The digital showcase space occupies the space that La Casa Encendida offers each April to the Libros Mutantes publishing fair. The Casa Árabe de Madrid continues to educate in its sounds by collecting music content in video format every Sunday on its social networks. And although the phase of confinement begins in which children can walk on the street, they still have many hours locked up at home. Madrid illustrator Puño teaches them to draw and think like great artists in a free digital course on the Domestika platform.
LITERATURE. Mutant books available to everyone
The independent publishing fair Mutant Books I would have to hold a new edition these days. Every year, he gathers at La Casa Encendida the most experimental of the international publishing scene: art books, fanzines, photobooks and magazines. It also offers talks, exhibitions, poetry and music. In his absence, the Escaparate platform has just been born, a digital space where the public can find the editorial projects that would have been part of the fair. This digital compilation of content offers the possibility of acquiring each one of them in each publisher’s online store. This is not a patch in the face of the exceptional circumstances of 2020, but a new format that is here to stay. It is the way that the creators of this fair have had to adapt to the moment of transition imposed by the coronavirus crisis.
ILLUSTRATION. Drawing and creativity for little great artists
David Peña Toribio (Madrid, 1978) has carved out a career as an illustrator, photographer and cartoonist under a curious stage name: Fist. Winner of the SM Foundation International Illustration Award (2009) for his book Yum! and the El Barco de Vapor Award (2018) for The invisible girl, has dedicated part of it to children. The course platform on-line Domestika He uses another of his facets, that of educator, to launch on his website one of his free courses designed to take advantage of forced isolation: Drawing and creativity for little great artists. Through four video teaching units, he tries to develop children’s originality and artistic side skills. The lessons, despite being taught through a screen, are not designed so that the students have a passive role. They offer a set of exercises and games specifically designed to train specific skills. In addition, Fist does not underestimate children and introduces them in a simple way to the geometric abstraction of the American painter Ellsworth Kelly and to the visual world of French Henri Matisse’s paintings, Alexander Calder’s mobile sculptures and collage from the French duo Atelier Bingo. It is their way of learning to think like great artists.
MUSIC. Arab melodies from the couch
In the absence of his usual recitals and live concerts, the Casa Árabe in Madrid offers us to get to know the instruments and rhythms of his music in video format, through some of the great Arab musicians in Spain. Every Sunday the cycle Music from the couch will post a new recording on the profiles of Youtube, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter from the cultural center. It begins this April 26 with the lute of the Syrian musician Hames Bitar. The following week will be devoted to oriental percussions and on May 10 will focus on the ney, a very popular wind instrument for Middle Eastern melodies.
THEATER. Sperpento on YouTube
The Spanish Theater and Naves del Español in Matadero continue the cycle Open Spanish, in collaboration with the Documentation Center for the Performing Arts and Music (CDAEM / INAEM). Every week, one of the works that have been staged in recent years is posted on their YouTube channel for free. Don Friolera’s horns, from Valle-Inclán, can be seen until May 1. Set in a coastal town in Andalusia prone to smuggling, this play is part of the trilogy Tuesday of Carnival. Dolls, puppets, puppets and disjointed characters discuss aesthetic and moral principles in Spain in 1921.
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PODCAST. Sound memory of the meetings at Fundación Telefónica
The #SpacePodcast The Fundación Telefónica compiles all his recent recordings, which reflect the same concerns as the cultural programming of his physical headquarters. History, literature, technology, or neuroscience to listen to when you want, from home and for free. This selection of podcasts revives the different events of Espacio Fundación Telefónica and recovers the reflections of the speakers who once visited its central Madrid headquarters. For those who do not want to miss out on so much offer, the most listened to so far by the audience are collected on their website. Among them is the intervention of Brandon Sanderson, one of the greats of fantastic literature, chatting about the current keys to the genre and the meeting between journalist Andrés Aberasturi, the singer and showman Javier Gurruchaga, actor Pedro Mari Sánchez and television critic Borja Terán to talk about television in the 80s.
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