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  • TOPIC. International Center for Puppetry and Marionette

    TOPIC. International Center for Puppetry and Marionette

    Format

    • Center Address
    • Strategic plan development
    • Museum and Festival Management
    • Exhibition Program
    • Expanded Program
    • Workshops
    • Public interventions
    • Publication
    • Training

    Topic. (Tolosa Puppet International Centre) is the Tolosa International Puppet Centre, inaugurated in 2009. It is the only comprehensive centre dedicated to the art of puppetry in Europe, conceived as a reference space for the creation, conservation, research and dissemination of puppet theatre.

    • Performing Arts
    • address
    • Museum
    • Exhibitions
    • Festival
    • Didactics
    • Program
    • Puppets
    • Strategic Direction
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  • AMBULATEGIAK PRÁCTICAS AMBULATORIAS

    AMBULATEGIAK PRÁCTICAS AMBULATORIAS

    Format

    • Prototype design and proposal presentation

    Ambulatories / Ambulatory Practices brings together three prototypes focused on preventive improvement strategies for the work of cultural and creative agents. These are three very different proposals that investigate several issues related to the current situation of the cultural sector and, based on a subsequent diagnosis emerging from a collaborative analysis, offer three proposals or prototypes aimed at responding to these problems and preventing them.

    • Cultural Rights
    • Sustainability
    • Social inclusion
    • Management practices
    • Open-source design
    • Health
    • Prototyping
    • Social justice
    • Feminism
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  • AmonaTela

    AmonaTela

    Format

    • Proiektu

    AmonaTela is a personal practice or artistic project developed within the framework of the Doctoral Thesis project More Fabric, More Layers. It explores concepts such as DIY, digital fabrication and open-source approaches, reuse and sustainability, as well as craftsmanship and the transmission of artisan knowledge through fashion.

    • Research
    • Art
    • Fashion
    • Sustainability
    • Technology
    • DIY
    • Workshops
    • Textile recipes
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  • Feminist Contemporary Art. Women who do things. I / II and III

    Feminist Contemporary Art. Women who do things. I / II and III

    Format

    • Courses and experiential visits

    The role of women artists in Art History and Art has been invisibilized, as in many other areas of knowledge.

    Women Who Make Things is an ironic title from which to approach artistic production and its importance in the current feminist movement and thought. But above all, and through the course block under this title, it aims to create safe spaces of knowledge and exchange for and among women.

    • Art History
    • Contemporary art
    • Mediation
    • Gender perspective
    • Training
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  • Basurama 2x1 Basurama 2x1

    Basurama 2x1

    Format

    • Exhibition

    This exhibition by the Basurama Architects collective invites visitors to approach, interact with, and manipulate different objects, games, instruments, and other utensils, turning the exhibition spaces into centers of participation and engagement for audiences of all ages with waste and reuse. The exhibition is therefore playful and interactive, but also educational. In fact, visitors have DIY explanatory sheets in the form of instruction manuals to develop some of the pieces on display at home.

    • Art
    • Sustainability
    • Game
    • Architecture
    • Participation
    • Gastronomy
    • Public space
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  • Bastero Cultural Center. Exhibition program

    Bastero Cultural Center. Exhibition program

    Format

    • Exhibition Program
    • Expanded Program
    • Workshops
    • Public interventions

    During 2006, 2007, and 2008, an exhibition program was designed and developed for the Bastero Cultural Center in Andoain (Gipuzkoa) with the aim of bringing closer art practices more peripheral than what is called social art.

    • Arteleku
    • Graphic arts
    • Action Art
    • Fashion
    • Urban Culture
    • Sustainability
    • Feminist Practices
    • Citizen participation
    • Publication
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  • With DON HERBERT's guidance

    With DON HERBERT's guidance

    • Arteleku
    • Lithography
    • Screen printing
    • Workshop
    • Contemporary art
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  • Systems Design: The Ulm School and the Braum Company

    Systems Design: The Ulm School and the Braum Company

    Format

    • Exhibition

    This exhibition was the main exhibition of the Second Edition of MUGAK; the Basque Country International Architecture Biennial. The exhibition highlights the artistic and heritage contributions of the Ulm School of Architecture—founded in 1953 in that German city—a center that researched and developed urban planning, industrial architecture, product design, graphic design, and communication during the 1950s and 60s. It was a continuation and development of the Bauhaus Weimar-Dessau-Berlin, whose centenary is being celebrated this year. In fact, Ulm's first rector was Max Bill, a Swiss artist, architect, and designer who was also a Bauhaus.

