What is Fes! Cultura
Fes! Cultura is a platform that promotes diverse culture by training, mentoring, and promoting cultural projects with social impact. We work from the conviction that culture is a key space for self-organization, the contestation of imaginaries, and the activation of urgent conversations around migration, anti-racism, cultural rights, and social and environmental justice.
We are a community of creators, artists, cultural mediators, students, and cultural professionals committed to collective processes of learning, creation, and production, placing at the center the voices and experiences of migrant and racialized people in Spain.
Fes! Cultura structures its work through different lines of action: the incubation of cultural projects; the dissemination and promotion of artists and initiatives through communication strategies and original content; the production and presentation of cultural proposals in various formats and contexts; and social advocacy, generating positions, debates, and frameworks of thought from an anti-racist and cultural rights perspective.
Cultural Projects and Enterprises Laboratory
This year we present a modular training program aimed at strengthening the professional capacities of artists and cultural agents from diverse backgrounds. The goal is to reinforce their professional skills, facilitate their integration into the local cultural ecosystem, and promote sustainable models of cultural development.
The program provides practical tools to design, fund, and manage cultural projects with impact. The training combines a cultural rights approach with strategies for economic sustainability, visibility, and professionalization, with the aim of strengthening the role of migrant and racialized cultural agents as key actors within the Catalan cultural landscape.
Who is it for?
Fes! Cultura #AccióMigrant is designed for artists and cultural management professionals from diverse backgrounds who reside in Catalonia and are developing an initiative in the fields of arts, creativity, or culture.
Priority will be given to proposals with growth potential linked to performing arts, visual arts, music, audiovisual practices, literature, or digital culture.
How does it work?
- Total duration: 10 sessions / 32 hours
- Dates: April 7- June 9, 2026
- Schedule: Tuesdays from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm (on April 28 and May 5, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm)
- Venue: Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica and Fabra i Coats: Fàbrica de Creació
- Frequency: 1 session per week
- Format: In- person
- Methodology: Lectures combined with practical and participatory exercises
Program
- Session 1. Introduction and Initial Project Pitch
Welcome session, presentation of the program, and initial pitch of selected projects.
- Session 2. Designing Cultural Projects with Impact (Part 1)
Introduction to the basic competencies required to conceptualize a cultural project with impact. We will work on diagnosis, strategic focus, and alignment with cultural rights in order to structure viable and relevant proposals.
- Session 3. Designing Cultural Projects with Impact (Part 2)
In-depth work on the technical structuring of the project: defining objectives, planning activities, allocating resources, scheduling, and designing evaluation and sustainability strategies.
- Session 4. Public Funding and Cultural Calls
Overview of public grants and funding at local, regional, and national levels. Practical analysis of real calls and evaluation criteria.
- Session 5. Direct Funding and Sustainable Revenue Models
Exploration of self-generated funding strategies: ticket sales, services, partnerships, patronage, and digital monetization. Design of hybrid models.
- Session 6. Evaluation and Sustainability of Cultural Projects
Definition of indicators and methodologies to measure impact. Reflection on partnerships, care practices, and medium-term continuity strategies.
- Session 7. Communication of Cultural Projects
Understanding how strategic communication can support the growth of your project and community.
- Session 8. Legal Forms and Organizational Models
Comparative presentation of legal structures: self-employed, associations, cooperatives, and limited companies (SL). Practical cases and legal support resources.
- Session 9. Taxation and Invoicing for Cultural Agents
Practical guide to legal invoicing and managing basic taxes (VAT, personal income tax).
- Session 10. Closing and Project Presentations
Space to share projects, collectively acknowledge the process, and envision future paths. Certificate delivery and final celebration.
Practical Information
Registration: Complete this form.
Open call until March 5, 2026 (inclusive).
Places are limited, and selection will be based on criteria of diversity of origin, gender, and the strength of the proposal. This is a publicly funded activity, free of charge for participants.
When and Where?
April 7 – June 9, 2026.
Tuesdays from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm (April 28 and May 5, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm).
Fabra i Coats: Fábrica de Creación
c/ Sant Adrià, 20. Barcelona.
<M> Sant Andreu
Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica
La Rambla, 7. Barcelona.
<M> Drassanes
Contact
Email: hola@fescultura.org
Instagram: @fes_cultura
Website: fescultura.org
Credits
Fes! Cultura is an initiative of Connectats Cooperativa, in collaboration with the Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals, with the support of the Master’s Degree in Cultural Management at the University of Barcelona, Fabra i Coats: Fàbrica de Creació, and Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica.
With the support of the Ministry of Culture of Spain, the Barcelona City Council, and Fundación ”la Caixa”.
