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Workshop in horticultural production

Ecosecha

10 of april, 5 pm - 8 pm

An intensive theory and practical workshop on different techniques in horticultural production related to organic agriculture.
 
This workshop aims to work on the theory and practice using knowledge about different techniques in horticultural production, dealing with different content related to organic agriculture:

- Seeds: Harvest, storage, and seed planting.
 
- Transplants: Care during production and transplanting.
 
- "Non-commercial" local varieties: Care, framework and planting distances, other work.

Limited availability. Sign-up will be based on order of requests and will be confirmed via e-mail. bancodesemillas@ecosecha.es

Seed exchange bank event
Ecosecha

Seed exchange day.  Thursday 4 April at 18 h.

The Seed Exchange Bank is an initiative in favour of decentralizing control of seeds and questioning the management models we generate or in which we take part in this culture with our current way of life. The Seed Exchange Bank and the activities it holds are offered as a metaphor for the need for change in society today.

The first Thursday of each month, a seed exchange session is held for growers, horticulture enthusiasts, and anyone interested in being part of a social network based on organic and sustainable principles, where know-how can be shared about working with seeds and ways to enhance organic agriculture in Madrid.

The Seed Exchange Bank can be visited on a regular basis at the Terrario at Intermediae.

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Spanish P2P WikiSprint/es

Wednesday 20 March at 16 h.

A WikiSprint is a collective content production event that takes place in a short period of time in a wiki type of platform. This "P2P WikiSprint" in Spanish aims to collectively document and map P2P (peer-to-peer) initiatives in Latin America and Spain.
Medialab-Prado offers its space to get together and work in this global mapping.

Presentation of the report titled "Feminicide in Spain 2010-2012" and the new project, an investigative journalism laboratory.
Feminicide.net

Thursday 28 February at 7 pm

Feminicide.net is a news portal with a gender perspective, specialized in violence against women. Its ongoing work includes digital art campaigns and data visualization related to GeoFeminicide, an online application for documenting Feminicide in Spain and Latin American countries. At this meeting, they will present their report titled “Feminicide and other murders of women 2010-2012” in Spain and their new project: “Investigative and Data Journalism Laboratory with a Gender Perspective”.

Feminicidio.net

Tending Avant Garden Workshop
Given by Miguel Moreno

Sunday 24 February 12 noon to 2 pm.

Workshops for tending Avant Garden, an urban garden designed by atelier le balto. Avant Garden is a wild rose garden, a garden shared by visitors, creators, passersby... a place for coexistence and exchange, for learning, enjoyment and rest. Workshops are usually focused on exploring the concepts and philosophy underlying atelier le balto’s design for the garden. Planting season continues at the garden.

The 3R group, part of the CRPS of Arganzuela, collaborates in tending Avant Garden every other Friday from 12- 14 pm. The workshops occasionally become times for exchanges, taking cuttings cultivated at Avant Garden to other green spaces in Madrid, such as la Huerta de Roberto in Carabanchel, Esta es una Plaza in Lavapiés and la Huerta de Madrid Salud in Usera.

ARCO 2013/ 404: Collective investigation of a new cultural paradigm through its media representations. Amor Hipster
With Silvia Nanclares and Jaron Rowan


Next sessions: 16 and 17 February 2013 (times to be confirmed).



A project that explores the ideals of love and how sexuality is experienced according to “hipster” mores. A workshop to analyze and construct (ambiguous) texts with different languages (discursive, journalistic, textual and audiovisual fiction and nonfiction, ethnography, images, podcasts, stage arts) about the sexuality proposed by hipster subculture and how it affects us socially and individually.

At this first meeting core issues will be examined which are fundamental to this collective investigation, covering some of the components from cultural industries which have contributed to generate this supposed cultural paradigm. The idea is to work jointly and generate debates with participants to reach some common ground. The objective: to create a framework to serve as a springboard for getting the investigation underway. Two intensive days with talks, texts, concepts, written and audiovisual fiction, a presentation of the archive and ongoing lines of work.

Jaron Rowan is a researcher and cultural agitator. He combines research and teaching and for 10 years has been one of the members and cofounders of YProductions. He is also a member of the Free Culture Forum and the research project Empresas del procomún.
For several years he has been a tutor and one of the lecturers for the course MA in Culture Industry at Goldsmiths University of London. In 2010 he wrote the book Emprendizajes en cultura published by Traficantes de Sueños. www.demasiadosuperavit.net

Silvia Nanclares studied play writing and directing at RESAD (Madrid). She works in the editorial field and since 2004 she has focused on writing stories, having published her first collection titled El sur: Instrucciones de uso (2009). Since 2001 she has collaborated in her own and others’ publishing processes, and has sold, carried, placed, thought and written about books and publishing.

