The MACA joins this interesting initiative for the fourth time with the release throughout the day of 15 copies from its bibliographic collection, which passersby will be able to find in any plaza, street or corner of the city and its surroundings.
Furthermore, and as has also happened in previous editions, the Museum will release a limited quantity of books that will be given free of charge to all those visitors who wish to do so.
Promoting the habit of reading, bringing art closer through books and making citizens part of it, creating a great reading chain, are the main objectives pursued during this day.
For the seventh consecutive year, a total of 55 museums and art centers will share on April 23rd next, on the occasion of International Book Day, a bookcrossing experience or book release campaign, with the aim of flooding cities with volumes from the duplicate collection of their respective libraries. Participants have planned to put into circulation more than 2,000 free books with the intention that those who collect them enjoy their reading and release them again at another different point in the world. All released books will be accredited with their corresponding labels, will contain the necessary instructions to facilitate the reader's participation in the campaign and will be registered on the website www.bookcrossing-spain.com, where readers will be able to indicate the place where they will release each copy. The objective of this initiative is to add the libraries of the museums to the effort to promote reading and, more specifically, to the dissemination of knowledge of the different cultural disciplines.
The MACA will participate for the fourth consecutive year in this interesting international proposal.
As we have done in other years, during tomorrow's event, commemorating Book Day, the Museum will give a maximum of two copies of some of our books to anyone who wishes.
The Valencian Community has 3 other participating centers, with only MACA in the province of Alicante.
On April 23, 47 museum libraries and art and culture centers will flood cities with books on the occasion of International Book Day.
These centers join in a bookcrossing experience in which more than 2,500 volumes related to different disciplines were released.
For the sixth consecutive year, a total of 47 museums and art centers shared on April 23, on the occasion of International Book Day, a bookcrossing experience or book release campaign, with the aim of flooding cities with volumes from the duplicate collection of their respective libraries. Participants planned to put into circulation more than 2,500 free books with the intention that those who collect them enjoy reading them and release them again at another point in the world. All released books are accredited with their respective labels, contain the necessary instructions to facilitate the reader's participation in the campaign and will be registered on the website www.bookcrossing-spain.com, where readers can indicate the place where they will release each copy. The objective of this initiative is to add museum libraries to the effort to promote reading, and more specifically, to disseminate knowledge of the different cultural disciplines.
Since its international appearance in 2001, bookcrossing has only multiplied the number of participants in this type of initiative. Parallel to bookcrossing and as happened last year, MACA will set up a free book delivery point for all visitors who wish to do so.
From Tuesday afternoon the 22nd and until supplies run out, each visitor will be able to take a maximum of two books per person free of charge.
The books that will be given away are part of the museum's bibliographic collections and are mainly made up of catalogs from past exhibitions.
On April 21st, coordinated by the Artium in Vitoria, numerous libraries of museums and art and culture centers will share their publications on the occasion of the celebration of International Book Day, and they will do so through the bookcrossing experience or book release campaign.
Each participating center has selected one or several publications that are part of its collection and, with all of them, a video has been prepared that we share in this campaign to promote reading and the dissemination of contemporary culture.
The MACA will also leave a counter full of publications on the ground floor of the museum that visitors can take home.
Although traditionally the night can be associated with darkness and the unknown, in children's play it acquires positive and creative dimensions. Mystery, adventure, fears, imagination and magic, introspection, transformation, connection with the universe, time of secrets and whispers. The night is linked to another powerful symbol for childhood: the moon.
The Letters and Images Laboratories are an original model of activity within the programming of cultural spaces. These laboratories are a field of learning and discovery and an opportunity to showcase high-quality books both for what they tell and how they tell it. These laboratories unite play, reading and creativity.
It is a space for creation that invites experimentation around reading understood in the broadest sense of the term: reading with all the senses, the reading of images and sounds, literary creation as play and poetic imagination as an artistic form.
