Outreach activity of listening and highlighting the museum's programming in relation to sound art. The connection between Sempere and composers of his time will be explored, works and proposals from MACA related to sound will be discovered, and the heritage of the area surrounding the museum that defines its soundscape will be visited.

Activity coordinated by Carlos Izquierdo, composer and sound artist who develops proposals and research that emphasize the importance of listening in art.

We base ourselves on the practices of Pauline Oliveros (composer, author of the book "Deep Listening"), Max Neuhaus (musician and precursor of Sound Walks in the United States), Murray Schafer (researcher and author of the concept of "Soundscape"), Janet Cardiff (composer and sound artist), Hildegard Westerkamp (researcher and artist), and so on.

*The walk involves a certain physical demand, comfortable footwear is recommended and is not recommended for people with vertigo.

ELELEI was born in 2019 from the collaboration between Sabrina Gargano (Barletta, Italy) and Rafa Jagat (Valencia), united by the idea of bringing together their own paths in dance and theater, to unite them as a disciplinary language.

Motivated by telling stories, by questioning the why of things, and so that they could be understood by the audience, their first work A CIEGAS was born in 2020, winning the first prize at the MAIS IMAGINARIUS festival in Portugal in 2021 and the AUDIENCE AWARD at the 35 International Choreographic Competition Hannover 2021. Currently on tour.

In addition to A CIEGAS, in January 2021 they created the physical theater film MAY YOU LISTEN? belonging to the training of Jasmin Vardimon's young company JV2 in England and premiered in May 2021. In May 2022 they premiered MARATHON at Sadlers Wells, London, as a collaboration again with Jasmin Vardimon's JV2 company.

SOY MADERA was premiered on May 26, 2022 at the MAIS IMAGINARIUS festival in Santa María da Feira, Portugal.

SABRINA GARGANO

Independent dance artist. After completing the Jasmin Vardimon JV2 Professional Development Course in 2014, Sabrina performed in the United Kingdom and abroad. She collaborated with PanicLab Dance Theatre (United Kingdom), Gregory Maqoma for Companhia Instàvel (Portugal), Tom Dale (United Kingdom) Company Idem (Switzerland), Ciemulator Dance Theatre (Switzerland), Beatrice Allegranti Dance Theatre (United Kingdom), Fuora Dance Project (United Kingdom), Victoria Fox for // Tribe (United Kingdom), Mafalda Deville for Companhia Instavel (Portugal), Becky Namgauds and Jasmin Vardimon (United Kingdom), performing the lead

role of Pinocchio.

She also collaborates with Verena Schneider, her duo was performed in Italy, London and Northern Ireland. Choreography for the youth company at The Point, Pera University, Lincoln University. She teaches in the United Kingdom and Europe. She is also a teacher with the Jasmin Vardimon company and leader of the JV2 program for 2019-20 and 2020-21. She directs and choreographs MAY YOU LISTEN? for Jasmin Vardimon's JV2 company in 2021. She is part of the cast of Jasmin Vardimon's creation ALICE premiered in August 2022.

RAFA JAGAT

Actor, dancer, director and playwright. He trained for five years in dramatic arts and two more years in physical theater. He combines all this learning time with classes in different disciplines within the language of

movement. He created his own company Jagat Mata, with 6 physical theater productions since 2008. In addition to all his creations, he danced for Mey Lin Bisogno's company for 4 years, for the Omos Uno dance company for another 4 years and created a street duo with Candelaria Antelo.

He also works with David Zambrano for a month on the improvisation project "Two songs for two humans". He is a co-founder of EXIN, which organizes movement-related workshops throughout Europe. He teaches classes for dancers and actors in Spain and Europe. Since 2020 he has collaborated as a director and playwright with circus companies in Barcelona such as (Som Noise, Encuentros and Papaya).

"Domesticating the house and the street" is the leitmotif that is repeated in the work of the young architecture studio Cierto Estudio, whose projects range from the design of domestic spaces to their recent experience of urban renewal of Consell de Cent street, in the heart of Barcelona's Eixample.

In their presentation, they will try to explain to us how this melody or fundamental idea of 'domesticating' works both in the house and in the street, since after all both are spaces where people coexist. And, therefore, so are work spaces, leisure spaces, accommodation spaces, learning spaces, sports spaces, or exhibition spaces, such as this museum. But what does it mean to domesticate space? How is it possible to design the domestic?

