The Fundació Cultural El Foment de Girona doesn't stop growing. It landed in the city six years ago, in the midst of a critical moment of the pandemic, in Plaça dels Mercaders, and, since then, it has been expanding around this nerve center in the heart of the old town, with more and more leisure and gastronomic proposals, always with Catalan culture as its banner. It has now become a non-profit foundation, funded by more than 300 members and, in one year, it manages to program up to 400 proposals, more than one a day, including concerts, workshops, tastings, monologues, literary cafés... And, this 2026, for Sant Jordi, it is organizing a grand celebration again.

Unmarried (Microscope, 2025) is the singer's most ambitious and stimulating project. Magali Sare (Cerdanyola del Vallès, 1991). For three years, she has researched folk songbooks from around the world that address the often traumatic, often liberating, relationship between women and marriage. To bring this project to fruition, she has involved ninety musicians, including regular collaborators such as Manel Fortià and Sebastià Gris, and the voices of the Cor Bruckner Barcelona choir. The result is a multilingual album that musically represents, to this day, the culmination of Magalí Sare's career, as she navigates with knowledge and boldness a wide range of aesthetics, from folk to jazz, from opera and chamber music to pop. The official launch, featuring a heart on stage, will take place on March 26 at La Paloma in Barcelona, ​​as part of the Empremtes Festival. Before that, she, Salvador Sobral, and the Cor Geriona choir will headline one of the musical performances at the Gaudí Awards gala, which will be held this Sunday, February 8, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.

The 28th edition of the Manresa Mediterranean Fair, which concludes this Sunday after three days of preliminary performances, was a successful and stimulating experience. Large audiences attended most of the shows, especially along the axis between Plaça Neus Català and Plaça Sant Domènec, with active audience participation in dance-based performances such as La Coixinera. The artistic level was very high. This was expected in the cases of established artists such as Sol Picó and Juan Carlos Lérida, La Venidera, and Cocanha. It was also surprising in emerging artists such as L'Arannà and Alosa, and in the presentation of projects recently launched by Obrador de Raíz, such as Unmarried by Magalí Sare and Bread by Anna Ferrer.