The CGAC relaunches this series of practical courses for teachers, which propose the use of contemporary art as a learning tool for the classroom. The programme is structured around three themes of great importance to formal education (mathematics, narrative and knowledge of the natural environment). It is designed to explore the limits between knowledge areas and invite the teachers to experiment and learn before using these ideas in their classrooms.
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Compostela conversa is a cultural cycle that began in 2017 in the city of Santiago de Compostela with the aim of giving a voice to the new Galician music talent, while at the same time connecting with artists from other disciplines and geographical areas, encouraging reflection on the current scene. In this third edition, which will be held on 15 and 16 February, the City Council of Compostela and the CGAC will work together to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Lost in Sound.
The discursive models applied to the study of art are changing in unison with trends themselves, with contributions from researchers formulating new theoretical and methodological proposals. During these seminars, we seek to present some of the most innovative approaches being applied to the study of the artistic phenomenon from the perspective of both art history and aesthetics.
18th May is International Museum Day and the theme of this year’s celebration is Museums as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition. This year, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) is focusing on the new roles being undertaken by museums as active stakeholders in their communities. Hence, the Galician Centre for Contemporary Art (CGAC) will be showcasing films, music, educational workshops and guided tours intended to encourage social integration and accessibility of the arts to the general public.
Siglo XX Instrumental Ensemble - Florian Vlashi Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea Tuesday, 7 May 2019, 8 p.m. At 7.30 p.m., before the concert, the curators Anne Heyvaert and Santiago Olmo will give a guided tour of the René Heyvaert exhibition.
Between 12 November 2011 and 26 February 2012 the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea will be staging the exhibition entitled Jeff Wall. The Crooked Path, curated by Joël Benzakin and organized by the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (Bozar) in collaboration with the CGAC. The show will be installed in the basement, the hall, the ground-floor and first-floor galleries and the double space.
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The opening times of the CGAC are as follows:
As an essential part of the project, various discussion and debate spaces will be developed, as well as several workshops and seminars that will take place in June and October.
The Contemporary Music Sessions are organised by the City Council of Santiago, the USC, the Santiago Consortium, the Provincial Council of A Coruña and the CGAC, in collaboration with the Ful
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.
Selma Uamusse sings her own world, with a whole world inside of her. Her powerful voice, genius performances and versatility have led her to shine in diverse realms: from rock, to afrobeat, to gospel, soul and jazz bands, she has enriched her journey with different languages, always conscious of the social and political transforming power of music.
Thursday 4th July, 7:30 p.m.CGAC Auditorium David Lamelas is a key figure in Conceptual art and one of Argentina’s artistic scene’s most important exponents in the nineteen-sixties. From its very origins, his work has been characterised by a unique ability to adapt to different contexts, be they artistic, architectural or geographical, in cities such as London, New York or Berlin.
19 and 20 June at 7 p.m. CGAC Auditorium Free and open to the public Manthia Diawara (Bamako, Mali, 1953) is a filmmaker and cultural theorist.Trained in Guinea-Conakry and Paris, he travelled to the United States where he worked as a teacher as well as extensively making films and writing essays. Much of his research focuses on the study of the culture of the African diaspora.
Timetable: Wednesdays from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ‘Splitters!’ (Dissidents). This was how the members of the People’s Front of Judea characterised those of the Popular Front of Judea, and was also the cry addressed to the sole member of the latter, sitting a few steps below. This legendary scene from Monty Python’s The Life of Brian (1979) graphically illustrates the etymology of dissidere (dissidence): the physical act of ‘sitting apart,’ of ‘being separated’ and hence, by extension, discrepancy, resistance and ultimately, maybe, uprising.
WOS Festival x SON Estrella Galicia has been held every September, for six years now, gathering a dozen exceptional locations in the city of Santiago de Compostela, all within walking distance from the cathedral, in a historic district protected as a World Heritage Site. The locations include two museums, two theaters, an 18th century church, unique buildings such as Ciudad de la Cultura or the headquarters of the SGAE Foundation, a market, two concert halls and an independent cinema hall, among other spaces destined to create unique experiences for a reduced audience.
With this festival, we are seeking to revitalise and promote contemporary dance in some of the most iconic and beautiful spots in the city. HerDanza is a different proposal that people of all ages can enjoy. The festival will run for a week, offering different activities revolving around contemporary dance: training workshops, talks with professionals from the world of dance, small- and medium-format projections and shows in the streets, cloisters and open spaces of Santiago de Compostela.
This exhibition, presented at MACBA early in 2011, arrives at CGAC with the intention of showing audiences in Compostela how very different ways of understanding the images and the life of concepts have ended up tracing the horizon of our cultural present.
10 am-2 pm The artist’s workshop conceived by Elo Vega and Rogelio López Cuenca for the CGAC consists of a critical reinterpretation of the way in which our perception of the migratory phenomenon can be built on contemporary artistic practices. Through a series of specific cases, the artists invite us to analyse different strategies applied in art intervention projects relating to the theme of the exhibition We Refugees, on view until October 13. Possible practical projects will also be considered, taking into account the specific context in which we find ourselves.
Once again this year the CGAC collaborates with the 16th edition of the Curtocircuíto International Film Festival.The festival started in 2003 and was an initiative created by the City Council, with the intention of promoting filmmaking in the field of short film.
Based on some of the works on display in the We Refugees exhibition, the seminar addresses, through artistic and theoretical texts, a genealogy of the constitution of modern, contemporary space as a residual space, where displaced persons, dissidents, refugees or those considered a threat to the political-racial-social order are funnelled, contained and, in certain historical circumstances, even annihilated.