Format: An intensive workshop with local residents and the creation and performing of an itinerant night-time show.
Commissioned by: Centro Civico El Carmel, Casal de Barri La Barraca, Espai Jove Boca Nord (Barcelona).
Dates: Workshop 16 – 17 June 2023 / Show 08 July 2023
Place: Barcelona (SPAIN)

Synopsis

Caminart is an annual artistic project carried out by different organizations in the Carmel neighborhood of Barcelona that culminates in a night-time artistic walk through the neighborhood with the presence of more than 300 spectators. 

In the 2023 edition Kamchatka, working in collaboration with the associative community of Carmel and its inhabitants, has created and directed a series of ephemeral and moving theatrical actions that illustrate the richness of its past and the stories of its mostly immigrant population.

Project Description

From the carmel, the views of the city encompass the thousands and thousands of people who have come to the neighbourhood from near and far, on such diverse paths, crossing seas and continents to start a new life here. 

All these lives, past and present, are part of the mystery and charm of the neighbourhood, part of the streets, corners and open spaces that we will pass through in this edition of Caminart, places that hold fragments of lives, fragments of paths.

At the invitation of the Centre Civic El Carmel, Casal de Barri La Barracay and Espai Jove Boca Nord Kamchàtka has been asked to direct and coordinate Caminart 2023, addressing for the first time in the history of the project the idea that Caminart is not just a night walk between shows in public space, but is itself a continuous ‘show’ that tells a story, sometimes fragmented. A story that unfolds along its route and is in continuous dialogue with the space, the public, the local shared memory and the residents and artists who live and work in the neighbourhood. In collaboration with neighbours, artists and local groupswho have participated in an intensive 2 afternoon workshop and contributed their personal stories of migration, this edition of Caminart is a path of paths, a meeting of past and present, revealing traces of life of those who arrived long ago mixed with what we see today.

Project coordination
Santi Rovira, Maika Eggerix, Gary Shochat

Actors/Actresses 
Maika Eggerix, Santi Rovira, Emma Rovira, Carlota Rovira, Jan Estebanell

Photo:
Sònia Nieto