AMAG! Presentation and work session with Jorge Raedo
10.01.2013 at 6pm
ACVic Centre d'Arts Contemporànias
C/ Sant Francesc, 1 of Vic

AMAG! is the architecture magazine for children.
AMAG! is for children from 5-10 years.
AMAG! is a toy to be cut up, broken, destroyed.
AMAG! is construction material, a toy, and a tool for investigation.
AMAG! is an Open Educational Resource (OER) for schools everywhere.
AMAG! is configured for A4 articles which can be downloaded and printed. http://a-magazine.org Children can learn about architecture by playing with the pages of the magazine.

AMAG! began in January 2012 as a monthly periodical, in which an article would be published every month. At the end of the year all the articles together make up a complete magazine..The articles where created either by specialists in education and architecture for children and teenagers. or by professionals in the field of teaching arts to children.

Para 2013 los artículos de AMAG! serán creados por instituciones como Islington Museum (London), Museo Oteiza (Navarra), ACVic (Cataluña), ProxectoTerra (Galicia), Museo de Arquitectura de Suecia (Estocolmo), Museo del Diseño de Finlandia (Helsinki), Centro Canadiense de arquitectura (Montreal), DAC (Copenague), Arco en Rêve (Bourdeux), MAXXI (Roma), Museo degli Innocenti (Firenze), Museo de Arquitectura Leopodo Rother (Bogotá), Lastu (Lapinlahti), Big Kids Magazine (Melbourne) , Spazio Magazine (Milano), Watermeloncat (Haarlem), JAS (Berlin, Hamburgo), Creaviva_Centre Paul Klee (Bern), OTIS Universty (LA)

Collaborators in distribuition among schools: ProxectoTerra (Galicia), Fundación Museo Jorge Oteiza (Navarra), Museo de Arquitectura Leopoldo Rother (Bogotá), LAAFI (Malí), ACVIC (Vic), Museo degli Innocenti, (Firenze), Alvar Aalto Museum (Jyväskylä), Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal), Arkitekturmuseet  (Stockholm).

AMAG! is an initiative of Rakennetaan kaupunki! (Finland) and Maushaus (Euskadi).
Directed by Jorge Raedo, edited by Maushaus, supported by ProxectoTerra (Galicia).

AQUI SPOT. CHRISTMAS WORKSHOPS 2012

Our Saturday workshops are a way for the whole family to learn how to give old objects a new lease of life, while promoting responsible consumption and sustainable development through a host of activities!

Saturday 22
11 am-2 pm. WORKSHOP 1: BICIA’T Bicycle repair.

5-8 pm. WORKSHOP 2: FES-TE UN JOC! Make a game

Saturday 29

11 am-2 pm. WORKSHOP 3: TITELLES I CONTES RECICLATS Recycled puppets and recycled stories

5-8 pm. WORKSHOP 4: ARMARI COL·LECTIU + NI PLÀSTIC NI PAPER + TALLER D'ESTAMPACIÓ Collective wardrobe +neither paper nor plastic+printing workshop

Registration:
Prior registration necessary. Places are limited, and reservations will be made in order of  registration.
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Fees:

- Workshop 5€ per person
- Special offers
- Registration for 2 workshops: 8€ per person
- Registration for 4 workshops: 12€ per person
- Workshops are free of charge for accompanying adults.

The workshops are aimed at: 

Family audiences.
Children, teenagers and adults who would like to learn how to give new life to unused objects, and to work collectively, exchanging knowledge, experience and materials. To discover playful, creative and educational alternatives during this period when we find ourselves overwhelmed by a consumption-orientated environment.

ARTS, TECHNOLOGY, COMMUNICATION

#1. RETAIL DESIGN, window dressing and commercial spaces + INFO
Course taught by Mònica Pla

Dates
15 h in total. 5 sessions of 3 h
Mondays 15th, 22nd and 29th October, 5th and 12th November 2012
From 17.00 to 20.00 h

Introduction
Course designed to convey basic knowledge of design and communication applied to commercial venues. The shop-window is the element of direct communication with passing pedestrians. Factors such as visual perception, the combination of elements and materials, renewal times, are key elements to connect the image of a commercial space to regular or prospective clients. Other factors such as circulation zones or sensory experiences are key elements within the interior of commercial areas. All these factors will be discussed in this course. Course projects will be based upon using art and design to create sensory and aesthetic elements. This is an Introductory course in plain language about how to design a commercial space, with both a theoretical and a creative side, and with the possibility for course attendees to analyse and develop case studies of their own.

