Minispace
Experiment, create and play
At ACVic, we have created a new reading and playing space where children, teenagers, families, educators... where we can discover various games, illustrated books or albums, to inspire them to create, experiment and play through contemporary artistic activities.
In playful surroundings, you can discover art games and books and do the activities, making use of materials which will be provided and the help of the specialists. You'll discover new ways of playing with creativity, including various ways of understanding the contemporary arts.
When we can use the Minispace?
- the use is free, and the opening hours are:
From Tuesday to Friday from 10.00 to 13.00 h and from 17.00 to 19.00 h
Saturday from 11.00 to 14.00 h and from 17.00 to 19.00 h
Monday, Sunday and Holidays closed
Who the miniespai is aimed at, and how to use it:
- Accompanied children, and young adults and family groups. Discover, read, create and experiment together.
- Teachers seeking to bring new activities in the classroom.
- And anyone interested in discovering new play and educational resources within the field of the visual arts.
* The ACVic team can offer help to anyone using the Miniespai, and the books to be found there.
LET’S PLAY TOGETHER
Afternoon of guided games
Family workshop at the ACVIC Miniespai
Saturday, October 7th, 2023
From 5 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.
At ACVIC Centre d’Arts Contemporànies
HELLO, HOW ARE YOU?
Personal portraits
A family workshop
Friday 29th September 2023
From 5.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
At ACVIC Centre d'Arts Contemporànies
Part of the programme ACVIC AMB LA SALUT (ACVIC WITH HEALTH PROGRAMME)
PRINTING LIGHT
Family cyanotype workshop
Saturday, June 17th, 2023
From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m
At ACVIC Centre d’Arts Contemporànies
As part of the ART+SCHOOL+ROOTS exhibition
CARE AT HOME || SUMMER 2022
Family workshop
Adults and children from 3 years and up
Saturday June 18th, 2022
From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Guided visit and activity from ART + SCHOOL + CARING.
An invitation to discovery and play, finding out about the many ways of caring for each other within the family.
CANO'S UNIVERSE OF TALES
Family workshop
Part of the Jordi Cano Exhibition
5th March 2022
From 11 am to 1 pm
At ACVIC. Centre d’Arts Contemporànies [Sant Francesc, 1. Vic]
Guided tour and parallel activity, part of THE JORDI CANO UNIVERSE exhibition.
A FORTNIGHT AT HOME
Creative ideas to help pass the quarantine
#ensquedemacasa #StayAtHome
So we have to stay a few days at home. How can we make best use of the time?
Now is when doing things together as a family, and enjoying creative pastimes, might not be such a bad idea!
We at ACVic have gathered 14 easy-to-do suggestions for activities which will help every member of the family express their creativity and imagination!
We’ve chosen a number of activities from ACVic’s family workshops, one for each day.
They won’t take long, and may be adapted according to participants’ ages.
Ready to start? So, listen and concentrate. You’re invited to become real explorers, looking into all the corners of your home. But be warned, you’ll need to make good use of all five of your senses!
THE CONNECTED ORCHESTRA
A collective creation experience set around a Happening
A creative experience by Rafa Castañer and David Faure
Saturday 16th May 2020
From 11am to 13pm
Everyone present at the activity will invent a Happening together. This is a collective creation experience in which, at the end of the session, we’ll conclude with an "artwork" somewhere between performance, music and drawing.
Come with all your senses wide open, and in a frame of mind to laugh your head off! We open the doors to all forms of movement, and all kinds of ways of thinking and expressing ourselves, bringing them altogether and celebrating them in community.
FAMILY WORKSHOP 'THE HOUSE TRIBE'
Family Mask-making workshop
Saturday July 13th, 2019
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
At ACVic Center for Contemporary Arts
"In our family, this is how we say hello to each other." "Well, when it’s time to say goodnight, this is what we do." "We like to sing this song in my family." "When you celebrate a birthday, do you ever dress up in fancy dress?"
With the support of OSIC Oficina de Suport a la Iniciativa Cultural del Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
ACVIC AT THE MONTSENY LIBRARY
The activity goes beyond designing exhibitions and disseminating contemporary art.
During the year, the centre carries out a full programme of collaborations and activities with a variety of social and cultural organisations which seek, using creativity as the main ingredient, to integrate vulnerable groups at risk of social exclusion, and to encourage art among children, teenagers and young adults.
With the support of OSIC Oficina de Suport a la Iniciativa Cultural del Deparament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
WHAT IS HIDING IN THE CLOUDS?
WORKSHOP AT THE MINIESPAI
Educational offer for schools
Students from El Cabrerès de l'Esquirol School and el Riu Vic participated in the workshop What is hiding in the clouds? at ACVic’s Miniespai.
Thursday 7th and Tuesday 26th of March 2019
Based on the Peng & Hu book HIRAMEKI Clouds: Draw What You See, we looked for imaginary forms, animals and characters hidden in the clouds, shadows and other elements in the Centre of Art's surroundings.
CHILDREN’S PICTUREBOOKS | PROGRAMME 2018-19
Collaboration between Joan Triadú Library and ACVic Centre of Contemporary Arts during the 2018-19 school year.
Workshops took place studying two children’s picture-books: The House, by Roberto Innocenti and Patrick Lewis, in the first term, and the picture-books of Suzy Lee's The Border Trilogy (Mirror, Wave and Shadow) in the second.
WORKSHOP AT THE MINIESPAI – THE TANNERIES
6th year primary school students, Escola Vic Centre
Friday 25th May 2018
ACVic
With the exhibition Sharing Processes / AFLUENTS as the starting point, and as part of the Miniespai, ACVic presented a workshop activity focused upon learning about one of the town’s most important heritage sites: Les Adoberies district.
ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S BOOKS | 2017-2018
A collaboration between the Biblioteca Joan Triadú and ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies, with the Regidoria d’Educació.
During the school year 2017 - 2018, a number of workshops took place, in collaboration between the two local organisations.
They took three different illustrated children’s books as their subject-matter: The Enemy, by Serge Bloch (Biblioteca Joan Triadú), The Steadfast Tin Soldier, by Jörg Müller (Biblioteca Joan Triadú and ACVic), and El Buit (The Void), by Anna Llenas (Biblioteca Joan Triadú and ACVic).
FAMILY WORKSHOP AT THE MINIESPAI - JUEGO DE LOS COLORES
Saturday 16th June 2018
From 11am to 1pm
At ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies
Explore, experiment and create, based upon the book Juego de los colores by Hervé Tullet.
A purple square, a green circle and an orange triangle are looking for their parents. Can you help them find their family? A summer workshop where you'll see what happens when you mix colours!
FAMILY WORKSHOP AT THE MINIESPAI - LES ADOBERIES
Saturday 12th May 2018
11 am to 1 pm
ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies (Sant Francesc, 1 Vic).
6 € per family
An opportunity to find out about and play in one of the town’s most important heritage sites: Les Adoberies.
Have you heard of Les Adoberies? What does it need? LIFE! An invitation to visit the Compartint processos / AFLUENTS exhibition at ACVic as the starting point of a workshop aiming to bring back life to Les Adoberies!
WORKSHOP + EXHIBITION. THE LOST THING
A collaboration between the Biblioteca Joan Triadú, ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies and the Department of Education.
The various workshops will take place at ACVic, and the resulting albums will be exhibited at the Biblioteca Joan Triadú.
Exhibition of resulting albums at the Biblioteca Joan Triadú
From 18th May until 17th June, 2017
FAMILY WORKSHOP AT THE MINIESPAI - IMAGINA ANIMALS

