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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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13 June
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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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The Place of Unique Creatures will be a four-day summer workshop running from 30 June to 3 July for children aged 6 to 12 who would like to join us in imagining and creating a place of their own.

Sometimes we imagine bodies with wings, shimmering skin, enormous legs or the bodies of sea animals... Creatures that hide beneath stones, that sleep in caves, that crawl, float, leap or change shape. What if we could invent a being of our own? How would it move? What sounds would it make? What would it feel like to the touch?

The Place of Unique Creatures offers a space in which participants can explore using their bodies, movements and imaginations, discovering new sensations and new ways of being in the world.

As always, we will start from the idea of a shared refuge: an intimate space built together as an act of care and imagination in relation to the outside world. We want to think of these places as territories where we can invent alternative ways of living together and imagining collectively.

Through play, fantasy and shared adventure, we will set off on a journey towards new places and new possibilities. We will engage all five senses, bringing out the creature that lives inside each of us. Who says such creatures only exist in fairy tales? After all, isn’t the reality we inhabit magical enough in itself?

Along the way, we will create our own masks and use fabrics, paint and a range of materials to transform the space into a collective dreamscape where new forms of life and coexistence can appear. Through movement and theatrical creation, we will gradually compose a fantastical form of dance theatre populated by singular creatures.

Little by little, the group will build a living, dreamlike landscape: a community of unique creatures creating their own ecosystem, customs, hiding places and stories. A place where they can pretend to be something else and perhaps discover new ways of being together.

Chimenea de dos mujeres girando is a collective founded by Jara Arellano and Zoe Guidotti, artists and dancers who will facilitate the workshop through dance, bodily exploration and improvisation.

While dance lies at the heart of their practice, they see art as a hybrid territory where movement, literature, film, painting, photography and theatre coexist, nourishing their work and helping them to create distinctive worlds of their own. Their practice occupies a space bordering on play, imagination and collective creativity, eschewing academic conventions in favour of creating receptive spaces where the body can transform, invent and dream. Their principal aim is to make dance accessible to all and create safe environments where people can connect through freedom, attentive listening and the absence of judgement.

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The Place of Unique Creatures will be a four-day summer workshop running from 30 June to 3 July for children aged 6 to 12 who would like to join us in imagining and creating a place of their own.

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CHILDREN'S SUMMER WORKSHOP
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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. Spotify | Instagram


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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ALL-DAY OPENING HOURS

“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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Dates
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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Illustration: Adara Sánchez.

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21:00 - 23:00

Inspired by Dorothy Iannone’s A Cookbook, made in 1969, the writer María Arranz proposes a workshop aimed at the creation of a collective recipe book. Based on a survey of the literary and artistic works of different creators who have made cooking a focal point of their lives, Arranz invites us to take part in a space designed to identify connections between the world of food and other fields like creation and writing that combine art, food and life.

In A Cookbook, Dorothy Iannone shows us that a collection of recipes can reflect not only daily life but the author’s existential musings. While a recipe book can be intimate and introspective, it also speaks to us of domestic and popular culture, of the time and place in which it was compiled. On loose sheets of paper, in notebooks or in published works; with or without drawings; with notes in the margins; with stains and splashes or pristine; inserted with tips honed from years of trial and error, or with precise instructions that leave no room for improvisation. A recipe book reveals many things and therefore demands attentive reading, much more attentive than has historically been granted to these texts. In this workshop we’ll talk, reflect on, discuss and, above all, read recipes, relating these readings to Dorothy’s work and those of other artists and authors who have also found a unique form of expression and thought in cooking.

María Arranz is a writer and a journalist specialising in cultural, feminist and gastronomic topics. A regular contributor on gastronomy to media like El País, she is the author of El delantal y la maza (Col&Col ediciones), an essay about the role of women in the kitchen from a feminist perspective. Among many other interests, in 2013 she founded FUET Magazine, which examines the relationships between food and culture, and she was a member of Cocinar Madrid, a multidisciplinary collective that uses cooking as a tool of anthropological research.

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Dates
MARCH
Target audience
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Inspired by Dorothy Iannone’s A Cookbook, made in 1969, the writer María Arranz proposes a workshop aimed at the creation of a collective recipe book.

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CREATIVE WORKSHOP
Categoría cabecera
taller cocina
WRITING, COOKING AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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A Cookbook, 2017. Courtesy: The Estate Of Dorothy Iannone & Air de Paris, Romainville | Grand Paris © Marc Domage

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Duration
18:00 - 20:00

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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Dates
SATURDAYS FEBRUARY-MARCH
Target audience
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

Since 2009 we have been running a performance workshop for teachers, educators and artists interested in education. The week-long activity consists of working with the body to forge collaborative ties and reflect collectively with the Museo CA2M educators, participating teachers and guest artists on educational processes and the performativity of education.

This year we’ve invited the art duo formed by Libia Castro (Spain) and Olafur Olafsson (Iceland), who started their partnership in the Netherlands in 1997. Working with a wide variety of media, their practice is collaborative, conceptual and cross-disciplinary.

The duo’s interventionist projects often involve other people. Over the years, they have teamed up with activist groups and invited other artists, professionals and people from different backgrounds to work with them on art and activism initiatives, creating temporary and flexible collectives governed by a “Do It Together” approach.

They have presented their work on rooftops, in public squares, on building facades, at socio-cultural centres, on radio and television, in living rooms and kitchens. They have also taken part in festivals like the 8th Havana Biennale, Manifesta 7, the 54th Venice Biennale and the 19th Sydney Biennale, and in exhibitions at venues like La Casa Invisible and the Van Abbemuseum. In 2009 they received the third prize of the Dutch Prix de Rome award for their video Lobbysts, and in 2021 they won the Icelandic Art Prize for their polyphonic performance and video In Search of Magic: A Proposal for a New Constitution for The Republic of Iceland.

More details about the workshop will be available here soon.

Previous performance workshops have featured Los Torreznos, Tania Bruguera, Pere Faura, Itziar Okariz, Norberto Llopis, Nilo Gallego, Dora Garcia, Jiri Kovanda, Olga Diego and Jorge Satorre.

Dates
FROM OCTOBER 6 TO 9
Acceso notas adicionales

CAPACITY: 25 PEOPLE

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Performance workshop for teachers, educators and artists interested in education, lasting one working week, to forge collaborative links and reflect together on educational processes and the performativity of education.

Categoría cabecera
Taller profedorado
PERFORMANCE AND EDUCATION WORKSHOP
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Picture: Libia Castro and Olafur Olafsson. In Search of Magic - A Proposal for A Constitution of The Republic of Iceland (2020).

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Duration
17:00 - 20:30

“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.

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Dates
FROM FEBRUARY TO JUNE
Registration
-
Acceso notas adicionales

Maximum 25 people

Entrance

“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...

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

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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
Target audience
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
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EXTRACURRICULAR DANCE AND MOVEMENT WORKSHOP
Categoría cabecera
Bailar el barrio
DANCING THE NEIGHBOURHOOD 2025–2026
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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.

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Categoría cabecera
Taller profesorado
FROM 5 TO 7
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Duration
FROM 5 PM TO 7 PM