#2. WEB FOR PROJECTS. Contents management + INFO
Course taught by Àlex Miras and Dolça Moreno

This course is done in collaboration with ACVic and VIT Vic Integració Tecnològica

Dates
20 h in total. 10 sessions of 2 h
Tuesdays 16th, 23rd and 30th October, 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th November and 4th, 11th and 18th December 2012
From 19.00 to 21.00 h

Location
VIT Vic Integració Tecnològica (de la Llotja s/n. Recinte firal El Sucre. Vic)

Part 1. Introduction to language and web tools
Taught by Dolça Moreno

Technological development modifies the forms of organisation, thinking and seeing the world. The Internet, specifically the Web, is a new social and historical paradigm. It is a tool for sharing, communicating and relating inputs, to generate information and knowledge. In this course we will teach you the concepts and notions of the web as an interactive space for content and dissemination. To understand code and how it works, to structure content, to organise content graphically, to learn the programmes and to learn how to use a number of software tools, are key elements in acquiring autonomy and action in the digital world. We will focus specifically on open source software tools, as they become practical analogies of the cooperative model driven by digital culture. Emphasis will be placed on methods of self-learning and self-management, with the aim of participants producing websites for themselves.

Part 2. Wordpress in depth
Taught by Àlex Miras

This course is aimed to broaden the use of tools, structure and content management offered by Wordpress CMS. The contents of the course will show participants how to customise WordPress and make it suit the needs of their project on the net. By using freeware templates, format, design and navigation structure will be adapted in order to suit the corporate image of your company or your own design . Tools such as features for using multi-language systems, online shopping, social networking for promotion, etc.. So if you want to re-structure your website, or if you have a new personal project, or if you want to enable a website for a collective project, this course introduces you to all the tools for making your website a dynamic one, combining the advantages of current technologies with easy maintenance.

#3. ARTTERÀPIA. Personal knowledge tools +INFO
Course taught by Marta Casasas

Dates
16 h in total. 8 sessions of 2 h
Thursdays 18th and 25th October, 8th,15th, 22nd and 29th November and 13th and 20th December 2012
From 6 to 8 pm

Introduction
Art therapy uses visual arts as a means of communicating complex emotions, or to guide and resolve conflicts and pathologies of therapy users. Art Therapy rediscovers that which is sought for , that which is constructed by instinct, starting with spontaneous productions, without rules. It is a project of personal growth and positive transformation from the self and to oneself. It allows the person to recreate herself or himself in a symbolic journey from creation to creation. Art therapy is concerned with the person, and has a wide field of applications, in areas such as rehabilitation, education or mental health.
This course will deal with various artistic techniques aiming to introduce participants to the world of art therapy, making use of and enjoying it on a personal level, so as to understand how to use it to its best advantage.

#4. DIGITAL CRAFTS. Programming and manufacture of everyday machines. Creativity and robotics + INFO
Course by blablabLAB

This course is done in collaboration between ACVic and Cercle Artístic Sant Lluc

Dates
24 h in total. 6 sessions of 4 h
Saturdays 20th and 27th October, 10th, 17th and 24th November, 1st December 2012
From 10am to 2pm

Location
Cercle Artístic Sant Lluc (Mercaders, 42. Barcelona)

Introduction
Words such as “microcontroller programming” and “computational physics” appear to describe complex and remote fields of knowledge. In this workshop we will discover that, on the contrary, they describe a reality within everyone's reach.
We will take a journey inside these tiny thinking machines and, using low-cost technological junk, we will manufacture all kinds of devices. Bugs, puppets, hybrids, automatons, or even extensions of ourselves! Using different senses to ours', ready to interact between the physical and virtual worlds in dimensions which touch upon our realitiy.
Aesthetic, comical, political or functional devices, with augmented abilities and forms.

