colección de historias sobre personas que tuvieron una visión fugaz del futuro después de un evento cósmico inexplicable.

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“DIN QUE NON FALAN” - SANTOS DÍAZDin que non falan

Sábado 27 | 11:30 y 15:15

Ficha: 2023. 17 minutos. 

Una pareja habla de sus cosas en el campo. Y luego, otra pareja más joven parece hacer lo mismo, en algún lugar cercano. ¿Qué está sucediendo en ese paisaje que luego adquiere un inusitado protagonismo? Tras la inolvidable Os prexuízos da auga (2019), que también estuvo en el D’A, Santos Díaz parte de un aparente costumbrismo para dar forma a una delicada pieza en la que el sentimiento poético ocupa un papel preponderante..

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portalesPORTALES - ELENA DUQUE

Sábado 27 |11:45 y 14:45

Ficha: 2025. 16 minutos.

Portales sigue el curso del río Guadalete en Cádiz, España, desde la sierra hasta el mar: un catálogo de paisajes que esconden otros paisajes, una colección de portales (y postales) interdimensionales que fusiona acción real y animación creando una fauna y flora imposibles, otra historia y geografía para un discreto curso de agua.

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lo techLO-TECH REALITY - GUILLERMO GALOE |

Sábado 27 |13:15

Ficha: 2023. 8 minutos.

Unos visitantes llegaron del cielo a la ciudad. Habían oído que en la ciudad algunas personas tenían herramientas para crear sueños hi-tech a partir de realidades lo-tech. Pero no encontraron a nadie. Entre los sonidos de la ciudad, los visitantes detectaron una transmisión codificada. Un cortometraje de Guillermo Galoe en colaboración con el colectivo Underground Resistance, de Detroit, a partir del tema Lo-Tech Reality de «Mad» Mike Banks.

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ILUSIÓN - DANIEL CASTRO Ilusion

Sábado 27 | 13:20

Ficha: 2013. 65 minutos.

Un guionista y director de cine trata de insuflarle al país parte de la ilusión que parece haber perdido en los últimos tiempos. Su idea es hacer una película sobre los pactos de la Moncloa. Eso sí, quiere que sea un musical.

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VIVIR EN UN MAR BRAVO - GUILLERMO F. FLÓREZ Vivir en un mar bravo

Sábado 27 | 15:40 y Domino 28  | 11:15

Ficha: 2023. 25 minutos.

La vida de Carmen siempre ha sido una comedia quijotesca. Vivió una guerra civil, fue monja, construyó una nueva vida, se divorció en una sociedad conservadora, tuvo varios amantes y, sobre todo, nunca obedeció órdenes. Ahora, tras 86 años de aventuras, Carmen planea su suicidio.

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inmotepINMOTEP - JULIAN GÉNISSON

Sábado 27 | 16:10

Ficha: 2022. 65 minutos.

Un joven chófer investiga la desaparición de un cliente. Cuenta con la ayuda de su profesor de italiano, un agente inmobiliario sin hogar y un artista que utiliza fotografías de archivo al azar para ilustrar sus sueños. Todo parece una pista en este mundo un poco absurdo, pero ¿de qué?

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aliensALIENS - LUIS LÓPEZ CARRASCO

Sábado 27 | 17:15

Ficha: 2017. 27 minutos.

Describe la vida de Tesa Arranz y el ambiente cultural que le rodeó. Un retrato íntimo, sincero y desprejuiciado en el que la artista narra su vida a través de su obra gráfica, sus poemas, diarios, novelas y cartas. El título de la obra refiere a los más de quinientos retratos de extraterrestres que Arranz ha pintado en la última década.

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BALEARIC - ION DE SOSAbalearic

Sábado 27 | 19:00 (Coloquio posterior con director y guionistas).

Ficha: 2025. 74 minutos.

Tres feroces perros mantienen prisioneros a un grupo de jóvenes en una piscina perteneciente a una lujosa casa en la que se han colado, mientras los vecinos se reúnen en una fiesta en una villa cercana para celebrar el comienzo del verano. Es la víspera de San Juan, un día propicio para la magia.

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LA PANADELLA - ION DE SOSA Panadella

 

Domingo 28 | 11:15

Ficha: 2008. 56 minutos.

