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11am – 12pm Meeting point:Sabatini Building, main entrance
Workshops for children, teenagers and women over 18
For children aged between 6 and 8. Theatre workshop, organised by Hola Vecinas (Hello Neighbours) and conducted by Sasha Slugina.
For children aged between 8 and 10. Body expression and dance workshop, organised by Hola Vecinas (Hello Neighbours) and conducted by Julián Lázaro.
For children aged between 10 and 13. Collage and sculpture workshop, organised by Hola Vecinas (Hello Neighbours) and conducted by Tamara Arroyo.
For teenagers aged between 13 and 16. Thought workshop, organised by Hola Vecinas (Hello Neighbours) and conducted by Escuela de Pensamiento (The School of Thought).
For women over 18. Music training workshop, organised by Hola Vecinas (Hello Neighbours) and conducted by Miguel Legoff.
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12:30pm
Sabatini Building, Auditorium
Screening. Alê Abreu, O menino e o mundo (The Boy and the World)
Brazil, 2013, colour, sound without dialogue, DA, 83’’
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6pm Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200 and online platform
A Medicine Cabinet for My City
TicketsThe final session, which is open to the general public, in the programme of workshops and visits, A Medicine Cabinet for My City displays the results to come out of previous encounters, offering a “first-aid kit” framed inside a conversation between philosopher Marina Garcés and theologist and activist Pepa Torres. As a medicine cabinet well stocked with first aid material, this project looks to delve deeper into the conception of care with the help of ideas and useful resources to identify what is good for us collectively and to open pathways that allow us to live differently.
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11am - 6pm Meeting point: Sabatini Building, main entrance (11am, 12:30 pm, 4:30pm) and Nouvel Building, main entrance (6pm)
Guided Tours
Tours in Spanish with consecutive interpreting
11am Guernica. History of an Icon (in Bengali) and Moroccan Trilogy. Memories of the Other Shore (in Arabic)
12:30pm Guernica. History of an Icon (in Arabic) and Moroccan Trilogy. Memories of the Other Shore (en Wolof)
4:30pm Guernica. History of an Icon (in Wolof) and Moroccan Trilogy. Memories of the Other Shore (in Bengali)
6pm Moroccan Trilogy. Memories of the Other Shore (in French and Spanish)Length: 1 hour
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7pm – 10pm Sabatini Building, Garden
Being Together Festivities
Tickets7pm Games and workshops
The Migrant Labyrinth.Run by Red Solidaria de Acogida (Refuge Solidarity Network)
Game of Balis. Run by the collective Valiente Bangla (Brave Bangla).
S.O.S. Lavapiés. Silk-screen printing workshop. Run by Banco de Alimentos del Barrio (the Neighbourhood Food Bank, BAB Collective). PhotoCall Demonstrations. Organised by Red Interlavapiés (the Interlavapiés Network).8pm Welcome
Presented by Manuel Borja-Villel (director of Museo Reina Sofía) and Afroza Rahman (Valiente Bangla)8:30pm Live music (Griots d’Afrique-Sercade and Pam Urtecho and Javi Moreno-Red Interlavapiés) and dance (Grace-Red Interlavapiés)
With Maria Sabato and Ramtin Zigorat, music section MCs
Drinks by Tómate Algo (Have a Drink)
Held on 12 jun 2021
The Neighbourhood Picnic is, for the residents of Madrid’s Lavapiés neighbourhood, a celebration of being together and of the actions of solidarity that typify life in the area. This year, the initiative, which came into being in June 2018 in its first edition, takes on a special connotation of re-encounter.
Moving through the long and arduous crisis brought about by the pandemic, today there is a need to build new spaces of convergence, exchange and festivities to celebrate a resurgence in community life, despite everything.
The Museo once again opens its doors to the surrounding neighbourhood, constituting a public space with the capacity to accommodate different uses and ways of inhabiting. Children’s workshops, guided tours in migrant languages, audiovisual screenings, performances and concerts make up a programme that seeks to recover, as much as possible, a festive, in-person and diverse environment in keeping with previous years, where different Lavapiés collectives, associations and residents encounter a framework of common interaction.
