Because we believe in the transformative power of art and culture, at Connectats Cooperativa we promote Fes! Cultura.

Fes! Cultura is an incubator for socially impactful cultural projects that encourages the participation of individuals and communities to transform society through culture. It is a meeting space in Barcelona, open to cultural managers, students, social activists, and all those people or organizations interested in developing community-based cultural initiatives through collaborative forms of learning and production.

En 2017 creamos Fes! Film Festival, la #AcciónJoven de Fes! Cultura, un programa de formación en gestión cultural comunitaria dirigido a jóvenes de secundaria. Cada año implementamos un itinerario formativo en horario escolar, en el que desarrollamos colectivamente una muestra de cine documental sobre derechos humanos. Alrededor de 50 jóvenes participan en la creación de la programación, la producción y la comunicación de una serie de eventos que se llevan a cabo en centros culturales de la ciudad. Con esta acción buscamos contribuir a formar una nueva generación de activistas culturales.

In 2017, we created Fes! Cultura, the #YouthAction branch of Fes! Cultura, a training program in community cultural management aimed at secondary school students. Every year, we implement a training itinerary during school hours in which we collectively develop a human rights documentary film showcase. Around 50 young people participate in creating the program, producing, and communicating a series of events held in cultural centers across the city. Through this initiative, we seek to help shape a new generation of cultural activists.

This year, we are launching Fes! Cultura, #MigrantAction. It is a collective space where, over the course of 14 weeks, we implement a training program in the design of socially impactful cultural projects aimed at artists and creators from diverse backgrounds in Barcelona. The program includes workshops, personalized mentoring, a virtual classroom, networking sessions, and community events. Its goal is to foster the creation of mobilizing cultural projects in defense of the right to migrate. With this new initiative, we aim to contribute to building a human and anti-racist narrative around migration, helping to transform perceptions and attitudes by placing at the center those who have experienced migration firsthand.

Fes! Cultura is much more than a training space. Fes! Cultura is creativity, networking, and community. It is an experience of co-creation, co-production, and dissemination of new socially impactful cultural projects in Barcelona.

Artists from diverse backgrounds come together to design cultural projects in defense of the right to migrate.

This is Fes! Cultura #MigrantAction.

Because we believe in new cultural initiatives. Because we defend human rights. Because we believe in the power of culture, in the strength of collective action, in the reach of creativity, and in the richness of cultural diversity to challenge prejudice and transform mindsets and realities. Because we know there is immense talent. And because we know that many transformative ideas are left behind along the way.

That is why the creative team at Connectats Cooperativa, in collaboration with students from the Cultural Management master’s program at the Universitat de Barcelona and invited professionals, came together over six months to imagine and build a collaborative space with a decolonial and anti-racist approach. A proposal open to creative people from diverse backgrounds so that we can meet and experiment through our different crafts and disciplines; learn and share knowledge; build networks; and think about and design innovative, sustainable cultural projects that contribute to the social and cultural transformation of Barcelona. An incubator for mobilizing initiatives that help write new stories about migration in this city — stories that are more human, community-driven, original, and real, allowing us to live together, and better.

We are education. We are diversity. We are community. We are activism. We are creativity. We are freedom. We are Fes! Cultura transforming reality, #MigrantAction.