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The 2021 ICMAB Summer Party celebrates the Institute’s 35 years!

After last year’s party being cancelled due to the COVID pandemic, we were stoked to be able to finally celebrate again!

The 2021 ICMAB Party was celebrated after more than a year without live events due to the collective efforts to stop the spread of COVID. The party was not without changes, as it was celebrated entirely at ICMAB’s terrace to avoid concentrations of people inside. We celebrated on 16 July 2021 with many events, including the first CRYSTALMATCH contest, the awards ceremony for the FOTICMAB contest, the BEFORE&NOW photo activity, a tie dye workshop by Sara Ruiz, Nerea González and Lídia Ballell, a sketching workshop by Alejandro Santos, and the final of the Tennis Table tournament!

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23 July 2021
Watercolor sketch of the Table Tennis Tournament by Alejandro Santos

This is how it went down:

 

In this short video you will see some of the activities of the day! 

Oh, and we gave away the 35 years commemorative ICMAB shirts!

A stack of ICMAB 35 years shirts.

A stack of conmemorative ICMAB 35 years shirts.

This year’s party had the first edition CRYSTALMATCH, ICMAB’s crystal growing competition. It was organized by and judged by Teresa Calvet, from the Universitat de Barcelona, and ICMAB Researchers Jordi Rius, Anna Crespi, and Nico Dix, as well as former ICMAB Director Carles Miravitlles. We will soon share the winners in a future post.

The judges examining the crystals at CRYSTALMATCH.

Some of the judges (Nico Dix, Anna Crespi and Jordi Rius) examining the crystals at CRYSTALMATCH.

The BEFORE&NOW activity gave us a look into how the ICMAB staff has changed and evolved during the years, comparing images from 1991 and 2021!

 ICMABers at the BEFORE&NOW Activity

ICMABers at the BEFORE&NOW Activity.

ICMABers at the BEFORE&NOW Activity

ICMABers at the BEFORE&NOW Activity.

 We also found out the winners of the FOTICMAB contest:

[READ] FOTICMAB 2021: And the winner is…

Award ceremony for the FOTICMAB Contest

Award ceremony for the FOTICMAB Contest, with Bernat Bozzo (winner Scientific category), Anna May (Communication Officer) and Xavier Obradors (ICMAB Director). All wearing the 35 years new T-shirts!

The sketching workshop by Alejandro Santos from the Manuel Cardona Library at ICMAB had the staff representing the ICMAB building in their own way:

Participants at the Sketch Workshop

Participants at the Sketching Workshop.

Participants at the Sketch Workshop

Participants at the Sketching Workshop with their compositions.

Some of the sketches made at the Sketch Workshop

Some of the sketches made at the Sketching Workshop.

The T-Shirt tie dye workshop by ICMAB Researchers Sara Ruiz, Nerea González and Lídia Ballell got some really cool results:

Participants at the tie dye workshop

Participants at the T-shirt tie dye workshop.

Two of the shirts made at the tie dye workshop

Two of the T-shirts made at the T-shirt tie dye workshop.

We also got to attend the semifinals and final of the ICMAB Tennis Table Tournament, were Marc Domingo and Ferran Vallès faced each other:

One of the semifinals at the ICMAB Table Tennis Tournament.

One of the semifinals at the ICMAB Table Tennis Tournament.
 
The final of the ICMAB Table Tennis Tournament.
The final of the ICMAB Table Tennis Tournament.
 
The final of the ICMAB Table Tennis Tournament.

The final of the ICMAB Table Tennis Tournament.

Congratulations Ferran Vallès for winning this year’s tournament. We hope everyone had fun in this year’s ICMAB Party and we hope next year we can bring some food and gather again! Thank you to everyone who collaborated to make this event possible.

Watch all the pictures of the event in our photo gallery.

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