PROJECT BY JOAN MIQUEL GUAL. SALA D'ART JOVE + ACVIC
JOURNEY TO THE PAST OF SANTS. URBAN STRUGGLES THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE GUIDED TOUR
Autum 2017
A project by Joan Miquel Gual, given the 2016 Art Jove Education Grant promoted by the Sala d'Art Jove de la Generalitat de Catalunya, in collaboration with ACVic Centre d'Arts Contemporànies.
With the participation of IES Joan Peregrí, Barcelona.
Journey to the past of Sants is an educational activity consisting of a guided tour and a photographic workshop, aimed at 3rd year secondary school students from IES Joan Pelegrí. These activities will be used to explain the aims and the history of Sants’s neighbourhood movement, by means of first person accounts by some of the protagonists, as well as through photographs and documents, from people involved in the movement, to be found in the Sants Montjuïc District Archive, the Barcelona Photographic Archive, and the library at the Pavelló de la República.
On the 9th November, Pep Marcè, a teacher and neighbourhood activist, will tell students about the fight for the spaces of the Parc de l'Espanya Industrial, the Plaça de Sants, the Centre Cívic Cotxeres de Sants and Can Batlló, as well as the organisational role played by Sant Medir and the Centre Social de Sants in the struggles for public use. The form chosen for the activity will be a guided itinerary of six stops.
On the 14th of November, Joan Miquel Gual, a member of the association Memòria en moviment (Memory in Movement) and the inspiration behind the project, will take a photographic workshop at the Joan Pelegrí secondary school itself. The objective is to familiarise students with the most relevant images from the district’s past. With this information, students will open a Wikipedia page about the neighbourhood movement, which they themselves can complete, according to what interests them about the topic.
Also taking part: Lluïsa Erill (a teacher from IES Joan Pelegrí), Xavi Farré (Specialist Counciller from Districte Sants-Montjuïc), Agustí Giralt (historian), Pep Marcè, Arxiu de Districte Sants Montjuïc and the Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona.
Additional teaching: Montse Romaní
