Paüra is born from this collective storm, in this situation where fear occupies a large part of our daily lives. It also emerges trying to imagine what will come and assuming that little by little the waters will calm down and we will recover pieces of life that for months have become invisible. We have the desire that, in that return to the world we knew, fear will not have taken hold of our being.

There are as many types of fears as there are people in the world. Our objective is not to present a range of each and every one of them, but to use them as a springboard to jump into the void and unfold the wings of humor in that flight.

Paüra immerses itself in the world of comedy to address the theme of fear from that point of view. We could also speak of tragicomedy, or comedy with melodramatic tints; in short, that mixture of genres that are born from the deepest part of each person, where crying and laughter go hand in hand, and intertwine surprising each other through their continuous correlation.

Lucas Escobedo Company was born in 2011 after the premiere of his first solo creation, Boiiiing. Its main driving force is Lucas Escobedo, a multidisciplinary artist from Alicante who draws from both the circus world and theater.

La Banda is a street proposal, for all ages, with original music by Raquel Molano, set design by Luis Crespo, costumes by Ana Esteban, dramaturgy by Lucas Escobedo, choreography by Asun Noales and scenic direction by Escobedo and Noales.

La Banda is a piece of dance and circus and is the first street show premiered by the OtraDanza Company.

La Banda is a nomadic and chaotic family. Five fun characters, who could not be more different and diverse from each other, but who complement each other perfectly.

La Banda breaks molds, breaks free from any structure or limitation. They are a team, they work together, they have fun, they share knowledge and experience, they are different but they can and know how to understand each other.

In this metaphor of teamwork, represented by La Banda, we advocate for a space to share, finding the meaning of being, living and coexisting, from the small, subtle and simple. Sharing, connecting, adapting, reinventing, are the key words and implicit guidelines in La Banda.

Choreography, music, dramaturgy, performance, acrobatics, juggling, dance and circus feeding back into each other. We seek a common ground from what makes us different, being genuine individuals, always traveling through the transcultural, innovation and cultural blending. From different and new paths: past, present, experience and reflection.

Five performers, two men and three women, for a choreography created from the corporeal, the tangible, the skin… the body speaks and the mind reacts. With a clearly choral dramaturgy exalting the value of La Banda, of unity, as the sum of many individualities, highlighting the richness that each individual brings to the group. A sonic universe that, through raw guitars, electronic sounds and cheeky voices, travels between tension and tenderness, between surreal and playful scenes. Costumes with a taste of the past, but with a very current and contemporary vision. A set design that moves us through space, a common space that transforms and becomes another member of the team. All these elements form La Banda, a piece built from humor and physicality.

Direction and Choreography

Asun Noales

Scenic Direction

Asun Noales | Lucas Escobedo

Performers

Marta Santacatalina | Anna Sagrera | Carla Sisteré | Aarón Vázquez | Jorge Castro

Assistant

Carmela García

Interns

Dahiana Betancour

Set Design

Luis Crespo

Costumes

Ana Esteban

Composer

Raquel Molano

Music

Production and music engineering: Oscar Guzmán.

Studio recording: Raquel Molano (keyboard and vocals), Oscar Guzmán (rhythm guitar and bass), Toni Mateos (drums) and Miguel Ángel Varela (lead guitar).

A, ante, bajo, cabe, con, contra, de, desde, durante, en, entre, hacia, hasta, mediante, para, por, según, sin, so, sobre, tras, versus and via.

Against the autonomy of architecture. Or from form towards place.

Prepositions. Clara Solà-Morales

Clara Solà-Morales is an architect from the School of Architecture of Barcelona (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona) and holds a Master's degree in Architectural Design (MArch II) from Harvard University. She is an associate professor of Projects at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, ETSAB, UPC. She has been a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), an associate professor of projects and urbanism at Rovira i Virgili University, a visiting professor in the Barcelona program at the University of Calgary, and a professor and director of studies at the Barcelona Institute of Architecture, BIArch. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Architecture at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, ETSAB, UPC.

José Zabala and Anne Hinz (ADDENDA ARCHITECTS) Loose Things.

Addenda Architects is a young collaborative architecture studio based in Barcelona formed by Roberto González, Anne Hinz, Cecilia Rodríguez, Arnau Sastre and José Zabala.

The studio was founded in 2015 and since then has collaborated with renowned cultural institutions such as KULeuven Ghent, Historisches Museum Frankfurt and the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The architects at Addenda have been awarded in national and international public competitions and recognized in various professional and cultural disciplines.

