European Day of Artistic Creativity // Activities 2015

A total solar eclipse will occur on Friday March 20, 2015. We will receive it dressed in our best artistic finery dresses.

Let's make some dresses in paperboard. We'll decorate them with different artistic compositions, with which we intend to receive the solar eclipse in the courtyard of our school.

From easy kindergarten painting & drawing activities to more advanced for schoolchildren

Three different workshops will be organized in Kindergarten Saltinelis and Rutele Primary School for children of different ages . This workshop’s purpose is purely practice.

Photography seminar for schoolchildren who participate in photography competition "Creative spaces"

Participants of photography competition are invited to evaluate and discuss the exhibition, that is currently shown at Kaunas Communications History Museum. The topic will be developed with one goal in mind - help participants on their journey to becoming an accomplished photographer.

All schoolchildren who like photography are invited to participate in the competition.

After the first successful competition in 2013 and 2014, the new topic was announced as early as December 2014. The young people will have their photos shown in one of the best exhibition halls of Kaunas. Later, the photos will travel to the schools of the participants. Authors of the most interesting shots will receive prizes among which - tickets to the youth photography summer camp in Kaunas.

26 Metros de Secretos es un proyecto de intervención artística y participación ciudadana en Valladolid mediante la fotografía participativa (un método que utiliza el acceso a la tecnología y producción de imágenes como sistema para trabajar ciertos aspectos dentro de un grupo y hacerlos visibles en la esfera pública) que quiere generar un debate sobre la estructura urbana y su evolución y el arte como medio de comunicación y transmisor de mensajes. “26MdS” quiere también provocar una reflexión sobre lo subliminal, la simbología, los códigos y los secretos que el arte guarda y con los cuales da a conocer acontecimientos, formas de pensar o realidades de muy variada índole (personales o sociales, públicas o privadas…) Queremos que la gente se implique en esta actividad, participe y muestre de manera subliminal y artística a través de la fotografía instantánea un secreto, una idea oculta, algo que quieran mostrar o dar a conocer sin revelarse a si mismos (tatuajes, cicatrices, sentimientos, ideas...), mostrar, en definitiva, la Valladolid oculta que hacemos entre todos los que vivimos en ella. Porque nuestra ciudad no solo es lo que se ve a simple vista, lo que todos conocemos o lo que queremos que se sepa de nosotros y de lo nuestro. También la forman sus secretos, secretos individuales, de unos pocos o colectivos. Secretos que conocemos y otros de los que nunca nos enteraremos, secretos que son nuestros incluso aunque no lo sepamos. La actividad se va a desarrollar el próximo 21 de marzo en el siguiente horario:de 11:00 a 14:00 y de 17:00 a 20:00 horas en el Callejón de los Torneros, situado entre una óptica y el Café del Norte de la Plaza Mayor. Durante ese tiempo cualquier persona que lo desee puede entrar en el callejón y participar en la actividad haciendo una foto para la muestra y/o escribiendo un pequeño texto de un máximo de 26 palabras (tantas como metros tiene el callejón), en un espacio privado, con los cuales contar o mostrar de manera anónima uno o varios secretos. Después tan solo deberán dejarlo expuesto en las paredes del callejón, que estarán habilitadas para tal efecto y disfrutar de las que otras personas hayan ya colgado. Así mismo también podrán ver una pequeña muestra con información sobre los callejones más famosos de nuestra ciudad y su historia.

Place | Museu da Cidade de Aveiro
From March 16th to 29th
Tuesday to Friday | 9h30 – 12h30 and 14h00 – 18h00
Saturday and Sunday | 14h00-18h00
Free entrance
More information | Museu da Cidade de Aveiro | Rua João Mendonça, nº. 9/11 3800 – 200 Aveiro. Tel: [+351] 234 406 485 | Email: museucidade@cm-aveiro.pt | http://mca.cm-aveiro.pt/

Sérgio Marques was the Aveiro’s artist selected to take part of the Creart travelling exhibition in 2014 – White noise, black words -, which has been present in Vilnius, Zagreb and Harghita.
As recognition of this and as an example of the contemporary local creation and of a new generation of artistic talents, the City Museum will present the artwork Momentum to the public:
"From the atmosphere concept, a space A is encapsulated in a engaging space B. Beyond an isolated installed object, it intended to act as an activator of the space in which it is inserted, underlining its physical characteristics. Numerical data broadcasted by web become into mechanical intensity and get close geographically distant areas; the permanence of the architectural surroundings dialogue with the kinetic transience of the installation. Momentum is microcosmic, regular and random; it creates friction and temporary relations between the suspended substances. "

Place | Museu da Cidade de Aveiro [temporary exhibitions room]
Through March 22th
Tuesday to Friday | 9h30 – 12h30 and 14h00 – 18h00
Saturday and Sunday | 14h00-18h00
More information | Museu da Cidade de Aveiro | Rua João Mendonça, nº. 9/11 3800 – 200 Aveiro. | Phone [+351] 234 406 485 | Email: museucidade@cm-aveiro.pt | http://mca.cm-aveiro.pt/

The International biennial of artistic ceramics is one of the most important cultural activities in Aveiro since1989. Gathering artistic creation with design and innovation in ceramics, the biennial attracts a large number of artists from all over the world and is already a renowned and expected cultural event.
During 2015 and while preparing the next edition, the City Museum is going to present to the public part of the biennial collection composed by the awarded artworks.

Place | Museu da Cidade de Aveiro [temporary exhibitions room]
Through March 22th
Tuesday to Friday | 9h30 – 12h30 and 14h00 – 18h00
Saturday and Sunday | 14h00-18h00
More information | Museu da Cidade de Aveiro | Rua João Mendonça, nº. 9/11 3800 – 200 Aveiro | Phone [+351] 234 406 485 | Email: museucidade@cm-aveiro.pt | http://mca.cm-aveiro.pt/

The exhibition "Contemporary Art in Project" opens a new phase of reflection and presentation to the public of the Portuguese government contemporary art collection which is stored by deposit at the City Museum, following an agreement signed in 2006 among the Municipality, the University of Aveiro and the Instituto das Artes | Ministério da Cultura [nowadays Secretaria de Estado da Cultura].
The collection, setting more than two hundred artworks, includes artistic creations from the abstraction, expressionism, realism, pop art, conceptual art and modernism and represents some of the 20th century most renowned Portuguese artists in visual arts [painting, photography, sculpture, and ceramics].
Promoting safeguard, study and diffusion of the Portuguese contemporary art, this project and agreement materialize the effective decentralization of cultural offer and aims to place Aveiro as a new centrality to arts and culture in Portugal.
The exhibition will be renewed throughout the year, displaying the different techniques, artists and languages that enhance the collection. Currently, is dedicated to painting, and presents authors such as Vieira da Silva, Armanda Passos, Guilherme Parente, Joaquim Bravo and Júlio Resende.

From March 25th to April 10th
Free entrance
More information | Casa Municipal da Juventude | Rua Engº Silvério P. Silva 3800-175 Aveiro | Phone [+351] 234 406 522 | Email cmjuventude@cm-aveiro.pt

Apresentação ao público dos trabalhos artísticos realizados durante o workshop.
Presentation of the artworks created during the workshop.

The workshop aims to awaken young people [between 6 and 18 years old] for contemporary artistic creation by putting them in contact with the artists and experiencing different techniques and materials. Booking until March 16th by email cmjuventude@cm-aveiro.pt or in the youth Municipal center Limited to 15 participants