What is Fes! Cultura
Fes! Cultura is a platform that promotes cultural diversity by training, supporting, and fostering cultural projects with social impact. We work from the conviction that culture is a key space for self-organisation, the contestation of imaginaries, and the activation of urgent conversations around migration, anti-racism, cultural rights, and social and environmental justice.
We are a community of creators, artists, cultural mediators, students, and professionals who are committed to collective processes of learning, creation, and production, placing at the centre the voices and experiences of migrant and racialised people in Spain.
Fes! Cultura structures its work through different lines of action: the incubation of cultural projects; the dissemination and promotion of artists and projects through communication actions and original content; the production and presentation of cultural proposals in different formats and contexts; and social advocacy, generating positions, debates, and frameworks of thought from an anti-racist and rights-based perspective.
Cultural Projects and Enterprises Laboratory
This year, we present 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 provides practical tools to design, fund, and manage cultural projects with impact. It combines cultural rights approaches with strategies for economic sustainability, visibility, and professionalisation, in order to strengthen the role of migrant and racialised cultural agents as key actors within Catalonia’s cultural landscape.
Who is it for?
Fes! Cultura #MigrantAction is aimed at artists and cultural management professionals from diverse backgrounds living in Catalonia who are developing a project in the field of arts, creation, or culture. Priority will be given to proposals with growth potential related to performing arts, visual arts, music, audiovisual practices, literature, or digital culture.
How do we do it?
- Total duration: 10 sessions / 32 hours
- Dates: April 7 – June 9, 2026
- Schedule: Tuesdays, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm (April 28 and May 5: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm)
- Location: Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica i Fabra i Coats: Fàbrica de creació
- Frequency: 1 session per week
- Format: in-person
- Methodology: lectures combined with practical and participatory exercises
Programme
- Session 1. Introduction and initial project pitch
Welcome, presentation of the programme, and initial pitch of the selected projects.
- Session 2. Designing cultural projects with impact (Part 1)
Introduction to the core skills needed to conceptualise a cultural project with impact. We work on diagnosis, strategic approach, and alignment with cultural rights to structure viable and relevant proposals.
- Session 3. Designing cultural projects with impact (Part 2)
In-depth work on the technical structuring of the project: defining objectives, planning activities, allocating resources, scheduling, and designing evaluation and sustainability strategies.
- Session 4. Public funding and cultural calls
Overview of grants and public funding at local, regional, and national levels. Practical analysis of real calls and evaluation criteria.
- Session 5. Direct funding and sustainable income models
Exploration of self-generated funding: ticket sales, services, collaborations, patronage, and digital monetisation. Development of hybrid models.
- Session 6. Evaluation and sustainability of cultural projects
Definition of indicators and methodologies to measure impact. Reflection on alliances, care practices, and medium-term continuity strategies.
- Session 7. Communication for cultural projects
Exploring how strategic communication can support the growth of your project and your community.
- Session 8. Legal structures and organisational models
Comparative overview of legal frameworks: freelancers, associations, cooperatives, and limited companies (SL). Practical cases and legal support resources.
- Session 9. Taxation and invoicing for cultural agents
Practical guide to invoicing legally and managing basic taxes (VAT, income tax).
- Session 10. Closing session and project presentations
Space to share projects, acknowledge collective work, and project future pathways. Certificate delivery and final celebration.
Practical information
Applications: fill in this form.
Open call until March 5, 2026 (inclusive)
Places are limited, and selection will be based on criteria of diversity of origin, gender, and strength of the proposal. This is a funded programme, free of charge for participants.
When and where?
April 7 – June 9, 2026
Tuesdays, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm (April 28 and May 5: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm)
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 Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals, with the support of the University of Barcelona’s Master’s Degree in Cultural Management, Fabra i Coats: Creation Factory, and Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica.
With the support of the Spanish Ministry of Culture, Barcelona City Council, and ”la Caixa” Foundation.