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Morir de Frío. Presentation of a project in the blog format. www.morirdefrio.com

Morir de frío represents the authors' wish to promote reflection upon art, in all its contexts, by means of a blog. The blog, through a series
of essays, discusses various aspects of art,  philosophy and films; making comments on exhibitions, chronicling various events, analysing
films, making interviews and discovering emerging artists.

The project was publicly presented in May at the COSMO gallery in Barcelona, accompanied by Lluís Nacenta.  Now the artists come to Vic to
explain their motivation in writing this blog, and to invite us to rethink art criticism together, or at least, to rethink the act of writing about art today.

Morir de frío a project by Edgar Díaz (Barcelona 1991), Anna Dot (Vic 1991), Palma Lombardo (Osca 1991), Blai Marginedas (Vic 1990), Raquel Vila (Vic 1990) and Alba Vilamala (Vic 1991).

ARTS, TECHNOLOGIES, COMMUNICATION

Be Your Own Souvenir. blablaLAB Francesc Orenes Luís Soler Jorge Luis Marzo

#1. DIGITAL CRAFT +INFO
Course by blablabLAB in colaboration with VIT (Vic Integració Tecnològica)

DATES
6 Saturdays of 4 hours
Saturdays 14th, 21st and 28th of April. 5th 12th and 19th of May 2012
From 10 am to 2 pm

INTRODUCTION
Microcontroller programming, computational physics and numerical control manufacturing are words which seem to describe complex and remote fields of knowledge. In this workshop we will discover that, on the contrary, they describe a reality within everyone's reach. We will take a journey inside these thinking machines and , using technological junk and auto-replicant printers, we will manufacture devices to enhance our senses.

#2. ART ON PAPER + INFO
Course by FRANCESC ORENES

DATES
10 sessions of 1 hours 30 minutes.
Thursdays 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st of May. 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th of June. 5th and 12th of July 2012
From 6.30 to 8 pm

INTRODUCTION
At a moment when new technologies herald a change of course in communication, information and knowledge, the course ART ON PAPER aims to rescue the historical memory of the supporting role paper has played in several artistic forms and disciplines: print, posters, exlibris, photography, advertising ... so important, and with such great impact, after the Industrial Revolution. Illustrated by images and first-hand source material, the course will be complemented by the real live observation of traditional engraving techniques, as well as a visit to meet and interview an engraving artist in his workshop.

#3. INICIATION TO LISTENING AND SOUND LANDSCAPE +INFO
Course by Lluís Solé

DATES
10 sesions of 2 hours.
Wednesday 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th of May. 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th of June and 4th, 11th July 2012
From 6.30 to 8.30 pm

INTRODUCTION
By means of a sensory, spatial and temporal journey , we will enter the world of sound in all its breadth, going beyond the classic conception of music. We will open up the ears in order to approach a new audio dimension. We will learn the keys to sound, its qualities, its influence on moods and emotions. We will listen in depth to the daily soundscape, paying attention to the multidimensionality of sound and we will use ambient sounds as a starting point for sonic creation.

#4. THE FUNCTION OF IMAGES +INFO
Course by Jorge Luís Marzo

DATES
4 sessions of 3 hours.
11th, 18th, 25th April and 2nd May 2012
from 6 to 9pm

INTRODUCTION
Depending upon the surroundings and contexts of, and the responses to, their distribution, images may take on another meaning, transforming the communications strategies attributed to them by their producers. When we situate a work of art in an artistically decoded context, a completely different response to the picture may develop to that which we would usually expect. This also happens when we talk about other fields such as advertising, socio-political or religious information. This course aims to give tools to "professionals" and teachers to make them aware of the enormous complexity involved in understanding the image in a way that will also make it easier to understand the context in which their work will be presented. The course will be taught in plain language without losing sight of the complexity of some of the topics covered, providing a wide range of audiovisual resources to give users interpretative tools. This course has the objective of being a meeting point between different sensibilities, both professional and social.

