LEISURE WORKSHOPS 2025

Summer is coming, bringing with it the CGAC’s leisure workshops. Activities will be available in which people from all age groups can create, discover, share, experiment and learn a variety of disciplines, themes, techniques, concepts and processes, aided by artists and art teachers.

NIn this year’s edition, we will begin by unravelling the filmmaking universe, build a game to foment creativity, design fanzines and end by producing an entertaining piece of writing outlining our lives.

PROGRAMME

CAMERA AND FICTION!
CINEMA WORKSHOP
Dates: from 1 to 4 July
Time: from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Intended for: children aged 4-6
Places: 15
Teacher: Sofía Mediero
Registration period: from 9 to 27 June

This workshop is an invitation to look, imagine and create using the audiovisual medium. Cinema not only entertains but is also a powerful educational tool, as it offers children the opportunity to develop critical thinking, attention and artistic sensitivity, as well as providing them with multiple ways of looking at the world around them.

Starting from fragments of films, animated short films, games of lights and shadows and small filmmaking experiments, we will explore how cinema enables expression and communication. The aim of this activity is to stimulate creativity and a child audience’s power of interpretation, allowing them to familiarise themselves with audiovisual language in a fun way suitable for their young age.

We will take advantage of the architectural spaces designed by Álvaro Siza, the exhibitions in the CGAC and the museum’s surroundings to provide living sets on which to experiment with framing, movement and light.

ITS MY TURN
PLASTIC ARTS, SOUND AND BODILY EXPRESSION WORKSHOP
Dates: from 8-11 July
Time: from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Intended for: children aged 7-9
Places: 20
Teacher: Lucía Amoedo
Registration period: from 9 June to 4 July

Following the Resignifications exhibition, currently on show at CGAC, we will delve into the universe of the artists Concha Jerez and José Iges, recapturing, as they have done, popular and iconic elements from our childhood. To do so, we will play a game in which participants will have to unblock the different levels across the four days. In this activity, concepts such as language, memories, sound, the performance and teamwork will be fundamental for putting artistic creation into practice and progressing along the board.

We will build a sound portrait of the city, experiment with our memories and recreate different contemporary artworks. Creativity will be key to moving the different playing pieces in this game brimming with activities and suggestions for experimenting with a variety of materials, ideas and spaces of the museum and its surroundings.

I’M A FAN
FANZINE WORKSHOP
Dates: from 15-18 July
Time: from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Intended for: the over-10s
Places: 15
Teacher: Diego Estebo
Registration period: from 9 June to 11 July

Fanzines are one of the greatest expressions of the Do it Yourself trend. All you need is a photocopier and a story to tell.

These self-publications are an amateur medium, developed by and for comic, music, literature and urban art lovers, and there is no limit to the subjects we can tackle or age at which we can start doing them.

In this workshop, we will take a brief look at the history of fanzines in order to compile ideas and see examples of the many possible formats and contents. And as the best way to actively begin in the world of books is to make one, we will get down to work by thinking about our publication as a whole: What do we want it to be about? How many pages will we need to tell our story? How can we do it?

QUANTIFIED AUTOBIOGRAPHY (OR, HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO BE ONESELF!)
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
Dates: from 9 June to 18 July
Time: from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Intended for: adults (experience unnecessary)
Places: 15
Teacher: María Meijide
Registration period: from 9 to 27 June

This is an express autobiographical narrative workshop as well as an invitation to play a game.

The artist María Meijide will start, and what you read about her will be a question for you.

Those participating will be invited to write short autobiographical tales with a playful structure, in the style of the French Oulipo.

We will organise words as if they were shopping lists, manuals or representative forms: How many places have you lived in? How many times have you moved house? Classify your dislikes from least to most…

By echoing our lived experiences, we hope that these autobiographical works will take root in the present. We will write a short history of our lives in the past few years.

REGISTRATION

The workshops are free of charge. Applications can be presented via email at cgac.educacion@xunta.gal and must contain the following information: full name and age of the participants, contact telephone number and email address and the title of the workshop the applicants wish to take part in. In the case of those intended for under-18s, the email should also include the name and national identification number of the person authorised to collect them at the end of the activity.

A maximum of two participants may be registered per application. The CGAC will acknowledge receipt and status of registrations via email.