All the requirements for the Antic Teatre to become municipal property have already been approved, first in the modification of the General Metropolitan Plan and then with the approval of the urban planning subcommittee of the Generalitat.
Now all that remains is for the expropriation to be carried out, so that the ground floor, the room and the garden become municipal property, and become part of the network of cultural houses, as was already done with Barts and El Molino. , according to the proposal of Barcelona en Comú.
Now, Antic Teatre’s concern is that the expropriation be carried out as soon as possible and to see what will happen to the continuity of its project, since the change of ownership means that a public tender must be called for its management.
For their part, Semolina Tomic and her Antic Teatre team do not want the spirit that has characterized this Ciutat Vella space for two decades to be lost: “The Antic Teatre is the home of non-dramatic languages, of performative performing arts, with a risky, innovative theater.”
This demand was carried out in a massive press conference at the theater on Verdaguer i Callís street in Ciutat Vella, which, in the style that characterizes it, has become a performance. For a couple of hours, in addition to presenting this season’s programming, the Antic Teatre team has vindicated its artistic and social work, against the gentrification of the neighborhood and helping older people through culture.
Now the ball is in the court of Barcelona City Council, which must carry out the expropriation and regulate the new uses of this unique space.