Coordinated by: Santiago Varela

In collaboration with: College of Architects of Alicante

Outreach activity of listening and highlighting the museum's programming in relation to sound art. The connection between Sempere and composers of his time will be explored, works and proposals from MACA related to sound will be presented, and the heritage of the area surrounding the museum that defines its soundscape will be visited.

Activity coordinated by Carlos Izquierdo, composer and sound artist who develops proposals and research that emphasize the importance of listening in art.

We base ourselves on the practices of Pauline Oliveros (composer, author of the book "Deep Listening"), Max Neuhaus (musician and precursor of Sound Walks in the United States), Murray Schafer (researcher and author of the concept of "Soundscape"), Janet Cardiff (composer and sound artist), Hildegard Westerkamp (researcher and artist), and so on.

*The walk involves a certain physical demand, comfortable footwear is recommended and is not recommended for people with vertigo.

Activity included in the Contemporary Authors Theater Exhibition of Alicante, Guillermo Heras.

Recreativos Federico is an installation composed of seven arcade machines customized around a dramatic work by Federico García Lorca or its context. In this EXO-dramatic installation, Alicante-based actor, performer and cultural agitator Álex Peña uses humor and poetry to reflect on the commodification of artistic legacy in the context of the capitalist system.

Guided tour by Álex Peña: November 9 (from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM) Free admission until capacity is reached.

We are accustomed to converting historical figures into consumer objects. Any of us can buy in Granada a keychain with the inscription I Love Lorca without ever having read a single verse by the author of "Gypsy Ballads". The EXO-dramatic installation proposed by Álex Peña at the MACA aims to criticize with humor and very subtle irony the conversion of artistic legacy into banal souvenirs.

The installation consists of seven interactive arcade machines equipped with sensors that perceive human presence. They react with sounds and lights, proposing games or the sale of some product, always inspired by the Lorca universe. "Bernarda Alba's Crane" is a mechanical skill game in which the player can obtain Adela's Comb, Pepe el Romano's original perfume or Bernarda's Fan; "Blood Balls" is a surprise ball machine that randomly contains a bag of blood from the Bridegroom or Leonardo, the lover in the well-known dramatic work "Blood Wedding"; the machine named "The Hatless Women" is inspired by the women artists of the Generation of '27 who removed this fashion accessory as a sign of protest and were stoned for it along with Dalí and Federico at the Puerta del Sol. In the foosball table inspired by "The Love of Don Perlimplín with Belisa in His Garden" we can face the characters from the work published by Lorca in 1929; "Yerma, La Nuit" is a phallic condom vending machine that alludes to the condom that a liberated Yerma could well have hidden while enjoying the Parisian night, while "Cadaqués Invaders" is an arcade machine with an original shooting game based on the famous "Space Invaders" in which the player Lorca shoots La Argentinita's castanets against a Dalí who responds by launching his mustache against the Granadian poet. Finally, "So Five Euros Pass" is a machine that exchanges coins for bills. Here, Federico himself represents that arcade owner of all time who would grumble while feeding the stuffing of his mattress of bills.

All installations are accompanied by a soundtrack featuring collaborations from different contemporary independent artists and groups such as Rocío Márquez, Pablo Peña and Darío del Moral (Pony Bravo, Fiera); Daniel Alonso (Pony Bravo), Alicia Acuña, The Gardener/Stay P MSRT (Califato ¾), Los Voluble and Yunke Junk Preachers. Additionally, the "Blood Balls" machine features the original voice of one of the poet's descendants, Laura García-Lorca.

Palabras mayores arrives at MACA to go beyond the apparent. Because museums are places where we discover and learn, but also spaces designed for citizens to experience and reinvent.

This is a mediation project aimed at people over 60 years old who want, first of all, to learn about and reflect on contemporary art, the function of museums, and the vision of both established and emerging creators. On the other hand, the participating individuals will establish synergies with the collections existing in the museum, developing their own narrative based on what they find in the galleries through guided visits, open debates, artistic creation activities, and social and cultural empowerment dynamics.

The main objective is to transform the museum into a laboratory for cultural and artistic experimentation in which participants will contribute their vision and experience to the contents present in the museum, while carrying out an activity that provides them with new knowledge. It is an encounter in which the dialogue between the visitor and the museum takes place through contemporary art and the MACA collections, with the mediation of an educator who will act as a link between both.

