Neighbourhood Picnic
Our Lives Stand Opposite Their Wars. From Lavapiés to the World
Once again, for another year, the Museo Situado assembly invites all residents and communities from Madrid’s Lavapiés neighbourhood to pervade the Museo Reina Sofía, inhabiting its spaces and transforming its Garden at the Neighbourhood Picnic. In short, a chance to encounter, celebrate and vindicate the struggles, rights and desires that mobilise them every day.
Before a hegemonic economic, political and cultural system which, paraphrasing anthropologist and eco-feminist Yayo Herrero, has waged war on life, this sixth edition of the Neighbourhood Picnic is a call to reaffirm lives opposite the armed conflicts spreading around the world and the systemic violence and injustices which perforate all aspects of society. Thus, under the slogan Our Lives Stand Opposite Their Wars. From Lavapiés to the World, this day stresses the urgent need to re-situate life at the centre of everything, recognising the framework of interdependencies and mutual care that will allow us to advance towards common horizons.
The protests and campaigns that structure the day fall within three main strands. Firstly, Against All Borders, which denounces the physical and symbolic barriers that limit rights and exercise different forms of violence, condensing initiatives such as Regularisation Now; No to the European Pact on Migration and Asylum (PEMA); Against Police Violence in Lavapiés; Homeless Census. Voter Registration for All; and the campaign to make the professional illnesses of domestic and care workers more visible.
The second strand, The Right to Decent Housing for All, rallies the defence of the Lavapiés neighbourhood to oppose real estate speculation, gentrification and the escalation of tourism that drives out and evicts local residents.
Thirdly and finally, We Are Diverse, LGTBIQA+ Pride is a call to keep on spotlighting and defending the rights of sex-gender dissidences that inhabit, care for and make the neighbourhood, and with causes that denote a scream for freedom against a heteropatriarchal system and hate speech.
Programa
Playing, Activating and Pervading the Museo
Gymkhana in the Museo
Games for children between the ages 6 of 13, organised by the collectives Hola Vecinas and Esta es una plaza.
Play centre
A space for games and workshops aimed at children between the ages 6 of 13, organised by the collectives Hola Vecinas and Esta es una plaza.
In collaboration with: Escuela Savia and Savia with Tiān Mǎ Xíng Kōng.
Meeting point: Nouvel Building, main entrance
Gymkhana in the Museo: 40 people
Play centre: 60 people
Gymkhana in the Museo: free, until full capacity is reached, with prior registration via the collectives in the Museo Situado network
Play centre: free, until full capacity is reached
Thirty-minute tours around the Collection by mediators from the Aissatou Ndiaye School of Situated Mediation Recorridos de 30 minutos por la Colección a cargo de l+s mediador+s de la Escuela de mediación situada Aissatou Ndiaye.
11:30am, in Bengali
12pm, in Spanish
1pm, in Wolof
5pm, in Darija
Meeting point: Nouvel Building, main entrance
15 people on each tour
Free, until full capacity is reached, with prior registration via the collectives in the Museo Situado network
An encounter aimed at sparking creativity and improving Wikipedia content on people and concepts related to Blackness. Tania Safura Adam Mogne, from the Black Spain project, and Silvia Ramírez, from La Parcería, will participate in the workshop, which is organised with Wikimedia España inside the framework of the Seminar Black Iberian Studies from the Museo Reina Sofía’s Study Programme, Connective Tissue.
Nouvel Building, Study Centre, Classroom 2
30 people
Free, until full capacity is reached, with prior registration by filling out the following form
Encounter with philosopher and feminist activist Silvia Federici, organised by Museo Situado and La Laboratoria. The Space for Feminist Research.
Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200 and online platform
200 people
Free, until full capacity is reached
Our Lives Stand Opposite Their Wars
Evening snack organised by Tómate Algo and Valiente Bangla in the Sabatini Building Garden from 6pm
A space for play and workshops, facilitated by Esta es Una Plaza
Meeting point: Sabatini Building, main entrance
60 people
Free, until full capacity is reached
—Supported by Fanfarria Transfeminista
7pm Activation of the strand Against All Borders
In a context where physical and symbolic barriers are proliferating around the world, this activation shows its support for the campaigns Regularisation Now; No to the European Pact on Migration and Asylum (PEMA); Against Police Violence in Lavapiés; Homeless Census. Voter Registration for All and advocates the recognition of the professional illnesses of domestic and care workers. y reivindica el reconocimiento de las enfermedades profesionales de las trabajadoras del hogar y cuidados.
7:15pm Activation of the strand The Right to Decent Housing for All
Opposite a real estate model that is changing and posing a threat to Madrid’s Lavapiés neighbourhood, collectives and local residents speak out against evictions, speculation and the urgent need to guarantee access to decent housing.
7:30pm Activation of the strand We Are Diverse, LGTBIQA+ Pride
With the advance of the far right and hate speech, there is a need to keep on defending the rights of LGTBIQA+ people and collectives. This activation vindicates the pride of sex-gender dissidences that rebel against the heteropatriarchal system.
Sabatini Building, main entrance and Garden
500 people
Free, until full capacity is reached
7:45pm Welcome conducted by Amanda de la Garza (deputy artistic director of the Museo Reina Sofía) and Lucía López (Hola Vecinas)
8pm Recognition for students from Museo Situado Schools
8:15pm Presentation of Bollywood Dance Dostana
8:30pm Kulumbá
9pm La Tom son
Sabatini Building, main entrance and Garden
500 people
Free, until full capacity is reached