Thus, there is vindication of the right to happiness, dance, and to celebrate being together as an indisputable life force. Moreover, the event becomes indispensable in reaffirming every struggle and campaign propelled and supported by the Museo Situado network.
Participants are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items, which will be collected in the Sabatini Building Garden to be donated to food banks in the Lavapiés neighbourhood.
The event will take place respecting the capacity allowed and adhering to the pertinent health and safety measures. Therefore, face masks must be worn at all times and social distancing of 1.5 metres must be observed.
Colaboran
Banco de Alimentos del Barrio (BAB Colectivo), Comisión Artística Colombine, Fiestas Populares de Lavapiés, Grigri Projects, Hola Vecinas, Red Interlavapiés, Red Solidaria de Acogida, Sercade, Territorio Doméstico, Tómate Algo y Valiente Bangla
Organised by
![Miguel Brieva, ilustración de la novela infantil Manuela y los Cakirukos (Reservoir Books, 2022) [izquierda] y Cibeles no conduzcas, 2023 [derecha]. Cortesía del artista](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/ecologias_del_deseo_utopico.jpg.webp)
![Ángel Alonso, Charbon [Carbón], 1964. Museo Reina Sofía](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/perspectivas_ecoambientales.jpg.webp)
Más actividades
Christian Nyampeta and the École du soir
13, 14, 15 NOV, 11, 12, 13 DIC 2025
Christian Nyampeta is a Rwandan artist, musician and film-maker whose work encompasses pedagogies and community forms of knowledge production and transmission. His Ècole du soir (Evening School) is an art project conceived as a mobile space of collective learning and is named in homage to Ousmane Sembène (1923–2007), a pioneer of African cinema who defined his films as “evening classes” for the people, a medium of education and emancipation through culture.
This block is made up of three double sessions: the video work of Christian Nyampeta, the films of École du soir and one of Ousmane Sèmbene’s feature-length films. Nyampeta will introduce all three first sessions.
UP/ROOTING
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 NOV 2025
Museo Reina Sofía and MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) invite applications for the 2025 iteration of the School of Common Knowledge, which will take place from November 11th to 16th in Madrid and Barcelona.
The School of Common Knowledge (SCK) draws on the network, knowledge and experience of L’Internationale, a confederation of museums, art organizations and universities that strives to reimagine and practice internationalism, solidarity and communality within the cultural field. This year, the SCK program focuses on the contested and dynamic notions of rooting and uprooting in the framework of present —colonial, migrant, situated, and ecological— complexities.
Building on the legacy of the Glossary of Common Knowledge and the current European program Museum of the Commons, the SCK invites participants to reflect on the power of language to shape our understanding of art and society through a co-learning methodology. Its ambition is to be both nomadic and situated, looking at specific cultural and geopolitical situations while exploring their relations and interdependencies with the rest of the world.
In the current context fraught with war and genocide, the criminalization of migration and hyper-identitarianism, concepts such as un/belonging become unstable and in need of collective rethinking:
How can we reframe the sense and practice of belonging away from reductive nationalist paradigms or the violence of displacement? How to critically hold the entanglement of the colonial routes and the cultural roots we are part of? What do we do with the toxic legacies we inherit? And with the emancipatory genealogies and practices that we choose to align with? Can a renewed practice of belonging and coalition-making through affinity be part of a process of dis/identification? What geographies —cultural, artistic, political— do these practices of de/centering, up/rooting, un/belonging and dis/alignment designate?
Departing from these questions, the program consists of a series of visits to situated initiatives (including Museo Situado, Paisanaje and MACBA's Kitchen, to name a few), engagements with the exhibitions and projects on view (Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture from Panafrica), a keynote lecture by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, as well as daily reading and discussion gatherings, editorial harvest sessions, and conviviality moments.
