This is how they were...Weaving Days Past 2018

Producer and film director. He studied at the Center d'Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya (CECC) and did a postgraduate degree in Documentary, Research and Development at New York University. His first projects were two collective works, 200 Km. (2003), presented at the San Sebastián Festival, and Entre el dictatador y yo (2005), a film where several directors born after Franco's death reflect on his lost memory. It also produces the Argentine film Infancia clandestina (2013), by Benjamín Ávila, a fiction feature film premiered at Cannes. Later, he addresses the production and co-direction, with Serrana Torres and Manuel Jiménez-Núñez, of Las Sinsombrero (2015), a transmedia project co-produced by TVE that achieves wide social repercussions. The objective of this project was to recover, disseminate and perpetuate the legacy of the forgotten artists of the Generation of 27 known as Las Sinsombrero, and after its success, Balló published in 2016 the book Las Sinsombrero. Without them, the story is not complete, published by Grupo Planeta. His next documentary film, and the rare arts, together with Serrana Torres and Marta Andreu, a documentary directed by the filmmaker Andrés Duque about the Russian pianist Oleg Karavaichuk. In 2018, Balló curated together with Gonzalo Berguer the exhibition No pasaán, organized by the Office for Human Rights and Memory of the Madrid City Council.

Superior architect with the specialty of restoration of monuments and urbanism. He was an advisory architect of the General Directorate of the BBAA of the Ministry of Culture from 1973 until the end of the eighties. National architecture award at 1980 in the specialty of restoration of monuments. He was part of the board of directors of the Official College of Architects of Madrid, more precisely, of its Heritage Commission. She has worked as an adviser in matters of Historical Heritage, in different areas of Spain, being a member of numerous Heritage Committees. Director of the Regional Center for the Conservation of Artistic Heritage. Ministry of Culture of the Community of Madrid, since its creation in 1.985. Deputy Director General of Architecture. Ministry of Territorial Policy. Madrid's community. December 1987-December 1995. Historical Heritage Services Coordinator. Ministry of Education and Culture. Madrid. February 1997- March 1999. She is the author of numerous monographs, articles, papers on Historical Heritage. He has directed the website monumentamadrid.es for the Government of Arts Area. 2009-2012. He has directed the Database of the Construction of the Community of Madrid and other publications of Architecture and historical research conducted by the Administration, in Madrid as the work: "Architecture and Urban Development Community of Madrid Tomos I - XIII". He has done numerous national and foreign courses, and taught classes, lectures and communications mainly in the specialty of monumental restoration. She is currently president of the association Madrid Ciudadanía y Patrimonio.

Doctor in Prehistory and Archeology from the Autonomous University of Madrid (2016), Graduated in Conservation and Restoration of Archaeological Assets by the Higher School of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Assets (2015). Graduate in Prehistory and Archeology (UAM, 1985) and Diploma in Conservation and Restoration of Archaeological Materials (ESCRBC, 1988). Restorer by opposition at the National Archaeological Museum (1992 to 2009) and at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (2009-2011). Professor at the Higher School of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Assets since 2011. Author of around thirty publications dedicated to the history of the discipline and to the conservation and restoration treatments of various archaeological materials, especially ceramics, metals and mosaics.

Art historian, researcher and freelance writer. Postgraduate in History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2010. She also takes a master's degree in Contemporary Thought, and Narrative and Art at the ECH based in Switzerland. Member of the Independent Platform of Modern and Contemporary Flamenco Studies of the International University of Andalusia as a researcher and writer for Encendiendo la mecha. He has participated, among others, in After the rite and geography of flamenco: territories, networks and transition - Flamenco theaters (CICUS, Seville, 2017), in El flamenco en el cine: Ensayo de una narración (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, 2013) or Campceptualismos del Sur. Tropicamp, performative politics and subalternity (MACBA, Barcelona, ​​2012). His publications include «Blood on the flame. Scenic and architectural synergies of flamenco, between avant-garde and subalternity ”in Poetas del cuerpo. Dance in the Silver Age of 2017, "Mothers without land: proletarian poetics in Picasso maternity wards 1935-1937" in Ocho visiones sobre Picasso, Fundación Picasso Málaga of 2016 or "Flamenco on time" in Current lines of research in Spanish dance 2012. Among others, he has curated the exhibition Under the surfaces, which will be held in Madrid during June-September 2015. He has worked at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in 2010 or at the Department of Art History of Christie's Madrid in 2009 Currently she is researching for her doctoral thesis Flamecamp: Superstars, virgins and drag from the flamenco and Latin American underground world.

