art experience
Espais de trobada familiar
des del 2019
The intention is to create spaces of family wealth, where the fundamental rights of children and their parents are better preserved and where moments of high family happiness are cultivated.
We offer shows and family workshops of play, movement and music in the Penitentiary Centers with inmate mothers who live inside the penitentiary with their babies (0-3) and with inmate fathers and their families.
We are convinced that the eternal bet for a loving world where living is taking care of early childhood.
Taking care of early childhood, we invest in the well-being of the whole family and the whole of society.
We work with:
· mothers who live with their babies aged 0-3 years in the Women's Penitentiary Center of Bcn.
· inmate parents who are part of the Management and Parental Responsibility Group of the Brians 2 Penitentiary Center.
Meeting Spaces:
· Casa Anita bookstore garden (Bcn)
· La Melica educational project (Bcn)
·In the Penitentiary Centers for Women and Brians 2.
During the pandemic, we collaborated with the REPTES project of the CP de Brians 2, offering musical workshops where parents recorded a video for their child proposing a musical-percussive challenge and the children responded with another video doing a version of the proposal.
created and produced with
with the collaboration
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Creation of the scenography of the show NIUS inside Penitentiary Centers
2019
During the process of creating the Nius show, we wanted the scenography to be a deep, transformative experience and at the same time go beyond a stage product.
So, we based the scenography on the works of the visual artist EVA VÁZQUEZ ABRAHAM, looking for the scenography to breathe an aesthetic experience with a high quality plastic dimension.
After designing together with the artist each piece of the scenography according to the needs of the babies and the intention of the show, we start the process of making it for a whole year with the collaboration of intern fathers from CP Brians 2 and intern mothers who live with their sons and daughters in the Women's CP.
PROJECT STEPS
1
Selection of the works of the artist Eva Vázquez Abraham that fit with the show.
2
Adaptation of the works to the needs of the babies and the intensity of the show.
3
Realization of the scenography with the collaboration of fathers and mothers who live in the prison.
4
Creation of MEETING SPACES with the families of participating parents where workshops, games and shows were shared to foster family ties.
Nests is an immersive show dedicated to the unique moment of the first 18 months of life.
Set pieces made by intern parents involve learning to knit.
This writing by the artist Eva Vazquez helps to understand the potential behind the act of knitting:
Why knit?
"Life weaves itself.
Nature, the landscape we inhabit, is the fabric of life.
Society is a relational fabric.
Human beings are constantly weaving,
with threads, with words, with images, with musical notes.
We weave language. We create intersections and networks that connect and link us.
The ancestral act of weaving carries implicitly a very deep meaning that goes beyond the act itself and the woven object.
Knitting connects us to the essence of life. Everything is connected, interwoven.
Individuals do not exist in isolation, we are millions of connected points.
We are part of the fabric of infinity
which is life weaving itself.”
The objective is to link this collective in an artistic process, living the experience of being part of the creation of the scenography of the NIUS family show that everyone can enjoy.
At the same time, each of these pieces of scenography bear witness to his little-known family reality.
During the sessions, we establish an intimate atmosphere where we share family longings and wishes, giving space to what unites us: brotherly love. Leaving aside the prejudices and the very diverse realities we live in.
These are the stage pieces that were created for the NIUS show
These are the stage pieces that were created for the NIUS show
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Penitentiary Centers participate as venues for the elPetit Festival
Edicions
2022
2023
A family with children living with a prison in between has few opportunities for artistic experiences as a family. That is why we started this project to promote the fundamental right to enjoy art whatever our family reality.
The Brians 2 and Women's Penitentiary Centers will be the Festival's new venues from 2021. They understand that they are spaces with family needs.
edition
2021 i
2022
The Festival's programming extends inside and outside the Penitentiary Centers so that fathers and mothers deprived of their freedom can enjoy with their families workshops and shows from around the world in a standardized way.
Art of the 5 senses workshop in the maternity area of the CP de Dones where mothers deprived of their freedom live with their children aged 0-3 years.
ACTIVITATS EDICIÓ 2022
Taller QUAN EL COS SÓC JO
impartit per Omar Meza
de la cia Da.te Danza
amb pares que viuen al Centre Penitenciari Brians 2
Anada al Teatre amb famílies
del CP de Brians 2
Espectacle PISTE PISTE PISTE de la cia Portmainteau
amb espais de trobada familiar i debat post-funció
Teatre Principal de Sabadell
an original idea of
co-produced with
amb el suport de
SPOON
Project laSala 360º
2022
With Spoon we propose the realization of inclusive cross-cutting activities within Penitentiary Centers in order to bring Art closer to fathers and mothers deprived of liberty and work on values such as communication, self-esteem and respect through artistic languages.
GOAL
Foster quality family moments as well as reduce the degree of prison recidivism, strengthening family ties and relationships thanks to the integrative and transformative power of Art.
PREMIERE AT THE FESTIVAL
2022
WHAT WE DO
CREATIVE WORKSHOPS
We hold workshops inside the Brians 2 and Women's Penitentiary Centers with the parents of the inmates to work together on a series of game objects where the common element is spoons.
These play objects can be enjoyed by children who go to visit their relatives in the communication spaces of the prison.
FAMILY GATHERINGS
After carrying out the creative workshops, we hold a meeting day for the interns' fathers and mothers with their families to share the results of the creative workshop and enjoy a play space together.
Young and old also create toys with the spoons that they can enjoy as a family in the prison's communication rooms.
INSTALLATION at the elPetit Festival
With all the game elements created in the Creative Workshops, a sound installation is built that is exhibited in the halls of the venues of the Festival elPetit 2022. In this way, we make visible the experience and the existence of these familiar realities.
Do you want to know more about the family communication rooms in the prison?
To make the installation we were inspired by the Festival poster
co-produced with
with support from
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Reformulation of the route and Communication spaces of the CP de Brians 2
2022
The Parental Management and Responsibility Group (GGRP) of the CP de Brians 2 leads at national level the reformulation of the route that children take in prison to go see their parents and of the family communication spaces where we meet once a month for 1.5 hours.
The GGRP has made a whole route that represents the search for a treasure.
Everything becomes a game:
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For a child, the impact of going to see his father in prison is very great.
If the spaces are cared for and designed for their maturing moment and taking into account their great sensitivity, this impact is less and easier to accompany.
NIUS has accompanied the GGRP advising the materials and texts of the route and together they have co-designed, co-produced and performed the Inauguration event.
May 2022
INAUGURATION DAY MANIFESTO
welcome and welcome,
Coinciding with the International Day of Families, today we welcome you to some new spaces in our center.
As you already know, behind this project that we are inaugurating today is the Education and Parental Responsibility Management Group of Brians 2, the collaborating entities and parent interns. We can also notice the looks of the children who come year after year to visit their relatives. Children are the main engine of this journey that we are celebrating today. Their rights and their needs are the light of the lighthouse that guides our identity and our integrity.
Thank you children for reminding us that beauty is important, that the imaginary world is essential and that art is the best friend that a healthy and just society can have.
"Because with a kiss,
with a look
and a hug
we found the treasure
hiding
Because if we are together,
among all we form
this little world
what family do we call"
fragment and adaptation of Marisa Alonso Santamaría's poem
