Barcelona’s Grec Festival is marking its 50th anniversary with more than 100 shows and a city-wide programme of collaborations. The festival is using theatres, museums and heritage spaces across Barcelona, with a clear focus on bringing artists, venues and audiences together.
Councillor for Culture and Creative Industries Xavier Marcé and Grec Festival director Leticia Martín presented the main new features this Wednesday at the Palau de la Virreina. Martín said, “All Barcelona is Grec”, as she set out projects linked to different cultural spaces across the city.
The collaborations include Fabra i Coats, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Disseny Hub, the Palau de la Música, the Saló del Tinell, the Fundació Joan Miró, MACBA, Espai Capella and the Museu Tàpies. Other partners named in the programme include the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Bachcelona, CCCB, D’A Festival Internacional de Cinema d’Autor de Barcelona, Filmoteca de Catalunya and L’Auditori de Barcelona. For readers following Barcelona’s wider cultural calendar, see our Community coverage.
One of the hybrid projects is Òh!pera at Fabra i Coats, Fàbrica de Creació. It brings short contemporary operas into unusual spaces, through a project by the Gran Teatre del Liceu and DHub Barcelona that is aimed at emerging talent. Other proposals include work at the Museu Tàpies, a film programme at the Filmoteca de Catalunya looking back at 50 years of productions focused on feminisms, and Lobo by Aurora Bauzà and Pere Jou at L’Auditori.
The festival also makes room for tradition. The Centre Artesà Tradicionàrius will host the Banda Mixanteña de Santa Cecília, in a collaboration with Casa Amèrica Catalunya that brings popular Mexican music into the programme. Another strand, Creation and Museums, links about half a dozen museums and heritage spaces with production factories across dance, photography and circus.
Those pairings include La Central del Circ and the Espai Memorial de la Model, Hangar and the Castell de Montjuïc, the Fundació Joan Brossa and the Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona, Graner and the Museu Picasso, the Teatre Tantarantana and the Monestir de Pedralbes, and La Caldera and the Museu de la Música. For more Barcelona arts coverage, you can also follow our Sport tag for city events and public activity across the calendar.
The 50th edition underlines how the Grec Festival now stretches well beyond Montjuïc, with a programme built around partnerships across Barcelona. It remains one of the city’s key cultural dates, and this year’s edition puts that network front and centre.
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