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“Dancing the neighbourhood”, held every Tuesday evening at the Museo CA2M, is conceived as a permanent meeting space for children, a little community where the ordinary becomes special, where every gathering is an opportunity to discover something new along with other people, a feel-good place in which to explore through the body and movement. 

Last year, children between the ages of 6 and 12 participated in a creative adventure that took them to different parts of the museum... and the city! As well as exploring works by artists such as Sol Calero, María Medem and Santiago Sierra, they went to places like Avenida de la Constitución, Parque Cuartel Huertas and Plaza del Pradillo.

During the sessions, they engaged in body play, designed spaces, created dance scores and recorded an audiovisual experience to discover different forms of dance in Móstoles.
All of this movement prompted multiple questions that continue to energise the project:  Where can dance be found? Who can dance? How can we document our own dances? What do we learn when we dance?

This year we want to go on exploring, opening up new routes and looking at the place where we live with different eyes. Using body play, time and space, we’ll design major choreographic expeditions to imagine and share new ways of dancing together.

The activity is led by Alba Sáenz-López Aumente and Mar Sáenz-López Aumente, dancers, choreographers, cultural mediators and founders of Baiven, a collective that uses dance as a form of cultural mediation and is committed to the horizontal sharing of experiences, perspectives, knowledge and critical thinking. 

You can sign up at any time during the school year.
Places are subject to availability, but we’ll be delighted to welcome you if there are any vacancies.

There are some images that rather than appearing fully formed on the celluloid acquire their shape more slowly, little by little. That’s precisely what has happened with the silhouette of a community that has yet to acquire a name: it’s emerged gradually out of workshops, conversations and shared gestures, as a group open to anyone who is curious about films and education, and wants to discover them by watching, listening and imagining. 

This group, which is still in the making, aims to become a space for meeting and working together. A place for sharing experiences, watching films, making films, and thinking about the classroom and what fall outside its remit. We’re interested in sound, image, movement, and all their possible extensions.  

The meetings will take place during the school year between 5 and 7 pm, like the two hours in real time in which Cleo from 5 to 7 takes place, and which we want to turn into meaningful hours: a parenthesis for listening, creating and shared thinking. 

We’ll continue to shape this image as the year progresses. We don’t yet know its definitive form because we want everyone who takes part in the activity to help build it. We’ll set the dates at each meeting as we go along. In any case, it will be a space to test out ideas, to share imaginaries, to make proposals as they occur to us and to engage fully in whatever emerges.

As the first gesture, the first still image, we’ll get together this autumn for a screening of audiovisuals made by teachers, organised by the local art teachers’ association. This will be our launch pad for starting to watch and listen as a group headed to the same place. 

Aimed at educators, teachers and anyone interested in audiovisuals and education. If you want to join us, fill in the form and we’ll let you know about the meetings and activities. 

Just like the end of every school year, we are looking for a special way to kick off the summer. This year we’re inviting the artist Sara Manubens, who will suggest that we collectively create our own House Drag over the course of four days.

‘This workshop uses the tools of the art of drag as creative power for working with ourselves. I am suggesting an open, sensitive space where all bodies, concerns, fantasies, fears and illusions have a place, with the goal of sharing. We want to share who we are, who we want to be, what makes us uneasy and what we reject. And we will transform all of this into artistic material. How? Through drag art technologies: lip syncing, choreography, exaggerated theatre, makeup, humour and vibrant emotions. We’ll do it through friendship and being together, because that is House Drag: a horizontal space of mutual support to make life happier.’

This summer, the museum is turning into a space designed to combat the heat just like it’s always been done: where it’s cool, with no hurry and in good company. Inspired by those perennial places where idleness is fine, this project is turning the museum into a summer refuge where you can simply exist.

La Fresquera is a place where time stands still a little, where you can come read, play cards, talk… or simply do nothing. A place where the cool air is appreciated, like when you used to sit in your doorway in good company with a pitcher of water next to you.

La Fresquera isn’t an activity; it’s an attitude. It’s opening the museum’s doors to turn it into that courtyard, square or porch where you love to be. We’ve prepared a series of comfortable, quiet spaces full of plants where you can feel at home.

We care for your plants. Watering Can Initiative

We know that many people go on holiday in summer and don’t know what to do with their plants. At La Fresquera, we are thinking about them, too, and that’s why we are launching the Watering Can Initiative. From 25 June to 15 September, the museum is offering to care for the plants of the residents of Móstoles. All you have to do is fill out a form to choose the days you want to leave us your plants and tell us how to care for them, and we’ll do the rest: find the best spot for them, water them, even talk to them if needed… Here we treat them like they’re one of the family.

In this last reality bite, we immerse ourselves in brain rot, the infinite scroll where time lost onscreen goes. We are inviting all the artists we have partnered with this year to open up a window onto their private lives through their favourite memes and videos in a unique, shared video-tapping. A relaxed conversation with snacks like a celebration of Internet culture and what unites us on the big screen.

Let the drum roll start, the fans flutter and the families get ready, because the festival is about to begin!

The museum is turning into a square, a place of revelry, a meeting point, and it’s opening its doors two at a time to welcome all families in a celebration filled with joy, creativity and unforgettable moments. Welcome to the big celebration of the year!

Because doing needlework and dancing—it’s all about getting started… Let’s gather to celebrate what we’ve shared, what we’ve created and what we’ve experienced! This celebration brings together everyone we’ve worked with throughout the year to close the season enthusiastically with the proposals of the artists who have unquestionably nailed it!

Stars of this big celebration:

Baiven with the kids from ‘Dancing the Neighbourhood’ (Alba Sáenz-López Aumente and Mar Sáenz-López Aumente) have held the Dancing the Neighbourhood workshop on Tuesday afternoons throughout the entire school year. It’s a meeting point for neighbourhood kids where they have discovered dance in unexpected places, expanding their view of movement in the world. What might they be preparing for us for this occasion?

Adriana Reyes and Goya Batalla Batalla have held the From those clays, these seams workshop for nursery and primary school kids, bringing boxes filled with thread, yarn and thimbles, filled with stories they have shared around the pleasure of embroidery. What stories are concealed in those thimbles?

Tania Arias Winogradow, with whom we’ve built real nests where you can rest inside the museum, accompanied by Santiago Rapallo and Eleni Chaidemenaki, suggest a very special afternoon snack for this festive day. Do we really always have to eat sitting around a table?

And now… raise the curtain, play the music and make sure everyone’s here! Because this celebration is not only a party; it’s an homage to everything we’ve experienced. Thanks for stitching this year together with us! See you next year—and keep up this shared joy!

Welcome to Fuga! Here, no programmes are imposed and there are no hierarchies. FUGA is an open space where young people aged 16 to 23 who are interested in culture and art can get involved in the museum’s cultural programming. It’s a space where they can share interests and learning, connect with artists and design their own project.

There is no programme, no plan and no prefabricated script. We come to set up an artistic hangout with autonomy, freedom and lots of exploration. No one will tell us what to do, because we write the programme here.

In the first phase, which will be held between January and June 2025, FUGA invites its members to participate in creating their own programme by exploring and defining its structure using a speculative design methodology that allows them to design and imagine what a committee of young people in a museum might be like and how it might work.