Doctor in Journalism from the University of Malaga and with a Master in Communication and Culture, he has been a professor of the subjects Research applied in the media and Techniques of the message in the press, of the same university. Technician at the María Zambrano Foundation, he belongs to the Executive Board of the Antígona Magazine, in which he also participates as editor. He has published several articles on the Spanish Republican press, Ortega y Gasset and the philosopher María Zambrano. Bilingual anthology editor María Zambrano: Between the Caribbean and the Mediterranean (2015) and the book María Zambrano: Words for the World (2011). Research stay at the University of South of Florida (USA), invited by the Department of Foreign Languages ​​and the International Relations Office of the same university. He has lectured in Spain, France and the US and has published articles in all these countries.

Bachelor of Art History and member of the Facultative Body of Museum Preservatives. He has been Conservator of the Painting Department 1881-1940 and full work of Picasso and General Coordinator of the Permanent Collection of the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum. He has curated and coordinated several exhibitions of contemporary art and has been General Coordinator of the Project for the Reinstallation of the Permanent Exhibition of the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum (2009) and responsible for the Historical Heritage Library, Library, Archive, Exhibitions and Publications of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain. He has been Head of the Exhibition Area of ​​the General Subdirectorate for the Promotion of Fine Arts of the Ministry of Culture of Spain. He is currently the General Subdirector of Fine Arts of the Community of Madrid. He has participated in numerous juries and Councils of contemporary art and cultural heritage. He is the author of numerous publications and conferences on contemporary art, exhibitions, museology, documentation and cultural management; including articles in specialized magazines and book chapters.

PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid having completed her studies of double degree and doctorate in the specialties of Ancient History and Prehistory. She has been a fellow of the Higher Council for Scientific Research, the University of Cambridge and the Newberry Library of Chicago. In the last twenty years, in addition to numerous publications of both informative and scientific nature, Alicia has directed and participated in about one hundred archaeological interventions throughout the geography of Spain, as well as in other countries such as Egypt or Syria. His works have been developed in prospections, as well as in excavations of settlements, linear works, urban excavations, rehabilitation and musealization of spaces. He has coordinated teams at sites whose chronology covers the last ten thousand years.

She has also worked for two years in various projects of the National Archaeological Museum, has been a UNESCO consultant for her World Heritage Center for four years (WHC-Paris) and has worked as a cultural manager in the Subdivision of Protection of the Historical Heritage of the Culture Ministry. In the last ten years she has been a professor of the subjects of Management of Cultural Heritage and History of Madrid in a consortium of universities in the United States. She is currently a professor at TUFTS UNIVERSITY SPAIN and participates in the working group of a R + D + i project of the CSIC. She is also secretary of AMTTA (Madrid Association of Workers in Archeology) and vice-president of MCyP (Madrid Citizenship and Heritage) where she has developed an intense social and civic work of dissemination and defense of cultural heritage (including her representation in the forum of Human Rights of the Madrid City Council). In 2017 he presented the book coordinated and edited by her together with Jorge Morín with the title: "Landscapes of the Civil War and the Postwar period. Spaces threatened. " In November, 2017 organized the academic day entitled: "Women in the Civil War and the Post-War. Memory and education "that will be published in book format throughout the 2018. He is also a member of the Regional Council of Historical Heritage.