The Art i Cura project of Mataró receives the first Xavier Gramona Award

BarcelonaCulture as a driving force for social transformation and a source of care. For everyone and the entire country. The Catalunya Cultura Foundation announced this Tuesday the five finalists of the Impulsa Cultura program, in a new edition of Demo Day, held at the Antigua Fábrica, in the city of Barcelona, Spain.

In alphabetical order, the Impulsa Cultura finalists are Fastt, the performing arts festival of the micro-villages of Catalonia, designed to bring the performing arts to towns with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants in the country. Girona symphony orchestra that now seeks to have a greater social impact in the region, developing new formats and reaching vulnerable groups, and repeating its model in other countries. Two initiatives in the health field are also finalists, expanding among companies. The other health-related project is Sinérico, an initiative to bring music to hospitals to alleviate the anguish and anxiety of patients with intimate concerts and music therapy sessions. And the final finalist, awarded €15,000, will be announced on October 14. With this award, the foundation aims to promote projects that stand out for "artistic excellence and transformative capacity."

The three awards of the evening

During the event, awards were presented by organizations collaborating with the Catalunya Culture Foundation. Vibez won the Barcelona Global Award, worth 5,000 euros, and Girem Full the award for The New Barcelona Post, valued at 10,000 euros and consisting of the design of a communications strategy for dissemination, with actions such as the publication of reports, interviews, and opinion pieces on this project. The other two awards were presented for the first time: the Shakespeare and Friends project won the Irene Vázquez Scholarship, with which EADA seeks to recognize a female entrepreneur linked to a cultural project. The scholarship will allow the founder, actress Carol Muakuku, to pursue the General Management Program (PDG), valued at 19,500 euros. Finally, this year the Catalunya Cultura Foundation created the Xavier Gramona Award, worth 3,000 euros, to recognize the work carried out and "the evolution of the cultural project that has most stood out in taking advantage of the first phase of the Impulsa Cultura Program with courage and generosity." The award, presented by Paula Gramona, went to Art i Cura, a program co-created by the Iluro Foundation and the CAP Mataró Centre at Casa Coll y Regàs. The program combines art, health, and heritage to improve emotional and community well-being by generating scientific evidence on the cultural impact on health.