Neighbourhood Picnic

Walking Together to Make a Commons

  • Encounter
  • Seminars and Lectures
Picnic del barrio, jardín del Museo Reina Sofía, 2021. Fotografía: Ela Rabasco (Ela R que R)
Neighbourhood Picnic, Museo Reina Sofía garden, 2021. Photograph: Ela Rabasco (Ela R que R)
Date and time

Held on Saturday, 4 June 2022 - Check programme

Location
Sabatini Building, main entrance and Garden
Capacity
500 people

The Neighbourhood Picnic constitutes an annual opportunity to create a space where Lavapiés (Madrid) residents can come together in the Museo’s Garden. A place for everyone and part of the daily life of the neighbourhood in which it is situated.  

Once again, the struggles and protests of different collectives that make up the Museo Situado network are centred, with the following focal points framing the encounter: #Esenciales* #RegularizacionYa (#Essential* #RegularisationNow), an initiative for the regularisation of migrant people in an irregular administrative situation; #Ratificacion189Ya (#Ratification189Now), a movement to fight for the ratification of Agreement 189 of the International Work Organisation (OIT); and #StopExclusionSanitaria (#StopHealthExclusion), a movement to make the health exclusion faced by thousands of migrant people visible.

Throughout the day, the intervention Resistance will be carried out by the Fiestas Populares de Lavapiés platform, as well as three sections corresponding to the aforementioned campaigns — one, #Esenciales* #RegularizacionYa, aims to collect signatures for the Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP), which seeks to extraordinarily regulate 500,000 undocumented people.

Organised by

Collaboration

Dragones de Lavapiés, Fiestas Populares de Lavapiés, Hola Vecinas, Red Interlavapiés, Red Solidaria de Acogida, Sercade, Territorio Doméstico, Tómate Algo and Valiente Bangla

  • 11am – 2pm Sabatini Building, main entrance

    Gymkhana Around the Museo

    A game for children aged between 10 and 13, organised by the Hola Vecinas collective.

  • 12pm – 2pm Sabatini Building, main entrance

    Dancing Territory

    A workshop of world folklore dances and the way in which they converge in Spanish territory through contemporary dance. Overseen by choreographer Deisy Mesías García.

  • 5pm – 7pm Sabatini Building, main entrance

    Guided Tours in Other Tongues

    Thirty-minute tours around the Museo Reina Sofía Collection, conducted by students from the School of Situated Mediation.

    5pm In Bengali
    5:30pm In Darija
    6pm In Wolof
    6:30pm In Spanish

  • 6pm – 10pm Sabatini Building, main entrance and Garden

    Everything From Joy

    With MCs Batouly and José Armando

    6pm / Sabatini Building, Garden
    Picnic
    Conducted by Tómate Algo.  

    6:30pm Sabatini Building, main entrance
    Performance and Game
    #LaLlamanUniversalYNoLoEs (#TheyCallItUniversalButItIsn’t) is a performance by the Museo Situado Assembly which revolves around health exclusion. Inguye ienguya, las fronteras a cruzar (Borders to Cross) is a game organised by Red Interlavapiés.

    7pm Sabatini Building, Garden
    Live Music and Dance
    7pm: Valiente Bangla, Bangla music
    7:30pm: Dance with Territorio Doméstico
    8pm: Welcome conducted by Manuel Borja-Villel (director of Museo Reina Sofía) and Nines Cejudo (Red Solidaria de Acogida).
    8:30pm: Gnawa Marrakech, Moroccan music
    9pm: Somato, African music

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Picnic del barrio, jardín del Museo Reina Sofía, 2021. Fotografía: Ela Rabasco (Ela R que R)
Picnic del barrio, jardín del Museo Reina Sofía, 2022
Picnic del barrio, jardín del Museo Reina Sofía, 2022
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