The International Council of Museums (ICOM) proposes celebrating the International Museum Day under the slogan ‘Museums for Education and Research’.
The GCAC has programmed a week of free activities around this event based on education and contemporary music, art education and artistic creation, performance and the history of photography, in addition to a guided tour of the least-known corners of the CGAC.
PROGRAMME OF DIDACTIC CONCERTS OTHER TYPES OF MUSIC ARE POSSIBLE
We’re starting Museum Week with a programme of five educational concerts for different audiences: four concerts for children and one for adults.
The sessions will focus on active listening, the possibilities faced by contemporary composition, and the judgement processes of the listeners. In an enjoyable, practical and participatory way, artists and listeners will go hand in hand into the marvellous world of possible music, asking ourselves questions such as: What is and isn’t music? Why do we like one kind of music and not another? Where is the music I need and how can I find it? Is there any music that’s too complex? Is there any music that’s too simple? Can music be good or bad?
DIDACTIC CONCERTS FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN
MONDAY 13th AND TUESDAY 14th MAY
TIMES: 10.30 a.m. First concert / 12.00 p.m. Second concert
VENUE: CGAC Auditorium
SEATS: 250 per concert. Free admission with prior registration
TARGET AUDIENCE: Groups of first- and second-year primary schoolchildren.
DIDACTIC CONCERT FOR ADULTS
TUESDAY 14th MAY
TIME: 8.00 p.m.
VENUE: CGAC Auditorium
SEATS: 250. Free admission until full capacity is reached
TARGET AUDIENCE: anybody interested in musical creation
EVENINGS IN THE CGAC. WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN
WEDNESDAY 15 MAY
On Wednesday of this week we’ll be holding a workshop to stimulate children's interest in contemporary artistic creation and to encourage learning through experimentation with art.
In this educational and recreational session, we’ll carry out individual and group activities focused on creative processes. We’ll address everything from art to body expression and sound experimentation. We’ll create with lights, everyday objects, words and natural elements. We’ll explore concepts such as weight, balance, scale, repetition, accumulation or association or creative strategies to approach the multiple possibilities of artistic creation that exist in art today.
TIME: 5.00 p.m.
VENUE: Art Education Room
Free of charge, with prior registration
TARGET GROUP: For children aged 4 to 6
APPLICATION PERIOD: 8 to 14 May
REGISTRATION: Interested persons may register, within the established deadline, by e-mail at onlinecgac@gmail.com indicating the following information: full name and age of each participant, contact telephone number and e-mail address, name and ID card number of the persons authorised to collect the children at the CGAC and date of workshop they wish to attend. A maximum of two people can register per application. Places will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Each applicant will receive a reply by e-mail.
OPEN SESSION OF THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE MEMORIES OF A LATENT IMAGE
WEDNESDAY 15 MAY
In this Museum Week, the session corresponding to the photography course Memorias de una imagen latente will be open to the public.
This course proposes a drift through the history of photography from the first desire to create an image by the action of light to the emergence of the avant-garde in the early 20th century.
SESSION: ‘The Rupture: the Instant and Art’
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
VENUE: CGAC Auditorium
Free admission until full capacity is reached
RUN BY: Fuco Reyes
COLLABORATION WITH THE 5th EDITION OF THE PLATAFORMA PERFORMATIVE ARTS FESTIVAL
The CGAC is collaborating once again with the performative arts festival Plataforma with two performances that will take place over the weekend in different spaces of the architecture of Álvaro Siza.
GRACE SCHWINDT. STRINGS
SATURDAY 18 MAY
TIME: 6:00 p.m.
INTERPRETED BY: Irina Ungureanu e Macarena Montesinos
VENUE: Project space
Free admission until full capacity is reached
MARÍA XEREZ. BLOB
SUNDAY 19 MAY
TIME: 6:00 p.m.
INTERPRETED BY: María Jerez
VENUE: Auditorium Hall
Free admission until full capacity is reached
THE HIDDEN CGAC. GUIDED VISIT
SUNDAY 19 MAY
To round off the Museum Week we have programmed a special visit to the hidden spaces of the CGAC.
Visitors can explore the storage rooms where the works of art are stored and conserved, the restoration and assembly workshops, the Art Education Room, the offices and the boardroom. The tour will end on the roof of the building, crowned by the permanent installation by the American artist Dan Graham, Triangular Pavilion.
No prior registration required to take part in this activity. The visit will leave from the CGAC reception at 12:00 and will last approximately 50 minutes. The group will be formed on a first-come, first-served basis.
TIME: 12:00 m.
Free, without prior registration