Girona
El Bosc de la Pabordia

Silences at Bosc de la Pabordia school was a week-long project with 6 exhibitions, 2 performances, 2 installations, 8 master classes, outings and citizen actions by 20 professionals and artists.

The school was closed, the classes were stopped and the children were offered five different visions of silence based on visual, sound, performative, philosophical and architectural arts.

We wanted to try to convey the idea that everyone has their own silences and that we wanted them to find their own. Every day 20 artists and professionals from various fields came to the school and offered the children a new perspective. The project was structured by days, areas and ages. Each small daily action was rethought from a new artistic point of view and shook their realities.
We had to make them look differently!

Slowly, we managed to make silence part of their daily life in a different way, we got them to listen to it, to appreciate it and to share it. And after five days we all went out together to ask for silence in the city: the 460 pupils of the Bosc de la Pabordia school spent 14.37 minutes sitting in silence in front of the steps of Girona Cathedral looking at the blue horizon of an autumn afternoon and they were, as always, our greatest inspiration.

Visual Arts

2 Filippo Minelli | Landscape

Italian contemporary artist based in Barcelona. He researches architecture, politics, communication and geography to create installations and performances documented through photography and video. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan, BFA New Media (2006), his work is mainly aimed at challenging the role of identity and its narratives, both in the physical and digital environment.

www.filippominelli.com

3 Penique Productions | Colour

Collective of artists specialising in ephemeral installations that attempt to appropriate an original place that loses its routine to become part of the work and achieve a new identity. The container is also the content, erasing the idea of the art object.

www.peniqueproductions.com

4 Lolo & Sosaku | Cinetic sound

A duo of artists who meet and discover a mutual interest in an experimental way of exploiting the arts and creating new art forms. From 2005 they start to concentrate on an intense research and start inventing and sculpting their first instruments to create a new kind of music.

www.loloysosaku.com

5 Sons Barcelona | Sound

The Phonos project is an initiative of the Music Technology Research Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in collaboration with the Phonos Foundation. This project aims to promote cultural activities related to research in music technology. Contributing to make the results of research in this field have a direct impact on the cultural and artistic world, encouraging innovation and the confluence between music and technology.

www.barcelona.freesound.org/
www.phonos.upf.edu/tallerssonors/sonsdebarcelona

6 Kamtchàtka | Performative Theatre

A collective of artists of various nationalities and from different artistic disciplines, the members of the Kamchàtka company met in Barcelona in 2006. Driven by the same concerns, directed by Adrian Schvarzstein, they begin an intense training of improvisation in the street, and an investigation around immigration. Barcelona..., an ideal city to confront a society full of contradictions and immersed in deep problems of integration.

www.kamchatka.cat

7 Cia. Mercè Framis | Shadows Theatre

Puppeteer and art therapist. Specialist in shadow theatre. She trained as a puppeteer at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. Within this theatrical field, she has been part of different companies. He works in different areas: creation and performance of shows; puppet and prop construction; puppet animation and dubbing for television and teaching for theatre and education professionals.

www.merceframis.com

Ioga

10 Marina Congost | Actress

Actress with a degree in Dramatic Art from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. She is currently a member of the creative company Georgette and Miss Wolf, with whom she develops her creative and acting side. In 2014 she trained as a certified Hatha Vinyasa Yoga teacher (RYT 200h Yoga Alliance) with Rocío Ramos.

www.marinacongost.com

Performance

12 Rocío Manzano | Actress

Actress and director. She was born in La Mancha and after studying Tourism in Granada she moved to Barcelona where she trained in acting, dance and other techniques. She is the creator of the cooperative NusTeatre where she coordinates, produces and performs all the shows or the social theatre area

www.nusteatre.com

9 Anna Macau | Dancer

She studied contemporary dance at the Institut del Teatre while she was studying to be a teacher at the UAB. Since then she has worked as a dancer and has choreographed numerous audiovisual spots. In addition, she has never lost contact with education, since she has been teaching at the dance school a la Stage in Caldes de Montbui for ten years and developing educational projects.

11 Anna Berenguer | Actress

Actress with a degree in Dramatic Art from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, she also holds an Official Inter-University Master's Degree in Theatre Studies, specialising in Theory and Practice of Playwriting. She alsotrained as a certified Hatha-*Vinyasa Yoga teacher (RYT 200 Yoga Alliance) with Amelie Streker and complemented her training with international teachers such as Karen Watson, Simon Park and Meghan Currie.

www.annaberenguer.com

13 Georgina Oliva | Theatre Director

Graduate in stage direction and dramaturgy from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. She has worked as an assistant director and producer for several theatres and directors in Barcelona and Brussels. He currently directs his own projects halfway between the performing and audiovisual arts with the production company Kepler Mission Films. Between 2014 and 2019 he has been collaborating with DadàBarcelona.

Manifesto

17 Joan Manel del Pozo | Philosopher

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Girona, where he teaches ancient philosophy and ethics applied to various forms of social action. He is a member and former director of the Observatory of Ethics Applied to Social, Psycho-educational and Socio-sanitary Action". He maintains an intense activity as a lecturer here and in several countries on education, philosophy, ethics and politics.

As a politician, he has been a member of Congress and Parliament, Deputy Mayor of Girona City Council and Minister of Education and Universities in the last government of Pasqual Maragall. He has also been a government councillor of the Catalan Corporation of Audiovisual Media.
He is currently the Trustee of the University of Girona.

www.joanmanueldelpozo.cat

Installations

18 Octavi Serra | Installation

Industrial designer and artist. His artistic work is based on making interventions in the public space to transform reality and established logic. Most of which are approached from a poetic/philosophical perspective to make everyday elements challenge us all over again.

www.ooss.eu

19 Dadà. | Installation

DadàBarcelona is a small company that was born as a response to a social void in children's leisure, understood as a tool for growth and not for entertainment. It is born from the own experience of a mother who wants other views for her children, and wants to be a risky proposal for small and young people but with great aspirations. It is the firm will to leave children a better world and to give them tools, information and space so that they can face new challenges and be freer.

www.dadabarcelona.com