A meeting point for social change!
The Festival Cruïlla is much more than a music festival: for many years other disciplines such as comedy, art, gastronomy or technological innovation are part of its program. A cultural program that aims to make us discover new things and enjoy like never before, but also to feed our critical spirit and contribute to improve the present and future of our society.
After being part of the Festival Cruïlla for the first time in 2023, this July we will once again have the Espai Transforma’t, an area within the festival grounds that will become a meeting point for various organizations and NGOs committed to social change and that wants to raise awareness and motivate change to walk together towards a fairer world.
The fifteen groups that will participate will be coordinated by the Agència Catalana de Cooperació al Desenvolupament, a part of the Generalitat de Catalunya attached to the Department of External Action and European Union responsible for managing the policies of development cooperation and humanitarian action.
ESPAI TRANSFORMA’T AT THE FESTIVAL CRUÏLLA 2025
The Espai Transforma’t, which can be visited on Friday 11 and Saturday July 12 from the beginning at 00h, will be a space for reflection on the main inequalities and injustices that shake the world today and on the structural causes that provoke them.
This year there will be 15 organizations that, through a dynamic and diverse program, will invite the festival audience to reflect and take active roles in the construction of peaceful, equitable and sustainable societies, both locally and globally.
The Espai Transforma’t will be divided into the five sections “Comprèn El Món”, “Mobilitza’t”, “Suma’t Al Comerç Just”, “Solidaritza’t Amb Les Crisis Humanitàries” and “Cuidem-Nos Per Transformar” and will feature a dynamic cultural program with various activations organized by the collaborating entities where they can play, reflect and awaken their critical spirit on issues such as gender, peace, human rights or the climate crisis.
TWO PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONS
In addition, in this area there will also be two inspiring and impactful photography exhibitions. On the one hand, we will be able to enjoy Primary Ocean, a research, awareness and advocacy project on environmental justice and the climate crisis in the ocean presented by Ruido Photo in collaboration with the Institute of Marine Sciences.
On the other hand, we will also be able to see Activistes per la vida, a proposal executed by photographer Gervasio Sánchez and the Entrepueblos association that seeks to give visibility to human rights and nature defenders and their struggles, focusing on Guatemala and Honduras.
MORE THAN A DOZEN ORGANIZATIONS
Some of the organizations that will be part of the event are the Associació pels Drets Sexuals i Reproductius, which ensures the promotion, defense, claim and real guarantee of Sexual and Reproductive Rights, or the Plataforma Unitària Contra les violències de gènere, which promotes and supports the whole social movement that fights for the rights and freedom of women, two organizations that fight to eradicate male violence.
There will also be the ONGD Bosco Global, which works for a fairer, more equitable and sustainable world through education and that repeats one more year in the Espai Transforma’t, as well as La Coordi, a second degree organization whose main objective is to articulate Fair Trade within the framework of the Solidarity Economy, which will repeat one more year in this space.
The humanitarian organizations Metges Sense Fronteres, which provides aid to victims of natural or human disasters and armed conflicts, and the Spanish Red Cross in Catalonia, a public interest institution that works for human and community development, will be other organizations that will be involved in the dynamization of the space.
The Espai Transforma’t will also feature activations by the organizations Moviment per la Pau (MPDL), which fights for peace and the care of people and the planet, and the Fundació Pau i Solidaritat, which also works for the defense of human and labor rights around the world.
There will also be the Blood and Tissue Bank, which will return to the festival after last year’s success -with a record 116 bone marrow donors in just two days-, with a space dedicated to adding new donors, and the Sant Joan de Deu Health Park, which will present some of the same therapies designed to generate changes in mental health and their relationships with others.
The Comissió Catalana d’Acció pel Refugi, which defends the right to asylum and the rights of refugees and/or migrants who are in a situation of special vulnerability, and the Institut de Recerca Sant Pau, which works to contribute to improving the health and quality of life of people through the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge, among other things, will also be present.
Finally, we will also have Pallapupas, the organization that is responsible for humanizing hospitals and accompanying, with humor and joy, children and adults who live through disease processes. In addition, they will be the recipients of this year’s donations of tickets and cashless wristbands.