the street is our gallery

April 10, 2021 to April 18, 2021

Organised in the Historical Center of Lleida, to share and enjoy art and colors in the neighborhood. For nine days, talented artists will give a new life to several walls and they will leave a part of themselves and their art.

Urban art has experienced exponential evolution and growth in the last two decades. Within the different currents of contemporary art, urban art has become one of the main ones, with a totally contrasted force and capacity for urban and social transformation.

Current trends in urban art propose an integration with urban environments, achieving a communion between murals and buildings in the urban fabric.
This artistic emergency has been so important that many cities considered the most avant-garde in the world (New York, Berlin, Rome, Paris, Lisbon, Bogota, Melbourne, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Barcelona among many others) have joined these new art forms and promoted them as an element of enormous added value in different areas such as social, tourism, architecture and culture.

As a result of more than 25 years of cultural revitalization in urban art, the Department of Youth, Festivals and Traditions of Lleida City Council is taking a step forward in organizing activities around this artistic discipline and will organize a national and international festival, where renowned and prestigious artists will participate in this field and will offer the citizens of Lleida the opportunity to get in touch with this form of mural art.

In this first edition the festival will take place in the neighborhood of the Historic Center. The idea is that in each edition the festival will be held in different neighborhoods and areas of the city, and gradually create a network of works distributed throughout the city.

In parallel with the production of the murals, the festival will organize different activities around the promotion and cultural dissemination of this discipline. This year, the possibilities of carrying out these parallel activities are very limited by the security restrictions due the covid19 and therefore, a program will be carried out where the participation capacities are in accordance with the resolutions of the health authorities. In this sense, future editions will incorporate more diversity of activities, as well as a more notable degree of citizen participation.

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The festival Schedule will be:

LARGE FORMAT MURAL INTERVENTIONS:
Dates: from April 12 to 18, 2021.
• Belin: Partition wall of the Civic Center of the Historical Center. Galera street.
• Elisa Capdevila: 29 Lluís Besa street.
• Lídia Cao: 1 Boters street.
• Llukutter: 50-58 Cavallers street.
• Malakkai: 10 Carniceries street.

WORKSHOPS:
• Workshop: Community mural with the Lleida artist Llukutter.
•Execution of a participatory mural. Requires previous registration.
•Attendees will be organized by groups and work shifts and the security measures and Covid capacities decreed at that time by PROCICAT will be applied.

Minimum age: 16 years old.
Location: 12 Panera street.
Schedule:
• Saturday April 10 from 10 to 20 hours.
• Sunday April 11, from 11 to 13 hours.

• Workshop: Mural with the students of the Cervantes School of the Historical Center by the artist Txus Montejano.
Execution of a participatory mural. Requires previous registration.
Students will be organized by groups and work shifts and the security measures and Covid capacities decreed at that time by PROCICAT will be applied.

Location: Cervantes School at the Historical Center.
Schedule:
• Saturday April 15 during the school day.

• Graffiti workshop by the spray brand Montana Colors and the artist Zosen.
Execution of a participatory mural. Requires previous registration.
Attendees will be organized by groups and work shifts and the security measures and Covid capacities decreed at that time by PROCICAT will be applied.

Minimum age: 12 years old.
Location: Dipòsit Square.
Schedule:
• Saturday April 17 from 17 to 20 hours.

• Workshop: Ephemeral mural with the Lleida artist Foxy
Execution of a participatory mural. Requires previous registration.
Attendees will be organized by groups and work shifts and the security measures and Covid capacities decreed at that time by PROCICAT will be applied.

Minimum age: 12 years old.
Location:1 Lluís Besa street (corner with La Palma street).

Schedule:
• Sunday April 18, from 10 to 14 hours.

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION:
Artists participating in the festival and cultural agents will discuss urban art (visions, projection, future, the role of festivals as agents of dissemination of this artistic discipline, etc.).
The round table will be conducted by Pilar Bosch from the cultural platform Ilerdam Videas. Requires pre-registration
Location: Espai Cavallers. 31-33 Cavallers street.
Schedule:
• Saturday April 17 from 11 to 13 hours.

EXHIBITION: “ENDINS”
Collective exhibition of the artists participating in Lleida _potFest 2021 Malakkai, Elisa Capdevila, Llukutter, Lidia Cao and Belin, together with the artist Lily Brick, where you can enjoy firsthand his most personal works.
For the visit to the exhibition, the security measures and Covid capacities decreed at that time by PROCICAT will be applied.
Location: Espai Cavallers. 31-33 Cavallers street.
Inauguration Schedule:
• 1st turn: Thursday 15 April at 19 hours.
• 2nd turn: Thursday 15 April at 20 hours.
Booking for inauguration by email [email protected]