Casa las Hoyicas, Art and Rice, is an Artistic Residency and a Rice School, with the aim of bringing Art closer to the Community and preserving, expanding and revaluing the agricultural and gastronomic culture of Calasparra Rice. A space for creation, training and learning, in a hundred-year-old house, surrounded by rice fields and the Segura River. The house will be reoriented to cultural use, Generating a space open to the Community, of participation, inclusive and Sustainable.
National
Spain
Calasparra, Región of Murcia
Mainly rural
It refers to a physical transformation of the built environment (hard investment)
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As a representative of an organisation
Name of the organisation(s): Amapuchi, Ama, Tierra, Energia. ( Amapuchi, Love, Earth, Energy ) Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation First name of representative: Sheila Andrea Last name of representative: Leon Painecura Gender: Female Nationality: Spain If relevant, please select your other nationality: Chile Function: President of the Association, Cultural Manager. Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Huerto, 15, Calasparra Town: Murcia Postal code: 30420 Country: Spain Direct Tel:+34 627 81 46 86 E-mail:revistarutadelarte@gmail.com Website:https://rutadelarte.cl/
We are creating an Artistic Residency and a Rice School, in order to bring Art closer to the Community and to preserve, expand and revalue the agricultural and gastronomic culture of Calasparra Rice, the first Rice in the world with Denomination of Origin. A space for creation, training and learning, in an emblematic centenary house, Casa las Hoyicas, 7 km. from the town, on the banks of the Segura river and with 5 Hc. dedicated to the cultivation of rice. The house will be reoriented to cultural use and implemented through bioconstruction and renewable and ecological technologies. We want to create a space open to the Community, for participation and activation, for intergenerational, inclusive and sustainable training. In this space and rice landscape, we will create a project that covers two lines of action:
1) The Rice School in Summer. He will give training courses on the cultivation process, the particularities of the ecosystem that are generated in the rice fields, gastronomy, Crafts and other products derived from rice, in order to transmit the ancestral wisdom of our people. The Calasparra rice fields are an example from sustainable cultivation in an ecological environment, with ancestral techniques, water is extracted from the river and return the excess water to the river.
2) The artistic residency. In Winter, to inspire introspection. The emerging artists, participating in the Residences, will be summoned, according to the different disciplines, through the Departments of Culture, art schools of the Region, Spain and International, as well as the Master Artists who will guide the creative process. During their stay, they will participate in the life and daily life of the town, contributing their knowledge and inspiration, sharing their experience and art with schools and nursing homes with talks and workshops. With this project we want to unite people around the river that gives us life and prosperity. Loving Nature is the best way to protect it
Education and formation
Holistic Artistic Residency
Sustainable agriculture
innovation
Bioconstruction
Rehabilitate a heritage house of the town, in resilient infrastructure through cooperative bioconstruction and promote innovation and energy efficiency through renewable energies.
Promote an inclusive, equitable and quality education, appropriate to the new environmental challenges, transgenerational, motivating and holistic.
Protect, restore and promote the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, through the activities of the Artistic Residency, the training workshops of the Rice School, with a sense of empowerment and identity regarding the territory and its needs.
Strengthen the World Alliance for Sustainable Development and education for peace, through training workshops for teachers involved and committed to new education and new environmental challenges.
Promote sustained economic growth and self-management for the new generations.
Create an organic and self-managed garden to guarantee sustainable consumption and production modalities for a healthy diet at the Residence and the School of Rice.
Create a laboratory greenhouse for the cultivation of native tree seeds for the reforestation of the surrounding mountains.
1. The project emphasizes experiential learning in communion with nature, aesthetics and the environment, the house and its spaces, a factor that contributes to improving the quality of learning, providing knowledge that is not found in education formal academic and propose a reflection on the way we conceive our links with nature, our life and dreams, emotional and spiritual healing, to make it more interesting and sustainable. .
2. Create material, spatial, visual, sound and olfactory conditions that promote new learning, connected with a natural environment, to contribute to generating an appropriate atmosphere for teaching and learning processes, creativity and also to enrich the very sense of education beyond its academic purposes, in order to motivate the research and curiosity of the learners. Focus art and culture as social transformers in the territory.
3. Give the greatest meaning and offer more opportunities for the development of sensitivity and various modes of cognition of children, adults and the elderly, especially those who belong to groups with special needs, such as autism, down and ADHD and other disorders and diseases.
4. Include the stratum of older adults, in the transmission of knowledge to young people and generate a space for conversational meeting and dialogue, as well as practical experiences, through courses and workshops.
We have considered accessibility in the provision of spaces with ramps and bathrooms for people with special needs.
Both in the Artistic Residencies and in the School of Rice, it is considered free for all participants, through Sponsors and Patronage.
As a new social model in the Residences, all the participants are co-creators of the programs most in line with their interests and needs that we will channel through interviews and open questionnaires.
Chefs of different nationalities and locals will teach classes at the Rice School with the intergenerational contribution of the grandmothers of the Community, always based on rice, they will teach us the secrets of their traditional recipes.
