Pocallum — Diversity

Jornades Xarxa 9 Barris Acull

Sun, 06 Jan 2030 00:00:00 +0000

For almost two decades, 9 Barris Acull was the district’s welcome centre: legal advice on immigration, language workshops, a neighbourhood solidarity network — and every year, a series of talks that put on the table the questions the rest of the city preferred not to face.

Each edition had its theme. In 2017, different perspectives on Islam and racism. In 2018, discriminatory discourse and its alternatives. In 2019, the new demographic landscape and the challenges of coexistence. In 2022, young people, racism and exclusion. These were not consensus events — they were sessions of intellectual confrontation, with people who lived these issues first-hand.

FITI — Festival Internacional de Teatre Integratiu

Thu, 03 Jan 2030 00:00:00 +0000

FITI is the festival of Alquimistes Teatre, one of the most established inclusive theatre companies in Spain. More than twenty-five years bringing mixed casts — actors with and without intellectual diversity — to the stage, from Santa Coloma de Gramenet to the world.

Alquimistes Teatre was founded in 1998 with a clear idea: inclusive theatre is not second-tier theatre or therapeutic theatre. It is theatre. And as such, it deserves proper stages, international festivals and photography that shows it as such.

Festival de Sopes del Món

Tue, 01 Jan 2030 00:00:00 +0000

Every autumn, Nou Barris fills with pots. The Festival de Sopes del Món — Festival of World Soups — proves that a simple bowl of soup can bring people together in ways no politics can manage. Organised by 9 Barris Acull and the Xarxa d’Intercanvi de Coneixements, it has now reached its nineteenth edition.

The festival brings together communities from across the neighbourhood — and the world — around a bowl of soup. Each participant brings their recipe, their story and their table. The result is a gathering that is as much political as gastronomic, in the best sense of both words.

End of Ramadan Celebrations in Nou Barris

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Every year, when the month of fasting ends, the Islamic community of Nou Barris takes to the streets. The Eid al-Fitr celebration is not an event for tourists or the press — it’s a neighbourhood party, intimate and massive at once, filling squares and streets with families, food, music and prayer.

The residents of Nou Barris come from many different origins. One of the communities that makes up the district is the Islamic community, and in 2023 we had the privilege of documenting their Ramadan and its celebrations — from the Iftar breaking of the fast to the great Eid al-Fitr festivity.