La Panadella, un emblemático pueblo de carretera en decadencia situado en Cataluña, espera la llegada de los visitantes desde una misteriosa torre. Los empleados del Hotel y Restaurante Bayona, el único servicio de hostelería del pueblo, siguen sus rutinas cíclicas día y noche. Se preparan las camas y las mesas, se hornea el pan y se lava la ropa, un ciclo perpetuo de constante preparación para algo o alguien.

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SOUVENIRS DE MADRID - JACQUES DURON Souvenirs de Madrid

Domingo 28 | 13:30 (Presentación previa de la película con el equipo de la película).

Ficha: 2025. 74 minutos.

Señoras en bata y pantuflas de vuelta de la compra o de tertulia con las vecinas en la plaza del Dos de Mayo; jubilados echando la partida de mus frente a las Escuelas pías; bares de encimera de zinc y el No se fía; mercerías y carbonerías en pleno Centro... Cuando Madrid era un pueblo. El proyecto nació en diciembre de 1995, cuando, en busca de su café con leche matutino, descubrió que el bar El Orien-

tal de Malasaña había cerrado tras el retorno del dueño a su Galicia natal y, en su lugar, ya apuntaba la modernidad en obras de un tal Rock Café.

Como remedio, quizá, comenzó a filmar el ajetreo diario en los barrios de Malasaña, Lavapiés, Embajadores y La Latina, con planos fijos sobre trípode, hasta acumular cien horas de rodaje sobre un tiempo encapsulado.

Así, desfilan las costumbres arraigadas que colean en Madrid, entre planos estáticos y mudos de trabajadores, cual ramillete de postales, pues los protagonistas, quizá por la novedad, posaban durante minutos como si se tratasen de fotografías, a pesar de que Duron y Morel les pedían permiso para grabarles en vídeo.

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Sábado 27 a las 12:15 “Revistas” con la participación de:

  • BLANCA LACASA
  • EDUARDO BRAVO
  • ANDRÁS CASTAÑO
  • RUBÉN ROMERO

Sábado 27 a las 18:00 “Underground” con la participación de:

  • LORENA IGLESIAS
  • JULIÁN GENISSON
  • MARCELO CRIMINAL
  • SANTI FERNÁNDEZ

Domingo 28 a las 12:15 “Bares” con la participación de:

  • CARLES ARMENGOL
  • ENRIQUE REY
  • JAVIER RUEDA
  • RUBY FERNÁNDEZ

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AREAS: TERRACE | HALLWAY | SUI

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Cable is a celebration of underground culture, bringing together concerts, film and short-film screenings, talks, and a fair dedicated to books, comics and fanzines. 

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“I lose days, life, sleep. But it’s not my fault if I desire death and life at once, at the same time, at the same hour. And I want everything at the same time.” Alejandra Pizarnik

Girls (whispering): Hey, sweeties, are you awake?

Sadness: Yes, fully awake... It’s impossible to sleep in this heat.

Girls: Yeah, we're all wide awake as well...

Sadness: What’s up? What’s on your mind?

Girls: Nothing special... It’s just that feeling that we could maybe be somewhere else right now, you know?

Sadness: Yeah, that happens sometimes... Do you want to come over to my place? We can do something, anything.

Girls: We were thinking that it’s ages since we went to a party. A really great, fantastic party, surprisingly tender, dramatic and luminous... A party that represents us!

Sadness: Well, of course, when you put it like that! These are strange times for parties... But anyway, come over, we’ll think of something. Come now. You can even come in your pjs!

Girls: Ok, we're on our way. In any case... it shouldn’t be too hard to have party in these times, should it? In these times, a party can simply be about pausing and being together. In these times, a party can be about loving and remembering we're lovable.

Sadness: Totally. In these times, a party can be about spending a great hour dancing. A great hour singing. A great hour told well.

Girls: Invoking the night so we can see the stars, if only for a moment. Invoking the night and making it last until we drop. Tired, sweaty, listening to a story, an idea, a song.

Sadness: As Juan de Mairena said, an hour well told would never finish being told. A party can also be about celebrating time and celebrating the night.