From 11 am until 12.30 pm
At ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies (Sant Francesc, 1 Vic).
6 € per family. Advance booking required.
Based on the book Imagina Animals by Xosé Ballesteros and Juan Vidaure, we'll create characters using recycled materials, make up a story for each of them, and tell it in a simple audio-visual work.
FAMILY WORKSHOP AT THE MINIESPAI - NEW YORK IN PYJAMARAMA

From 11 am until 1 pm
At ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies (Sant Francesc, 1 Vic).
6€ per family. Pre-registration.
Discover, create and experiment, based upon the book by Michaël Leblond and Frédérique Bertrand.
New York in Pyjamarama is a play-book which shows us a bird's-eye view of the skyscraper city. A dream journey, during which we'll discover optical illusions and techniques from the early days of cinema.
FAMILY WORKSHOP AT THE MINIESPAI - WHITE NOISE

This pop-up book will help awaken your sense of hearing, and will also help you to create and to record your own sounds!
Saturday 17th September 2016
From 11am to 13pm
ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies (Sant Francesc, 1 Vic).
6 € per family. Pre-registration.
FAMILY WORKSHOP AT THE MINIESPAI - THE BOOK WITH A BITE

We'll fill up our hole-y notebooks with objects and things we find on a walk around the Arts Centre.
Saturday 9th July 2016
From 11am to 1 pm
ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies (Sant Francesc, 1 Vic).
6 € per family. Registration required.