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CULTURAL POLICIES, MODELS OF FINANCE AND ARTISTIC PRACTICES
XARXAPROD CONFERENCE

Venue: ACVic Centre d'Arts Contemporànies
C. Sant Francesc, 1 08500 Vic

14.12.2011
4.30 pm to 8.00 pm
Debate open to the public

Cultural Policies and models of finance in relation to artistic practices.

Session organised by Xarxaprod in association with ACVic in order to discuss the new scenario which, due to global economic changes, affects more localised cultural policies and funding mechanisms to carry out specific projects in the field of artistic practices within the Catalan context. Within the framework of this conference, a debate has been organised with politically responsible parties  related to various territorial authorities, who, in discussion with experts involved in the fields of cultural economy, project management and analysis of cultural context, will address issues of specific interest to members of Xarxaprod.

Xarxaprod is a non-profit organisation that brings together 25 members from organisations, institutions and projects  providing resources, means and support to production processes in the field of contemporary artistic creation. Its function is to promote initiatives and stimulate creative projects, aiming to provide a public service.

Overall Xarxaprod offers services such as space, technical and / or management resources, training, financial aid and workshops or residencies. Since 2006 Xarxaprod has opted to combine strategies for the promotion of research, production,  audience outreach and dissemination of artistic practices. Management is carried out by teams from many different artistic disciplines who, in many cases, perform several functions  simultaneously, such as artistic practice, teaching, curating and project management. Overall there is a clear interest in promoting research as an artistic paradigm,  self-managed projects, and the opening up of  new locations to set the stage for cultural development, social interaction and proximity to potential users. Xarxaprod covers the whole of Catalonia, settling in a variety of locations among the capital and large cities, medium cities and small towns. The framework of relationships among members is held under the principles of the ethos of sustainability and reciprocity.

The aims of this conference are to analyse and discuss the present situation and the future of CULTURAL POLICIES AND  MODELS OF FINANCE IN
RELATION TO ARTISTIC PRACTICES which until now have  been characterised by an articulation and expansion of artistic projects throughout Catalonia. But, under current circumstances it is expected that in the near future,  these policies and models must be rethought in order to survive, and redefined as a public service, in order to justify themselves before a society  which traditionally demands basic infrastructures, but which is much more passive and disconnected to cultural activities. Most members of  Xarxaprod are attempting to ameliorate this situation , but it will be a task requiring long term commitment and the involvement of many agents. Faced with this challenge Xarxaprod's aim is to understand and analyse possible future scenarios.

Jordi Canudas. 1021 Dies. Mercat i memòria

27/10/2011 at 10.00 am until 2.00 pm and at 4.00 pm until 6.00 pm

Venue: Pati Manning
Plató del CERC
C/ Montalegre, 7
08001 Barcelona
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Aimed at:
Council technicians responsible for visual arts programmes and /or
multidisciplinary cultural programmes

Objectives

To provide municipalities with the tools:
A) To promote collaborative artistic practice as instruments foranalysis and raising awareness, as well as for action.
B) To demonstrate the visual arts as a contributing factor in solving.
the social challenges of our time (a potential which surely must be encouraged especially in times of crisis).
C) To present creative proposals making closer multidisciplinary contact between the social, cultural, educational and artistic fields.
D) To increase visibility, understanding and integration of contemporary art among the public.

Contents
Presentation of projects by their promoters, from artistic and other sectors, based on the premise that the visual arts comprise a powerful tool for cultural and social development. That is, we aim to present ideas and artistic practices which clearly link art and society, involving professionals whose work is   a shared proccess between art
and other disciplines.

The session includes five project presentations and two debate tables. With the participation of Ramon Parramon, Jordi Canudas / Carme Carbonell, Laia Solé / Glòria Safont-Tria, Javier Rodrigo and Marta Ricart.

La jornada es desenvolupa mitjançant cinc ponències amb la presentació de projectes i dues sessions de debat. Amb la participació de Ramon Parramon, Jordi Canudas / Carme Carbonell, Laia Solé / Glòria Safont-Tria, Javier Rodrigo i Marta Ricart.

