Five years and more than 110,000 spectators have passed, since its journey began, through Barcelona Districte Cultural, this stable circuit of professional shows that emphasizes the city's Civic Centers to turn them into active cultural agents. Its tenth edition kicks off at the beginning of October to extend until the end of the year with a program that grows and expands to 32 facilities in 10 districts, despite the adaptation suffered with the pandemic, which has forced them to reduce capacity. But not even the confinement stopped the circuit, which remained active through social networks and brought cultural and creative proposals to the homes of citizens.
In this new edition, a total of 236 performances are already planned, including shows and complementary activities, in addition to the sessions programmed for the school audience. The BDC offers both creative shows by renowned artists and by young artists who are making a name for themselves, thus offering a heterogeneity of proposals that cover all audiences, some of which have already been presented on European stages. Participating artists also offer complementary activities, such as talks or workshops, and tickets are expected to be free, although, as always, they will have to be reserved in advance.
The objective of this circuit is to bring culture closer to citizens as well as for citizens themselves to approach culture, which is why this proximity cycle organized by the Barcelona Institute of Culture focuses on supporting local talent while creating new public spaces to keep this link with the citizenry strong, encompassing theater, music, dance, circus and cinema, as well as other community creation projects in the city's neighborhoods.
A total of 236 performances, including shows and complementary activities, in addition to the sessions programmed for the school audienceThere will be 39 live performance proposals, with ten theater productions, ten concerts, seven dance pieces, and two circus acts. And we will also have cinematographic proposals, with the titles that are part of the Petit Cineclub and the cycle of musical documentaries organized in collaboration with the In-Edit Festival. This year, in addition, three new local cultural facilities are added, such as Casa Groga and Guinardó, in the Horta-Guinardó neighborhood, and Trinitat Vella, in the Sant Andreu neighborhood, thus reaching 32 spaces.An unstoppable network of culture that responds to the will of Barcelona's Cultural Rights Plan to bring cultural programming to all territories of the city.
Regarding the shows programmed for this edition, we offer you below a selection of the most outstanding, while still inviting you to discover all the extensive programming available until the end of the year.
AUDIOVISUAL
--- The Snail and the Whale is the children's film about an initiatory journey that will delight the little ones, also accompanied by three short films about the seabed.
--- Pulp: A Film About Life, Death and Supermarkets is one of the musical documentaries we will see thanks to the In-Edit festival, which presents us with "the normality" of the English band Pulp
CIRCUS
--- Tal com sóc, by Pere Hosta is a man who does not want to be alone and presents himself to find a stable partner through clowning.
--- OVVIO, by KOLEKTIV LAPSO CIRK shows us the literal balance between black and white to the very limit of counterweight
--- Amb P de Pallasso, by Cia. Sabanni brings us back the freshness of the classic clown show where the fourth wall disappears and we also become part of it.
DANCE
--- Entrañas con patatas, by LosinFormAlls, which is a performing arts company that represents a lifestyle based on movement, humor and social agitation and moves in a space between dance, theater and something unknown.
--- 7 autoretrats, by Marc Vilajuana, is the kaleidoscopic reflection of its creator in seven aspects that seem opposite but are complementary
--- AM I BRUCE LEE, by Junyi Sun and Kernel Dance Theatre investigates and discovers one's own movement starting from the same premise that Bruce Lee started from: to express oneself through movement in an honest way.
--- Galeria, by José Maldonado combines audiovisual language, live plastic creation and flamenco to pay homage to Falla, Lorca, Dalí and Carmen Amaya.
--- Técnicas para un abrazo perfecto, by LaBoda deals with the issue of domestic violence as a raw catharsis
--- Echoes, by Cia Moveo shows the action and reaction of movement as a way of flowing, building and relating
--- Blowing, by Múcab Dans that will make us dream with a poetic, visual and innovative dance show that joins technology to take us to a dreamlike world.
MUSIC
--- Lucía Fumero brings us her latest work Universo normal in a trio format, where classical music and jazz go hand in hand to cross a folk prism
--- The duo Aura present their musical project advocating feminism as a political and social struggle.
--- Drop Collective transforms jazz standards into danceable pieces by filtering them through ska and reggae.
--- The Crab Apples sing in Spanish, English, and Catalan, championing pop-rock with eighties and nineties touches while reflecting on current society.
--- Lali Begood is the creator of kindie rock, a love'n'roll music style that will appeal to both children and parents.
--- Sandra Bautista is the winner of Sona 9 in 2018 and continues touring with her album Trapezista, showcasing her vocal versatility.
--- El Pony Pisador is a folk group specializing in sea shanties, which they translate into Catalan and give a new dimension full of humor and joy.
--- Isabel Vinardell & Isabelle Laudenbach have a music and dance proposal based on poetic texts by current authors such as Laura Tomàs, Dorothée Volut, or Héctor Arnau.
--- Ambauka take to the stage with their third album De cap per avall in a family-friendly and participatory concert that will become a party for the whole family.
THEATER
--- Boira a les Orelles, by Els Pirates Teatre, tells us what it's like to be a deaf child in a family of musicians, and it is a piece adapted for audiences with hearing difficulties, as it is not only subtitled but also features interpretation in Catalan sign language.
--- Serà el nostre secret, by La Sala La Planeta, sensitively and bravely addresses the issue of child sexual abuse and how it is emotionally managed throughout life.
--- El Silenci dels telers, by Maria Caselles, is a tribute to the lives and stories of women from the textile colonies of Catalonia.
--- Van Gogh, by VERSUS TEATRE, thanks to video art, we will be able to enter the painter's universe and accompany him in two key moments of his life.
--- ALHAYAT o la suma dels dies, by La Viciosa, has received the Novaveu 2021 award and explores waiting, what happens when nothing is happening, against the backdrop of a refugee camp.
--- Sopa de Pedres, by Engruna Teatre, is a family show that denounces the situation of many refugees in Europe, through the universal art of puppet theater and Chinese shadows.
--- Under the Pelucas, by Cia Dejabugo, a madness full of grimace, gesture, and voice to laugh at everyone and everything with wigs on.
--- The Hen with the Golden Eggs, by Zum-Zum Teatre, which re-visits the classic to adapt it to family audiences and which has been awarded the Feten 2017 Prize for Best Direction, the Drac d'or 2017 Prize from the children's jury and the Drac d'or 2017 Prize from the autonomous communities.
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