The Fundació Carulla, located in Poblenou of Barcelona, promotes this Friday, May 15, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., the eighth edition of the plenary Mutare under the motto Cultura compromesa: la cultura (ens) desperta. The meeting will bring together at Nau Bostik, in La Sagrera (Ferran Turné street, 1-11), professionals and cultural agents to dialogue about the great current social challenges.
Mutare is a meeting space that promotes dialogue, exchange, inspiration and connection around the transformative power of culture, through conferences, participatory dynamics and project presentations. This year's edition will focus on the role of culture as a tool to confront phenomena such as the rise of hate speech, polarization, the attack on linguistic and cultural diversity, and its capacity to generate social cohesion and critical thinking.
Marta Esteve, director of the Carulla Foundation, highlights that “from culture we have the responsibility to offer alternatives that generate empathy, dialogue and community” and that for this very reason, Mutare wants to be “a space to identify challenges, but above all to activate commitments and concrete actions”.
Programming of Mutare
The day will begin with the inaugural conference Les certeses d’avui, with the sociologist Miquel Missé. Afterwards, a Mapa de certeses, a space to identify and share the main contemporary challenges and discomforts, as well as the ways to face them from culture, will be created. The event will feature the intervention of Antonio Alcántara, from the College of Social Educators of Catalonia; Alba Latorre, who will share a practice based on collective management and relational governance models, valuing community arts as a response to individualism; Anna Ferrer will present a journey that connects glosa –with roots in Menorca– with climate revendication, in a performative proposal that will begin among the audience and culminate with a piece from the PA project. Finally, there will be a conversation between Correllengua agermanat and Clàudia Rius, who will converse about the health of the Catalan language in the face of a global context that tends towards linguistic and cultural uniformization.
In parallel, a map of initiatives will also be made to learn about projects that are already providing answers to social challenges from culture. This part will feature the participation of Sílvia Plana, from the Institut Català Internacional per la Pau, who will explore how art and culture can contribute to building narratives of peace, and Isabel Minguillón, from NextUS, who will present the project as a bridge between culture and education to form a critical citizenry through audiovisuals. Also participating will be Març Llinàs, who explores humor as a tool to combat hate speech and fascism; Inèdit Diari, with Gina Rigol, who works to generate critical information and counteract the narratives of the far right; FES Cultura, with Diego Salazar and Sílvia Albert Sopale will address anti-racism from cultural management, focusing on the need to guarantee not only representation, but also access, permanence, and decision-making capacity within the cultural sector. The intervention will include a stage proposal that challenges the public about aesthetic pressure and social imaginaries.
Finally, a Commitment Map will take place, a synthesis space to gather the learnings of the day and concretize collective commitments that contribute to promoting a more critical and cohesive culture, with the participation of the musical educational project of Riborquestra.
With artistic direction by Neus Masdeu and production by La Sullivan, Mutare opts for formats that foster the involvement of attendees. With this new edition, it consolidates itself as a reference space for the cultural and educational sector, and reaffirms the role of culture as a driver of social transformation.