Girls: Girls getting together for a twilight picnic. That could be nice.

Sadness: Great, so that’s what we’ll do, ok? All we need is a nice place in the open air, some music and a hundred or maybe two hundred friendly people. That will change the night completely, take it to places we can’t imagine...open it up, right?

Girls: Yes, that’s it. Let the night open up.

Open up the night.

La tristura and Mucha Muchacha arrive at the Museo CA2M this year with a joint proposal for the 2026 Picnic Sessions. What they propose is a time of listening, dancing, watching. According to anthropologists, before we shared a language we shared rituals, which is essentially what makes us human. We want to share this ancient ritual with the people of the city, share the feeling of being hospitable in this century. We’ve sought out different artists to spend a few hours with at twilight, artists who strive to establish a unique relationship with our times, who can hold their gaze in these dark times we are living through, and who can also perceive a light in that darkness. Who can see the crack. So between 28 May and 2 July we’ll meet on the museum terrace and open up the night together.

“When the light leaves
and the sky’s black,
no nothing
to look at,
day’s done.
That’s it.” 
 Robert Creeley

PROGRAMME

  • Thursday 28 May. Guillem Jiménez | Okkre
  • Thursday 4 June. Los Voluble
  • Thursday 11 June. Laura Morales | Fantasma Sur
  • Thursday 18 June. TEMPO DE FURIA (Egozkue and Paz) | Eddi Circa
  • Thursday 25 June. Carmen Muñoz | Derek van den Bulcke
  • Thursday 2 July. Natalia Fernandes | Las Víctimas Civiles

Time: 9 pm to 11 pm

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Celso Giménez and Violeta Gil, members of La tristura, have been working in the performing arts field since they were twenty years old. Trying to generate “human situations” on and off the stage. Investigating the limits between presentation and representation, with a special focus on contemporary theatre, and committed to the intuition that intimacy and poetry are essentially political concepts. During this time, La tristura has collaborated with venues like the Teatros del Canal in Madrid, the Grec Festival in Barcelona, Cena Contemporânea in Brasilia, the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, Noorderzon in Groningen, and the AUA Festival in Bern, among others. Over the years they have also generated contexts like the Escuela de Invierno, Festival Salvaje and the Gran Convocatoria Mundial, all with the desire to keep connecting different agents and artists, trusting that these connections will give rise to unexpecting and inspiring movements. In recent years they have started solo projects and new collaborations in the fields of cinema, the stage and literature. Their work is still tied to Madrid, the city where they live and develop their projects.

Ana Botía and Belén Martí have been directing the dance company Mucha Muchacha since 2016, together with Marina de Remedios and Marta Mármol. Since the outset, their work has been focused on researching the body as a space of memory, identity and transformation, creating proposals that combine tradition and contemporaneity. Their performance language incorporates elements of folklore, pop music and Spanish dance codes, reconfigured through a critical gaze rooted in the present.  Since its birth the company has created Volumen 1 (2019), Mucha Muchacha (2021), Para cuatro jinetes (2023) and more recent projects like Cantar de gesta (2026) in which they continue to explore the relationship between body, narrative and collectivity. Mucha Muchacha has developed a collaborative practice with artists from different disciplines, generating research and mediation projects like SERÉ FOLCLORE and the TALLER-FIESTA project.

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28 May – 2 July
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La Tristura and Mucha Muchacha are coming to the CA2M Museum this year to present the Picnic Sessions 2026. They have invited a range of artists to join them for a few hours at dusk. And so, between 28 May and 2 July, we’ll gather on the museum terrace to welcome the evening together.

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Picnic 2026
2026 PICNIC SESSIONS: OPEN UP THE NIGHT
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21:00 - 23:00

MATINEES: EXPANDED CINEMA FOR FAMILIES 2026

Matinees is an open, flexible space in which cinema expands: the cinematographic experience spills out of the screen and invites your active participation, regardless of your age.

