Activities at schools

We make LA CAIXA DEL LLIURE available to the educational community through the Educational Consortium’s Single Call for Applications for Programmes.

Guided by the artist Anna Rubirola/Col·lectiu Big Bouncers, the Barcelona centers Escola Segre, Institut Escola Mestre Morera, Institut Escola Turó de Roquetes, Nou Patufet Cooperativa Escolar and Escola Cervantes implement a nursery or primary school CAIXA in their classrooms. A stage in the classroom fosters theatre practice from ages 3 to 12.

The nursery school CAIXA (ages 3 to 7) follows the philosophy of the old mini-theatres and plays with shadow, visual, puppet and object theatre. With the primary school CAIXA (ages 8 to 12), the theatre gets bigger and turns into a fold-out device with lights, sound and a set that enables a custom stage to be built.

For both of them, the Lliure provides the schools with LA CAIXA, an instruction manual and specific training for the teachers so that the students can fill them with knowledge, intuition, expression and experimentation by presenting their own stories.

The Teatre Lliure is joining the Escoles Tàndem programme of the Fundació Catalunya - La Pedrera. In three years, it is promoting the collaboration between a school and an institution in order to apply an innovation process, in our case through the performing arts. It’s an opportunity to reflect on our educational activities. The collaboration is with the Escola La Sedeta in the Gràcia neighbourhood.

This is a new edition of the Barcelona Culture Institute (ICUB) and the Barcelona Educational Consortium (CEB) programme to foster the practice of contemporary creation at public secondary schools. The Teatre Lliure continues to participate in it as a mediator.

From September until the end of the school year, Carla Torres, an actress, playwright and director, will develop the project Què els hem fet? [What Have We Done to Them?], about adolescent mental disorders, in a public school in the city of Barcelona. At the end of the school year, the outcome of the process will be presented in public.

AGE
12 to 16

This is the sixth edition of this educational and artistic project of the Barcelona Culture Institute and the Teatre Lliure, which is based on having different public schools in Barcelona collectively create a show with a professional stage director.

In the 24/25 school year, the creator Mercè Vila Godoy and the Cia. La Banda are going to work with students and teachers of secondary schools Caterina Albert, Josep Pla, Les Corts, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and the Institut del Teatre on Éssers camaleònics project. So the students aged 14 to 18 will be able to see a live show created collectively in contact with the professional scene. The teachers will also be given tools so they can learn about and use theatre language and techniques in the classroom. We want theatre creation to be accessible to young people and to enhance their social and educational lives. The resulting show can be seen on June 11 and 12 at the Espai Lliure in Montjuïc.

laCultivadora is embarking on long-term training for teachers (awaiting recognition from the Catalan Ministry of Education) promoted by six national performance and music venues: L’Auditori, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Mercat de les Flors, the Palau de la Música Catalana, the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and the Teatre Lliure. The training aims to contribute to creating audiences who enjoy, learn and are informed and especially prompting the desire to create!

The training has two parts:

Spectators’ School: This is a series of shows to familiarise participants with the six national performance and music venues. Between October 2024 and May 2025, participants will attend one show at each of the facilities, as well as a preparatory session.

The dates and proposed works are:

— 26 October. Teatre Lliure. La gavina
— 23 November. Palau de la Música Catalana. Western Music
— 15 February. Gran Teatre del Liceu. Requiem
— 29 March. Mercat de les Flors. Natural Order of Things
— 26 April. Teatre Nacional de Catalunya. Tercera fuga
— 31 May. L’Auditori. The Planets by Gustav Holst

Creation Lab: Along with the artist Toni Viñals, the choreographer Cristina Martí and the playwright Julià Vilà, the participants in the training will create a temporary company and become the main players in a multidisciplinary collective creation that will culminate with the presentation of the show in the Sala Petita of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya.
There will be a total of six three-hour training sessions at each facility on the same day that the participants attend a show, but just before it, along with three specific rehearsals for the final show, a dress rehearsal and the show on 26 June.

The lab calendar is:

— 26 October. Teatre Lliure
— 23 November. Palau de la Música Catalana
— 15 February. Gran Teatre del Liceu
— 29 March. Mercat de les Flors
— 26 April. Teatre Nacional de Catalunya
— 31 May. L’Auditori
— 16, 17 and 18 June, afternoon. Dress rehearsal for the final show, venue to be determined
— 26 June, afternoon. Show in the Sala Petita of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya

TARGET AUDIENCE
Early childhood, primary and secondary school teachers

PRICE
€110

Based on the dossiers that come with the shows, we have created a glossary of terms specific to the performing arts. The entries you find here were written by kids aged 5 to 16 as a tool to expand young people’s (and adults’!) performing-arts vocabulary.