The Joaquim Jordà Residencies 2025
Friday, 7 November 2025 - 7pm
In this activity, the recipients of the 2024–2025 Joaquim Jordà Residencies call, María Aparicio (Argentina, 1992) and Andrés Jurado (Colombia, 1980), present respective projects related to their body of work in an open session in which to discover the creative interests of two of the most up-and-coming independent film-makers in Latin America today.
María Aparicio presents the working process behind her film De sol a sol (From Sun to Sun), along with a brief journey through the films prior to this project and her filmic searches in recent years. Aparicio synthesises the storyline of De sol a sol from the silhouettes of a group of men who appear between the stalks of a reedbed. Their knives glisten as the sun hits them, flashing and disappearing with their hand movements. Apprentices split the canes using no method; seasoned workers cut with skill. They are workers from a sugar mill in northern Argentina and are watched by Juan Bialet Massé, accompanied by Rosich, assistant and photographer. It is Argentina in 1904 and he is carrying out a mission assigned to him by his country’s government: to travel the Argentinian provinces, reporting on the state of the working classes.
Andrés Jurado, for his part, will look over his own work and the work of the La Vulcanizadora lab in this session. He will also open the archive stemming from the research process in the project Tonada, a journey through the succession of peace agreement betrayals in the history of Colombia. From the colonial era, understood in tumultuous terms, as a hurricane that keeps swirling, to the present day he traces the stories of people like Tacurrumbí, Benkos Biohó, Bateman and the many women and men who were betrayed by governments and oppressors. Tonada seeks to build a sound and film dialogue between the guerrilla disarmament of 1953 and the period following the peace agreement of 2016, invoking these and other events and confronting traumas of betrayal through a film composition devised to be sung. But what is sung? Some of these songs are heard and voices are shared in this presentation.
The Joaquim Jordà Residences programme for film-makers and artists was set in motion by the Museo Reina Sofía in 2022. The initiative comprises a grant for writing a film project rooted in experimentation and essay, as well as two subsequent residencies in FIDMarseille and Doclisboa, international film festivals devoted to exploring non-fictional film and new forms of audiovisual expression.
Ylia and Marta Pang
Thursday, 6 November - 8pm
The encounter between Spanish DJ and producer Ylia and visual artist Marta Pang is presented in the form of a premiere in the Museo Reina Sofía. Both artists converge from divergent trajectories to give form to a new project conceived specifically for this series, which aims to create new stage projects by setting out from the friction between artists and dialogue between disciplines.
![Carol Mansour y Muna Khalidi, A State of Passion [Estado de pasión], 2024, película](https://recursos.museoreinasofia.es/styles/small_landscape/public/Actividades/palestine%20cinema%20day%202.jpg.webp)
Palestine Cinema Days
Sábado 1 de noviembre, 2025 – 19:00 h
The Museo Reina Sofia joins the global action in support of Palestine with the screening of A State of Passion (2024), a documentary by Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi. The film features in Palestine Cinema Days Around the World, an annual festival, held globally every November, which aims to show films made in Palestine to an international audience. The initiative was conceived as a form of cultural resistance which seeks to give a voice to artists from Palestine, question dominant narratives and create networks of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Palestine Cinema Days Around the World originates from Palestine Cinema Days, a festival organised in Palestine since 2014 with the aim of granting visibility to Palestinian cinema and to support the local film community. In 2023 the festival was postponed because of the war in Gaza, and has since become borderless in scope, holding close to 400 international screenings in almost sixty countries in 2024. This global effort is a show of solidarity with Palestine and broadens the voices and support networks of the Palestinian people around the world.
A State of Passion exposes the atrocities committed against the Gaza population via the testimony of Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah, a Palestinian-British plastic surgeon living in London who decides to return to Gaza and save lives in the city’s hospitals amid the Israeli army’s indiscriminate bombing of the population. A necessary film exposé of the experience of unrelentingly working twenty-four hours a day for forty-three days in the Al Shifa and Al Ahli Hospitals in the city of Gaza.