Organised by:
Programa d’Arts Visuals. Àrea de Coneixement i Noves tecnologies. Diputació de Barcelona [www.diba.cat/oda/arts_visuals.asp] i ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies

Working-groups and public lectures at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía part of the programme "Another institutionalism and new conflicts"
Stage 5 of the project Ceci n'est pas uneix voiture.
Dates:30th November and 1st December 2011
Place: Museu Reina Sofia, Edifici Sabatini, Auditori. Madrid
Time: 19.30 h
Entry: Entrance free according to available places.

Organizes: Museu Reina Sofia IDENSITAT, ACVic i Can Xalant. In collaboration with: Trànsit Projectes.

Wednesday 30th November 2011, 7.30pm
Presentation of the project, Ceci n'est pas une voiture.

Thursday 1st December 2011, 7.30pm
Presentation of the result of the working-group debates by contributors.

Artifacts of direct action is a conference designed to discuss processes by which tools for renovating the habitual rôles of contemporary art might be assembled. We, in recent years, faced with the insistence of the institutional museum on managing contemporary cultural production as an object for passive recognition, have witnessed a proliferation of self-managed initiatives which broaden the vast range of possibilities appearing through the implementation of artistic practices in public space. These initiatives have allowed new formats of exhibition devices to be created, which have become tools of direct participation, at the service of social research.

Sessions are framed within the project Ceci n'est pas une voiture. A project based on mobile artifacts created in different cities around the world as tools for generating new institutional practices, and for rethinking educational experiences in social space.
This project is conceived as a process combining research, production, training and broadcasting, in distinct phases which started in July 2010 and which was scheduled to finish January 2012, also part of the line of investigation opened by the Museo Reina Sofia and its networked programme
in recent years regarding new practices and new institutional policies.

Wednesday 26th October, 9th, 16th and 30th November and 14th December 2011

Sessions will be held at 20.30 am at the bar El Gravat (Sant Miquel, 19 Vic)

Café Central-Bar El Gravat-ACVic Centre d'Arts Contemporànies

Since the first season of Pas a dos in 1998, these public and open discussions with writers have offered a view of a very wide range of literary creation. This year, 2011, we have widened the spectrum to include creation in various disciplines.

Each creator will converse with a speaker knowledgeable in their work, in a dialogue which will focus on the mechanisms of creation and work currently being carried out.

Design, music, sculpture, literature and translation will be the disciplines under discussion. Different languages to gain different perspective on creation and creators, their processes and their work in an open conversation in a relaxed and very welcoming environment.

PROGRAMME

Wednesday 26th October
Martin Guixé (ex-designer) with Toni Ferron and Marcel·lí Gutièrrez (artists, designers and members of Visual Brothers)

Wednesday November 9th
Xavier Maristany (musician) with Ramon Ferrer (musician and musicologist)

Wednesday November 16th
Víctor Sunyol (writer) with Jordi Marrugat (literary critic)

Wednesday November 30th
Josep Ricart Rial (sculptor) with Anna Palomo (art critic, professor at UVic)

Wednesday December 14
th
Anna Casassas (translator) with Antoni Clapés (poet, critic, editor and translator)

© Joanot Cortés

Courses offered:

EL D_EFECTE BARROC (The Baroque [D]effect) +info
A course by Jorge Luis Marzo

The seminar will take as its starting point the exhibition commissioned from Jorge Luís Marzo and Teresa Badia, "El D_Efecte Barroc, politics of the Hispanic image", produced by and exhibited at the CCCB, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, from November 2010 through to February 2011. Using the documentary archive prepared for the exhibition, the seminar will attempt an analysis of Hispanicity as a common and homogeneous frame between Spain and Latin America. The "baroque" narrative will be proposed as a sample of the politico-cultural strategies which have helped to bring about over the course of time an official homogenising narrative, the Hispanic myth, and of artists' responsibility in the myth's durability. The seminar will offer investigative tools to allow for the enhancement of discursive lines by means of constant contribution of points of view and parallel experiences.

KEYS TO UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY ART
from first avantgardes to contemporary art +info
Teached by Francesc Orenes

This course attempts to offer the key to understand the evolution of art in the first and second avant-garde, post-modernity and the current context. It establishes an overview of modern art according to its own historical, social and cultural environment .
The course is taught in an understandable way, fully illustrated with images of major works of art. This course sets out to discover aspects of contemporary history and culture, but also to discuss, debate and dialogue in a participatory way.

