The Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) once again celebrates the Christmas holidays by fusing science, music and entertainment. During the month of December, the fourth edition of CSIC X+ will cross the peninsula from north to south with a particular expedition. The trip invites the public to explore the polar areas and discover what Christmas sounds like with two completely free proposals.
The first are the ‘Sound Expedition’ meetings, which will bring together in Gijón, Zaragoza, Madrid and Granada scientists who study the poles with artists who will tell, and sing, how they experience Christmas. The other is a ‘Polar Expedition’ that will transform the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC) into a large laboratory in which girls and boys between 7 and 11 years old will be able to immerse themselves in the Arctic and Antarctic oceans and discover their frozen surface. .
Sing Christmas and explore the poles
The CSIC X+ ‘Sound Expedition’ will start in Gijón on Sunday, December 1. The Laboral Centro de Arte space will host a meeting between the musicians Lorena Álvarez, Depedro and Carlangas (Novedades Carminha) and the oceanographer Raquel Somavilla (Spanish Institute of Oceanography, IEO-CSIC).
The trip will continue on Saturday the 14th at the Las Armas musical center in Zaragoza, where Queralt Lahoz, New Raemon, Gorka Orbizu (Berri Txarrac) and the climate and glacier specialist Jesús Revuelto (Pyrenean Institute of Ecology, IPE-CSIC) will meet. .
On Sunday the 15th, the journey will stop at the San Isidro Museum, a space of the Madrid City Council. There Hinds, Víctor Cabezuelo (Rufus T. Firefly) and Antía Ameixeiras will meet the geologist Ana María Alonso Zarza (Geological and Mining Institute of Spain, IGME-CSIC) and the historian Juan Pimentel (Center for Human and Social Sciences, CCHS- CSIC).
The tour will end at the Federico García Lorca Center in Granada on Saturday the 21st. Antonio Arias (Lagartija Nick), Maika Makovski and Viva Belgrado will talk with the astrophysicist Miguel Abril and the marine geologist Carlota Escutia (Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences, IACT- CSIC).
To commemorate the 85th anniversary of the CSIC and the centenary of radio in Spain, the meetings will take the form of a ‘radio show’ in which the centers and institutes of the organization will be honored through music, sound fiction and scientific dissemination. Together with a presenter, the invited artists will discover to the public what Christmas sounds like and the CSIC research staff will share data and curiosities.
All sessions will be at 12:00 p.m. To attend, it is necessary to request invitations (with a maximum of two per person) through the website csicxmas.com starting on Saturday, November 23.
polar laboratories
From December 26 to 30, the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC), located in the heart of Madrid’s Science District, will host the CSIC X+ ‘Polar Expedition’. An underwater and above sea level space inspired by the poles will welcome boys and girls between 7 and 11 years old to carry out experiments that connect land, atmosphere, ice and ocean. In two-hour sessions, the little ones will be able to celebrate Christmas while exploring the geophysics and biosphere of the extremes of the planet and becoming aware of two of the greatest scientific challenges of today: climate change and the biodiversity crisis. .
These are the X+ LABs, which will be guided by the experienced team of MNCN-CSIC monitors and coordinated by the astrophysicist and musician Daniel Guirado. The scientist from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) repeats as coordinator of this initiative, which in its three previous editions brought together more than 9,000 participants.
In addition, adults who take children to these laboratories will have the opportunity to take a tour of the most emblematic pieces of the MNCN-CSIC.
“Scientific activities are also entertaining and fun,” explains Pura Fernández, deputy vice president of Scientific Culture and Citizen Science of the CSIC. «That is why CSIC X+’s Christmas proposals combine science with a format that excites us. The objective is to observe, experiment and debate, but also celebrate,” he adds.
Reservations for places for the ‘Polar Expedition’ will be available from December 4 at csicxmas.com.
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