Lliure and the city

After the pilot test of Teatre per prescripció facultativa [Theatre on Doctor’s Orders], the Teatre Lliure is once again partnering with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the Hospital de Sant Pau in a new phase of the Arts in Health project financed by the CONNECTA call for applications announced by the Observatori Social de la Fundació “la Caixa”.

This year, a research methodology to assess the emotional and cognitive benefits of a performing arts activities programme in patients with Parkinson’s disease will be studied for four months. It will include five sessions in which the participants watch plays, five group training workshops in the performing arts, one theatre tour and two group sessions, one at the beginning and the other at the end. Then, in the project’s second phase, the activity programme will have the same structure, but it will be conducted remotely and individually.

Come to the premieres in the Sala Fabià Puigserver and stay to celebrate with Embassa’t.

The Vallès’ independent music festival is moving to Montjuïc with a selection of DJs in a dialogue between music and theatre.

OPENING NIGHTS
— 21/05 La brama del cérvol with nahomie!


PREVIOUS PEMIERES
— 03/10 La gavina with Lucient
One of the thinking heads of Lapsus and the A&R of the renewed CEE seal. 20 years of career and having played in the main venues and festivals in the country make it a guarantee in the booth.

— 22/11 The Employees with DJ Chica Acosta
Cumbias, merengues and reggaeton are hanging out in the sessions of this DJ and Venezuelan radio host. The roots of Afro-Caribbean and Antillean rhythms, she makes them dance in their sets towards club culture showing the darker side of house music and tropical bass music.

— 04/12 El misantrop with Villamel DJs (Pau Roca & Pablo Torres)
"Villamel are our sound shelters, real or imaginary." Thus begins the manifesto that is read to each radio program Villamel, which saw the light in 2018 as a show on underground radio Dublab and now has its own entity as an itinerant podcast. The Villamel project, led by the city’s DJs Pau Roca and Pablo Torres, also explores other formats to build new interpretations of their "sound shelters": from DJ sets through to curating nights or radio shows. Villamel’s sessions are characterized by being extensive sets to exploit his musical eclecticism. Sound journeys that can take you from the balearic, modern funk or boogie, through more electronic drifts with techno or house music as a common element.

— 15/01 El público with Sonido Tupinamba CANCELLED

— 22/02 L’herència with DJ Vilalta
Born in 1998 in Barcelona, Vilalta’s musical journey started with guitar strings. The charm of electronic music found it in the dance floors, learning from different styles and parties with house music always at the top of their priorities. The 2018 introduced him on the beaches as a DJ, with the mission to move. He started playing Tech House, but his sound landscape quickly evolved into different musical records; from the groovy minimal reels to the more funky and deep tech house cuts. He is co-owner of Diggin', his own party brand, and resident DJ at UNMUTED Barcelona, one of the big names in the great city party scene. From Pacha to the Atlantic Club, you can find Vilalta’s songs painting Barcelona nights.

— 02/04 Fantàstic Ramon
To understand Spacer, you need to dance with her. A cultural agitator of the Barcelona underground scene, she lives in those territories where experiences shaped her values and artistic vision, fueling her desire to explore beyond dance (a career she initially pursued). Spacer is obsessed with synthetic sounds and a staunch enemy of labels and genres. Therefore, describing her sound in terms of styles is pure invention. Spacer connects with the audience in a way that few DJs do. She creates immersive environments and guides her audience on a sonic journey that is as introspective as it is euphoric, as personal as it is communal, as dark as it is sheer bliss.

This season the Lliure returns to participate in the cycle Per amor a les Arts of the Filmoteca de Catalunya. An opportunity to cross artistic disciplines in which three directors/directors of productions of the Lliure present films linked to the creative process of their show at the Filmoteca.

The UNLOCK THE CITY! project, which is part of the Europa Creativa programme since 2023, is continuing forward. The project spans six countries through the alliance of four theatre institutions and three universities: the Toneelhuis Foundation of Antwerp (Belgium), the Piccolo Teatro of Milan (Italy), the Teatrul Tineretului in Piatra Neamț (Romania), the Politecnico University of Milan, the Akademi for scenekunst in Oslo (Norway), the DAMU of Prague (Czech Republic) and the Teatre Lliure.

We at the Lliure are working to create two theatre proposals within the project this season with Anna Puigjaner [Estudi Maio] in Històries de la cuina and Alexandra Laudo [Heroínas de la cultura] in Ferida lluminosa.

From 1 to 5 October, the Teatre Lliure also hosts the project’s Creative Lab at l'Espai Lliure, a meeting with representatives of all the equipment and artistic collectives involved. On 02/09 an open session is organized so that the public can know the project and participate in the debate generated by the themes that it crosses. Experts, artists and participants will discuss to try to answer questions such as:

• How have relations between citizens been re-woven after the pandemic?
• How can an art project stimulate trust between participants?
• If suggesting an artistic activation in the public space becomes a political act that wants to be a motor of change, how is this change measured?
• What role does public space play in artistic performances?

DATE
02/10

PLACE
Espai Lliure

PRICE
Free with prior reservation

LANGUAGE
In English

Yet another year we are partnering with Barcelona Draws, the drawing festival organised by the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona and the Museu Picasso, which is celebrating its 14th edition this year. The goal of the festival, which commemorates the anniversary of the artist’s birth, is to promote drawing not only as a technique of creation and expression but also as a tool of learning, communication and intellectual processing.

This time, the workshop that held at the Lliure, Siluetes sorpresa, will be led by Raimon Rius, an illuminator, stage designer and illustrator, who will connect drawing with light.

DATE
20/10

PLACE
Espai Lliure

In addition to the exhibition on Clowns Without Borders at our Gràcia venue, this season we have also enlisted the NGO’s collaboration in Plaça Margarida Xirgu. As always, two shows are held. The first, on 2 November, is being carried out by the Duo Las Sureñitas. The second, on 5 April, has 'Mesieu Moustache' in charge.

DATES
02/11 and 05/04

VENUE
Plaça Margarida Xirgu

We have been once again partnering with the Màster Construcció i Representació d’Identitats Culturals (CRIC) and the Grup de Recerca Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona at the Universitat de Barcelona to weigh and deliver the awards for the best final degree projects—both bachelor’s and master’s—in contemporary theatre. The awards ceremony has been held at the Espai Lliure on November 5th and at the opening lecture of the academic year in the master’s degree, La intimitat universal [The universal intimacy] will be by Clàudia Cedó.

"We often think that our own is residual. What makes us who we are, what builds our identity, is too concrete to connect with the specificity of someone else. But art has the power to place the particularities of private stories in a public and beautiful place. And when we see on a stage or in a movie theatre the story of someone who has nothing to do with us, we can feel inside us, beating, the same humanity. I have been doing theatre with people with functional diversity for twenty years. People who have historically been pushed aside, considered second-class citizens. Second-class humans. We have taken away their rights and appropriated their bodies. We have decided that their experiences lived only on the margins and that, therefore, they did not speak to us. But this is a big lie. And, furthermore, a way of losing artists with their own voices. We owe them space. Space in fictions to explain themselves. Because their intimacies are universal."
_Clàudia Cedó


DATE
05/11/24

TIME
18:00 p.m.

PLACE
Montjuïc. Espai Lliure

LANGUAGE
In Catalan

PRICE
Ticket free with prior mandatory booking