Saxophonist, composer and professor, Jorrit Dijkstra will teach a two-day master class focussing on collective improvisation in ensemble situations. The activity will revolve around a series of exercises on improvisation techniques in which participants will learn to play in a group, strengthening communication. They will be able to create music forms right on the spot based on a simple melody or song or even from scratch.
Activities
The CGAC's Activities and Pedagogical Department develops its programme with a primary goal: to bring art to society through the rigorous analysis of critical issues inherent in contemporary artistic activity.
Film seasons and conferences, workshops, seminars and concerts, make up the centre’s fundamental offer of activities, aiming to involve a wide range of audiences from the professional sector of the world of art and culture to an increasingly larger group of artists and fine art and history students, not to mention all those interested in the evolution of art and aesthetic reflection.
At the same time, the CGAC develops specific programmes for schools and colleges as well as guided tours, with the purpose of providing the various groups who come to the museum with the necessary tools to understand contemporary art and, from there, the world we live in.
If you would like to receive information on CGAC activities, you can request it by sending a message to the following email addresses:
18 May 2015 - 24 May 2015
To mark International Museum Day on 18th May, the CGAC is scheduling activities of various disciplines throughout the whole week, starting off on Monday with an open day.
23 May 2015
The series Música y arte: correspondencias sonoras (Music and art: sonorous correspondences), which has become a reference point in the world of contemporary music creation, boasts the participation of composers from all over the world and the presentation of forty exclusive premiere works over the course of the six sessions to be held at the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea.
22 October 2014 - 20 May 2015
This course offers an overview on the revolution caused by the new cinema trends of the nineteen-sixties, their perceptions in the fifties and their subsequent echoes during the seventies. What took place was a revolution that challenged classical cinema and marked the beginning of modernity; in the words of Domènec Font it represented ‘a genuine upheaval within the structure we refer to as History of Art.’
18 May 2015 - 19 May 2015
This workshop, aimed at amateurs and professionals from the world of photography, architecture and design, focusses on the technical and visual codes which are characteristic of architectural photography. As a practical exercise we will do a report on the building housing the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), designed by the Portuguese architect, Álvaro Siza.
17 April 2015 - 25 April 2015
On our first day of school we are taught to join consonants with vowels. We are taught to interpret, and later on, to associate what we have learned with the world around us. When we open a book, we are able to interpret, page by page, each and every object, image and situation that is needed to recreate the story with no need to have them right there in front of us.
7 May 2015 - 8 April 2015
The CGAC presents the second edition of the Insultarte Workshop (Insult+art/Insult+you) directed by the artists Vanesa Castro, Iñaki López and Juan Lesta. A comprehensive program of activities targeting students and workers from the world of culture and creation to provide them with guidelines on labor, fiscal and management issues.
15 January 2015 - 27 March 2015
WHEN THEY WERE KINGS
27 January 2015 - 10 February 2015
New appointments for the series of guided tours led by experts from the field of art and culture for the exhibits The Order of First Things and It's Capital.