The Center de les Arts Lliures once again welcomes IF Barcelona, ​​the reference festival of visual theatre, objects and puppets – Fundació Joan Brossa

• The Liberal Arts Center of the Joan Brossa Foundation collaborates for the second consecutive year with theFC Barcelona with seven shows that can be seen from from November 1 to December 7, 2025.
• Stories of puppets for adults, visual theater and objects or the video game is what characterizes the programming of the festival in La Brossa.
• The collaboration with the festival also includes the day for professionals weavers and continues throughout the 25-26 season with the expanded program lost objects.

Barcelona, ​​27 October 2025 – The Liberal Arts Center of the Joan Brossa Foundation, La Brossa, collaborates again and more strongly with IF Barcelona after the good reception of the previous edition. In this 11th edition of the festival, La Brossa will host seven shows from this weekend until December 7. Later, it will deploy the expanded program lost objects with four more shows that will reinforce the presence of visual and object theater throughout the 25-26 season. In addition, it will also host a conference for professionals weavers of this year’s edition.

shows

The programming of the IF in La Brossa starts this weekend, November 1 and 2, with a unique proposal and with an international presence: massesa video game designed to be played in a theater and created by Patrick Blenkarn i Milton Lin from vancouver Seven hours of play turned into a show, an immersive and highly original work that tells us about work, technophobia and the shared burden of the revolution through a herd of donkeys who ask to get back the jobs they have lost.

The theater of objects and puppets will be the protagonists between November 7 and 9 with a double session: Dark Timeswhich has brought David Espinosa back on stage and which can be seen until November 16, celebrates the magic and relationships between object, space, time and sound; i Melodama “the revenge of a Russian orphan” that, under the direction of Jordi Prat and Coll and the puppeteers Eugene Navarro i Martí Doypresents a free adaptation of the work of Henri Rousseau The revenge of a Russian orphan (1899) with a puppet show telling a story for adults.

On Sunday 16 November there will be a double function of ASS. ofscarleta proposal for all audiences in which the objects play with time, space and emotion and invite us to bring out the child we carry inside.

During the last two weeks, from November 26 to December 7, ATRESBANDS presents Leshiy (Leshi), a little-known work by Anton Chekhov that the author himself rejected saying “never to be published or performed again”, and which the company is now premiering after passing through the sieve of visual theater and objects.

Finally, La Brossa hosts the closing of IF Barcelona with two proposals on November 30. At 1 p.m., Fire, walk with me of the Co. The Solitudean installation and performance that recreates a temazcal, an ancestral ceremony where the flames are able to embrace us without burning. And at 2 p.m., Marga Socias i Nico Roig present Instructions for slowly disappearinga scenic and sound action in which a magical and mysterious object appears to become the protagonist of a ritual.

Expanded program lost objects

Once the festival is over, the IF unfolds lost items, an expanded program that reinforces the presence of visual theater and objects in the programming of the entire 25-26 season of La Brossa.

The first of the proposals is Manual for living beings of The Mule. The show, which can be seen from December 11 to 21, is a lucid and ironic reflection on the power of the word and has a staging loaded with plastic ingenuity. Between January 2 and 5, he will follow her I already told youa living nativity scene that is part of the process of creating the next stage work ofAgnes Mateus i Quim Tarrida

It will take place from March 19 to 29 I trust you of Vivian Friedrichwinning project of the Hermann Bonnín competition which, straddling performance, circus and theater of objects, tells us about the fragility of the body and the difficulty of trusting someone or something in motion.

The program will end in the spring with arrowthe new show of Javier Aranda which can be seen from April 30 to May 10. A story of puppets that wants to be a tribute to the theater in all its forms and a reflection on the profession of actor.

Pro Conference weavers

Finally, La Brossa will hold one of the days for professionals weavers. The meeting will take place on Friday, November 7 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m under the title Memory and trajectories of visual theater, objects and puppets. The morning will include the interventions The objects of Joan Brossa in charge of Maria Canellesdirector of Visual and Textual Arts of the Joan Brossa Foundation; The memory of puppets in charge of Tony Rumbaupuppeteer, author and editor of the magazine Titeresante; i Dramaturgies of the imagein charge of Jose Antonio Sanchezcurator, researcher, author and teacher; all moderated by Georgina Olivedirector of Performing Arts at the Joan Brossa Foundation. The day will continue with a lunch at Bar de La Brossa and will end with the introduction to the show melodame “The Revenge of a Russian Orphan”, by its director, Jordi Prat and Coll.

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