“Escenaris de Llum 2026”, arts with social impact at the Fundació Carulla

Escenaris de Llum, organized by the Fundació Carulla, was created as a meeting space between culture and social impact. This year, the initiative grows and transforms into a three-day festival, on April 17, 18, and 19, bringing together seven artistic proposals that engage with the major challenges of our time. Theatre, music, spoken word, and contemporary creation intertwine in a program that invites us to pause, reflect, and imagine collectively. Each piece is a seed of change, an invitation to look at the world with greater awareness and to build shared horizons. Because when art engages with reality, it can spark new possibilities.

Programme

FRIDAY 17

• Opening with Kamchàtka | 19h
  

Eight characters lost in the city, each with their own suitcase. Travellers or immigrants? The piece becomes a space for dialogue and a mirror of our behaviour towards the other, the foreigner, the different. Will we build the future with Kamchàtka or reject them?

SATURDAY 18

•  Terra en Llibertat (Teatro en Movimiento Callejerx)  | 17 h

Through its relationship with the urban environment, the piece opens a reflection on memory, displacement, and identity. Perhaps land is not only where we are born, but also where the body dares to take root again.

•  Camins In Visibles (Cia. Bel·Bel, col·lab. Central de Circ) | 18h

Camins In Visibles arises from a reflection on life cycles and their connection to acrobatic balance: when we are born, we are held and carefully guided, and in old age this need reappears. The proposal aims to recover this sensitivity and sense of belonging, bringing into dialogue the memory of the past, the experience of the present, and a look toward the future.

•  Life (Acts of Liberation) | 19h

Somewhere between ritual, installation, and participatory action, they invite participants to enter a coffin, breathe inside it, listen to their own pulse, and go through a “small symbolic death.” Before that, they release their last breath, and the audience responds to the questions: what prevents them from feeling alive? Why is life worth living?

•  MAMI SUGAR. Cerca núm. 5: La ferida colonial (Silvia Albert Sopale) | 20 h

A site-specific performance created for the Fundació Carulla that connects with Poblenou’s past, historically linked to the colonial trade of cocoa and sugar. The piece invokes the figure of Mami Sugar, an archetype embodying the empire’s “sweet economies” and the violence that sustained them. Through gesture, sound, and ritual repetition, it proposes an encounter with the colonial wound that still inhabits the urban landscape, opening a space for listening, memory, and possible symbolic repair.

• Informal gathering on the terrace of the Fundació Carulla| 21 h 

SUNDAY 19

• Per llogar-hi cadires (LabOriosa) | 12h

A chair seems to be just that: a chair. But when it changes place, it becomes a door, a window, companionship, or an abyss. This performance has been created collectively with the residents of Poblenou. It is built around a conversation about loneliness as a shifting space: it can be emptiness or refuge, silence or company.

• Mil primaveres (Esbart Manresà, col·lab. Fira Mediterrània de Manresa) | 13h

How does a social uprising begin? It starts with opposition, dissonance, dissatisfaction, frustration. A murmur that grows into anger, into fury. It begins as an individual experience and becomes a collective one. Mil primaveres is a folk-rooted dance piece with a contemporary staging, designed and developed as a street performance.

• Closing paella| 14 h 

You can find all the information at this link.