COACHING AND CREATIVITY +info
Course taught by Fatima Alemany

The objective of this proposal is to discover what you can achieve with coaching. Thinking differently, turning problems into opportunities, or to be the best version of yourself, comprise the key points of this proposal. The objective of this workshop is to provide tools for people working on cultural projects, to promote creativity and improve results.

VIC.DOC
Collective Strategies for documentary making +info
course taught by Joanot Cortes

Practical workshop in documentary-making: strategies for research, narrative and documentary shooting.
Whether you have shot some film, or even if you've never touched a camera, Vic.doc offers the possibility to participate in a collective process of documentary production. The Mercat de la Plaça Major de Vic ( Vic Market Square), as the city's meeting place and commercial hub , will be the location to practise research strategies, narrative, and capturing documentary images. We will be researching at the city's film and photographic archive and , through the stories and people of the Market, we will learn to look at the city through the eyes of a documentary maker.

acvic Conference and debate
POST-OIL CITIES: FUTUR SCENARIOS

12.05.2011 at 18.00h
Related activity to QUAM2011

Daniel Lerch Urban planner, USA. www.postcarboncities.net
Lluís Sabadell Artiga Artist and curator, Post-Oil Cities, ES. www.postoilcities.org

Place: ACVic. Centre d'Arts Contemporànies | C. Sant Francesc, 1 Vic

Presentation
Almost all activities in our society are, directly or indirectly, oil dependent. OIL is not only used to generate energy - we use it mainly in transport, but it is also used in food production (fertilisers, pesticides...), clothing, dyes, plastics, varnishes, hygiene products, etc.. In less than a century, oil has modelled cities and society as we know them today, with all their progress and growth, but also their want and especially the consequences arising from these, such as overexploitation of the planet, pollution and climate change.
To depend entirely on a single material causes a huge vulnerability, especially if it is non-renewable, with a finite amount which will eventually run out after production first stagnates and then falls, in a process known as Peak Oil.
Our current cities have grown, been designed and are organised from unctional patterns based on the use and availability of cheap oil, but we know that this must change in years to come. Why not start thinking, organizing and planning our cities today, for the time beyond oil?

Daniel Lerch (Post Carbon Cities Institute, author of the book of the same name) will talk about the energy and climate uncertainties we face by concentrating on cities. He will analyse the phenomenon of Peak Oil - which signifies the end of the era of cheap oil, and how this will affect our cities and our everyday lives, finally proposing a series of recommendations
to local agencies, governments and civil society so they can tackle this future energy and climate uncertainty.

Finishing the session, Lluis Sabadell Artiga (Post Oil Cities) will present a series of inspirational projects from around the world, analysing the strategies developed to confront a future that must necessarily go through a shift in energy paradigm.

To sum up, a day to put many questions on the table about the future of Vic and Osona as we confront this scenario of energy and climate uncertainty, leading to an interesting audience debate.

amor Toni Ferron organises a season on the theme of love, including a group exhibition, a performance, a concert at El Gravat, a film viewing at the Cineclub , performances at the Institut de Teatre and an afternoon of project presentations. ACVic organises this presentation [filtering love through the perceptions of Félix Pérez-Hita (love in the digital age), Jorge Lara (audio performance), Kiko Amat (love and records, and records of love) and Adiccionesporquesí (prepositions and erotic stories.) This activity is on 07/05/2011 from 17:00 pm. The complete programmme is below.

Love exists in a thousand ways. Ovid, Ars Amatoria.

Since the time of the Greeks the issue of love has raised profound reflections, leading to numerous questions due to the inability to rationalise it. This is probably because it is a feeling mixing the more primary primal emotions with primal actions, or, on the contrary, with absolutely rational and premeditated acts. It is without doubt the most universal feeling. 


