Next Sunday, June 7, at 7 p.m., Plaça del Gas (Progrés neighborhood, Badalona) will host the final show of Si els Carrers Parlessin, a community theater project promoted by Calatea, SapsQue and Art en Acció, developed since January with more than 20 neighbors aged between 30 and 75.
After six months of weekly work, research and collection of stories, in a process, that we explained in AMIC Cultura, the participating group presents a collectively created scenic proposal that brings culture and community life to the public space.
A journey through the Progrés neighborhood
The project has been a journey through the experiences of the Progrés neighborhood, collecting memories of people who have lived there all their lives and experiences of neighbors who have recently joined.
From this work, themes have emerged that cross the daily life of the neighborhood, such as individualism in the current lifestyle, the difficulty of generating bonds beyond family or work circles, unwanted loneliness and the housing crisis, especially present in Badalona.
The show on June 7 will bring to the street the result of this community creation process with a free theatrical proposal open to all citizens.
A collaborative project
Si els Carrers Parlessin has had the collaboration of the Progrés Neighborhood Association, Badiu Jove and the PIDCES Badalona team, with whom intergenerational meetings have been promoted, as well as with entities such as La Perifèrica, Ateneu BNord, La Simbiótica and other agents in the territory.
The project is part of a social and solidarity economy network that seeks to generate synergies between cultural and community projects, developing replicable methodologies in other territories. All this, with the main objective of exploring how theater can become a tool to build community, make visible the realities of the territory and collectively imagine the desired neighborhood.
With three organizing pillars
This play has been possible, thanks to three pillars that have organized and carried it out. Calatea, a theater company committed to artistic creation and community intervention through performing arts. SapsQue, for its part, an association specialized in cultural management, audiovisual creation and transformative communication, with content that makes visible economic and social alternatives. Finally, Art en Acció which develops artistic creation projects with art as a tool for social transformation and collective empowerment.
