asses.masses could be described as a meeting point between Animal Farm, Pokémon, and Final Fantasy. It is a collaborative, irreverent, and political video game designed to be played from start to finish by a live audience. Over the course of more than seven hours, it unfolds an epic narrative… Continua llegint

ICC – La Caldera 30 Years + Festival IF Barcelona (hand in hand with Teatre Artesà), present Projecte Pregunta by Pedro Sepúlveda: a citizen participation project focused on the collective generation, visualization, and viralization of debates in public space, taking place in Les Corts. The project unfolds throughout the… Continua llegint

Theoretical-practical transmission and work sessions with BAU students, as well as therapists and staff from the Day Hospitals of Tarragona and Reus. As part of his residency at Graner, and in collaboration with the IF Barcelona festival, the artist presents various actions around his practice of somatic technologies. Javier… Continua llegint

Presentation of the co-creation process within the framework of the community celebration for the International Day of Caregivers. Free admission, until full capacity. Project promoted by Social Services of Poble-sec and La Font de la Guatlla, and CAP Les Hortes, in collaboration with MNAC and IF Barcelona. A creative… Continua llegint

Teixidores is the festival’s space for reflection: four PRO days where artistic practice engages in dialogue with critical thinking, conversations, and shared laboratories. A meeting point to collectively think through the challenges shaping contemporary culture, while weaving networks together. TEIXIDORES (DAY 1) · VISUAL DRAMATURGIES 6 November 2025 –… Continua llegint

  This piece is the stage derivation of the research project The Amazing Shadow Man, a study on the concept of shadow, both from a formal and content perspective. David Espinosa’s intention is to deepen the creation of meaning through the relationships between object, light, space, time, and sound,… Continua llegint

Melodama tells the story of Sophie, an orphaned young woman who lives with her aunt and has yet to experience love. When she believes she has finally found it, she falls into the trap of infatuation and allows herself to be seduced by someone rather unsuitable. Ignoring her aunt’s… Continua llegint

A theoretical activity complementing the practical methodologies developed at Graner, Fàbrica de Creació, sharing the main axes of Javier Martín’s methodological research, as the 2025 resident artist at Graner. This activity concludes a phase of his theoretical and practical research, during which the artist has collaborated throughout the year… Continua llegint

An installation-based space where the narrative flows around the audience, exploring the relationship between natural processes and human emotions. A proposal built around concepts such as latency, landscape, volcano, image, light, shadow, and unfinished desire. Javiera Gazitua Charnes: director and dramaturg trained at the Institut del Teatre. She creates… Continua llegint

With A Mans Lliures, Toni Rumbau concludes his Hands Trilogy, begun with A Dues Mans (1987) and continued with A Mans Plenes (2009). This is a solo performance of shadows and puppets, born from dialogue with the previous works, revisiting and reformulating them to close the cycle with a… Continua llegint

She is a puppeteer, he is a musician, and in their cabaret, life and death are at stake. With the poetics of burlesque and cabaret, La Pendue confronts the audience with death through a dramaturgy structured like a Russian doll: within the life of the old lady beats the… Continua llegint

Based on the ideas expressed by William Morris in his lectures, and through the manipulation of objects, small automatons, and period audiovisuals, the audience is invited to reflect on how modern labor and consumer structures have been tied to forms of slavery, where individual freedom, creativity, and the sense… Continua llegint

Interior Noche is a nocturnal camping scene: a temporary laboratory with folding chairs, parasols, and tents. With a head-mounted spotlight, the audience discovers a collage of objects and memories. The beams of light projected from their heads become their own gazes, revealing temporalities and individual choices that shape the… Continua llegint

When objects decide to write the piece and reveal themselves, stepping out of their comfort zone to play at being others, they show us the latency they carry within. The story fills with waiting, transition, and transformation—a three-dimensionality that art also demands. Perhaps we are not aware, but humans… Continua llegint

She is a puppeteer, he is a musician, and in their cabaret, life and death are at stake. With the poetics of burlesque and cabaret, La Pendue confronts the audience with death through a dramaturgy structured like a Russian doll: within the life of the old lady beats the… Continua llegint

If everyone were the same, everything would be more predictable. Easier, perhaps. But also more boring. What happens if we stop correcting ourselves all the time? What happens if we stop trying to fit in? And if we let go of the idea of being better? Enter Gordo Ronal.… Continua llegint

