Grantee: Basket Beat

Grantee: Basket Beat – Festival de les arts Comunitàries de Catalunya, Academic Congress

TheFestival de les Arts Comunitàries de Catalunya offers a space for exploring the potential of destruction and confusion in community arts with shows, activities, performances, workshops and conferences. The focus is on humour, irreverence, and ugliness in political, artistic, and pedagogical forms that confront contemporary society's lack of political direction.

Basket Beat is the host organiser, inviting other participants to help shape and deconstruct the programme each year. The festival attracted around 3000 people across a wide range of activities, with over 150 artists performing as part of the programme.

The 2023 edition took place from 4 to 7 October. The Academic Congress, which took place on the mornings of the 4,5,6 and 7 October, was supported by the Evens Foundation and brought together 25 academics and professionals to discuss a wide array of topics related to the programme. It was created and curated collaboratively by a 10-strong group of individuals working in the field of community arts.