BOOMBETA
Working from such concepts as identity, historic memory and collective memory, Boombeta’s goal is to give visibility to the neighbour’s immaterial values. It is a project by Graner’s Applied Living Arts in La Marina’s neighbourhood, and it wishes to overcome the divide between experimental and popular whilst still having a rich cultural system in which valuable and meaningful aesthetic experiences are created. Boombeta suggests and hosts daring experiences for La Marina’s neighbours, in which they can be both spectators and creators. Boombeta creates an ecosystem centred on community and education in La Marina neighbourhood, one that can be used in many ways, by very different groups, and with diverse intensities, resonances and velocities.
BooMBeta 19 was supported by Graner and had the complicity of Casa del Rellotge / Sala Pepita Casanellas, Creació i Museus – Grec Festival de Barcelona, Castell de Montjuïc and different neighborhood associatons.
BooMBeta 17 and BooMBeta 18 were supported by the Pla de Barris (Neighbourhood development plan). 2017 edition was specifically supported by La Marina’s Neighbourhood Festival (Festa Major), Barcelona Grec Festival and Barcelona Ciutat de Literatura—Unesco, and was developed alongside the Board for Historical Memory, different neighbourhood’s associations and the artists in residency at Graner. 2018 edition was specifically supported by ART i PART Programme, Grec Festival de Barcelona, different neighbourhood’s associations and the artists in residency at Graner. 2018
BOOMBETA 2017 was composed of a cross-generational dance workshop, which took place during the neighbourhood’s Festival, and of other actions that took place during the Grec Festival: two performative-narrative itineraries created by Albert Pujuan, Javier Guerrero and Mariona Naudin with the assistance of Barcelona Ciutat de la Literatura-UNESCO (Barcelona Literary City-UNESCO); a meeting on the subject of art and community; a session of ‘Constantino’, a show by Andreu Martínez; and the ‘Stories of the neighbourhood’, with Vulnus.
BOOMBETA 2018 was composed of workshop and show with 15 neighbourds of La Marina with Claudia Faci, a site-specific with Societat Doctor Alonso, Los Torreznos and Montdedutor with the complicity of different artistic collaborators and neighbourhood’s associations, one radio show with Radio Nicosia and a lab about art and adolescence in La Marina.
BOOMBETA 2019 was composed of a workhsop about pedagogy and body practices, an open practice by Vulnus and Nyamnyam, a concerts and an action with the neighbours by VenTú! and Pan Duro, a site-specific in the Castle of Montjuïc by Ana Borrosa and an interactive performance in Graner by Pere Faura.
