Festival de Sopes del Món
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.
We have been there from the beginning, documenting practically every edition. Camera, tripod, appetite — and sometimes even cooking soups ourselves. This is not a festival you document from the outside: it absorbs you.
Now, with 9 Barris Acull closing due to lack of public funding, the organisation has changed hands. But the festival continues in good shape: the Xarxa d’Intercanvi de Coneixements de Nou Barris is its natural continuation. The soups will go on.
European artistic exchange
Our relationship with the project goes beyond festival photography. We have travelled to Bologna (Italy) and Lille (France) on several occasions as part of the artistic exchanges the project weaves with European organisations working on community culture and social inclusion.
Taking the camera to the international editions is another way of understanding what happens back here in Nou Barris.
Editions documented on the blog
