{"id":323450,"date":"2026-09-24T14:26:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/events\/exhibition-the-utopian-stone-at-las-cigarreras\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T14:26:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:26:49","slug":"exhibition-the-utopian-stone-at-las-cigarreras","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/fr\/events\/exhibition-the-utopian-stone-at-las-cigarreras\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition \u00ab\u00a0The Utopian Stone\u00a0\u00bb at Las Cigarreras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exhibition <span data-ogsc=\"\">\u00ab\u00a0The Utopian Stone\u00a0\u00bb, by artist Pedro Luis Cembranos, is an audiovisual installation that revives the utopian and educational project of the 19th-century geologist Maclure, curated by Leticia Cano.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">\u00ab\u00a0The Utopian Stone\u00a0\u00bb is an audiovisual project developed from the diaries that Scottish geologist William Maclure wrote during his stay in Alicante in the 19th century. His writings link the greatest utopian experiment in history with the study of Alicante&rsquo;s geology, through the construction of a series of schools based on his cooperative philosophy and on the need for universal education as a means of eradicating poverty. Maclure ultimately did not carry out his educational initiatives; however, years later, in the United States, this failure would help promote the creation of an educational centre whose methodologies would contribute to shaping part of modern public education systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span data-ogsc=\"black\">\u00ab\u00a0The Utopian Stone\u00a0\u00bb is the result of the filming, on photochemical film, of Alicante&rsquo;s geology, based on the locations that Maclure recorded in his diaries, where he planned to establish his educational project.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul data-editing-info=\"{&quot;applyListStyleFromLevel&quot;:true}\">\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div role=\"presentation\" data-ogsc=\"\">Where: <b data-ogsc=\"\">Sala Negre at Las Cigarreras Cultural Centre<\/b><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">Opening hours:<\/div>\n<ul data-editing-info=\"{&quot;applyListStyleFromLevel&quot;:true}\">\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div role=\"presentation\" data-ogsc=\"\">Tuesday to Saturday, from 10:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div role=\"presentation\" data-ogsc=\"\">The exhibition can be visited until 5 December<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div role=\"presentation\" data-ogsc=\"\">Closed: Sundays, Mondays and public holidays<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div role=\"presentation\" data-ogsc=\"\">The Centre will be closed on 24, 25 and 31 December, 1 and 6 January, and 1 May.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhibition \u00ab\u00a0The Utopian Stone\u00a0\u00bb, by artist Pedro Luis Cembranos, is an audiovisual installation that revives the utopian and educational project of the 19th-century geologist Maclure, curated by Leticia Cano. \u00ab\u00a0The Utopian Stone\u00a0\u00bb is an audiovisual project developed from the diaries that Scottish geologist William Maclure wrote during his stay in Alicante in the 19th century. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":323445,"template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[1013,1002,1064],"class_list":["post-323450","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-culture-fr","mec_category-featured-fr","mec_category-exhibitions-fr"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/323450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/323450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323450"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=323450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}