Among illustrated albums there is a genre sometimes forgotten: the wordless picture book. These

stories help awaken our imagination, require us to sharpen our

observation skills and therefore promote visual education. They also give

autonomy to the child who cannot read or is in the process of learning.

In this session we will observe these stories without text to read their images and provide

our own interpretation.

*Some stories proposed for this session: The Magic Lantern, Free Time,

Aquarium, The Wave, Crazy World, The Red Herring...

The great Gianni Rodari is always an inspiring engine, with his techniques for inventing

stories and his grammar of fantasy. With him and with other tales and games we will invent

amazing stories.

*Some tales proposed for this session: My Little Story Factory,

Mixing Up Stories, The Blackberry, ...

Both in art and in our everyday life we use metaphors. We say: "He's missing a

screw!", "He is a well of wisdom", "They are like two drops of water", .. We mix reality and

fantasy generating a rich and poetic language. Stories are no less, and in many of

them metaphor is used to explain concepts or ideas such as death, love, lack of

communication, hope, …

In this session we will see what metaphor is about through stories, images and games.

*Some stories proposed for this session: A Pink Elephant, The Tree of

Memories, When Laughter Bloomed, ...

Technical freedom allows us to discover and experiment how different

materials coexist: collage, painting, watercolor, markers, engraving...Each one with its qualities,

coexisting in the same space, like people and life itself.

In this session we will relate mixed media technique with diversity and inclusion.

*Some stories proposed for this session: The Black Book of Colors, A Strange Bug,

Lorenzo's Pot, Everyone But One, For Four Little Corners of Nothing

In the illustrated album we see different

resources to represent it, through the illustrations but also through the narrative

of the book's own format, the design of its pages, the interaction it offers us, etc.

In this session we will capture our best movements on paper.

*Some stories proposed for this session: oh! a book, Manu in the mountains, Flora

and the flamingo, Dancing in the clouds, ..

In recent years, a wide variety of revised classic tales have been published that

tell these stories from another point of view, placing us in a more

contemporary setting, telling us the unknown version of the fierce wolf, demystifying romantic

love or taking princes and princesses out of their gender role.

In this session, we will see these tales framed in co-education, equality and

diversity and we will write another tale.

*Some tales proposed for this session: The End, I'm Going to Eat You, Is There Anything

More Boring Than Being a Pink Princess?, Confusing Stories, What Little Red Riding Hood Didn't See,

The Rebel Princess, ...

There are many common themes between the world of art and the world of childhood. The

connection with nature is one of them. Nature inspires us, connects us with

our surroundings and with ourselves. It surprises us with its beauty and its curiosities.

For all these reasons we want to dedicate one of our laboratories to this topic that has accompanied

art from its first manifestations to the present day.

*Some stories proposed for this session: A Day of Nothing, The Bear That Wasn't,

The Little Gardener, The Giant's Time, Trees,...

plastic expression and the one that has a more sensitive character. But in addition to its touch we can

imagine how the stories smell, how they taste or how they sound, through their images and their

texts. In this session we will explore some stories with all our senses.

*Some stories proposed for this session: The wild animals, The black book

of colors, collection At your fingertips by Combel, What is Mau iz io?, Soles of the feet (the map of

my body), Five senses..

Among all books there are some that are special because, when you open them, images jump out of their

pages. A book-object that contains stories, and that can be a game or

a sculpture. We will observe these books carefully and learn some techniques to create

our paper sculpture.

*Some stories suggested for this session: The Butterfly Garden, Fauna

pop-up, I Spy, How Do You Sleep?, 600 Black Dots…

We normally associate the idea of rhythm and repetition with music, but it exists in all arts. In painting, for example, rhythm helps us compose by creating a visual journey

with the organization of elements that appear in the work. In the children's world we also find rhythm, in lullabies, jump rope songs, the "pito pito gorgorito"...

In this session we will play with verses, images and songs through a selection of stories with lots of rhythm.

*Some stories proposed for this session: Uno, dos, tres, vampiro es, Collection From the Cradle to the Moon, "¡Pom! ¡¡Pom!! ¡¡¡Poom!!!", Coleta, the Poet, The Cake is So High Up, an Elephant Was Swaying, ...