A few days ago, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, upon accepting the National Culture Award, ended her acceptance speech by saying that if we take care of culture, culture will take care of us. It seemed to me that I had heard her say it on some other occasion, and I found it very fitting: it is hard to think of anyone who can state it with such conviction, and at the same time with such meaning. One only needs to evoke one of Sílvia's songs, or any of her concerts, or even her way of speaking, moving, acting, to see that, certainly, she takes her craft as an act of caring. And of responsibility, too. Mireia Sallarès says this, that having an idea is having a responsibility, and I like how both ideas resonate together because, beyond the political thing or the social dimension of creation in terms of a manifesto or a claim, there is a political action in the gesture of writing (poems, songs, ideas, art...) that deals with a more delicate and sinuous political intention, I would say, more subtle and perhaps imperceptible, which is that of caring and that of having responsibility.

A human tower group, a visual artist, a theater company, a choreographer, and a musical duo are the winners of the 2025 National Culture Awards, the awards granted by the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CoNCA) since 2009. The winners are the Castellers de Vilafranca, Mari Chordà, Dagoll Dagom, Marcos Morau, and Tarta Relena, as announced this Friday at an event held at the Circ Cric in Sant Esteve de Palautordera. Each award is worth 20,000 euros.