Lliure and the city

Come to the premieres in the Sala Fabià Puigserver and stay to celebrate with Embassa’t.

The Vallès’ independent music festival is moving to Montjuïc with a selection of DJs in a dialogue between music and theatre.

OPENING NIGHTS
— 03/10 La gavina
— 22/11 The Employees
— 04/12 El misantrop
— 15/01 El público
— 22/02 L’herència
— 02/04 Fantàstic Ramon
— 21/05 La brama del cérvol

Vibe35 will be back on 4 October for people under 35 and Generació Lliure!

You can see La gavina and stay to celebrate it with music on the theatre’s terrace.
Enjoy the young theatre-goer experience!

The Unlock The City project, which is part of the Europa Creativa programme since 2023, is continuing forward. The project spans six countries through the alliance of four theatre institutions and three universities: the Toneelhuis Foundation of Antwerp (Belgium), the Piccolo Teatro of Milan (Italy), the Teatrul Tineretului in Piatra Neamț (Romania), the Politecnico University of Milan, the Akademi for scenekunst in Oslo (Norway), the DAMU of Prague (Czech Republic) and the Teatre Lliure.

We at the Lliure are working to create two theatre proposals within the project this season with Anna Puigjaner [Estudi Maio] in Històries de la cuina and Alexandra Laudo [Heroínas de la cultura] in Ferida lluminosa.

We are also hosting the project’s Creative Lab and Field Work on Montjuïc from 1 to 6 October.

In addition to the exhibition on Clowns Without Borders at our Gràcia venue, this season we have also enlisted the NGO’s collaboration in Plaça Margarida Xirgu. As always, two shows will be held, one in November and the other TBA.

DATES
02/11 and 05/04

VENUE
Plaça Margarida Xirgu

Yet another year we are partnering with Barcelona Draws, the drawing festival organised by the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona and the Museu Picasso, which is celebrating its 14th edition this year. The goal of the festival, which commemorates the anniversary of the artist’s birth, is to promote drawing not only as a technique of creation and expression but also as a tool of learning, communication and intellectual processing.

This time, the workshop that held at the Lliure will be led by Raimon Rius, an illuminator, stage designer and illustrator, who will connect drawing with light.

After the pilot test of Teatre per prescripció facultativa [Theatre on Doctor’s Orders], the Teatre Lliure is once again partnering with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the Hospital de Sant Pau in a new phase of the Arts in Health project financed by the CONNECTA call for applications announced by the Observatori Social de la Fundació “la Caixa”.

This year, a research methodology to assess the emotional and cognitive benefits of a performing arts activities programme in patients with Parkinson’s disease will be studied for four months. It will include five sessions in which the participants watch plays, five group training workshops in the performing arts, one theatre tour and two group sessions, one at the beginning and the other at the end. Then, in the project’s second phase, the activity programme will have the same structure, but it will be conducted remotely and individually.

We are once again partnering with the Màster Construcció i Representació d’Identitats Culturals (CRIC) and the Grup de Recerca Contemporary British Theatre Barcelona at the Universitat de Barcelona to weigh and deliver the awards for the best final degree projects—both bachelor’s and master’s—in contemporary theatre. The awards ceremony will be held at the Espai Lliure on November 5th and at the opening lecture of the academic year in the master’s degree will be by Clàudia Cedó.