This summer, the CGAC is offering different creative workshops for children aged between 4 and 12.
The children who participate in these leisure workshops will have the chance to experiment and discover some of the keys to contemporary art, acquire tools for creating and artistic strategies, reflect on art and, above all, enjoy the process.
The teachers, Candela Rajal and Lara Torres, will run three art workshops using as starting points the exhibition Little by little, by Ângela Ferreira, and the collective exhibition We Refugees.
We will create sculptures, installations and costumes, we will engage with nature and we will paint on landscapes.We will explore postal art and cartography from a creative perspectiveand creative cartography and we will confront the appearance of those new worlds in which we will be forced to find shelter. And all this using the different architectural spaces of Álvaro Siza Vieira and their surroundings, such as the roof of the building or the gardens of Bonaval Park, as a framework.
Invisible Planet
From 2 to 5 July
Timetable: from 11 am to 12:30 p.m.
Run by:Lara Torres
For children aged 4 to 6 years old
Places: 15
The workshop space will become a world to take refuge in.It will be a universe that appears and disappears depending on the light we use to view it.Could the world we know disappear? Why?
The children will create an invisible landscape that can only be perceived with ultraviolet light.We will also need shelters to make this new planet we find ourselves in comfortable and safe.
We will build little cabins and survival kits, and we will visualise and model the little inhabitants of this invisible planet.
African Journey
From 9 to 12 July
Timetable: from 11 am to 1 p.m.
Run by:Candela Rajal
For children aged 7 to 9 years old
Places: 20
Our starting point will be the exhibition by the Mozambican artist Ângela Ferreira, Little by Little, centred on African culture and colonialism.
We will take a short trip to Africa to discover the work of different artists from this continent.We will create sculptures, installations and costumes.We will paint on landscapes and engage with nature.We will explore the world of postal art and creative cartography.
All the activities of this workshop will be linked to African art, its colours, materials and stories.
Staying Afloat
From 16 to 19 July
Timetable: from 11 am to 1 pm
Run by:Lara Torres
For children aged 10 to 12 years old
We will use the following assumption as a staring point: the poles have melted and we find ourselves in a waterlogged world.All of us survivors are refugees and we have to live in a world without borders.
We will build our shelters adapting to the environment.A world of floating homes that can sail, and underwater homes that we must build with the materials that we find adrift.
We will create marine and submarine landscapes to project them on the constructions and recreate this new living context.
This world needs new laws, let's write some.
REGISTRATION
All workshops are free.
Applications for registration can be submitted via e-mail at cgac.educacion@xunta.gal and must contain the following information: full name and age of the person or persons involved, telephone number, e-mail address and title of the workshop in which they wish to register.