AMARA’S OVEN. Workshop for older adults living near the CGAC

The aim of the Community Action Programme, comprising a variety of proposals that will add to those of previous editions, is to continue to foment the participatory and two-way relationship between the museum and the community.

To this end, we will be working on socialisation processes designed to transform the CGAC into a space open to collaboration, hospitality, reflection, debate and leisure. We will open dialogues between creators, the public and the museum, and will take the programme to places where people, for different reasons, have difficulty participating in social or cultural events live.

AMARA’S OVEN

AMara’s Oven is a civic participation project whose aim is to build bridges between the CGAC and older residents in the surrounding neighbourhoods.

We want to build a community space where local residents from the San Roque, Basquiños, Santa Clara and A Almáciga neighbourhoods, as well as from the old town, can share the photographs from their family albums, with the aim of creating a living archive featuring the transformation of the city and the people that live there.

Over six months, those participating in the sessions will learn different artistic techniques for looking after and handling the photographic archive. They will also explore the power of the images, which will allow them to review stories and create new ones.

In this way, more than simply preserving memories, the project will use the potential of domestic or family photographs to evoke and invoke a more affective and cohesive present. The compilation of this photographic collection will make up an atlas, albeit non-definitive, of the city and the people who live in it, concluding with an exhibition in the CGAC.

The activity takes its name from the bakery known as O Forno da AMara, one of the many businesses in Basquiños that supplied the whole city. Peluquería Basilio, Casa Leis, Modista Estrellita, Forno do Isaac, Forno do Miguel, Bodegas Bopomán, Perruquería Pichita…, all names of shops, businesses and social premises long disappeared whose memory we want to evoke in the present through this project.

To this end, we are counting on the collaboration of artists who will run different workshops and we will foment encounter among residents to allow them to share and create this safe space together, which will in turn favour other rhythms with which to inhabit the museum and, by extension, the city.

CALENDAR

PART 1
9 April, 23 April, 7 May, 21 May, 11 June and 25 June

PART 2
10 September, 24 September, 8 October, 22 October, 5 November and 19 November

LED BY

ANA MOURE ROSENDE (Santiago de Compostela, 1996) is a cultural mediator and an architect. She works on contemporary cultural projects in which the city, art, ecology and social participation intertwine. In order to forge communities sensitive to climate and social emergencies, she sometimes develops projects in which citizens can participate; in others she writes and directs works of speculative fiction in the field of the live arts. She was the co-founder and has been a member of La Cuarta Piel group since 2021.

ANA ESCARIZ PÉREZ (Santiago de Compostela, 1996) is a cultural worker. Her interests are focused on culture as a driver for social transformation and on ecofeminist perspectives. She is currently researching the intersections between contemporary art, food and society, and works in fields such as mediation, management and cultural communication. She forms a part of the cultural programming and mediation groups Leuda and La Querencia.

TARGET GROUP

The activity is aimed at older adults (preferably from the neighbourhoods of San Roque, Santa Clara, Basquiños, A Almáciga and the old town) willing to share their family albums. Those requiring someone to accompany them can also register for the workshop.

REGISTRATION

The activity is free. Those interested can send an email to laquerencia.colectivo@gmail.com including the following information: surname(s) and name, reason for registering, age, email address and/or a contact telephone number. In the event they might need to be accompanied during the sessions, they should point this out in their application.

Places will be filled by order of registration, and each applicant will receive a confirmation email.

REGISTRATION PERIOD

From 10 to 31 March 2025