The inevitable and Mila, winners of the Lluís Carulla 2024 prize

/Photographs: Angel Garcia

Last Tuesday, November 19th was the delivery of the Lluís Carulla Awards 2024 In the ideal, digital arts center. These biennial awards, granted by the Carulla Foundation, value innovative cultural projects that promote the transformation and improvement of our society. The main protagonist of the night was the inevitable, the Salt Community Arts Festivalthat received the prize for best project and a grant of € 60,000. This initiative promotes local community art with a self -managed team formed by the citizenry. In addition, the inevitable aims to develop a methodology to replicate the festival to other localities in Catalonia. On the other hand, Mila won the Press to Better Idea and € 25,000 To finance the project. This proposal is a factory of narrative talent that aims to promote young artists of diverse social origins in the market. For two years, both winners will receive the cultural and business monitoring of the Carulla Foundation, Netmentora and Self -employment.

At her Delivery Gala Outstanding figures from the cultural and social world, such as journalists Carolina Rosich and Bea Duodu, participated; the General Director of Cultural Promotion and Libraries of the Generalitat, Xavier Fina; the director of the Carulla Foundation, Marta Esteve, and its president, Nicolau Brossa. In addition, the ceremony featured performances by Musical Choir and Catalunya Freestyle. In total, About 200 people attended the Night of Transformative Culture.

The Lluís Carulla 2024 Awards have stood out for the quality and diversity of the proposals presented. Of a total of 148 nominations, only 4 projects and 5 cultural ideas became finalists. One of the novelties of this year’s edition has been the incorporation of the academy and the incubation phase In the business program of the awards. Thus, although only two proposals have taken the wings of the transformation, All the finalists have had the opportunity to develop and accelerate their projects under the supervision of the Carulla Foundation.

New narratives takes the Francesc Candel Prize

The Night of Transformative Culture has also hosted the delivery of the Francesc Prize Candelintended for artistic and cultural projects that foster the inclusion of people of migrant origin in Catalan society. The award, endowed with € 15,000has been taken away New narratives, from Alfred Tapscott. This proposal worksmainly, to the micropoble of Catalonia, and has the goal fromempowering young people of migrant origin throughAnt La Música, the Theater and the Visual Art.