Tutorial for 'La caixa del Lliure' (primary school)

La caixa del Lliure for primary education is the educational proposal for children between 8 and 12 years old. Designed by Joan Baixas and Marina Baixas based on Dada's idea includes a broader, more conceptual and more abstract sense. The proposal for these courses is to turn the classroom into a theatre as it will be the children themselves who will build the stage in their own way and size because it is a space to be invented in multiple directions, based on different ways of understanding the theatre. La caixa allows children to interact with the whole body and work on tangential and show art content. It's not all about being an actor or an actress: there's a lot of creative jobs to do inside the stage. Students will try to understand the building of the theatre from within, build new worlds, create an emotional alphabet, feed interest in the unknown and experience the stories they like. La caixa is also a tool for teachers: a metaphorical space where to work on mathematics, history or language in another way. This makes it a complete knowledge box.

This video is a tutorial to use La caixa and this text is a guide that complements it:
- La caixa del Lliure for primary education is an educational proposal to encourage theatrical practice in the classroom for children between 8 and 12 years old.
- With La caixa we can turn the classroom into a theatre.
- La caixa allows you to explore in the classroom various possibilities of stage play (shadows, objects, text, characters, etc.) and different layouts (frontal, two, three or four bands).

Connect La caixa
- It's made up of two wheeled boxes.
- At the side door of each box we find the wires and sand weights.
- We connect all the connections between the two boxes: each has a different colour and type of plug. At the end, we plug La caixa into the stream.

Let's find out La caixa
- Uncover both boxes
- Covers will also serve us for other uses, such as platform.

Let's find out the lights
- Let's unfold the light towers. It must always be between two people.
- Let's adjust it to the height we want. The pin must fit into the hole. You must click.
- Spotlights can be moved and adjusted as we want.
- We can filter the spotlights with the gel frames.
- From the light table we control the two towers separately. There is a master's degree, a master's degree for each tower and the cold, warm and amber tones.
- The strobe effect can also be applied.

Let’s find out the sound
- There's a volume controller and speakers built into La caixa to put music or sounds.

We set the stage
- We deploy the tripods.
- We fit the bars between them to make the scenography width we want. They have to click.
- The cross bar is placed between the two tripods and adjusted with the nut.
- We put them at the height we want and place them in space.
- Sand weights are used to secure tripods.
- With the tweezers we can hang fabrics to make shadows or create any other background...

Let’s build the stage design
- Let's unfold the tripods.
- We fit the bars between them to make the scene width we want. They have to click.
- The crossbar is placed between the two tripods and adjusted with the nut.
- Let's get them to the level we want and put them in space.
- The sand weights serve to secure tripods
- With the tweezers we can hang fabrics to make shadows or create any other background...

Playing material
- La caixa has two bags with a diverse playing material.

The show must begin
- With La caixa children will become scenic creators of all disciplines.