Culturnautes 2025

This year, we will delve into the world of comics by putting ourselves in the shoes of its characters and scenes, we will be moved by the great works of art history and we will explore the mysteries of creation. We will also imagine a new ocean landscape that inspires us to build a more sustainable future.

What is Culturnautes?

A summer camp linking culture, leisure and education. A space to spark kids’ curiosity as they explore new ideas through a range of different artistic disciplines. We invite art and science collectives to create a fresh take on the CCCB’s exhibitions and activities by designing and running a series of engaging activities to bring culture closer to children.

 

Summer camp calendar

Week 1. From June 30 to July 4
"Seeing with other eyes". Let's build an immersive comic.
By Pink Pixel Collective

Who am I? Can we define who we are through who we are not? Do we exercise our empathy enough? Otherness consists of replacing our own perspective with someone else's, and thus understanding the world through someone else. We approach the work of Chris Ware, an innovative comic artist who knows how to capture human emotions very well and who in his comics helps us become aware of the point of view of others and includes them as a fundamental part of his books. Following the words of Chris Ware, we will look with "eyes that are not mine to see them as I have never seen them before".

During this week, we will try to understand the other to build together by working with techniques such as lithography, crosswords or transferable letters. We will animate a flipbook, or make a poster with collage, transfer paper and acetates. On Friday we will invite families and the public to be the readers, who knows if maybe even the protagonists, of the CCCB's Library of Novelties, an immersive comic. The fiction constructed by the Culturnautes will converge in a complex system of Russian dolls: from the fanzine to the publishing house, through the book, the collection and reading as a performative act.

 

Week 2. July 7th to 11th
"Lunar Atlas". We create an installation with lights, images and words.
By Silvia Renda, Valentina Alvarado Matos and Juan Antonio Cerezuela

Surely you have ever stopped to look at the moon. How many ways could we draw it? Scientists explore its surface with their telescopes, but literature, the arts and cinema have also observed and imagined it throughout history.

This week we will create large atlases of images and poetic associations through collage and drawing, we will experiment with the creative word and we will play with luminescence, the animation of objects through sound and representation with the body. These activities will culminate in a collective installation where the works created will come to life from a performative show. A magical moment where lights, images and sounds will intertwine in a jam session that we will share with family and friends.

 

Week 3. From July 14 to 18
"Inspiration, creation, emotion!" Let's play and experiment to connect with creativity.
By Martina Rogers Manzano, Eva Ortega Puig and Pol Roig Turró.

We are all creative, it is part of our human nature. Creating is making something exist that was not there before. But where does the inspiration to create come from? We will activate our sensitive channels of perception to connect to the source of creativity through different game dynamics: drawing with our eyes closed, improvising movements based on music, creating a dialogue with chance through collage, exploring the world of dreams or leaving a record of emotions imprinted on clay, among others.

We will try to reach that wonderful state that makes art inevitable. After a week of creative practices, the CCCB Hall will breathe the air moved by the creative force of the Culturnauts.

 

Week 4. July 21 to 25
"A plastic island" Let's imagine and create a scenography about the oceans.
By Oriol Corral.

The oceans are complex ecosystems that are necessary not only for the species that live there, but for the planet as a whole. The plastics that we humans generate are one of their main polluting agents.

This week, the Culturnautes will transform the hall of the CCCB into an immersive installation to tell the story of Captain Ahab and his friendship with Moby Dick on the island of plastic. Through art, recycling and collective creation, we will build a great scenography to delve into this story, reflect on ocean pollution and claim the key role of the oceans in maintaining the health of the planet and the species that inhabit it.

 

Who will be presenting it?

This year’s guest artists and collectives are:

• The Pink Pixel Collective. A collective of illustrators, playwrights and programmers focused on community creation processes.
• Silvia Renda, Valentina Alvarado Matos and Juan Antonio Cerezuela. Artists who investigate artistic devices collectively.
• Martina Rogers Manzano. Visual artist, based on play and experimentation, fuses various plastic techniques such as drawing, engraving, ceramics and animation in creative processes.
• Oriol Corral. Set designer involved in educational leisure.

The camp instructors team is created by the Fundació Sociocultural Atlas. This summer's team is composed of: Irena Yi Serra Arroyo, Andrea Argilés Morilla, Alae Eddine Moujane, Judit Casanovas Cucurella and Marina Francisco.

Each artist or collective designs and runs a week’s activities at the summer camp, with the support of the Fundació Sociocultural Atlas’s team of camp instructors.

 

How is it organised?

Each week focuses on a different area of interest linked to the CCCB’s exhibitions and activities. Artists are invited to design and run the morning activities, which aim to engage children in the creative, eye-opening processes at the heart of cultural languages. We share the results of each week’s creative exploits with families and the general public every Friday at 4.30 pm, which brings the week to a close. Afternoons are given over to recreational summer activities run by the team of instructors, and on Thursdays we go on an excursion.

To help children forge ties and discover shared interests, and to provide the best working environment for exploring ideas, they are usually put into groups with children of a similar age.

Participants sign up for one week at a time.