SCHOOL CENTRES AND YOUTH HOSTELS OF MADRID
2003- 2008

“We are all artists”. On the basis of the assertion by the brilliant Joseph Beuys, a project of weekends in a hostel has been developed. It has been set for the initiative “Convivir es vivir” by the Direccion General de Juventud de la Comunidad de Madrid. Moreover, from 2006/2007, it takes place in the schools as an extracurricular activity.

Sure that both creation and contemplation of art are indispensable resources for children education, the association Hablar en Arte has planned a series of activities that would complete a cycle of “creation of artists”. From simple exercises of initial introduction to art to the culmination with an exhibition of the works by the children, the activity poses as a cultural challenge that they have to pass together in order to turn into true artists.

The hostel (or school) turns into a workshop of training for artists, where the children have to collaborate in order to create pieces of work of art. Practice and theory combine in a game of creativity and inventiveness, and rare workshops on plastic art: painting t-shirts by shooting syringes of colour, making paper mobile phones, painting a collective mural, passing the challenge of a cultural gymkhana, inventing artistic objects with rubbish, etc.

All of the “work” is going to be rewarded with the realization of an exhibition where all of the pieces made by the participants will be shown, and finally the children will take them back home, together with the diploma of “artist”

Practice and theory mix into games, workshops and gymkhanas, because art moves the world!