KIN. A day of creation to make a family

Understanding the family workshop as an opportunity to make links beyond genetic ties, the artists we have invited will propose collective creation dynamics to turn Santa Mònica into a territory for experience, affection, thought and possibility.

This workshop is the culmination of the research process of the Mòniques 23/24 Education Guild and forms part of the programme of activities included in the Passaport Edunauta of the Raval Estiu Educatiu community project coordinated by Tot Raval.

Workshop: The DNA of the Queer Migrant Family 
By Kleo la Faraona
Time: 10.30h - 11.45h
Lecture room
Workshop on Arab practices of socialisation as a potential family space. A workshop focused on the bonding processes that take place outside the flesh.

Preparation of the traditional SHAMÍAT space, a typical gathering of women to make food together, which is a cultural scene in Damascus (the sham), where we relive this scene with diverse queer and feminist dissident identities coming together to prepare a plate of food, chat and have a good time in a Damascene context.

Workshop: Are we interested in making new families?
Led by Luiza Fagá and Tau Acosta.
Time: 12h - 13.15h
Mòniques Space
Workshop on the practice of weaving in family spaces to find other ways of spinning the concept of "family". It will be a community session.

Are we interested in making new families? As migrants, lesbians and in constant flight from cisgender life, we make our fugitive family out of a tangle of cuttings from other lives, of administrative and bureaucratic fears, melancholies and half-narrated saudades, meals whose ingredients arrive frozen, soups and teas in sickness and above all a deep healing of the fragile nest we know ourselves to be. We have become a family with other human migrants and our non-human animal companions have become our home. Now we talk to the stones that are a living archive of all our stories before we became human. We invite an encounter with stones, dead ancestors and living friends to imagine family portraits in which our trans-geographic families meet. We will work with fabric, magnetite powder, solvent and thread.

Workshop: Culinary workshop
By Mariona Pujol Miravent
Time: 13.30h - 15.00h
Culinary workshop on the practice of eating in family spaces. We will cook lunch for the participants.

Culinary workshop where we will cook all together, putting into practice new ways of welcoming the family from the cultural institution. We will experiment with the ritual of sharing the time of cooking and eating with the family.

There will be vegetarian and gluten-free options.

Activity promoted by the Education Guild 23-24.

Workshops by Kleo la Faraona, Tau Luna Acosta, Luiza Fagá and Mariona Puig Miravent.

Programme of activities included in the Passaport Edunauta of the Raval Estiu Educatiu community project coordinated by Tot Raval.

Language: catalan and spanish

Rosa Llop
Rosa Llop's professional and artistic practice responds to the need to question the constructs that delimit and predefine the role of the designer. Rosa uses research as a strategy to observe contemporaneity, paying special attention to the systematisation of creative processes and the politics of representation. Her main research is the study of the agency of collective thinking practices as a tool for exploring the problem space. In this context, her object of study is the mediation exercised by artistic language in the production of knowledge, understanding that the ambiguity of non-discursive languages deploys forms that do not restrict the generation of dialogue, makes room for critical awareness and allows for a more plural and emancipatory enquiry into the problem space. Under this research umbrella, she has developed a methodological toolbox called Entrepensar, which describes how a situated tool for exploring, understanding and questioning reality collectively can generate knowledge through the use of artistic languages. Her formal language seeks minimal action and she is interested in silence, pause, emptiness and the invisible as acts of signification.

Sara Manubens
Sara Manubens. Artist, choreographer and transvestite in Barcelona. Master in Scenic Practice and Visual Culture (Museo Reina Sofía, ARTEA group). Her work moves between site-specific, performance and dance, and focuses on trans-corporality and its impact on reality. She takes a critical and experimental approach to transvestite practice and identity.
She has been developing her own research projects since 2015. She designs and implements educational projects in institutional programmes and public schools, among them DRAG KIDS (2020) or TEEN HORROR (2023). She works as a performer with Cuqui Jerez, Aimar Pérez Galí, Idoia Zabaleta. She writes critical reviews on dance and performance for the blog of the Mercat de les Flors.

Martí de la Malla
Martí de la Malla's professional practice combines teaching with artistic production, with a desire to explore the aspects that both disciplines share. With a strong interest in childhood, adultcentrism and school, he often works from the hidden curriculum, play and institutional critique to carry out projects that transform or reflect on environments, praxis and agents of both the art world and the educational world. Graduate in Arts and Design (Escola Massana - UAB, 2019) and Master in Teacher Training (UB, 2022), he works at the Octavio Paz primary school and at the Traç plastic expression school. Since 2017 he has been managing artistic projects for public primary schools in Barcelona. He has been mediator of the educational project of the "Joan Miró 2023 Award" with the confidence of the Joan Miró Foundation and the Octavio Paz School. As an artist he has developed projects such as "La Teoria dels Dinosaures" (Sala d'Art Jove 2023 & Manifesta 15, 2023) with Ona Trabal, "El sorral és la nostra vida" (Escola Orlandai, with presentation at La Virreina, 2021) or "TFG. Trabajo de fin de grado" (as part of the collective Centrifugacions III at l'Escola Massana, 2019). She is a member of the collective Grup d'Estudi.

Luiza Fagá and Tua Acosta
They work at the intersection of visual, plastic and cinematographic arts through decolonial narratives.

Kleo la Faraona
Kleo is the culture, the struggle, the street, the bizarre, the mamarracha, the dramatic, the marrana, the humble, the siriana, the Faraona. Kleo la Faraona is trend, style, class, fashionista, trendsetter and inspiration. Kleo the Pharaoh is the golden demi-goddess, a visual orgasm creates a world of fantasy. Kleo the Pharaoh is Eli of Gold.

Mariona Pujol Miravent
Born in Barcelona in 1998, she studied Arts and Design at the Escuela Massana and at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem in the Department of Ceramics. Her practice revolves around pleasure, the human and the social from a festive point of view. In recent years.
In recent years she has developed this avenue of research through the Feast as a format and as a relational device from which to propose a collective pleasure through food, drink and celebration.