Open doors and free activities on International Museum Day

18th may 2008

Introduction

• ALL VISITORS WILL RECEIVE A CARD THAT WILL GUARANTEE THEM FREE ACCESS TO WORK DURING THE NEXT THREE MONTHS • GUIDED VISITS, TOURS THROUGH THE MOST UNKNOWN AREAS OF THE CENTER AND LEISURE-CREATIVE ACTIVITIES AIMED AT YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES ARE PART OF THE PROGRAM • 25 REGISTRATIONS TO ‘WORK FRIENDS’ FOR FREE

LABoral Center for Art and Industrial Creation has organized an extensive program of activities on the occasion of International Museum Day, which is celebrated next Sunday, May 18 around the world.
LABoral will hold an open day on May 18 in which visitors will be able to access the Center, from 12 to 8 p.m., for free and participate in guided tours of the exhibitions and also to spaces in the Center that are not usually part of the conventional tours, the workshops and the classrooms in which the educational programs are developed. The Center for Art and Industrial Creation has organized to celebrate International Museum Day a wide program of recreational-creative activities, framed in the Family Day and young people in LABoral, whose recipients are children, young people and their families, with which it aims to support initiatives that are developed in their immediate environment starting from the Art Center as a dynamic space.

LABENFAMILY: “DISCOVER WORK THROUGH YOUR SENSES”
Creative and thematic tours through the Art Center, a space that occupies 14,000 square meters, and which includes, in addition to the exhibition rooms, those places that are not usually visited – workshops, warehouses, teaching classrooms – to get to know every corner and act in it through activities and creative mini-workshops. SCHEDULE: 12-14 and 16-18 hours DIRECTED: To families and children COORDINATES: Pintar-Pintar, a cultural company based in Asturias, for which Ester Sánchez and Ángela Sánchez are responsible VallinaPLACE: Visits will start from the Center lobby


LABENFAMILY: “COMETS IN WORK”
Kite building workshop for children at the LABcafé. Later they will be shown outside the Center, next to the poolHOURS: from 12 to 2 and from 4 to 6 p.m. DIRECTED: To families and childrenCOORDINATION: Wind AttractionPLACE: LABcaféMATERIALS: Eolo-sport


LABJOVEN: “ART IN THE AIR”
Learning and exhibition of kite flying outside LABoral, with the incentive of working on ways related to the Art Center and its activity and to the natural environment that surrounds it. SCHEDULE: 4-8 p.m. DIRECTED: To young people from Gijón
COORDINATES: Wind AttractionPLACE: Outside the Art Center, in the pool area

LABJOVEN: “ADRENALINE!”
Skateboarding and juggling activities outside LABoral Centro de Arte throughout the afternoon.

With the participation of Malayalam theaterthe neruloscoria
SCHEDULE: From 16-20 hours DIRECTED: To young people from GijónCOORDINATES: Wind Attraction and EoloMATERIALS: EoloPLACE: Outside the Art CenterAll these activities have the collaboration of Eolo-Sport, which will provide the material for the workshops coordinated by Wind Attraction. At the end of them, a contest will be held in which the Fun Kix ball will be raffled among those attending.


LABJOVEN: “JAM SESSION”
Music with young people from Gijón, self-organized, to promote cooperation between musicians, creators and fans. With the participation of the SEIDAD groupTIME: From 5 to 8 p.m. PLACE: Lobby of the Art CenterCOORDINATION: Open until Dawn