    • Architecture
    • Art
    • Bauhaus
    • Ulm
    • Braum
    • School
    • Exhibition
    • Bienal
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  • DSS2016EU. Donostia European Capital of Culture 2016

    DSS2016EU. Donostia European Capital of Culture 2016

    Format

    • CANDIDACY PROJECT FOR THE CITY OF DONOSTIA/SAN SEBASTIAN. EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 201

    From 2008 to 2011, the city of Donostia/San Sebastian presented its candidacy to become the European Capital of Culture. Throughout different phases, a team of people who envisioned a city free from violence and a cultural project based on coexistence between different groups (cultures, origins, activities, ways of life) as a driving force for change developed a project grounded in the energy of the waves of citizen participation.

    • Waves of Civic Energy
    • Art
    • Culture
    • Citizen participation
    • Research
    • European project
    • Feminism
    • Sustainability of life
    • Tangible heritage
    • Intangible heritage
    • Peace
    • Coexistence
    • Creative and cultural industries
    • Program
    • Activities
    • Publication
    • Social justice
    • Architecture and urban planning
    • Cultural policy
    • Public administration
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  • Egile(ak)

    Egile(ak)

    Format

    • Individual and group exhibitions
    • Curatorship
    • Curation
    • Contemporary art
    • Youth creation
    • Exhibition
    • Visual arts
    • Installation
    • Audiovisual
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  • The long and winding road

    The long and winding road

    Format

    • Exhibition

    Through this exhibition project, it is intended to teach and highlight the reaction, slow, insecure and often misunderstood, but firm in its convictions, of spontaneous civic movements of intellectuals, creators, groups, and individuals, who were gaining the streets and public opinion against fear and confrontation slogans.

    • Historical Memory
    • Peace
    • Coexistence
    • Culture
    • Terrorism
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  • Future City Jobs. The Loaf in a box.

    Format

    • Pilot Project
    • Urban Intervention

    Project aimed at rethinking the city by creating new spaces that connect the outskirts with the city centre through the activation of the river. The ultimate goal is to identify opportunity spaces for young entrepreneurs developing artistic and cultural projects, helping to prevent the loss of local talent.

    • Creative and cultural industries
    • Youth employment
    • Rethinking the city
    • Urban planning and architecture
    • Citizen participation
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  • Civil War in Gipuzkoa: Resistance & Dignity

    Civil War in Gipuzkoa: Resistance & Dignity

    Format

    • Citizen Participation Workshops
    • Performance
    • Performance

    Civil War in Gipuzkoa: Resistance and Dignity is an exhibition project curated by historian Antoni Nicolau, aiming to highlight the people above the military events. This exhibition is part of a long-term effort to recover intangible heritage and rewrite collective memory.

    • Civil War
    • Historical Memory
    • Participation
    • Gender perspective
    • Documentation and archive
    • History
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  • Kbulegoa

    Kbulegoa

    Format

    • Service strategy

    Kbulegoa is a public service for supporting, assisting, and accompanying the cultural and creative sector of Gipuzkoa. It offers guidance to individuals, collectives, and organisations in the territory—whether amateur or professional—helping them shape their projects professionally and submit them to the various existing public funding schemes.

    • Mediation
    • Creation office
    • Cultural and artistic ecosystem
    • Network
    • Grants
    • Public service
    • Training
    • Public policy
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  • Luis Gasca. Comic & Cinema Luis Gasca. Comic & Cinema

    Luis Gasca. Comic & Cinema

    Format

    • Analog and digital exhibition

    Donostia: Luis Gasca, comic and cinema. Luis Gasca, comic and cinema, The exhibition pays tribute to his figure through his collection of documents linked to the world of comics, which is part of the heritage collections of Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea (KMK).

    • Digital
    • Co-production
    • Exhibition
    • Comic
    • cinema
    • Digital
    • Co-production
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  • LUMAFest!

    LUMAFest!

