1st edition of Factorial, Barcelona, the International Meeting of Arts Factories

Factorial has been created with the objective of becoming an international meeting place for debate and reflection on the concept of arts factories. Organised by the Barcelona City Council with the collaboration of the city’s arts factory network, the event will being on Wednesday the 29th of October at 4pm and finish on Friday the 31st at 2 pm.

The three-day event, which is open for registration, will include four debating forums, seventeen workshops and an intensive social programme with twenty-five guest speakers from around Europe who will offer reflections on questions such as finance and administration models, artistic mobility and the sector-based networks, evaluation tools and the new technological resources, among others. Visits to some of the city’s arts factories are also included as part of the programme.

Barcelona’s current network of arts factories includes nine spaces: Fabra i Coats, Graner, La Seca, Nau Ivanow, the Ateneu Popular de 9Barris, La Escocesa, La Central del Circ, Hangar and the Obrador space of the Sala Beckett.

Some of the content of the three-day event will be broadcast via streaming and will be available live on the News section of the event’s website: the opening session, the 29th at 16 pm; the debates, 29 at 17:30 pm, 31 and 30 at 11:30 pm; workshops, the 30th at 9:30, 15:30 and 17:30, 9:30 and 31 pm; Dialogue on Creating models of factories and other European models, 29th in 16:30; and on the 30th at 13 pm, the closing ceremony with the findings of the external observer. Videos of the event will subsequently be available under the Materials tab.

Registration for the three days of Factorial, from the 29th to the 31st of October, is priced at 100 € (taxes included) and can be made via the website, which contains all information relevant to the event.