Category: Education

What’s an artist like you doing in a school like this?

Creators in Residence, an educational project by artists and youngsters Creators in Residence makes an unlikely encounter possible by putting an artist to work in a school classroom for a whole year. The objective? To forge links with young people in order to go through a process of creation with them, resulting in an unprecedented…

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Author: Sandra Figueras

Bright pantomimes

A short story about the family workshop we held in the Museu Nacional We’re going up the hill, it’s cold, it’s Saturday, these are Christmas days. It’s ten o’clock in the morning, the escalators leading to the museum are full of tourists taking selfies with their mobiles, smiling with their backs to the city. Some…

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Author: Z_ Guest blogger

Educating Through the Arts. The Challenge of the Tandem Between the Escola Miquel Bleach and the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

Sometimes challenges and opportunities are two sides of the same coin. While as educators we are witnesses of the will to erase the arts from the official educational curriculum by some leading sectors, there appear some projects that go against the tide like this one of Tàndem Schools.The aim is to promote successful education by…

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Author: Esther Fuertes

Two participative experiences of photography: Our Raval and audio-visual Maps of the city

El Nostre Raval

The exhibition I work the street. Joan Colom, photographs 1957-2010  has been an incentive for a group of youths and, furthermore, 11 centers that attend people with cognitive and physical disabilities, to develop a series of different photographic projects that have in common the fact of taking a close look at their most immediate urban…

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Author: Teresa González