For all the people in the village, it is a joy that the Casa de las Hoyicas is given life. Participating Artists will share their creative process and show their works in Colleges and Nursing Homes and exhibiting at the Calasparra Cultural Center. With which the people will benefit from this approach to Art, motivating mainly the youngest.
At the Rice school there will always be free places for students from the town, helping them to train in the cook trade and bringing them closer to local agriculture that can also become their means of personal and professional development. We hope to do cooking courses with renowned chefs from all over Europe and that cooking or agriculture students come to learn about our greatest treasure, Rice.
And there will be tastings, in which guests from the Community will participate and learn new ways of cooking Calasparra rice.
At the Local level, the education and local Art and Artists collectives, established internationally, will participate as Masters in the residences and the Artists included in the magazine Ruta del Arte Chile y España. Like the expert rice cooks and the farmers of the “Virgen de la Esperanza” Rice Cooperative, they will participate in the training at the Rice School.
At an institutional level, the City Council and the Departments of Culture, Urban Planning and Works, Youth and the Elderly, and Tourism, undertake to provide all the necessary logistical, material, and communicational support that the project requires.
At the Regional level, the Architecture and Bioconstruction company is committed to the rehabilitation of the patrimonial house of Las Hoyicas.
All these instances agree to participate actively in the realization of this project.
Bioconstruction for the rehabilitation of the house
Specific agriculture in the traditional techniques of sustainable cultivation of the rice fields of Calasparra.
Cultural Management for the development of Artistic Residencies.
Art Direction, Graphic Design, Writing and Creation of the Annual Art and Video Route Magazine, for documentation of all the activities carried out in the Residence and School of Rice.
Cultural revitalization for the implementation of the Rice School.
Local gastronomy.
Uniting all this knowledge, it was possible to specify the idea that inspires this project, which is to unite Art and Rice. Contemporary and tradition. Local - international.
-The project combines three elements: Art, ancestral tradition of rice cultivation and its local gastronomy and recovery and reorientation of a house in a state of abandonment.
-The learning is significant since the Rice School is located in front of the rice fields. What better way to learn the cultivation and cooking of rice? That observing the entire process of the growth of your seed and contemplating its growth day by day in front of you.
-The academic process in the Artistic Residence is totally linked to the process of personal development in direct connection with Nature, wrapped in an extraordinary and welcoming landscape with the advantage of being able to enjoy the Segura River, which is less than 100 meters away with clean waters. to bathe and explore the native fauna and flora. That will be an unforgettable experience for residents.
-The Methodology is experiential since all learning processes are through on-site experience.
-The transfer of knowledge is intergenerational.
-We incorporate new energy and bioconstruction technologies respecting the identity of the house.
- Inside the Artist Residence and the Rice School, the inclusion of people with special needs is encouraged, creating specific courses and strategies for their integration and development.
The methodology will be participatory and interactive: through experiential and sensitizing workshops on the environment and individual and collective action.
Collaborative and interdisciplinary: through different artistic disciplines, local culture, transmission of transgenerational knowledge and the different knowledge provided by traditional trades in the area. uniting education and transmitted experiences.
Coherent and simple: generating positive experiences, connected with nature, with well-being, with a focus on the common good and that contribute to permanent learning regarding sustainable and environmental education.
-The ecological transition, as a transversal part of education and training activities, and of the permanent experiences that are generated at home.
-The sustainability. Through bioconstruction, recycling and the incorporation of clean technologies and energy, in order to modify consumption patterns and contribute to a more ecological future.
-Equity and Inclusion, with the creation of workshops of different disciplines, free, with open doors, and the artists of the residence will share their creative processes with the schools/schools and residences for the elderly and groups with special needs of the town.
Development plan:
Structural fitting out, design and aesthetics of the house, and incorporation of new technologies, such as solar panel, ecological toilets and access enabled for people with special needs.
Develop training programs for the Residence and the Rice School,
Selection of Tutor Teachers from both schools.
Call for Students for both lines, at the Regional, National and International level.
Implementation of the necessary materials for the Residence and the School.
Strengthen and expand the Links already created with Public, Private and Collective Institutions and Organizations to continue promoting and financing the project in the following years.
Promote through TV programs, radio and social networks the activities and events that will take place at Casa Las Hoyicas.
Results and Benefits expected for 2024:
We have scheduled 4 Artistic Residencies of 6 students per month, Estimating a total benefit of €12,000
and The training workshops of the Rice School, financed by different organizations, companies or patrons. Estimating a total benefit of €15,000.
- Through this model of recovery and rehabilitation with natural and recycled materials (bioconstruction) of La casa de las Hoyicas and with the use of renewable energies such as solar panels.
and in its two lines of action:
- In the Artistic Residency, with diversified educational strategies and transversal training processes, contributing critical thinking and contemporary art to the Community.
- At the Rice School, promoting and transmitting local tradition, the wisdom of farmers, immaterial culture for generational relief, locally and other regions and countries. that provides citizens with the skills and competencies necessary for sustainable development.