THE TREE: The tree is one of the richest and most recurring symbols in children's literature, laden with meanings that connect with emotions, nature and children's experiences. Its symbolism ranges from the protective and ancestral to the magical and transformative. It symbolizes wisdom, shelter, challenge, meeting point and community, strength and resilience, roots represent family, the cycles of life and so much more. The symbol of the tree is immense.
This story laboratory for playing with lights and shadows was created on the occasion of Kara Walker's Burning Village exhibition at MACA.
Based on her work—known for the use of black silhouettes cut out of paper—, we explore together with girls, boys and their families themes such as racism, identity and gender, through illustrated books and artistic creation.
The activity is structured in three parts:
A selection of books on anti-racism, adapted to different ages, which helps us contextualize the content of Walker's work.
A selection of books about shadows and silhouettes, which brings us closer to her visual and aesthetic language.
A space for play and creation, where we experiment with silhouettes on a light table and create a collective stop-motion animation with black cardboard cutouts.
A proposal to read, create and reflect from childhood about the power of images and the stories that build memory.
Welcome to the Laboratory of Letters and Images: Books and Stories about Dreams, a unique space where books invite us to dream. Through creative readings, we discover how dreams represent desires, fantasies, and imagination. Join this journey with activities such as creating dream amulets with balloons, full of messages and colors. A laboratory for dreaming and enjoying the magic of books! The dream, a symbol of the subconscious, is associated with desires, fantasy, and surrealist imagination. In many cultures, dreams are also considered bearers of messages or omens, and can symbolize the connection with the spiritual or the unknown. It can also remind us of the warm moment before going to sleep: the bedtime story and the lullaby that precedes sleep.
In this Laboratory María Maraña immerses us in a multisensory literary journey, with a selection of books that explore the senses in creative and surprising ways.
From the in-person laboratory, where concepts such as synesthesia and kinesthesia were addressed, to the online version focused on touch, we discover how the sensory world can be enriched through literature.
In addition to reviewing works such as The Dance of Hands or The Forest, the article invites us to explore new forms of tactile connection through illustrated albums and the creation of sensory fabric books, opening a space where art, the senses, and imagination converge.
An inspiring proposal to discover the power of touch and creativity in children's literature.
Can you imagine reading a book and discovering that, with some simple colored glasses, the images come to life? That is precisely what happens with anaglyphic books, a unique proposal that combines art, technology, and literature to create surprising visual experiences.
These books not only tell stories, but they invite us to interact with them, exploring hidden images that seem to jump off the page. There are many albums that invite us to discover hidden images with color filters. These "magic filters" sometimes come in the form of viewers, other times they have the shape of a magnifying glass or glasses. They are generally blue and red and work by erasing red ink from our view and highlighting blue ink or vice versa. In this way, a visual effect is created that makes parts of the drawing appear and disappear, causing amazement and surprise in the person reading.
But today we want to go a little further and discover the ANAGLYPHIC EFFECT. There are few books designed with this 3D effect, but the ones that exist are amazing.
In this article we explain what anaglyphs are, how red-blue filters work to create this 3D effect, and why these works are true gems for those seeking something more than reading: they want to discover, be surprised, and play with reading!
They are flexible books that invite us to creativity, to share stories aloud, to "hack" their initial reading proposal to invent other ways of reading.
MYRIORAMAS.
Myrioramas are a type of illustrated book that consists of a series of images or scenes printed on independent cards, which can be combined in different ways to create landscapes or visual narratives. Each image can be placed next to all the others; it doesn't matter in what order you put them, they will always match and create a panoramic image that makes sense. This allows an "infinite game" of creating scenes and stories, by allowing us to combine the cards in so many ways.
The term "myriorama" comes from the Greek "myrios", which means "countless" or "innumerable", and "orama", which refers to a view or panorama. This type of book became popular in the nineteenth century and was used for both entertainment and education.
