Improving access to culture in micro-villages with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants through professional performances, performance workshops, and community outreach. This is the founding purpose of FASTT, the Micro-Villages Performing Arts Festival, which was recognized this Tuesday with the Impulsa Cultura Award, endowed with 15,000 euros, granted by the Catalunya Cultura Foundation as part of the Business and Culture Night. With two editions, the festival "defends a right: to be able to enjoy culture wherever you live," as FASTT director Rebecca Alabert pointed out at the event held at the Petit Palau de la Música, attended by the Speaker of the Parliament, Josep Rull; the Minister of Culture, Sonia Hernández Almodóvar; and the Minister of Business and Employment, Miquel Sàmper.

"Catalonia, which has always been a pioneer in many areas, still doesn't have its own patronage law. We can't be the last to have one," says Enric Rius, advisor to the Catalunya Cultura Foundation in the drafting of a proposed Catalan patronage law. Parliament is certainly late. At least, later than La Rioja, Castilla-La Mancha, the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands, Navarre, and the Basque Country. "The consensus to pass the law is there, but what's needed is to prioritize it," adds Rius. The hottest issue is out of the kitchen sink, but there's still no agreement to bring it to the table and defend it as a national initiative rather than a partisan badge.

Culture 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.