The studio also publishes its own architecture. It is currently carrying out an editorial project initiated by editor and independent art and architecture curator Moritz Küng and German photographers Joachim Brohm and Valentina Seidel. This periodic publication, called Bauhaus Dessau Museum Cahier, aims to document the construction process of the Museum until its opening in September 2019.

We celebrate days of accessible and inclusive activities on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

Through TODOS MACA we aim to bring contemporary art closer to ALL types of audiences, thereby fostering interest in culture, the arts, participation, creativity and respect. The idea is to build bridges between people, and to transform our differences, our diversity, rather than an obstacle or a communication barrier, into an opportunity for mutual learning and collective creation. We all contribute if we all participate.

The TODOS MACA program consists of numerous artistic and cultural activities distributed throughout the first week of December, turning the museum into a privileged space to awaken the genius of a spectator unfamiliar with the art world, establishing a dialogue with the public and inserting the museum into the social fabric of the city to become a place FOR ALL.

The string quartet of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the University of Alicante will perform a selection of the scores created by the participants in the Graphic Music Workshop that, taught by Carlos Izquierdo, has been held at the museum for more than a year.

Omar Jammoul

Bachelor's degree in Music from the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus (Syria) specializing in Classical Guitar Performance with maestro Mazen Saleh. As well as, in Harmony and Composition as a second specialty. He subsequently completed a postgraduate degree in Classical Guitar Performance in Spain under the guidance of maestro David Martínez at the Royal Higher Conservatory of Music in Granada and at the Higher Conservatory of Málaga. He has attended various masterclasses with major figures in the world of guitar, such as: Leo Brouwer, Pepe Romero, Sergio Assad, Carmelo Martinez, Joaquín Clerch and Carlo Marchioni, among others.

In 2017 he won the Arts Laboratory Scholarship award from the Ettijahat foundation for his project Works by Syrian Composers for Classical Guitar. Also, that same year, he was selected to perform concerts within the MusaE project by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports. As a concert performer, he has given various performances as a soloist, as well as in chamber music ensembles or with symphony orchestras in different geographical locations such as: Syria, Lebanon, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. He is currently pursuing the prestigious Master's degree in Classical Guitar Performance at the University of

Alicante.

Just about everyone has found themselves in front of a Snakes and Ladders board at some point. And yes, it's that traditional game, very simple and fun, that two or more players can enjoy. It may not be necessary to explain, but we'll tell you what it's about: each player must advance their piece across a board made up of 63 squares that form a spiral. Each square has a meaning and some are more special than others. For example, there are squares where you must move backward, others where you lose a turn, and others where you advance squares. The player who manages to get their piece to the last square first wins, known as "the goose garden."

Currently, this game is in practically every home and is considered a classic. But, if we're characterized by something, it's because we love to 'transform' things to make the world a little bit better.

That's why, from Daguten. Escuela Gráfica de Barrio, in collaboration with the MACA (Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante), we had an idea. And we wanted to call that idea: The Game of "The Goose of Diverse Beings." Written like that, it might sound too complicated. But it absolutely isn't. On the contrary, it actually makes much more sense than one might think at first. Because, isn't our society diverse?

So we set out to create an alternative version of this board game classic. To do this, of course, we wanted to work with artists who would conceive and design both the text and the drawings of the squares that our new game would have. But not just any artists, of course not. We wanted them to be artists who truly brought a vision of what diversity is. And boy, did they bring it!

The participating people are users of different centers, classrooms, and groups from Spain and Cameroon who know firsthand what it is to live diversity. They also know what it's like to suffer, sometimes and unfortunately, when another person doesn't accept or tolerate diversity. But, above all, they know that all people, without exception, are diverse. Diverse beings. And that's what makes us equal.

So smile, because you have in your hands a game with diverse characters and alternative squares, designed by and for diverse people. Like you. Like me.

With this Game of "The Goose of Diverse Beings," all we're trying to do is, on one hand, turn one of the most fun and famous games in history on its head with a different, totally creative and fun design. And, on the other hand, make visible and assert that diversity is what enriches us as human beings.

Enjoy it!

From 2016 to 2020, the MACA hosted monthly storytelling sessions aimed at a children's audience. In these sessions, always using our collections as a starting point, these cycles were carried out with the help of Alberto Celdrán and Va de cuentos, which made children discover the characters that inhabit the museum: women, characters, wolves, monsters, horses, fantastic beings,...; fostering their creativity and imagination.

We inaugurate the exhibition Text [No Text]. Artist Books and Publications. Collection Universitat Politècnica de València and we do so with a lecture by the exhibition curator Antonio Alcaraz.