L’ALTRE FESTIVAL 2025
May 30 – June 1, 2025
Welcome to

L’Altre Festival

Imagine another world. A world without labels, full of diversity and accessible to everybody, aimed to create and enjoy performing arts. Welcome to l’Altre Festival, an anual international performing arts and mental health event in Barcelona.


Performing arts

Artistic proposals created, (led by) or related to people with diverse experiences in mental health looking for interactions between professional, non-professionals and amateurs shows.

Who we are



Mental
health

Everyone has the right to belong to the cultural world as creators, performers or spectators and the cultural world must not lose the richness voices rarely heard.


Memories

Come and discover our previous Festivals and enjoy the theatre, dance, music and other performing formats.

Know the

Artists & Companies

Know those Artists who have taken part in the previous l’Altre International Performing Arts and Mental Health Festival in Barcelona.
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Rhodes

& Serrat

As a unique duet, Joan Manuel Serrat and James Rhodes opened the Festival.

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Marc

Lockyer

He portrayed as himself in a delirious monolog.


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La Trifulga

dels Fútils

Winner of the Josep Clusa Award (2017); a theatrical company which has performed in all of the Festival’s editions.

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Efectes

Secundaris

Rock and blues live during the Festival.

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Dansant sense

Etiquetes

They took part in the “Night of Dance” in 2021 together with La Taimada company.

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Teatro

do Mar

They presented their show “Insomnio” during the fifth edition of the Festival.


Are you in?

Discover the Festival’s news.

Newsletter

News

Discover the Festival’s news.

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11 de September de 2024

We are glad to annouce that Inspire project continues and presents the activity “Theatre Seminar”, promoted by our partner Fundacja Varsztatovnia from Poland. The seminar will be held during September 21 and 22 in Dom Otwarty in Warsaw. All of the partners will participate remotely to discuss about the Culture and inclusivity from local point […]

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4 de April de 2024

This workshop explored the intersection of art, mental health and community engagement. What does otherness mean in our society? Participants learnt about the benefits of using participatory art practices to promote mental health and well-being. Through interactive sessions, participants obtained practical skills and knowledge to develop inclusive and participatory art practices that address mental health […]

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31 de March de 2024

You know that l’Altre International Performing Arts and Mental Health Festival is coming soon to Barcelona to celebrate 10 years! Take your calendar and save the dates, from May 31 till June 2 in recinte Fabra i Coats! And if you want to connect with the arts and the mental health, we would like to share […]

Collaborators


With the support of

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