(re)vuelta al patio (2024-25)
Condeduque Contemporary Culture Center, Madrid
September 2024 - May 2025
For the fifth consecutive year, (re)vuelta al patio proposes ways of inhabiting Condeduque from the perspective of childhood, claiming cultural institutions where boys and girls have space, voice, enjoyment and vote.
After exploring the sounds that surround us, being inspired by geometric shapes, investigating phenomena that seem impossible because they are so real, forming families as diverse as life itself, playing soccer with our own rules and making fruit salad with the rules, in this new edition we will continue imagining together how we want to enjoy the Central Patio of Condeduque.
Each of the game sessions is co-designed by the hablarenarte team and an artist, educator or social group especially linked to playful practices. In this way, we seek to connect with creators, families, audiences and diverse groups, inviting them to imagine and manage an open cultural programming in which play, criticism and joy go hand in hand.
Activity especially aimed at families with children between 3 and 8 years old, although smaller children and older ones are also very welcome.
The publication that transforms each session of (re)vuelta al patio into an illustrated story is available here.
SESSION 1. Minor architectures
September 28, 2024, 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., Central Courtyard
hablarenarte + román ledesma
How can we give new meaning to the now empty patio of the old Condeduque barracks? What gestures, dynamics or objects typical of architecture could help us appropriate this space? What do minors have to say about major architectures? In this first session of the season, we will create dream plans and architectural forms in which we would like to stay.
SESSION 2. Parkuir
October 26, 2024, 4:30 - 7:30pm, Central Courtyard
hablarenarte + María Laudes y Guiu Gimeno Bardis
Come practice parkuir, a sport inspired by parkour, in which we play with architecture, gender and the body. Thus, we convert CondeDuque's patio into a hair salon, a changing room, a catwalk and an anti-gym. Bring your tracksuit, we will add the sparkle and fantasy.
SESSION 3. All Possible Dances
April 12, 2025, 4:30-7:30 PM, Central Courtyard
hablarenarte + Lara Brown
Long ago, in this very patio, horses, seeds, and chromosomes were set free. Now, together with artist Lara Brown, we'll ride the dances from my arm to yours, the twists from your ankle to her hips, the jumps from her toes to the patio's cobblestones. And so we'll observe which dances emerge, which ones were already there, and what names they have. We'll dance the jota, preserve the fire, and make the dances of wild forms our own.
With the collaboration of Arrabel, Cultural Association of Popular Music and Dance.
SESSION 4. Pequeñista City
hablarenarte + Dandara Catete y Carmo Azeredo
Young collaborators: Eva Luna Rossi y Leyre Wilton
What is the city we want? How do we imagine it to be a happier, more welcoming, and more egalitarian place? It will have a park for free play, a cool school, a huge library, a community assembly, a friendly hospital, a swap meet, food straight from the garden, and a home for everyone. In each of the areas of the Ciudad Pequeñista, we propose participatory, sustainable, and fun activities to be in and live in. A city by and for children, conceived and enjoyed from their realities and concerns.
**We encourage you to bring books, toys, and clothes that you no longer want or use to the library and swap meet.**
