May 18th is International Museum Day and we are going to celebrate it by making visible the connection between art and nature.

Museums do essential work in the preservation, exhibition and research of artistic-cultural heritage and historical-scientific heritage.

Increasingly, they become a place of encounter, creation and dissemination of knowledge.

For example, the MACA can be visited not only to see exhibited works, but also to experience artistic experiences.

Furthermore, museums are also places of reflection and another of their main tasks is to raise awareness about the problems we currently face in the world we live in, using art as a vehicle to share ideas, connect people and generate a change in mentality.

To be aware of our relationship and responsibility towards nature, we must experience it as an experience, find it within ourselves, touch it and play with it.

Today's Laboratory is designed with this in mind: we will see the connection between art and nature.

We offer you an artistic experience inspired by the work of English artist Andy Goldsworthy to feel, investigate, intervene and create in nature.

With today's Laboratory we celebrate Book Day. We will see story titles about books, in which the books themselves are the true protagonists, and we also propose a creative activity that helps us take care of our stories.

Although screens increasingly have more prominence in our daily lives, the paper book remains our good friend.

We interact with books in different ways: we play with them and manipulate them by pulling their tabs and flaps, there are some books on which we write and draw until we make them our own, others we give as gifts or lend them, and our favorite books we read so many times that they end up somewhat worn.

To pay tribute to those books that we love so much and that need some repairs, we propose a care session to dress their covers with "new clothes" and reflect on the relationship we have with books.

Today we are going to talk about children's poetry. We will see stories where poetry is the protagonist, we will review why this literary genre catches our attention so much and we will play at creating our own poems. Will you join us? A poem is a jewel that always attracts our attention. Why does this happen? Poetry takes advantage of the musical qualities of language, creating harmony and rhythm on one hand and on the other, it manages to express many things with few words, or even without words.

Did you know that there are poems without words? They are visual poems.

This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by Va de cuentos.

We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person. Today we invite you to a laboratory where we are going to create abstract works of art by playing with our knowledge of mathematics. Throughout this laboratory we will be looking for relationships between readings, figures and lines, calculations and equations, Elena Asins and her geometric paintings.

Will we manage it?

We invite you to a fantastic banquet full of books in which food and cooking are the main characters. Books full of creative recipes and culinary games to "stuff ourselves" with inspiration. So "Come on, come in! There's a party here!"

Welcome families to the LETTERS AND IMAGES LABORATORY. This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, run by Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person.

This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person.

Did you know that when it snows everything becomes silent? Do you know that each snowflake has a unique shape? Do you know that to make a snowflake you need a speck of dust?

Snow is a fascinating and special phenomenon. In some places on the planet it is unlikely to see snow while in others living with snow is the norm.

Today we bring you a selection of albums that feature snow as the main character.

This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person. In this laboratory of letters and images we investigate how movies are created. We discover some pre-cinema inventions such as the praxinoscope or the flipbook to understand how the illusion of movement is created and we learn about the emergence of the first fiction films from directors such as Alice Guy, George Meliès or Segundo de Chomón. And of course we are going to learn about some albums related to the seventh art: CINEMA.

Shall we begin? LIGHTS, CAMERA AND ACTION!

Welcome to the LABORATORY OF LETTERS AND IMAGES. This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person.

This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person. These days witches, ghosts and skeletons are very present among us. We have celebrated Halloween night and All Saints' Day. In this month's laboratory we have selected some books around the night and its mysteries and we have taken advantage of the theme to play with shadows and encounter some ghosts.

This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person. In the books we discover in this laboratory, the images are not what they seem at first glance. To reveal the secrets of their pages, we will need color filters, magic magnifying glasses, glasses and viewers.

We will first get to know some of these books and then we will learn how to build our magic viewers and create hidden drawings and secret messages.

Welcome to «Paper Games with Munari», a new LABORATORY OF LETTERS AND IMAGES. This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person. Bruno Munari, jack-of-all-trades, artist, designer, inventor and pedagogue. Promoter of art didactics and play as a learning tool.

Munari with his sense of humor and play proposes to us travel sculptures, unusual books, paper games. There are so many proposals that Munari inspires that this laboratory is and will be a surprise.

Let's play at being designers! We create paper objects.