The white cinema screen—that flat, opaque surface—is also a place to plunge into, to dive down to unsuspected depths. It can spill out of the sides, splashing and soaking everything around it, rising up to the ceiling and raining down from above. The images can adopt unimagined forms: unspeakable, immeasurable. We can watch them from a seat, or alternatively lying down, arm in arm, scattered across the room. Even with our eyes closed. We can touch the light, feel its colours, listen to it like a whisper, like a song. And we can do all of this together, in a room with no seats, no tickets and no popcorn. We believe there are many ways to watch cinema that have yet to be discovered. To explore them, we’ve invited various artists and filmmakers to imagine what those ways are and what other type of cinema has yet to be experienced. The Matinees take place on Saturday mornings and each session will be different: a proposal, an experiment, a challenging experience. We invite you to come with your best friends, your siblings, sons, daughters, dads, mums or grandparents and discover cinema like you have never imagined it. You’ll find all the details and session times here very soon, but for now here are the sessions dates and guests.

PROGRAMME 

28 FEBRUARY | MAIDER FERNÁNDEZ IRIARTE

7 MARCH | MARTA AZPARREN IN COLLABORATION WITH TANIA ARIAS WINOGRADOW

14 MARCH | GÉNESIS VALENZUELA AND MANUEL MUÑOZ 

21 MARCH | ANGIE DE LA LAMA

TIMES: 11.30 am** Time subject to change

Everyone is welcome at the Matinees. We want this programme to be a place for sharing, regardless of age. Babies, boys and girls, young people, adults and seniors: come and join us. You’re free to enter and exit the room during the sessions.

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SATURDAYS FEBRUARY-MARCH
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Acceso notas adicionales

AFORO: 60 PERSONAS

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Matinees is an open, flexible space in which cinema expands: the cinematographic experience spills out of the screen and invites your active participation, regardless of your age.

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matinales 2026
MATINEES: EXPANDED CINEMA FOR FAMILIES 2026
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4 sessions

Just like the end of every school year, we are looking for a special way to kick off the summer. This year we’re inviting the artist Sara Manubens, who will suggest that we collectively create our own House Drag over the course of four days.

‘This workshop uses the tools of the art of drag as creative power for working with ourselves. I am suggesting an open, sensitive space where all bodies, concerns, fantasies, fears and illusions have a place, with the goal of sharing. We want to share who we are, who we want to be, what makes us uneasy and what we reject. And we will transform all of this into artistic material. How? Through drag art technologies: lip syncing, choreography, exaggerated theatre, makeup, humour and vibrant emotions. We’ll do it through friendship and being together, because that is House Drag: a horizontal space of mutual support to make life happier.’

 

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30 June to 3 July 2025
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Just like the end of every school year, we are looking for a special way to kick off the summer. This year we’re inviting the artist Sara Manubens, who will suggest that we collectively create our own House Drag over the course of four days.

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SUMMER WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
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Taller
House of the Seas
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Monday to Thursday from 11h to 14h.

This summer, the museum is turning into a space designed to combat the heat just like it’s always been done: where it’s cool, with no hurry and in good company. Inspired by those perennial places where idleness is fine, this project is turning the museum into a summer refuge where you can simply exist.

La Fresquera is a place where time stands still a little, where you can come read, play cards, talk… or simply do nothing. A place where the cool air is appreciated, like when you used to sit in your doorway in good company with a pitcher of water next to you.

La Fresquera isn’t an activity; it’s an attitude. It’s opening the museum’s doors to turn it into that courtyard, square or porch where you love to be. We’ve prepared a series of comfortable, quiet spaces full of plants where you can feel at home.

We care for your plants. Watering Can Initiative

We know that many people go on holiday in summer and don’t know what to do with their plants. At La Fresquera, we are thinking about them, too, and that’s why we are launching the Watering Can Initiative. From 25 June to 15 September, the museum is offering to care for the plants of the residents of Móstoles. All you have to do is fill out a form to choose the days you want to leave us your plants and tell us how to care for them, and we’ll do the rest: find the best spot for them, water them, even talk to them if needed… Here we treat them like they’re one of the family.

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UNTIL 15 SEPTEMBER
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This summer, the museum is turning into a space designed to combat the heat just like it’s always been done: where it’s cool, with no hurry and in good company. Inspired by those perennial places where idleness is fine, this project is turning the museum into a summer refuge where you can simply exist.

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La fesquera
COOL DOWN AT THE CA2M MUSEUM
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Let the drum roll start, the fans flutter and the families get ready, because the festival is about to begin!