Puppets have accompanied humanity since time immemorial. They have functioned as psychosocial mirrors and as projections of desires and aspirations. So much so that we might think that humans have always felt the impulse to become one of them. This book offers a transdisciplinary study—drawing on history, philosophy, anthropology,… Continua llegint

After the three durational activations, taking place on Nov 3, 5 and 8 (from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) in Les Cortsneighbourhood (Plaça Comas, Parc de la Colònia Castells and Mercat de les Corts), a final opening will be held with all the people involved in the process (artists,… Continua llegint

In the 1940s, Mariano Portas Martí founded the moving company Mudanzas Portas, which quickly became a reference in the sector in Mallorca. Today, in a 3,000 m² warehouse, boxes, books, and abandoned objects are stored. This artistic project revisits that legacy through archives, dust, and memory, combining the recontextualization… Continua llegint

Winner of the 2nd IF Barcelona – Fira Mediterrània de Manresa Creation Call. In 1858, a meteorite fell in Molina de Segura (Murcia), the hometown of Dora Cantero. According to legend, this celestial body carried “radio-writing,” a radiation capable of awakening an irresistible attraction to literature. Starting from this… Continua llegint

A fully practical workshop in which we will explore the basic principles of working with puppets in front of the camera. All the concepts covered are applicable to other types of puppets and various staging approaches. Manuel Román has been dedicated to puppetry since the late 1970s as an… Continua llegint

Projecte Pregunta is a sensitive, participatory project that does not offer answers. It explores doubt, questions, and the unknown; uncertainty and inquiry; interpellation and curiosity; problems and mysteries. It navigates hypotheses, the unknown, ideas in motion, suppositions, conjectures, and possibilities. It embraces presumption, the supposed, figuration, probability, theory, suspicion,… Continua llegint

A four-act theatre piece based on the reading of a work by Anton Chekhov. The play is titled Леший. It was written, performed, and… failed. From the Latin quassare, to break. The play broke. The broken play was rejected by its own author, who decreed: “Let it never be… Continua llegint

The miscellany of texts compiled in this book traces, revisits, and highlights the work of a “conceptual clown, model-poet, magical porcelain cowboy, unbound narrator, and curator of pleasure,” as he defines himself: Juan Domínguez, one of the leading figures in what has been known since the early 1990s as… Continua llegint

El Planeta Perdido tells the story of a fantastic world, a beautiful place that coexists with chaos, life, and destruction: a fragile being in a constantly precarious balance. The story unfolds through the hands of the resilient, an old puppeteer who survives among the remnants of that lost paradise.… Continua llegint

In Blue, Juan Domínguez dismantles theatrical conventions to propose a sensory and open experience, where there is no narrative to follow and no predetermined meanings. The stage becomes a space of suspension and possibility, inhabited by bodies that do not tell stories but embody them. Here, understanding is unnecessary:… Continua llegint

The second piece of the Tetralogy of the Elements: after water comes fire. On this occasion, Cia. La Soledad recreates a temazcal on stage—an ancestral ceremony in which flames can embrace us without burning us. As Byung-Chul Han points out, rituals make the universe a more habitable and trustworthy… Continua llegint

A magical object appears. We do not know if it comes from the past or the future. It is said to hold the first memory of the beginning of time and the last image before collapse. This scenic and sound action unfolds as an intuitive ritual, an imperfect invocation,… Continua llegint

Manual per a éssers vius introduces an innovative language of visual theatre centered on the written text. Words — which shape the way we perceive the world — are the protagonists of the piece. Writing and reading, as human techniques, contain perceptual codes rooted in everyday life. The playfulness with… Continua llegint

This proposal is part of the creation process for the next stage work by Agnès Mateus and Quim Tarrida, which will premiere at the end of 2026. These four days are a pause along their journey — a space to be lived as an experiment, a work in progress,… Continua llegint

How can you trust a body that can break at any moment? How can you trust a mind that can fracture? The piece explores the difficulty of trusting someone who is in constant motion — of seeking support in something unstable. It reflects on the breaking point and on… Continua llegint

A saeta is heard, a crown of white flowers lies on stage, someone appears carrying a coffin, and the voice of a spirit resounds… Everything collapses — nothing is as it seems in this comic tragedy. The game of theatre allows us to become what we are not, to… Continua llegint