The Incert Festival is born, art for dialogue and peace

The Incert Festival is the first international initiative that proposes an artistic space for reflection that dialogues with three realities in conflict: Palestine, Colombia and Kurdistan. It does so through culture and living arts: “The artists move through their living spaces in favor of collective resistance,” says Teresa Palop, director of the Festival. From February 27 to May 25, the exhibition will be held in 17 Catalan towns. It will pass through Barcelona, ​​Gualba, Mollet del Vallès, Girona, Cornellà del Llobregat, Manresa, Granollers, Olot, Sant Boi de LLobregat, Terrassa, Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Vilassar de Dalt, la Seu d'Urgell, Miravet, Vilafranca del Penedés and Inca.

A decentralised proposal that offers a unique space for reflection and creation in which art moves through the life experiences of the creators. And in which their artistic language mixes with that of the artists of Catalonia: “Because art and culture are one of the most powerful mechanisms of dialogue and understanding”, the organisation points out.

Art and culture are one of the most powerful mechanisms of dialogue

The festival wants to support live arts. The programme is based on culture and the universal language of art. “The project establishes an artistic exchange that goes beyond fear. It is the creative capacity as a form of resistance,” explains the organisers. The festival includes a wide range of interdisciplinary proposals that range from dance, theatre, music, to virtual reality and cinema.

An extensive programme that will bring together more than 79 artists from different disciplines: “The rapport between the creators from here and those from there has been total,” says Irene Zugaza, performer of the first concert with which the festival will begin: Paisatge sonor. Una trobada entre Catalunya y Palestina. Together with Iyas Zugazaga, director of this programme, they will bring together musicians from Palestine and Catalonia next Thursday at the Barcelona Auditorium. The concert will be repeated later in Mollet, Manresa and Vilassar.

More than just an artistic festival, Incert aims to vindicate the creative capacity of artists as a form of resistance: “because art is the best way to interact with life,” explains Iyas Zugazaga. The project defends peace and international involvement with territories that are in the midst of a war. To this end, the festival promoted by L'Associació Catalana per la Pau i International Action for Peace invites the public to interact with the three countries affected by endemic violence that causes them to live in a situation of suffering. In the place where certainties are established from uncertainty, where music acts as a connecting vessel between different realities and where artistic processes become modes of vindication.

The rapport between creators from here and there has been total. Irene Zugaza Musician

The festival aims to become much more than just an exhibition of international shows, as it is also facilitating projects between international and local artists: “The goal is to create spaces where differences become richness and collective creation is a symbol of resistance and hope,” the organizers emphasize.

Over the next few months, the different creators will move through their living spaces in an exercise that aims to bring different realities closer through art and advocacy. A festival that claims to open windows to a new world made up of all possible worlds. In addition, beyond the shows, there will also be a day that will revolve around human rights and gender, as well as cultural public policies.