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AVANT GARDEN MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES
Intermediae / Avant Garden
28 February, 12 pm - 2 pm

Avant Garden maintenance activities. Avant Garden has the qualities of a wild rose garden. It is a garden shared by visitors, creators, passers-by... and a place for co-existence and exchange, as well as for learning, enjoyment and rest. The workshops will be focused on investigating into the concept and philosophy of atelier le balto.

  

SCREENINGS AT TERRARIO / SUEÑO A PIÑÓN FIJO
Rafael Benito
Friday 26 February (2010), 7.30 p.m.

Screenings at Terrario is a programme that regularly presents videos, documentaries and films related to our programming. This programme will be held as a film forum on the last Friday of each month, with an invitation following the screenings to dialogue and debate with creators

— DOCMA, the Documentary Film Association, presents Three Perspectives on Independent Documentary Films in Spain.
  
    SUEÑO A PIÑÓN FIJO. Rafael Benito
    Friday 26 February, 7.30 p.m.

The director of the documentary and Andrea Guzmán from DOCMA will be present at the debate following the screening.

Jean Marie has been a bicycle messenger for the last ten years. In London, he has gained a reputation for organizing the maddest, most innovative “Alleycats”, which are illegal races held at rush hour. Now, with his friend Mike’s help, he is trying to set up the first “alleycat” race on the crowded streets of Paris. As a messenger, Jean Marie is part of an urban subculture that prizes independence, risk-taking and freedom in contemporary urban life. As the father of a two-year-old son, his responsibilities begin to weigh on him, leading him to question his lifestyle.

URBAN FRUIT ACTION [ARCOmadrid_ 2010]
Fallen Fruit
From 16 to 21, February 2010. Base camp until 14 March

People think of our cities as vital, living places, but what does it mean to live in a concrete canyon with nothing green and no food anywhere but in restaurants and stores?

Urban Fruit Action asks what would happen if instead of driving to the market for a peach you just walked out the door? Why can our streets not be vital green spaces that provide organic fruit for people to share communally?

Fallen Fruit invites you to take part in Acción Fruta Urbana. Visit their Base Camp set up in Intermediæ from February 16th onwards, designed as a place for reunion, collaboration, work and exchange with the collective. A meeting point where to undertake the actions and where the progress of their initiative in Madrid will be displayed. Once the actions are over, and up until March 14th, a selection of their works will be become the protagonist in this space in order to account for their career and experience in Madrid.

//AL MATADERO SIN MIEDO (TO THE MATADERO WITHOUT FEAR)// PIECES BY BELÉN SÁNCHEZ
Debajo del sombrero (Under the Hat)
From 3 February to 31 March

The //Al Matadero sin miedo// (To the Slaughterhouse without Fear) project aims to generate new relational models for artistic practices for persons with cognitive and developmental difficulties. The group holds weekly workshops at the Terrario that aim to generate a space that is flexible and receptive enough to accept, accompany and enhance any kind of communication. 

AVANT GARDEN MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES
Intermediae / Avant Garden
31 January, 12 pm - 2 pm

Avant Garden maintenance activities. Avant Garden has the qualities of a wild rose garden. It is a garden shared by visitors, creators, passers-by... and a place for co-existence and exchange, as well as for learning, enjoyment and rest. The workshops will be focused on investigating into the concept and philosophy of atelier le balto.

 

SCREENINGS AT TERRARIO / ESTRELLAS DE LA LÍNEA
Chema Rodríguez
Friday 29 January (2010), 7.30 pm

“Screenings at Terrario” opens its 2010 programme with a series devoted to independent documentary films in Spain. The series, titled Three Perspectives on Independent Documentary Films in Spain (Tres miradas al documental independiente español), begins on Friday, 29 January at 7:30 p.m. The series presents key films that are examples of change in the field of documentary films produced in Spain in recent years.

The series, coordinated in conjunction with DOCMA (adocma.blogspot.com), the Documentary Film Association, opens with the film “Estrellas de la línea”, in which director Chema Rodríguez tells the story of Valeria, Vilma, Mercy and their teammates, prostitutes in Guatemala who form a soccer team to make visible the harassment, violence, and other problems they face on a daily basis.

FREE(K) CULTURE / CALLS FOR FLUX SKOOL WORKSHOPS AND FLUX STUDIO
Jay Barros

Free(k) Culture aims to foster a community of users and creators who use free tools and licences for creation, and to promote these productions through workshops, meetings, presentations, software development, etc.

— CALL FOR FLUX SKOOL WORKSHOPS

Starting in January, artists and users are invited to participate in Flux Skool, a series of workshops offering training and the dissemination of free tools for audiovisual creation, sound composition, and the fields of performances and shows.

Free tools for audiovisual creation: From 22 to 25 February, 5 pm - 9 pm
Free tools for sound composition: From 22 to 25 March, 5 pm - 9 pm
Free tools for performances and shows: From 26 to 29 Abril, 5 pm - 9 pm

For applications contact: jay@freekculture.net / info@intermediae.es

— CALL FOR FLUX STUDIO

Starting in January, musicians, artists, and creators who work with copyleft licences are invited to send their works to be collected on a DVD anthology to be distributed thereafter. The DVD anthology will be produced in work sessions with participants in March and April.

For applications contact: http://freekculture.net/creadoreslibres / info@intermediae.es


> freekculture.net
> 2009 Contemporary Creation Grants Programme

Call for proposals. Grants For Contemporary Creation Matadero Madrid 2010. Application deadline 16 February 2010, Requirements and application forms are available at: www.mataderomadrid.com

//AL MATADERO SIN MIEDO (TO THE MATADERO WITHOUT FEAR)// PIECES BY CARLOS MARISCAL
Debajo del sombrero (Under the Hat)
From 2 December to 31 January

The //Al Matadero sin miedo// (To the Slaughterhouse without Fear) project aims to generate new relational models for artistic practices for persons with cognitive and developmental difficulties.
The group holds weekly workshops at the Terrario that aim to generate a space that is flexible and receptive enough to accept, accompany and enhance any kind of communication. As of December, they are presenting a space to exhibit the works of the artists participating in the project. As of 2 December, three video pieces by Carlos Mariscal can be seen. Formas de envolver y de filmar; 4 preguntas; and Memoria, three pieces in which Carlos explores a new form of communication that enables him to broaden his relational world, explore his wishes and share his memories.

> www.debajodelsombrero.org
> 2009 Contemporary Creation Grants Programme

  

SCREENINGS AT TERRARIO / LT22 RADIO LA COLIFATA
Carlos Larrondo
Saturday 19 December, 6:30 p.m.

The Terrario's screenings are an audiovisual proposal that regularly presents videos, documentaries, and films related to the Intermediæ's programming. The next programme presents LT22 Radio La Colifata. From the garden of the Psychiatric Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, J.T Borda broadcasts LT Radio La Colifata (Loony Radio), a radio station run entirely by hospital patients. Its protagonists , the “colifatos” (loonies), show us how this radio station is broadcast worldwide, breaking down barriers that separated the ill from society, giving a voice to those who for so long were silenced. The “colifatos” (loonies) travel to Europe, where they see the effects of their pioneering project in other psychiatric hospitals. On their return to Buenos Aires, Manu Chao offers a concert to a huge crowd in aid of Radio La Colifata, sharing the stage with our protagonists.