The San Sebastian Festival, San Telmo Museum, CIMA (Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media) and Parenting at Film Festivals once again organise, in collaboration with Ludoteka Zorionak Kids & Party, Puxika Gorria / El Globo Rojo, the play area offering creative activities for children during the Festival, from September 17 to 25.

Following last year’s online experience, in its third edition Puxika Gorria returns to its on-site format and will once again run its activities at the San Telmo Museum. The service, whose objective is to foster work-life balance on the Festival dates, will no longer only be available for the sons and daughters of accredited guests, but will this year also be open to families of members of staff belonging to the self-same Festival organisation.

The service born in 2019 as a nursery now becomes a play area for which boys and girls between the ages of six months and twelve years can be registered from this year on. The age limit previously set at six years is extended this year to enable the work-life balance of a wider range of families.

A member of the Red Balloon Alliance, Puxika Gorria is an activity twinned with Le Ballon Rouge and Berlinale Kindergarten, the Cannes and Berlin Festival nurseries. It has the backing of companies and institutions including Cima Impulsa, Cinando, Collectif 50/50, the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme, Academia de Cine, the Danish Film Institute, EAVE, German Films, Morena Films and The Film Agency, among others.

SPECIFICATIONS AND REGISTRATION

Like in the 2019 edition, Puxika Gorria will occupy an area of 120 metres at the San Telmo Museum, where an indoor space with covered terrace and complete cross ventilation will be prepared. The service will be equipped with all of the hygiene measures and elements required by existing covid-19 health protocols. 

The play area will open its doors from 10:00 to 18:00 and each of the children registered can spend a maximum of six hours in it at any one time, looked after by carers, once again from the company Ludoteka Zorionak Kids & Party, in Basque, Spanish and English. Puxika Gorria will provide fun activities adapted to each age group: coordination and balance (bouncy castles, tubes, mats), creative (sensory, recycling, drawing and painting, crafts), relaxing (yoga, storytelling, Chinese shadows), construction and logic (board games, trains, mazes) and symbolic play (dressing up, face-painting, cookery, woodworking). A special cookery class is also programmed by Mimo Bite the Experience. The DonostiKidSS magazine will join the Puxika Gorria collaborators to publish news of the initiative.   

Places are limited and priority will be given to people accredited at the Festival, followed in second place by the Festival staff. The cost to be paid by parents will be 50 euros for the nine days of the Festival, 30 euros for three days and 15 euros for one single day. To request a place, those wishing to use the service should contact parentingatfilmfests@gmail.com before September 10 indicating the number of days, age of the child to be registered and proof of holding the Festival accreditation.

The number of participants is reduced to 35%, meaning that a there can be a maximum of 25 persons in the play area at any time. For access to the play area, parents are advised to present a valid health passport with one of the following options: both vaccinations (the last one dating from more than 15 days previously), a PCR or antigen test, or a certificate of recovery from the disease dating back no more than six months. Children over six years of age must wear a mask. 

Lastly, it will be possible to hire the professionals working in the play area privately to look after children outside the Puxika Gorria opening hours at the homes of accredited guests, in both the afternoon and the evening.