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:
On the first Sunday of each month at 6:30 p.m. from September to June (except the months of December and January), the CGAC will be holding a philo café in the museum’s cafeteria.
In order to educate the public on the role of museums in societal development, on 18 May we will be celebrating International Museum Day. Since 1992, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) has been coming up with an annual slogan that brings together the entire international museum community, whatever the background of each individual member may be.
For yet another year the CGAC is collaborating with the University of Santiago de Compostela in the Nerd Nites programme. During Nerd Nites, guests can chat with the public about the disciplines they are passionate about, in a relaxed tone and in a non-academic environment. The conversations are about literature, politics, medicine, mathematics, biology, art, etc. They are directed by experts in the fields and their prerequisite is simplicity…
On the first Sunday of each month at 6:30 p.m., the CGAC will be holding a philo cafe in the cafeteria.Philo cafés are public conversations open to anyone interested in discussing philosophical concerns and points of view from any discipline or level of knowledge.
On 18 May the worldwide community of museums will celebrate International Museum Day. This year, the overarching theme of the celebration organised by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) will be Museums and Cultural Landscapes.
For the fourth consecutive year, the CGAC is collaborating with the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) to bring you nerd nites. On March 30th, at 9:30 p. m., the latest edition will take place at La Cantina, CGAC’s coffee shop.
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.
In more than one sense, interpreting contemporary art is ‘making’ contemporary art. Becoming a part of the intention or of the discourse of each piece is a way of rounding off its identity.