Host Activities
We network with entities, platforms and other cultural institutions in the neighbourhood and the city in order to encourage participation and debate and generate meeting points for people. To this aim, we offer the Museum spaces to host activities and initiatives, as well as collaborating with community projects and cultural associations.
2025
Size doesn’t matter
16, 17 and 18 January, 2025
The Size doesn’t matter Festival emphasizes the importance of short audiovisual works, believing that greatness does not depend on duration and that ingenuity can be concentrated in a short amount of time.
With this philosophy, it presents a selection of 53 diverse short films. This edition, in collaboration with Pere Faura, pays tribute to cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón, known for his creativity and hand-coloring techniques, inspired, according to legend, by the colors of the flowers on Barcelona’s Rambla.
The Size doesn’t matter Festival emphasizes the importance of short audiovisual works, believing that greatness does not depend on duration and that ingenuity can be concentrated in a short amount of time.
With this philosophy, it presents a selection of 53 diverse short films. This edition, in collaboration with Pere Faura, pays tribute to cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón, known for his creativity and hand-coloring techniques, inspired, according to legend, by the colors of the flowers on Barcelona’s Rambla.
2024
ACCA Awards
20 March 2024
The Meier Auditorium at MACBA hosted the announcement of the winners of the 40th ACCA Awards, with which the Catalan Association of Art Critics (ACCA) recognises work done in the art world in Catalonia over the year. Thirty entrants, divided into six categories, aspire to one of the prizes.
The ACCA is an association of professionals working in the fields of art criticism, dissemination and scholarship, curating exhibitions, museology, teaching and writing on art.
The Meier Auditorium at MACBA hosted the announcement of the winners of the 40th ACCA Awards, with which the Catalan Association of Art Critics (ACCA) recognises work done in the art world in Catalonia over the year. Thirty entrants, divided into six categories, aspire to one of the prizes.
The ACCA is an association of professionals working in the fields of art criticism, dissemination and scholarship, curating exhibitions, museology, teaching and writing on art.
Presentation of theses by third-year students on the Metàfora Studio Arts Program
Michael Lawton, Arash Fayez and Laura Llaneli supported the third-year students on the Metàfora Studio Arts Program in the presentation of their theses, with the assistance of external supervisors (a selection of artists from the local scene).
The theses are marked by Rubén Verdú, who also lectures in Critical Theory at Metàfora. Together with Michael Lawton, Rubén moderated the event.
In presenting their theses, each participant was supported by their external supervisors: artists, curators and other people from the cultural fabric of contemporary art in Barcelona.
The theses are marked by Rubén Verdú, who also lectures in Critical Theory at Metàfora. Together with Michael Lawton, Rubén moderated the event.
In presenting their theses, each participant was supported by their external supervisors: artists, curators and other people from the cultural fabric of contemporary art in Barcelona.
9th International Conference of the Observatory of Audiences of Cultural Heritage of Catalonia
The purpose of the Observatory of Audiences of Cultural Heritage of Catalonia (OPPCC) is to give support to the museums and other heritage facilities in Catalonia to help them get to know their visitors and users so that they can create, maintain and develop new audiences and boost the public use of cultural heritage. The OPPCC does its job by providing museums with tools and assistance for training staff at heritage facilities to research their audiences and assess their activities.
This Conference sets out to present experiences, both domestic and international, of how museums turn the data they gather in their surveys into a tool to improve their relations with their audiences.
This Conference sets out to present experiences, both domestic and international, of how museums turn the data they gather in their surveys into a tool to improve their relations with their audiences.
Rava[L]inks
Rava[L]inks is experiential training for young people from the Raval neighbourhood – who can represent the diverse realities of the area – in topics of youth participation and self-management, community development and methodologies for setting up projects. The training combines visits to organisations or projects in the city or elsewhere in Catalonia, conversations led by the young people themselves with people representing a wide range of fields and varied, dynamic training capsules and group cohesion. It is run on an intensive basis over three weekends, with the group spending from Friday to Sunday together.