What is Fes! Cultura?
Fes! Cultura is an incubator for cultural projects with social impact that promotes the participation of diverse individuals and communities in the creation of transformative cultural initiatives. It explores collaborative forms of learning and production involving artists, cultural managers, and other professionals from the sector in the development of sustainable cultural projects.
Cultural Projects and Enterprises Lab
This year we are presenting a modular training programme aimed at empowering artists and cultural agents from diverse backgrounds, with the goal of strengthening their professional skills, facilitating their integration into the local cultural ecosystem, and promoting sustainable models of cultural development. The programme offers practical tools to design, finance, and manage cultural projects with impact. The training combines cultural rights approaches with strategies for economic sustainability, visibility, and professionalization, in order to strengthen the role of migrant and racialized cultural agents as key actors within the Catalan cultural landscape.
Who is it for?
Fes! Cultura #AccióMigrant is aimed at artists and cultural management professionals from diverse backgrounds who reside in Catalonia and are developing an initiative in the fields of arts, creation, or culture. Priority will be given to proposals with growth potential linked to performing arts, visual arts, music, audiovisual media, literature, or digital culture.
¿Cómo lo hacemos?
- Total duration: 10 sessions / 30 hours
- Dates: from October 14 to December 16, 2025
- Schedule: Tuesdays from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
- Locations: Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica and Fabra i Coats: Fàbrica de Creació
- Frequency: 1 weekly session of 3 hours
- Format: in person
- Methodology: lectures combined with practical and participatory exercises
Programme
- Session 1. Introduction and Mapping of the Cultural Ecosystem
Welcome session, presentation of the programme, and introduction to people-centred cultural economies. Mapping of the cultural context in Barcelona and Catalonia.
- Session 2. Designing Cultural Projects with Impact (Part 1)
Introduction to the basic skills needed to conceptualize a cultural project with impact. We will work on diagnosis, strategic approach, and alignment with cultural rights in order to structure viable and relevant proposals.
- Session 3. Designing Cultural Projects with Impact (Part 2)
We will deepen the technical structuring of the project: formulation of objectives, activity planning, resource allocation, scheduling, and the design of evaluation and sustainability strategies.
- Session 4. Public Funding and Cultural Calls
Overview of grants and public funding opportunities at local, regional, and national levels. Practical analysis of real calls and evaluation criteria.
- Session 5. Direct Funding and Sustainable Income Models
We will explore self-financing strategies: ticket sales, services, collaborations, patronage, and digital monetization. We will design hybrid models.
- Session 6. Legal Structures and Organizational Models
Comparative presentation of legal structures: self-employed status, associations, cooperatives, and limited companies. Practical cases and legal support resources.
- Session 7. Taxation and Invoicing for Cultural Agents
Practical guide to legal invoicing and managing basic taxes (VAT, income tax). Introduction to labour rights and the Artist’s Statute framework.
- Session 8. Communication for Cultural Projects
We will discover how communication, approached strategically, can become an ally in growing your project and community.
- Session 9. Evaluation and Sustainability of Cultural Projects
We will define indicators and methodologies to measure impact. Reflection on partnerships, care practices, and medium-term continuity strategies.
- Session 10. Closing Session and Project Presentations
A space to share projects, engage in collective recognition, and envision future pathways. Certificate ceremony and final celebration.
Practical Information
When and where
From October 14 to December 16, 2025.
Tuesdays from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats. c/ Sant Adrià, 20. Barcelona.
<M> Sant Andreu
Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica. La Rambla, 7. Barcelona.
<M> Drassanes
Contact:
Email: hola@fescultura.org
Instagram: @fes_cultura
Web: fescultura.org
Credits
Fes! Cultura is an initiative by Connectats Cooperativa, in collaboration with the University of Barcelona Master’s Degree in Cultural Management, Fabra i Coats: Fàbrica de Creació and Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica.
With the support of the Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals, the Ajuntament de Barcelona, and the Fundació ”la Caixa”.
