Cultural Periphery is born to spread unknown cultural proposals in the Catalan Countries

Periferia Cultural is born in Catalonia, a new cycle of music and culture whose objective is to extend the cultural programming to the Catalan geographical periphery with “groundbreaking proposals, which are outside the commercial circuits”. The proposal will be held from June to September in new Catalan municipalities, through fifteen multidisciplinary proposals that combine music with poetry, debates, gastronomy, traditional dances.

The organizers have explained that Periferia Cultural will bring culture closer to those areas where programming throughout the year is “rather scarce”, and it will do so with artistic talent from the Catalan Countries. In addition, the proposals call for live music without pre-recorded sequences: rigorously live concerts and recitals.

With the founding motto ‘Voluntarily direct’, Periferia Cultural was born from the conviction that almost seven years after the signing of the Declaration of Palma, “it has not had any concrete or real application”, and therefore, a project is necessary that calls for the exhibition and circulation of cultural creation from all Catalan territories and contributes to generating debates on cultural, national and social challenges.

Cultural Periphery is an initiative promoted by Ben Aisit, the cultural start-up born with the aim of modernizing, professionalizing, disseminating and internationalizing Catalan and Occitan creation and culture, especially in the field of music, audiovisuals, theater and literature. , and with a 360º vocation. So that it includes all the stages and processes of creation, production, management, communication and distribution.

The presentation party for the new cycle will take place on June 2 at the Can Moragues estate in Riudarenes, headquarters of the Emys Foundation. The presentation will consist of the colloquium Macrofestivales: Where is culture? with the participation of Antonio Baños (journalist and writer), Estel Solé (actress, playwright and writer) and Pere Camps (director of Barnasants), moderated by cultural journalist Clàudia Darder; and the concert by Lluís Cabot, composer and guitarist of the Mallorcan pop group Da Souza.

Also in Riudarenes there will be concerts by the Girona singer-songwriter Paula Grande (July 7) and the acoustic pop and folk singer Maria Jaume (August 4), who this 2023 will present the single ‘Lo que romp es coret’. The last concert in the La Selva region will be the one given by Anna Andreu on September 1st.

It will be on June 17, coinciding with the Hèsta d’Aran (its National Day). Thus, Cultural Periphery will organize for the first time the Hèsta d’Aran populara, the first national festival of a popular nature so that all Aranese can enjoy it. The programming for this day will be carried out in collaboration with the Aranese association Stereo Val Accion Culturau. It will feature concerts by Ã’.C. International Brigade and Lo Bal del Lop with Guillaume Lopez

In Llardecans, in the region of Segrià, Periferia Cultural will hold the night of San Juan the presentation concert of the new singles of El Belda and the Conjunto Badabadoc, who perform great hits from Sopa de Cabra, Els Pets or Umpah to a Caribbean rhythm – pah

Trä, formed by Laia Pedrol and Marc Serrats, and Mireia, stage name of Catalan singer-songwriter Mireia Farré Canela, based in Formentera, will play in Biosca, in Solsonès, on July 24 and July 9 respectively.

Davide Casu is the proposal of the cultural cycle by Perafita (Osona). The artist from Alghero will present his last album ‘Concierto para huertos y cielos azurs’ on July 8.

Bovera will host two concerts. On the one hand, Carles Dénia (July 8), who has surprised critics and the public for his expressive and musical quality, and on the other, Marina Casellas (July 15), who presents her first solo EP called ‘Lorem Ipsum’.

The Vall de Meià will be one of the highlights of the cycle. Specifically, in the Molí de la Vansa, located in the village of Boada, in the region of Noguera, Ivette Nadal’s last recording work, ‘Les hores blaves’, will be presented (July 16). Thanks to the collaboration with the Coma de Meià Foundation, led by chef Sergi de Meià and dedicated to protecting biodiversity by disseminating gastronomic culture and developing ecological agriculture, at the end of the concert there will be a discussion with the artist and chefs Sergi de Meià and Arnau Paris and with dietitian Mireia Galtés, on the risks of eating disorders in youth.

Also in Boada there will be a concert to present ‘No res de mi’, the new album by Meritxell Gené (July 30), which will link with a sample of different products from La Noguera and El Pallars, as well as a sample of the oil and wine produced in the same Molí de la Vansa, where the concert will be held. During the show there will be a culinary jam session, the result of which will be offered to attendees at the end of the concert.

In Montmell, in Baix Penedès, the singer-songwriter Sílvia Comes will present her recital in Can Marlès. There she will take her new work ‘Felícia’, in homage to the painter and poet Felícia Fuster. The cultural proposal will be linked to a gastronomic proposal made up of a wine tasting from the winery and a culinary tasting by chef Sergi de Meià -who also works in Can Marlès in the recovery of traditional agriculture- with the theme that surrounds Felícia Fuster : Japan, Paris and painting.