An art-focused book club led by Andrea Barcia, a cultural communicator. Conceived as an accessible alternative to the dense, encyclopedic academic essays typical of the field. The program brings together books that explore the art world from diverse perspectives—painting, sculpture, architecture, contemporary art, and other related disciplines—with an accessible, interdisciplinary approach that avoids the technical jargon that often alienates the general public from this subject matter.

In this first session, we will be reading Always Red: Essays on Looking by John Berger.

On May 18th, at the proposal of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), International Museum Day is celebrated, and, as has been the case since 2013, Alicante will join again. This year's theme is "The future of museums in communities in constant change," focusing on how museums can navigate and contribute to a world experiencing profound social, technological, and environmental changes.

The City Council (MACA, Las Cigarreras, and MUSA), the Provincial Council (MARQ, MUBAG, and the Juan Gil-Albert Alicante Institute of Culture), The Ocean Race Museum, the University of Alicante Museum, the University Headquarters City of Alicante, and the Alicante Water Museum, come together again to offer a carefully curated program for all audiences.

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.

Museums and cultural centers come together once again to celebrate the White Night.

The City Council, the Provincial Council, The Ocean Race Museum, the University and Aguas de Alicante propose a wide program of activities that includes guided tours, family workshops, music, film screenings and lectures, for all tastes and ages, on July 21st.

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, the Water Museum and The Ocean Race Museum, following the positive reception of previous editions, expect a large number of attendees during the evening of Friday the 21st.

The website is www.museosdealicante.com and you can find all the information about the programs of all the participating museums and cultural centers there.

Palabras Mayores arrives at MACA to go beyond the apparent. Because museums are places to discover and learn, but also spaces designed for citizens to experience and reinvent.

This is a mediation project aimed at people over 60 years old who want, first of all, to learn about and reflect on contemporary art, the function of museums, and the vision of both established and emerging creators. On the other hand, the participating individuals will establish synergies with the collections existing in the museum, developing their own narrative based on what they find in the galleries through guided visits, open debates, artistic creation activities, and social and cultural empowerment dynamics.

The main objective is to transform the museum into a laboratory for cultural and artistic experimentation in which participants will contribute their vision and experience to the contents present in the museum, while carrying out an activity that provides them with new knowledge.

This is an encounter in which the dialogue between the visitor and the museum takes place through contemporary art and the MACA collections, with the mediation of an educator who will act as a link between both.

Technical Information

Spaces: 15 people maximum (closed group)
Mediation: Juan Diego Cerdá, historian and social facilitator.

"No more boring artists. Scenic Camp 14_18" is a creation project through the performing arts… and much more. It is an invitation to reinvent the concept of museum that young people have. We want the museum to become the epicenter of their passions, their interests and their aspirations. We know that this happens by awakening emotion, imagination, debate, encounter and discovery. It is necessary to reach them, and put at the center the topics that truly interest them. After all, art is a language, and we want our young people to express themselves through it. We want a creative society. We want them to be art.

Objectives

Convert MACA into a reference space among the youth population.

Bring young people closer to contemporary art so that they not only understand it, but also become creative agents.

Promote interest in artistic production and creation through the performing arts.

Foster social awareness and critical consciousness through the practice of different artistic disciplines.

Offer cultural leisure alternatives that can be consolidated beyond the project's calendar through the creation of permanent artistic collectives.

Establish bridges of intergenerational dialogue based on the use of new technologies and communication networks

Aimed at young people aged 14 to 18 years old.

Idea and coordination: AmbulantesLab selected in the #cercles 2021 call of the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community.

Alicante resumes the celebration of International Museum Day. The museums and cultural centers in the city of Alicante are resuming the joint celebration of one of the most important dates on the cultural calendar; Museum Day.

The return to normalcy is a fact and therefore, the municipal museums (MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante, The Cultural Center Las Cigarreras, the Exhibition Hall of La Lonja, MUSA and the Tabarca Museum), the provincial cultural centers (MARQ, Archaeological Museum, MUBAG, Museum of Fine Arts and the Juan Gil Albert Institute), The Ocean Race Museum, the MUA, University Museum and the Museum of Waters of Alicante, have come together again so that from May 13 to 22, residents of Alicante and visitors can enjoy an extensive program for all audiences.

