The SGAE is collaborating with the Llum project in two workshops on theatrical improvisation and flamenco-rap

The Itaka-Escolapios Foundation and the SGAE Foundation will be working together during the 2025-2026 academic year, specifically at the Llum Socio-Educational Center located in the Malvarrosa neighborhood, promoting art as a means of social transformation through the Barraca XXI social school.

Both entities believe that art enables and opens up spaces for participation, creation, and encounter that promote the integral development of the person. At the Llum Socio-Educational Center, we have been working with this methodology for several years. We believe that continuous dialogue with reality and the exploration of multiple languages help us discover talents, focus our gaze from different perspectives, and promote the emotional health of the person. That is why we place special emphasis on educating ourselves through art.

We will hold two workshops: a Flamenco-rap workshop with the PAC (Shared Classroom Program) group, in which boys and girls aged 14-16 from the IES Isabel de Villena and Escuelas Pías Malvarrosa schools who are at serious risk of absenteeism and early school leaving will participate.

The workshop will be led by Rafa Villalba and María Briones, members of the Reina Roja group. Our aim is to generate interest in the young people's own personal development for life, providing a motivating educational space that fosters their abilities and future possibilities.

The group combines genres such as flamenco, copla, and pop with music rooted in the Mediterranean, defining itself as a “sound revolution” that aims to move listeners without stylistic constraints and convey a humanistic message.

The second workshop will be a theatrical improvisation workshop with the project's youngest participants, boys and girls aged 6 to 12, led by actor Carlos Carvajal, which will culminate in a theatrical performance in December. Play, the ability to put oneself in another's shoes, body movement, interpretation, expression of emotions, creativity, critical thinking... will be the basis of this cultural offering with which we want to start this new academic year.

Photograph: Tato Baeza / Fundación SGAE