So much so that throughout the history of humanity love has been approached by all the artistic disciplines (art, literature, music, poetry, theatre, photography, film ...), as well as technical and scientific disciplines (medicine, ethics, philosophy, sociology ...), in order to comprehend it.
Curiously, however, during the twentieth century its presence is quite uneven: in literature, music, photography and cinema, it remains a persistent theme because of its universality, while in the visual arts, it disappears under the pressure of conceptual and formal standards.

These questions, in addition to the freedom that love has to offer as a subject, and the resulting variety of artistic possibilities, lead us to attempt to explain, through these talks with various cultural figures, how this emotion forms part of their creative process, the place it occupies, the form it takes, etc.
And, of course, these activities will serve to assert love as an integral emotion to the human condition. An emotion undervalued in contemporary visual arts. Toni Ferron

ACVic. Desde los márgenes A project presentation and debate about Art Centres that are developing activities in a rural contexts in Catalonia.
Participants: Cal Gras, Campo Adentro, Centre d'Art i Natura, CACIS Forn de Calç, Idensitat, Nau Coclea, Priorat Centre d'Art .

Activity organized by ACVic-SBG* as a result of the research Prismes by Marta Ricart.

08.04.2011 at 19.00 h
Place: ACVIC. C. Sant Francesc, 1 08500 Vic

- What reality do those who develop art projects find in contexts on the margins, away from the nucleus of decision and artistic display?
- In the course of our work as artists or managers, does art have any relationship with awareness, creating new audiences, or energising?
- How to build strategies for promotion and involvement in often dispersed and heterogeneous environments?
- Does the countryside need to create its own strategies and promotion?

Creators working in rural areas often find a very different reality from those living in more urban contexts. Rural areas, in spite of representing 90% of Catalan territory, are often invisible. The rural has been often associated with folklore and popular culture but in rural areas there are many varied artistic activities which, although developed in these environments, should not be marginalised or disregarded. There is no reason why so-called rural contexts should find themselves banished to the margins of creation.
Given the diverse and heterogeneous reality of the creative scene in our country's rural areas, From the Margins, a space for debate and sharing the different experiences of artists, promoters and managers making artistic and cultural proposals in rural areas, has been suggested.
The debate will be guided by artist, researcher and educator Marta Ricart which, beginning with the results of PRISMES (a creative and collaborative research which explores the dynamics, projects and realities of certain artistic proposals developed in rural areas), proposes an open approach to share, reflect and make visible what it means to create artistic processes in rural areas.

(*) ACVic-SBG is a program which connects art-nature-rural context. It is developed in collaboration between ACVic and the Municipality of Sant Bartomeu del Grau.

KEYS TO UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY ART
from first avantgardes to contemporary art

Teached by FRANCESC ORENES

DATES
Wednesday 6,30 - 8pm and 8,15 - 9,45pm
Course starting 26th January  10 sessions
Price 30€
This course takes part of the winter's program 2011 of CCVic Centre Cívics, Ajuntament de Vic.

INTRODUCTION
This course attempts to offer the key to understand the evolution of art in the first and second avant-garde, post-modernity and the current context. It establishes an overview of modern art according to its own historical, social and cultural environment .
The course is taught in an understandable way, fully illustrated with images of major works of art. This course sets out to discover aspects of contemporary history and culture, but also to discuss, debate and dialogue in a participatory way.

francesc orenes acvic francesc orenes acvic

Workshop "Strategies for territorial work". This workshop connects the cultural project  TRANSDUCERS in Vic with several networks and local initiatives, becoming an space of collaborative and participative learning. The workshop is a tool to generate projects in Vic and also other towns, and therefore has  a double objective:
To be a meeting point with different cultural agents, initiatives and local networks, so their works are shown in a process of dialogue with the case studies presented in Transducers.
To present and exchange resources and practical methodologies to open  a debate on  strategies and potential methodologies of a networked practice in a territory.

Faculty:
- Javier Rodrigo. Researcher and art educator. He has worked on coordinating collaborative projects and educational courses, conferences and seminars for teachers, educators and art mediators.
- The Fundició. Cooperative whose work is at the intersection of artistic and cultural practices to education, seen as controversial activities. Currently his main line of action is based on collaborative proposals continuity with different groups, task forces and institutions. www.lafundicio.net