TODOS MACA does not give up.

And if it does not give up, it is for you. Every year we set ourselves the

challenge of organizing these multidisciplinary artistic events with the

objective of making visible and empowering people with functional diversity.

And we know that it should not have to be necessary. We know that all

people, regardless of their class, category or condition, should have the

right and freedom to be part of the usual creative processes,

of the artistic circuits, and to be present in all educational centers,

in all professional spaces and in every stratum of this society.

It should be an absolutely normalized matter. But it is not.

It continues not to be. That is why we return, one more year, with the same

enthusiasm and the same obstinacy that we have maintained since 2017, when

we celebrated the first edition of this meeting of interaction, emotion

and inclusion that has as its headquarters and epicenter the Museum of Contemporary

Art of Alicante (MACA). The official reason, of course, is the

International Day of Persons with Disabilities celebrated every December 3rd.

But we work every day, uncompromisingly, so that full inclusion becomes a reality.

TODOS MACA is an invitation for ALL PEOPLE to

approach and discover contemporary art, thus fostering

interest in the arts, citizen participation, social justice,

creative empowerment and, above all, interpersonal respect.

Cultural democratization is one of our main causes. And as a

consequence, it is our aim to build bridges between people, and

to make our differences, our diversity, instead of an

obstacle or a communicative impediment, an opportunity for

mutual learning, for collective creation. We all contribute if we all

participate. There is no other possibility.

The programming of this edition of TODOS MACA is structured based on

numerous artistic and cultural activities distributed throughout the

first week of December, transforming the museum into a

meaningful space to awaken the genius of a spectator unfamiliar with the world of

art, establishing a dialogue with the public and inserting the museum into the

social fabric of the city to become a place for,

we insist, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THE PEOPLE that make up

society.

One more year, we continue working tirelessly to make the MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante, accessible for EVERYONE. In this year 2023 we celebrate the seventh edition of TOD@S MACA, artistic and multidisciplinary events with the purpose of making visible and empowering people with disabilities. Our objective persists because, unfortunately, it is still necessary: we want all people to be able to participate in usual creative processes, access artistic circuits and be present in all educational and professional fields, promoting social, political and human equity. As long as this need for change exists, we will be here, one more year since 2017, celebrating these encounters and exchanges filled with emotion and inclusion at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante around the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which is celebrated every December 3rd. With TOD@S MACA our purpose is to bring contemporary art closer to a diverse audience, fostering interest in culture, the arts, participation, creativity and respect towards all sectors of society. We want to build bridges between people, turning our differences and diversities into opportunities for mutual learning and collective creation. Everyone contributes if everyone participates. The TOD@S MACA program offers numerous artistic and cultural activities during the weekend of December 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 2023, transforming the museum into a space to awaken the interest of spectators from all backgrounds and establishing a dialogue with the public to integrate the museum into the social life of the city, making it accessible FOR ALL PEOPLE. TOD@S MACA is not directed exclusively at a particular social group. It is not exclusive to people with disabilities or in situations of social exclusion. Our target audience is ALL OF SOCIETY. We cannot build a more inclusive, tolerant and empathetic world without counting on all the people who make it up. That is why the program of activities is open to everyone, without distinction. If you have made it this far and this dossier is before your eyes again, it is because we count on you again so that, for the seventh year, it is a success of involvement, participation and emotion. Because WE ARE ALL CREATORS. Because CULTURE must be for everyone and for all PEOPLE.

Within the Palabras Mayores program, the MACA hosts a new session of "Encounters with Local Creators," a proposal that seeks to open the museum's doors to the voices that make up the artistic and cultural fabric of our environment.

On this occasion, we welcome artist Aurelia Masanet. With more than forty years of career, Masanet (Alcoy, 1955) has explored textiles, painting, and the fusion of materials to shape intimate landscapes and symbolic universes where the visible and invisible meet. An essential appointment to discover her singular language.

Coordinated by: Juan Diego Cerdá

The Mitolatorio began its journey in April 2020. During the pandemic, it functioned as a digital collaborative map of contemporary myths. It was a way to stay connected with the outside world, redefining public space from our homes.

One of the pillars of the Mitolatorio has always been urban redefinition, because reviewing our emotions about public space empowers us within it, because paying special attention to it makes us more aware of its peculiarities, and it helps us value all elements of the public and urban landscape by placing on the same

level the architectural (a building with an emblematic façade), the vegetal (the tree in the plaza where we played) and the human (the neighbor who always sat on the same park bench), among others. We believe that this perspective can become

radical in an unexpected way if it is carried out from the perspective of a work from the Museum previously seen, smelled, and creatively discussed.

The mediation of the works and places will be based on carrying out creative actions with them as objects, to promote critical and expanded observation of the work and subjective, bodily and also critical exploration of

urban space. To the significant power of the work-place binomial we thus add two contributions: that of the practices of mediated plastic creation from the workshops and laboratories of María Maraña, and that of the techniques of proprioceptive exploration and identity fabulation from the interactive practices of Sergi Hernández.

Through the Tangent call of the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community.

We propose a new way of relating to the museum with the aim of consolidating and promoting mutual enrichment and an exchange of experiences.

With these guided visits and actions we want to reflect on concepts and ideas that will emerge throughout the visit, relating the works from the MACA collections to their context, in a transversal way, making an analysis of current reality and how artists represent their experiences creating a collective memory through the great diversity of contemporary languages that have emerged in the 20th and 21st centuries.

For restless adults.

With the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Universities and Employment of the Valencian Regional Government.

Workshop visit with vermouth around the work of female artists from the collections. Guided tour by Explicarte

Traditionally, women have been considered second-class citizens in the world of culture. This position was based on a statistic supported by a very limited number of women who had stood out in the field of literature, thought, and the plastic arts. This idea crumbles in the face of a simple consideration, and that is the reduced opportunities they had to develop their personal talents.

Listening activities and enhancement of the museum's programming in relation to sound art. The connection of Sempere with composers of his time will be explored, works and proposals from MACA related to sound will be discovered, and the

sound heritage of the surrounding environment will be visited

Olga Diego, artist.

The MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante is carrying out The Afternoon Snack. A mediation project aimed at elderly people, which was born at the MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante in 2021, with the collaboration of the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community, coordinated by Juan Diego Cerdá.

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

The Afternoon Snack is an original project by Alba Cacheda.

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.

Carlos Izquierdo is a composer and sound artist who develops proposals and research that highlight the importance of listening in art.

The route involves some physical exertion, comfortable footwear is recommended, bring water and sun protection.

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.

Carlos Izquierdo is a composer and sound artist who develops proposals and research that highlight the importance of listening in art.

The route involves some physical demand, comfortable footwear is recommended, bring water and sun protection.