L’ALTRE FESTIVAL 2025

30/05 – 1/06

FABRA I COATS VENUE
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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18 de July de 2025

What is the role that culture and arts play in our mental health and quality of life? The final meeting of the INSPIRE project will take place on the 17th, 18th, and 19th of September from 6 to 8 pm as a virtual seminar. It will be attended by experts, artists and policymakers from several EU countries, exploring arts, mental health, public […]

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9 de July de 2025

Around one in five women have a common mental health problem, such as depression and anxiety. McLean points that even though progress has been made in decreasing the stigma surrounding mental health issues, there is still more work to be done in the field, especially when looking at variations in mental health between genders. The […]

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12 de June de 2025

We are happy to launch new  e-manual, based on the successful experience of the “Exploring the Intersection of Participatory Arts Practices and Mental Health” workshop, held in Barcelona in 2024. Designed to support cultural workers, professionals, and students, this guide provides step-by-step instructions to help you organize and facilitate similar workshops in your own community. […]

Collaborators


With the support of

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