As a result of these meetings, the Group proposes the creation of a platform to give visibility to artists living in Alicante. This pilot project at MACA, titled Visibility: an open window to the local creator, aims to showcase different Alicante creators, deepen and expand knowledge about contemporary art, and learn to view the collections housed in MACA from another perspective.

Visibility: an open window to the local creator will materialize with a series of sessions in which an artist will be invited to present their artistic trajectory, sharing their artistic concerns and reflections, the development of their creative process, their techniques, etc.

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El Corodelantal presents "Ritual of past and present songs". Bring your candles and your good wishes for your ancestors and ancestresses.

El Corodelantal is a vocal experimentation group that was born in New York in 2011 and continued in Madrid from the end of 2012. Invented and directed by Sonia Megías, composer as a kind of laboratory to develop rare scores, the choir operates through collective performances that blur the boundary between the arts.

From September to December 2023. 8 rehearsals at the MACA and 5 at the Santa Pola Museum. The meetings are 2 hours long starting at 5:30 PM and will be distributed between the MACA and the Santa Pola Sea Museum. Send an email to contacto@soniamegias.es before September 25 with your personal information and your motivation letter.

The Subjects of the City, by María Ángeles Durán

The subjects of the city are multiple and contradictory. With power and unprotected, healthy and sick, young and old, women and men. Inhabitants, visitors, owners and aspirants. Each one lives, desires and receives different treatment from the city. Some achieve success. Others only dream of it.

Coordinated by: Santiago Varela

In collaboration with: College of Architects of Alicante

Movement, light, vibration and dynamism are key points in the work of Eusebi Sempere, a leading figure in shaping the artistic modernity of the country in the second half of the twentieth century. As a proposal from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante to commemorate the centenary of his birth, Asun Noales meticulously and delicately explores the three-dimensionality of bodies in space, the use of light and the search for kinetic and optically seductive work for scenic arts. Volume, plasticity, repetition, rhythm, musicality and poetry have a place in this abstract and danced journey that traverses Sempere's work like a score of movement, using it as a starting point for the composition of the scenes.

Company: OtraDanza

Produces: Teatro Principal de Alicante, MACA – Ayuntamiento de Alicante, OtraDanza

Direction and choreography: Asun Noales

Choreography assistant: Federica Fasano

Musical composition and performance: Jorge Da Rocha

Scenic space: Luis Crespo

Lighting: Joaquín Hernández

Set construction: Background Producciones

Costume design: Ana Estéban

Lighting and sound technicians: Visisonor

Executive production: Amadeo Vañó – Cámara Blanca

Management and administration: Begoña Noales – Decoa

Performers: Asun Noales, Federica Fasano, Rosanna Freda, Salvador Rocher, Marta Santacatalina, Eila Valls, Aaron Vázquez, Diana Huertas.

Wednesday, September 13 at 6 p.m. 'Chocolat' by Lasse Hallström with Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench and Alfred Molina. With five Oscar nominations, it is the story of a very traditional French village where nothing has changed in the last hundred years, when the North wind brings with it two outsiders: Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche) and her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol). Vianne opens a chocolate shop full of sweets capable of awakening the hidden appetites of the village inhabitants. She also possesses a special gift that allows her to perceive the desires of others and satisfy them with the exact sweet.

Thursday, September 14 at 6 p.m. 'The Last Recipe' directed by Yōjirō Takita with Kazunari Ninomiya and Gou Ayano. Mitsuru Sasaki is a world-class chef who has lost his passion for his craft. Although he can cook any dish having tasted it only once, his restaurant has gone bankrupt due to his extremely perfectionist character. To pay his debts, he makes a decision: he will personally cook one last meal for whoever is willing to pay one million yen for it.

Friday, September 15 at 6 p.m. 'Babette's Feast' by Gabriel Axel, starring Stéphane Audran, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Gudmar Wivesson. This film, which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, is set in the 19th century in a remote village in Denmark, dominated by Puritanism where two elderly unmarried sisters recall with nostalgia their distant youth and rigid education. The arrival of Babette, who comes from Paris, will change their lives. The outsider will soon have the opportunity to repay the kindness and warmth with which she was welcomed. A lottery prize allows her to organize an opulent dinner with the finest dishes and wines of French gastronomy. All the neighbors accept the invitation, but they previously agree not to show satisfaction that would be sinful. But, little by little, in an intense and emotional ceremony, they give in to the pleasures of French cuisine.

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