ARCO 2013 / Escucha Pública (Public Listening) #3. How can we portray a person with sound? with Nacho Arias
Radio Sures

Saturday 16 February at 7 pm

Radio Sures is an a la carte web radio for radio documentaries. With no extra photos or supporting videos or multimedia bonus features. We stand for telling stories exclusively with sound resources! We illustrate this aesthetic stance each month in a public gathering devoted to listening. We offer a selection of sound narrative documentaries, in Spanish and other languages, with translations planned. We listen in the half-light, seated or lying down, as if we were a cinema audience for a movie with no pictures. Orson Welles might have said it: “Radio is better than the movies because in radio, the screen’s bigger”.

In each session a guest joins us to share his or her point of view (and hearing) about the documentaries we have heard. Not sound or radio experts, our guests come from other fields of creative endeavours such as cinema, painting, photography, literature, theatre, and so on. Instead of an analysis, they share their sensations and impressions as auditors. Their contributions create bridges between sound and other artistic disciplines.

For the third session, our guest is photographer Nacho Arias.
We will reflect on “How to portray a person with sound”. We are not talking about ID photos but rather portraits taken from an auteur point of view. The person behind the camera or microphone leaves all pretensions of objectivity aside in order to transmit his or her own perception of the person portrayed. In this creative process, the person becomes a “character”.

Nacho Arias has a degree from the Fine Arts School at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has worked as a photographer for over 15 years. He has shown his work at museums, galleries and art centres including the Círculo de Bellas Artes, La Casa de América and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid. His work has also been selected at festivals such as PhotoSpain, Emergentes (Braga, Portugal), and the 2010 International Vienna Festival. At present he is working on several series that will be completed in 2013.

Open Mondo Píxel ArsGames
Mondo Píxel

Star-t magazine books: 'Cohetes Rosas Sobre Cielos Nintendo' (Pink Rockets Over Nintendo Skies). Friday 8 February at 7 pm

S*T*A*R presents to the public a new book by the team STAR-T MAGAZINE BOOKS: 'Cohetes Rosas Sobre Cielos Nintendo', a treaty to find out about and understand how to make a videogame with its ethical and moral considerations, a master class of actions, methods and procedures based on the vintage world that are a great aid in translating methodologies to other creative and economic disciplines. And of course, for learning how to make a videogame.

mondo-pixel.blogs.fotogramas.es/

Seed exchange bank event
Ecosecha

Seed exchange day.  Thursday 7 February at 18 h.

The Seed Exchange Bank is an initiative in favour of decentralizing control of seeds and questioning the management models we generate or in which we take part in this culture with our current way of life. The Seed Exchange Bank and the activities it holds are offered as a metaphor for the need for change in society today.

The first Thursday of each month, a seed exchange session is held for growers, horticulture enthusiasts, and anyone interested in being part of a social network based on organic and sustainable principles, where know-how can be shared about working with seeds and ways to enhance organic agriculture in Madrid.

The Seed Exchange Bank can be visited on a regular basis at the Terrario at Intermediae.

ecosecha.blogspot.com
bis.intermediae.es

Open Terrario / Public Listening #2. How to create sound spaces? With Enrique Rivero.
Radio Sures

Friday 18 January at 8 p.m.

Radio Sures is an on-demand web radio with radio documentaries. With no additional photos, supporting videos, or multimedia extras. We tell stories using only sound resources!  We illustrate this aesthetic proposal each month at a public meeting devoted to listening. We offer a selection of documentary sound narratives, in Spanish and other languages, with translations planned. We listen in the semi-darkness, seated or lying down, as if we were in a cinema watching a movie with no pictures. As Orson Welles said, “Radio is better than the cinema because in radio, the screen is bigger.”

At each session, we will have a guest with a point of view (or better said… hearing) on the documentaries we have heard. The guest is not a specialist in sound or radio but rather, another creative field such as painting, photography, literature, theatre, etc. Instead of offering an analysis, the guest will share sensations and impressions as a listener. This intervention will create bridges between sound and other artistic disciplines.

In this second session, our guest is filmmaker and producer Enrique Rivero.

At each meeting, we will discuss the sound documentary from a different perspective, starting with a question. This month it is: “How to create sound spaces?” A film director frames the shot with a camera. Do radio documentary makers also create a shot with microphones? Other questions we will explore include: What is a “sound space”? How is it constructed by the person recording and perceived by the listener? We will discuss distance, movement, and field depth.

Enrique Rivero has worked in various areas related to film production, from photography to art. As a director, he started with two short films, Nidra and Schhht!, making his first feature length film, Parque Vía, in 2008. It garnered various international awards including the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Festival (Switzerland). His second feature length film was Mai Morire (2012); it won awards in Rome (Best Photography) and Huelva (Special Jury Award, and the Radio Exterior de España award, among others.) Currently he is in development with his next project, Pozoamargo, to be shot in Spain in a town in La Mancha.