Since 1977, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) has organized this festive day with the objective of raising public awareness about the fact that "museums are an important means for cultural exchanges." As every year, ICOM chooses a theme around which the event will revolve, and in 2022 the theme chosen for these days is "The Power of Museums." Museums have the power to transform the world around us. As incomparable places of discovery, they teach us our past and open our minds to new ideas, two essential steps for building a better future.

Visitors who visit any of the participating museums and cultural centers will be able to take home a magnet with an image chosen by each of them, made for the occasion.

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, MAY 13

AFTERNOON

MACAextraescolar

Children's workshop led by Explicarte Association

From 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

SATURDAY, MAY 14

MORNING

Graphic Music

Family workshop led by composer and musician Carlos Izquierdo

From 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Limited spaces

Great Artists, Plain and Simple

Visit-workshop with vermouth about the female artists in the collections led by Magenta

12:00 p.m. Limited spaces

AFTERNOON

Overture. Beyond the Maps

Guided tour of the temporary exhibition by Explicarte

6:00 p.m.

MACA Live. Cesc Gelabert

Dance at MACA led by Abril en Danza

7:00 p.m. Free admission

SUNDAY, MAY 15

Overture. Beyond the Maps

Guided tour of the temporary exhibition by Explicarte

12:00 p.m.

Screening of the film VIK MUNIZ

From May 15 to 22, 2022. Free admission

TUESDAY, MAY 17

Pulling the Thread

Activity for artists from the Terramar Occupational Center of APSA of Alicante, designed by David Gil and Ester García of DaGuten. Graphic School

10:00 a.m.

FRIDAY, MAY 20

MACA extraescolar

Children's workshop led by Explicarte Association

From 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

New Narratives. Inma Prieto talks with Daniel García Andújar. Meeting with artists coordinated by Isabel Tejeda. 7:00 p.m. Free admission

Creativity and Music

Performance and music by students in the 5th and 6th years of Professional Studies at the Rafael Rodríguez Albert Conservatory of Muchamiel

5:30 p.m. Free admission

SATURDAY, MAY 21

MORNING

Letter and Image Laboratories

Children's workshop led by María Maraña and Va de Cuentos

11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. (duration 1 hour) Registration HERE

AFTERNOON

Overture. Beyond the Maps

Guided tour of the temporary exhibition by Explicarte

6:00 p.m. Free admission

SUNDAY, MAY 21

Overture. Beyond the Maps

Guided tour of the temporary exhibition by Explicarte

12:00 p.m. Free admission

NEW WEBSITE PRESENTATION

This year, the city's museums update and promote a joint dissemination resource: A website that shows the unique identity of each one and concentrates the activity developed by all institutions in a single space, facilitating all agents related to cultural dissemination and tourism in Alicante with a single tool to display content related to art, culture and heritage. Based on RSS technology, the website collects information from the individual pages of each museum and also allows the administration of their own spaces by the technical staff of each institution, making maintenance very efficient.

The programming of all museums and centers is available on the social networks of Museums of Alicante and on the website: http://museosdealicante.com/ as of May 18.

La Merienda is a mediation project aimed at people over 65 years old, in collaboration with the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community, coordinated by educator Alba Cacheda at the MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante. To give continuity to this wonderful initiative, the MACA currently has the mediation of Juan Diego Cerdá who accompanies the Group in these meetings.

Every Wednesday and around a snack, a space for exchange and learning is created, where the knowledge of the Group intersects with the content present in the Museum's exhibitions.

As a result of these meetings, this proposal emerges, developed by the Group, which seeks to highlight a work from the 20th Century Art Collection and bring it closer to visiting audiences through these small questions.

The La Merienda Group invites you to participate in this reflection activity. Answer the questions and deposit the sheet in the ballot box when you finish your visit.

Thank you!!

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.

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.