The project was an invitation from the education department of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) to investigate innovative approaches to education through artistic practices. The invitation was to work at CEIP Núñez de Arenas, an educational center in Vallecas with a high percentage of gypsy students and in which artistic practices and open education articulate the whole center.

The activity we designed proposed the children to collect musical life stories (HdVM) from their family contexts and to build an interactive group musical collage using as background some of the paintings of the Roma painter Ceija Stojka exhibited at the Queen Sofia Museum during those months. The goal was to remix the paintings with their personal collages and songs.

The paintings of Ceija Stojka's childhood memories served as the basis for the students to construct their stories through collage, "occupying" the painting. The nomadism of Ceija Stojka's childhood would serve as a framework to work on the process of hybridization of popular music, using flamenco as an example throughout history. And thus talk about how we are all made of fragments of different parts.

We were only able to develop the first 2 working sessions because COVID-19 paralyzed the project :(

We would love to continue working in Ñunez de Arenas. The first day we went, David, a teacher from San José Obrero, came with us and we were fascinated by the parallels in the histories of the two schools.