Presentation of the performances with a gender perspective that were selected at the beginning of the year, on the occasion of the course held around Esther Ferrer's exhibition.

The selected ones were:

Gloria Segura

Cristina Granja

Ana Peris

Sylvia Peceño.

Later, at 7 p.m., Esther Ferrer herself, who spoke with Margarita de Aizpuru.

"Utopic Liberty". Installation by Elio Rodríguez on the facade.

This series by Elio Rodríguez invites the viewer to explore the relationship between the monumental and the organic, the real and the utopian, through a playful and critical dialogue with iconic monuments. This project, developed intensively over the last few years, has its roots in 2010, when Rodríguez created Ceiba Negra, a monumental inflatable sculpture for The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. That experience marked the beginning of an exploration into artistic interventions that challenge the rigidity of space and architecture.

The MACA Choir presents a proposal about the temporary exhibition: "Esther Ferrer: the body crossed by gender, space and time".

Directed by: Sonia Megías

Exhibition produced by the Consortium of Museums of the Generalitat and organized by the MACA.

'Deep Listening'. Corodelantal (with Spanish subtitles)

Pauline Oliveros was the most relevant composer of the United States. She created a method of making music that she called 'Deep Listening'. In May 2024, film director Daniel Weintraub launches this wonderful two-hour documentary, which he presents in Kingston (New York) last May.

Sonia Megías, friend and student of Pauline Oliveros, brings the deep listening practices of the American artist to Alicante through the CoroDelantal MACA, and on this occasion, after conversations with Weintraub, presents the documentary about Pauline in two one-hour sessions, accompanied by performances that the American artist herself sent to CoroDelantal in 2015 and that will be carried out together with a debate about listening, moderated by Megías.

Museums and cultural centers present the programming of the White Night, the second major joint event of the year, which will take place on Friday, July 12.

The City Council, the Provincial Council, The Ocean Race Museum, the University and Aguas de Alicante propose a varied program of activities that includes guided tours, family workshops, music, cinema and lectures, for all tastes and ages during the afternoon and evening of Friday.

The MACA, Las Cigarreras, the Exhibition Hall of the Fish Market (on behalf of the City Council), the MUBAG, the MARQ and the Alicante Cultural Institute Juan Gil Albert (on behalf of the Provincial Council), the University Museum (MUA), the University Headquarters City of Alicante, the Water Museum and The Ocean Race Museum, following the good reception of previous editions, expect a large influx of visitors.

EASDA (School of Art and Higher Design of Alicante) in collaboration with MACA presents, from March 1st to 8th, the exhibition: "I Don't Want to Be Cinderella".

The exhibition displays more than 50 pieces of "illustrated" footwear, created by second-year students of the Higher Degree Training Cycle in Illustration in the subject of graphic expression techniques.

Each student proposal: shoe, sneaker, boot, flip-flop… is a personal vision that expresses the different situations experienced in the family sphere or in the closest environment in relation to gender issues.

The objectives of the teaching project, curated by Alicia Rodríguez Boado and Mª Lucrecia Bernal Valencia are:

To demonstrate through the art of social action the rejection of stereotypes from fairy tales, which influence and condition us from childhood.

To promote the search for creative solutions that lead us towards gender equality.

"Barca Magia. Performance and Talk" Activity that is part of the Barca Magia 28/82 Festival of Experimental Music.

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Performers:

Gran CoroDelantal

Almoradí Cello Orchestra

Juan Francisco de Dios Hernández, performer

Mireia Lallart, soprano

Cecilia Martínez, director

Program:

6 Duos for Violas_ (1989)* ……………. Ramón Barce

Spoken Choir (1966) …………….……… Barce

Embrace & Breathe (2023) …………. Sonia Megías

Duo 11 (1989)* …………………........…. R. Barce

LBaila (2006) …………………........……. S. Megías

Duo 17 (1989) * ………….........………… Barce

The Journey (2023) …....………. Armbruster/Megías

Duo 18 (1989) * …………………………… Barce

Barca Magia (2024) …………………….. Megías

* version by Sonia Megías for cellos

To celebrate the centenary of Eusebio Sempere's birth, CoroDelantal will offer the performance "Solsticio Sempere".

How do parallel lines sound?, How do the different effects of Eusebio Sempere's kinetic art sound?

We will savor all of this thanks to the CoroDelantal MACA, directed by Sonia Megías

The MACA Choir, directed by Sonia Megías, the choir of the Óscar Esplá Superior Conservatory and the Cor de Cambra d'Elx directed by Inma Dolón, will offer a selection of Christmas carols by New York-born composer John Gilbert.

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.