LEISURE WORKSHOPS 2023

This year like every year, the CGAC presents its summer leisure workshops. The workshops are aimed at encouraging children aged between 4 and 12 to reflect on the importance of art, to better understand the world around them and to provide them with the chance to engage in creative processes, in addition to getting to know, communicate and experiment multiple supports, languages and concepts involved in contemporary art.

Throughout July participants shall be able to immerse themselves in the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle guided by artist and teacher Haya Blanco. The Vermislab team will introduce them to the basics of electronics applied to art. With the teacher Vera Fernández, they will explore the sensorial limits of works of art. Susana Varela, in turn, proposes a photography workshop on learning how to alter images, edit them, make overlays or experiment with optical illusions.

The exhibition halls and other CGAC spaces, in addition to the Bonaval Park, will be the stage for the artistic experimentation and learning.

PROGRAMME

A WORK THAT EMERGES FROM THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE
Session 1: 4 and 5 July
Session 2:  6 and 7 July
Timetable: 11.00 a.m. to 12.30 a.m.
Age: 4 to 6
Places: 15 per session
Led by: Haya Blanco Fuentes

The stories surrounding the Bermuda Triangle are shrouded in mystery, like a large bottomless box where we keep many things that later we are incapable of retrieving.
We’ll get to work on retrieving parts, broken materials and other elements we thought were lost within this mysterious space, and we’ll use them to make a big mosaic. Applying all the elements we manage to gather, and that seemingly have little in common, we’ll create our three-dimensional work of art.
We’ll also make a mural of colours letting the rhythm of the music guide our hand movements as we paint. We’ll do this both individually and consecutively, as in a relay game. We’ll go beyond the support, making holes in it and placing elements inside that go through it and lend volume and rhythm.

ROBOTIC ART
11, 12, 13 and 14 July
Timetable: 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
Age: 7 to 8
Places: 20
Led by: Vermislab

Over four days the children will learn how basic electronics and electricity work. They will make designs combining these techniques with conductive plasticine and create small sculptures with integrated LED lights.
They will construct a painter robot with recycled material and a motor that we’ll teach them to connect.
Finally, with everything they’ve learnt, they’ll create a mural in which these applications will be mixed with different materials and painting.

OVERCOMING FRAMES, CONQUERING THE WORLD
18, 19, 20 and 21 July
Timetable: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Age: 9 to 10
Places: 20
Led by: Vera Fernández Suárez

Using the work of Almudena Fernández as a starting point, we’ll approach a universe where colours, plots, writing, pop iconography and everyday objects play a major role.
Through different techniques, we’ll experiment with how art can end up surpassing its own limits, invading everything. We’ll draw three-dimensional calligraphies with wire. We’ll venture out into Bonaval Park and make an installation in nature, creating lattices between the trees, interweaving ropes and weaving a web. Blindfolded and combining recycled material with other elements found in nature, we’ll compose a work of tactile art in which different textures will be mixed.

MULTIPLE WAYS OF SEEING
26, 27 and 28 July
Timetable: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Age: 11 to 12
Places: 15
Led by: Susana Varela Negro

In the exhibition Teamwork. A Possible History of the CGAC, several examples can be found of different spaces of the building designed by the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira.

Over these three days, participants in this photography workshop will learn to edit their own images. They will experiment with reality altering techniques such photo editing tools, double exposure, manipulation and composition of images, creating surprising and surreal compositions. By using techniques such as collage and visual metaphors, they’ll learn to express their emotions and communicate ideas in a unique manner. Furthermore, they’ll photograph CGAC spaces to then alter images making overlays inspired in the work of Roland Fischer or create optical illusions like the ones used by the artist Nicolás Combarro in his pieces.

CONCEPT

Haya Blanco, Vera Fernández, Susana Varela e Vermislab

REGISTRATION

Applications for registration can be submitted from 19 until 30 June at 1 p.m. via e-mail at cgac.pedagogia@xunta.gal, and must contain the following information: the full name and age of the participating children, a contact phone number and e-mail, the title of the workshop you want to register in and the name and ID number of the persons authorised to collect the children in the CGAC once the activity has finished.
A maximum of two participants can be registered per application. The CGAC will confirm receipt and status of registrations by e-mail.