    Format

    • Festival

    LumaFest! arises from the demand for a young literature festival (Young Literature-YA!) to expand the audience of the Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea Library. A market research carried out by the specialist, writer, and literary critic Slawska Grabowska created the opportunity to formulate a festival-format project with Spanish literary novelties, local literary production in Basque, and international content to provide titles for the library space and a loyal audience that relates in a peculiar way both with the authors of this genre and with their literary creations.

    • Literature
    • New Formats
    • Reading
    • Library
    • Youth
    • Young Adult
    • new audience
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  • Extraordinary women

    Extraordinary women

    This exhibition is part of a transformative research program called RE-WIRING, funded by the European Union. In addition to the University of Deusto, it is organized in collaboration with other prominent institutions, including the University of Portsmouth (UK), Center for Inclusive Leadership (GB), University of Western Cape (South Africa), University of Utrecht (Netherlands), and University of Gdańsk (Poland).

    • Women
    • Work
    • Digital Exhibition
    • Feminist Perspective
    • Gender
    • Productive
    • Reproductive
    • Time
    • Industrial Heritage
    • Ethnography
    • Contemporary art
    • Video Creation
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  • Parentesi Festibala. A Culture to listen to

    Format

    • Festival

    Parentesi Festibala is an exhibition of contents, channels, platforms, formats, and modes of cultural transmission in the digital environment.

    This first edition collects a selection of podcasts and other types of listenable content that, especially after the pandemic, have proliferated and positioned themselves as a new way to access very diverse cultural proposals.

    • Culture
    • Podcast
    • Audiovisual
    • Critical Thinking
    • Audible Content
    • New Formats
    • new audience
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  • Porcelanas Bidasoa: Industry, Art and Memory

    Porcelanas Bidasoa: Industry, Art and Memory

    Format

    • Exhibition

    The exhibition is a journey through almost 80 years of the factory’s history, a place that forms part of the collective imagination of Basque industrial memory. The factory, located in Irún, was looted after its closure due to bankruptcy, and many of the pieces designed and manufactured there are part of the GORDAILUA collection (Center for Heritage Collections of movable goods of Gipuzkoa).

    • Industrial Heritage
    • Feminism
    • Work
    • Gender perspective
    • Art
    • Industry
    • Ceramics
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  • DELIB NETWORK

    DELIB NETWORK

    Format

    • Web

    Delib is an Iberian Network of organizations and individuals that promote and advance deliberative democracy.

    It was created in 2023 and is a community of practice that encourages the incorporation of deliberative tools into the political system. To that end, it makes citizen assemblies visible and supports the organizations and individuals who promote, design, and implement them.

    • Participatory Democracy
    • Citizen participation
    • Digital Strategy
    • Web
    • Gender perspective
    • ROLE
    • Communication Strategy
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  • RIBERA

    Format

    • Festival

    The Ribera Festival aims to highlight the cultural and artistic ecosystem, as well as the intangible heritage and memory of the Bidasoa River and the border between Spain (Irun) and France (Hendaye).

    • Contemporary art
    • Anthropology
    • Participation
    • Intangible heritage
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  • SOINULABOR

    Format

    • Cultural program

    Soinulabor is a programme aimed at training and supporting local cultural agents which, through live arts and music, connects professional practitioners with local amateur agents to promote projects with greater social impact.

    • Performing arts
    • Music
    • Participation
    • Professional-amateur
    • Program
    • Cultural policy
    • Public administration
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  • All Tomorrow's Libraries

    Format

    • Expanded Program
    • Exhibition
    • Publication

    The exhibition explores a selection of the world’s most interesting libraries, from classical ones such as Alexandria or the British Library, to contemporary examples like Dokk1 Aarhus, Oodi Helsinki, and the Hyundai Card Libraries in Seoul, as well as proposals that go beyond the traditional concept of library, such as the Aby Warburg Library, the Mobile Public Libraries of Colombia, or the Human Library, composed of human “books.”

    • Libraries
    • Kultura Zentroak
    • Contemporary art
    • Research
    • Publication
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  • Zeharkatzen / Crossing Limits

    Zeharkatzen / Crossing Limits

    Format

    • Exhibition

    This exhibition explores, through the work of Pilar Soberón, the limits of physicality and materiality in architectural space. The body as a physical entity is an occupied and occupying body, but it also articulates between the limits of the intangible, the carnal, and the non-material, such as sound, light, and volume…

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