The museum is turning into a square, a place of revelry, a meeting point, and it’s opening its doors two at a time to welcome all families in a celebration filled with joy, creativity and unforgettable moments. Welcome to the big celebration of the year!

Because doing needlework and dancing—it’s all about getting started… Let’s gather to celebrate what we’ve shared, what we’ve created and what we’ve experienced! This celebration brings together everyone we’ve worked with throughout the year to close the season enthusiastically with the proposals of the artists who have unquestionably nailed it!

Stars of this big celebration:

Baiven with the kids from ‘Dancing the Neighbourhood’ (Alba Sáenz-López Aumente and Mar Sáenz-López Aumente) have held the Dancing the Neighbourhood workshop on Tuesday afternoons throughout the entire school year. It’s a meeting point for neighbourhood kids where they have discovered dance in unexpected places, expanding their view of movement in the world. What might they be preparing for us for this occasion?

Adriana Reyes and Goya Batalla Batalla have held the From those clays, these seams workshop for nursery and primary school kids, bringing boxes filled with thread, yarn and thimbles, filled with stories they have shared around the pleasure of embroidery. What stories are concealed in those thimbles?

Tania Arias Winogradow, with whom we’ve built real nests where you can rest inside the museum, accompanied by Santiago Rapallo and Eleni Chaidemenaki, suggest a very special afternoon snack for this festive day. Do we really always have to eat sitting around a table?

And now… raise the curtain, play the music and make sure everyone’s here! Because this celebration is not only a party; it’s an homage to everything we’ve experienced. Thanks for stitching this year together with us! See you next year—and keep up this shared joy!

 

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Dates
21 JUNE
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On 21 June, the museum dresses up to celebrate the grand closing of the school year.

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Verbena
REVELRY: NEEDLEWORK AND DANCE—ITS ALL ABOUT GETTING STARTED
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17:30h - 19:30h

Dear citizens,

We have declared ourselves the mayors of that place called Picnic Sessions 2025 of the CA2M Museum in Móstoles and we’re inviting you to its annual festival.

We’re going to celebrate this festival’s BIG DAY, but we’ve shattered time, so the day will stretch along six Thursdays from 29 May to 3 July.

On the first day, there will be something resembling opening speeches, bingo and a tasting, and the following Thursday we’ll celebrate a kind of dance-and-vermouth and a kind of community meal. The next one will be for afternoon socialising and then the night-time event, and lastly will come the fanfares.

All of these metaphors will involve artistic activities that will be incredible and magical in many ways, including performances, lip syncs, dances, staged pieces, concerts, DJ sessions and more.

The master of ceremonies all six days will be La Sorny, a brilliant club kid. She’ll guide us through this extended, vibrant day of celebrating, doing wonderful things, caring for one another and laughing together, and creating a space where all of this can happen.

Signed: the picnic mayor’s office that loves you.

Lara Brown and Anto Rodríguez.

 

PROGRAMME ►(download the full programme here)

 

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29 MAY - 3 JULY
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We have declared ourselves the mayors of that place called Picnic Sessions 2025 of the CA2M Museum in Móstoles and we’re inviting you to its annual festival.

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Lara Brown & Anto Rodríguez
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Picnic 2025
BIG DAY_PICNIC SESSIONS 2025
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21:00 - 23:00

Ostro is the name of a southerly wind, a hot and humid wind that in most cases doesn't blow for very long.

This live arts series kicks off in March like a warm breeze, bringing the meaning of the body to the museum’s galleries.

Once a month, different performing artists will be invited to develop a proposal in the museum space of their choice to involve the building’s architecture in the flow of movement, body and audiences.

Throughout the year, a series of performative proposals will be held in different parts of the museum. We want to forge bonds between dance, performance and the museum space, connect the creative processes of performativity, and enjoy diverse formulas that explore the body and its possibilities in the museum to generate a permanent space where movement is the protagonist.

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26th march
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The CA2M Museum becomes a place where movement is the protagonist to intertwine links between dance, performance and museum space once a month.

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OSTRO
OSTRO: LIVE ARTS SERIES
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ONCE A MONTH