MATADERO LO BORDA
Reduced mobility
Recommended Age: Intergenerational (ages 6 to 99).
Date
Venue
Price
- Price: €3 per person per workshop.
- All attendees, both children and adults, must purchase a ticket.
- Please check the ticketing page for available discounts.
Format
Institution
‘Matadero lo Borda’ is a series of family embroidery and creativity workshops centered around a large collaborative textile canvas. Designed for children accompanied by an adult, embroidery serves as a tool to imagine, converse, and jointly transform the spaces we inhabit.
No previous experience or materials are required. Participants will gather around a large textile map representing Matadero, parts of Madrid Río, and the neighborhoods of Arganzuela and Usera. Together, we will embroider and draw directly onto the fabric, incorporating new shapes, stories, and elements into the work created during previous sessions.
Through various activities, we will play with transforming this map and imagining new ways of inhabiting the city. We can fill its streets with trees, animals, meeting spots, spaces for play, rest, and care, and everything we wish to see in the city of the future. At the same time, embroidery will act as a medium for conversation about familiar places, personal memories, and the histories rooted in our local territory.
The canvas will gradually take shape from hand to hand. Each participant can continue the work started by those who came before and leave a new intervention for those who follow. The result will be a permanent, evolving collective artwork.
‘Matadero lo Borda’ revives the traditional Spanish custom of compartir a la fresca—stepping outside your doorstep, meeting neighbors, chatting, and creating together. It offers a moment to slow down, listen, and build community through something as simple as a thread and a needle.
About the Workshop Leader
Led by illustrator and storyteller Daniel Tornero, whose artistic practice is rooted in listening and connecting with diverse communities. His work unfolds through participatory processes involving children, seniors, local residents, and other groups, blending illustration, embroidery, and storytelling. For Tornero, the workshop is the core of the creative process: a shared space to draw, embroider, tell stories, reminisce, and imagine together. His work aims to create platforms for new voices to emerge, transforming lived experiences into collectively built narratives and imagery.