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 – Institut Ramon Llull
Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

4:30 p.m. – International Meeting: Visual Dramaturgies
Organised by the Institut Ramon Llull, within the framework of Teixidores (IF Barcelona).

A dialogue space between international curators and local artists, aimed at exchanging perspectives on contemporary visual dramaturgies.

Participants: Cia. La Mula, Marc Villanueva, Javiera Gazitua, Pepe Seguí, Benjamin Zajc, Vibeke Lie, Neil Cadger and Helen Lannaghan.

Moderator: Sara Serrano

TEIXIDORES (DAY 2) · MEMORY AND TRAJECTORIES OF VISUAL, OBJECT AND PUPPET THEATRE

7 November 2025 – La Brossa
Carrer dels Flassaders, 40, Barcelona

10:00 a.m. – Registrations.

10:30 a.m. – Presentation of the sessions and the invited participants.

11:30 a.m. – Conversation on memory and trajectories of visual, object and puppet theatre.

• The Objects of Joan Brossa, by Maria Canelles (Director of Visual and Textual Arts at La Brossa)

• The Memory of Puppets, by Toni Rumbau (puppeteer, author and editor of the magazine Titeresante)

• Dramaturgies of the Image, by José Antonio Sánchez (curator, researcher, author and lecturer)

Moderator: Georgina Oliva

2:00 p.m. – PRO Lunch in La Brossa courtyard.
Served by Bar F45.

5:30 p.m. – Introduction to the performance Melodama. The Revenge of an Orphan Girl, by its director Jordi Prat i Coll.

TEIXIDORES (DAY 3) · THE INVISIBLE NETWORK

8 November 2025 – La Model
Carrer d’Entença, 155, Barcelona

10:00 a.m. – Registrations and presentation of new participants.

11:00 a.m. – Internationalisation. The Invisible Network

Participants:

Pierre-Yves Charlois (Pôle International de la Marionnette Jacques Félix, Charleville-Mézières, France)

Benjamin Zajc (Festival of Contemporary Puppetry Art LUTKE, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Vibeke Lie (PIT, Porsgrunn, Norway)

Simone Thiis (Figur i Fossekleiva – FiF, Berger, Norway)

Amândio Anastácio (Alma d’Arame, Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal)

Nuno Pinto (A Sede and Inpróprio, Ovar, Portugal)

Neil Cadger (Living Things Festival, Kelowna, Canada)

Helen Lannaghan (Mime London, UK)

Viviane Paradis (Le Diamant, Quebec, Canadà).

Together with other artists and professionals from the sector, as well as with the people in charge of the collaborating spaces, with whom we weave the festival together.

Moderator: Marta Oliveres

1:30 p.m. – Guided visit to La Model.

2:00 p.m. – PRO Lunch in the La Model courtyard.
Prepared by La Cañada.

3:30 p.m. – Astronauts in the Classroom (AA). When an artist intervenes in an educational space and fields of interaction are created.
Curators: Les Martin-es and Hugo Cruz
Moderator: Margarida Troguet
With the participation of Project Question, Javier Mansilla, and the project MyM2

TEIXIDORES (DAY 4) · EMBROIDERING

9 November 2025 – Centre Cultural La Model
Carrer d’Entença, 155, Barcelona

10:30 a.m. – Comecocos IF (reflection activity), facilitated by Margarita Troguet.
With the participation of all the local and international professionals involved.

1:00 p.m. – Graphic report and collective reflection, by Xesca Salvà.

1:30 p.m. – Closing PRO Lunch of Teixidores, in the La Model courtyard.
Prepared by La Cañada.