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Cities are responsible for the emission of 75% of all greenhouse gases. But cities are also at the forefront of the most far-reaching transformations to make sustainability a reality. To counteract ecoanxiety, the best remedy is putting into practice practical measures. To discover the kinds of actions that are already being implemented in other places. And to borrow inspiration from their experience. In this cycle of four workshops we will overview the main proposals coming from cities all over the world to fight the environmental crisis and we will take action by imagining, with pragmatism but also with poetry, a Móstoles where we can live happily within the limits of our planet.

PROGRAMME

• Tuesday 13. The city and sustainable food: growing food in the city.
• Wednesday 14. The city and sustainable energy: cooking with free energy from the sun.
• Thursday 15. The city and sustainable mobility: a three-in-one in rights.
• Friday 16. The eco-social revolution shall be urban or it shall not be.

This cycle of workshops is organized in collaboration with Instituto de Transición Rompe el Círculo [Break the Circle Transition Institute], a collective from Mostoles with plenty of experience in community sustainability projects, creating new imaginaries on new models of society and putting into practice some of their ideas.

Among the most notable projects in this line of action are the Roof Terrace Garden workshops at CA2M (2013 - 2021), the Hammockdrome at Finca Liana park (2018) and the exhibition Será una vez Móstoles 2030, plus a series of conversations and debates like Oil-free Móstoles (2012) or Transition Picnics (2015-2016). This cycle features input from two of its members: Emilio Santiago Muíño (climate anthropologist and researcher at CSIC) and Xisela García Moure (expert in agroecology and movement in transition).

Like a damp stain on the bathroom ceiling, this year Les Sin Nombre are back again. We are going to appropriate the museum waste to create termite nests.

We are going to inhabit, occupy and squat the crack as a place to take refuge, that will allow us to make out way inside, to infect the walls through actions and conversations as sticky as our hands after eating a gigantic ice-cream.

LSN is an activity for young people from the ages of 13 to 21 years in which we will explore new forms of relating with contemporary creation. An open collective space in which to investigate artistic strategies based on DIY methods using whatever we have at hand.

Throughout the various sessions, we will work on the critical construction of objects, images and actions, exploring our personal universes and searching for new ways of looking at everyday life. Together we will build the museum that we want to see, a place where we can chat, sing, show our drawings, sunbathe … Using the waste material thrown out by Museo CA2M (the remains from mounting exhibitions, workshops, activities, etc.) we will build a museum within the museum, like a parasitic organism.

Luisempar is a curatorial collective made up of Empar Polanco (Valencia, 1996) and Luis San Gregorio (Aranda de Duero, 1996), focused on research into performative action and its recording.

Imagine that there are 140 strangers around you, all ready and willing to satisfy your needs, desires and whims. What would you ask for?

As part of the "Time Bank Live" artistic action, we are carrying out a workshop open to the general public in which we will be examining the concept of interdependence, exploring the simple yet difficult art of wishing, requesting, giving and gifting. People taking part in the workshop will also be included in a performance on 23 June.

In a society that denies interdependence and praises the heroicness of “I’d made my bed, I’ll lie on it”, asking for something has become even harder and riskier than giving. We tend to associate “giving” with generosity and “asking” with selfishness, but not knowing how to formulate and express our desires and needs is to deny our own fragility and therefore a way of not being fully present with other.

In this two-day workshop we use our bodies to explore the art of asking, giving and gifting from a fully committed engagement with pleasure, play and fun.

Participants in the workshop will also be part of the “Time Bank Live” performance at Picnic Session on 23 June, where each person will have a chance to auction a need, a desire or whim with the hope that it will be met or satisfied by one or various of the 140 spectators

This course’s educational activity programme is oral. If you are interested in this activity, write to us at educacion.ca2m@madrid.org or call us on 912760227 and we’ll tell you all about it.

You can sign up HERE

This activity is part of the series The Art of Happening. Performance workshops with Mónica Valenciano.

This course’s educational activity programme is oral. If you are interested in this activity, write to us at educacion.ca2m@madrid.org or call us on 912760227 and we’ll tell you all about it.

You can sign up HERE

This activity is part of the series of Do Without Being Seen/Workshops for young people, created by the Black Tulip collective.

The Huerto en la terraza of the CA2M has been holding workshops for almost a decade. During this time, we have lived through an active process involving the participation of many different people, all of whom have made it a meeting spot based on teamwork and shared knowledge.

Since its beginnings, the Huerto en la terraza has been a space whose aim is to go beyond just being a school of organic agriculture; it had to form a community. It has far exceeded this expectation, accumulating myriad experiences, learning, collective stories and community links around it, all of which make us proud to have such a space as this in Móstoles, one that is already a benchmark beyond our municipality’s borders.

Today, the community of the Huerto en la terraza of the CA2M faces the challenge of opening up to new people without losing the drive to carry out research and experimentation to motivate those who are already a part of it. For this reason, during this course we will provide an opportunity to those interested in starting out in the field of organic agriculture and permaculture, at its most basic levels, without forgetting the needs and learning pace of those who have already participated in the past and who require other lines of experimentation that combine vegetable gardens, art and our immense capacity to create with our own hands. This year, the workshops will change their timeslot to Thursday mornings. We hope that this change will bring more people to our vegetable garden so we can continue to share and learn together.

Free admission with limited capacity.

In collaboration with Break the Cycle Transition Institute

For further information please visit actividades.ca2m@madrid.org or call 912 760 227.

WORKSHOPS IN THE GABRIEL CELAYA SCHOOL (5:00 TO 7:00 PM) 

23 September: How to start an organic vegetable garden 

Learn to set up a poison-free sustainable vegetable garden from scratch. 

30 September: Seeds: how to gather them and how to plant them

We will work on-site with seeds from our organic vegetable garden and learn to gather them and create our own seedbeds. 

7 October: Cultivating and reproducing aromatic herbs

Learn everything you need to know for planting, caring for, gathering, using and reproducing your own aromatic plants. 

WORKSHOPS AT CA2M THURSDAY (11:00 AM TO 1:00 PM)

21 October: Reproducing cuttings and other plants from the organic vegetable garden

Learn how to reproduce your vegetable garden’s plants so you can exchange them with your classmates and increase the variety of plants in this organic space. 

28 October. How to create a terrace vegetable garden 

Learn how to start a vegetable garden on your balcony. No matter how small, anything is possible. 

4 November: Autumn tasks in the vegetable garden

We will plant in autumn, while also learning together how to look after our organic vegetable garden.

11 November: Home composting workshop

Come and learn the art of home composting with us. 

18 November: How to make your own medicinal oils

We will use our terrace plants in order to extract their medicinal properties and make oils that can be used for common ailments. 

25 November: Natural Cosmetics Workshop I

We will create creams for common ailments in a simple way using easily-accessible products. 

2 December: Natural Cosmetics Workshop II

We will learn to make natural soaps. Original and personal alternatives for Christmas presents. 

9 December: Basketmaking workshop

What better way to accompany your homemade gifts than to put them in homemade baskets, made by you? 

16 December: Sustainable Christmas recipe workshop

Join us, yet again, in putting together a sustainable Christmas menu that is easy to prepare – and affordable for all budgets – that will delight your guests.