Promote a new cultural center built in an ecological way and self-managed by the same community to which it is directed. It is the Center Ecològic Cultural de l'Hospitalet, in the Les Planes neighborhood, and with its Mòdul project, the Fundación Contorno Urbano has won the Lluís Carulla prize for cultural entrepreneurship, with which they will receive €70,000 to expand it, but also to replicate it in other places, such as the Can Roses neighborhood of Sant Vicenç dels Horts, where they are working on a facility for 2023.
In the category of ideas – for projects that have not yet been born – the winner was Perifèria Gold Battle, a project for social integration that promotes rap battles in Catalan as a starting point to create links between young people and social educators. It is promoted by the Llobregat Block Party Cultural Association based on the Gold Battle freestyle battle championship. The project will receive 30,000 euros to form a small technical team to become professional and begin to implement it in the metropolitan area of Barcelona.
The Carulla awards were handed out this Tuesday at the Center d'Arts Digitals Ideal in Barcelona at a gala with performances by Kamchàtka –winners of the last Max Award for best street show–, and Duo Laos with the collaboration of Nilak –the project winner of the Lluís Carulla award 2020–. The director of the Fundació Carulla, Marta Esteve, recalled that “culture is a key axis in the construction of a country, a tool for transformation and change. Today we are here to verify that culture is an opportunity to rethink the world we want to live in, to educate and generate a critical spirit, to build values, and connect with emotions in an increasingly complex and uncertain world”, and has claimed that Society places culture "at the epicenter of priorities, generates opportunities and supports cultural projects" such as those that have been submitted for the awards. "We have to invest in culture to make this world a better place," she insisted.
Apart from the prizes, the finalists also receive cultural and business training during the following year. The finalists this year have been Recòndit, Filmpedia.cat and Ojalá Projects-Artistes in Acollida, in the projects category, and in the best idea category, Pixi.Click and La Nut.
The jury for the awards was formed by Jordi Sellas –journalist and manager of cultural companies–, Isona Passola –filmmaker and president of Ateneu Barcelonès–, Emilio Álvarez –promoter and co-director of platforms dedicated to contemporary art–, Anna Villarroya –researcher in economics of culture and cultural policies at the University of Barcelona–, Carolina Rosich – cultural journalist–, Núria Basi – representative of Netmentora Catalunya–, Guillem Arís –director of the Private Foundation for the Promotion of Self-Employment in Catalonia–, and Nicolau Brossa - president of the Carulla Foundation -.
During the gala, the Francesc Candel prize for the best social cohesion project was also awarded to So(m)Lab, an alliance between the audiovisual artist Melisa Ramírez and the Fundació Babel Punt de Trobada that promotes initiatives that promote through art and culture the inclusion of immigrants. Its shared sound laboratory proposes to provide artistic and technical training based on radio and musical workshops with a socio-educational accompaniment that encourages communication, reflection and the development of social skills. The prize is endowed with 15,000 euros. The finalists were the theater project with young migrants La Veu del Silenci –by Teatre Nu and the social entity Arrels i Branques– and the ethical fashion collection of Top Manta –by designer Ernest Costafreda and the Popular Cooperative of Street Vendors of Barcelona.
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