{"id":2179,"date":"2015-12-09T12:06:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T12:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laltrefestival.cat\/home\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:39:11","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/laltrefestival.cat\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit of l’Altre Festival, international performing arts and mental health festival in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"
L’ALTRE FESTIVAL 2026<\/div>

29 – 31 May<\/span><\/h4><\/div>
FABRA I COATS VENUE<\/div><\/header><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>
Welcome to<\/div>

L’Altre Festival<\/span><\/h1><\/div>
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.<\/div><\/header><\/div><\/div>
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Performing arts<\/span><\/h3><\/div>
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.<\/div><\/header>
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Mental\r
health<\/span><\/h3><\/div>
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.<\/div><\/header>
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Memories<\/span><\/h3><\/div>
Come and discover our previous Festivals and enjoy the theatre, dance, music and other performing formats.<\/div><\/header>
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Know the<\/div>

Artists & Companies<\/span><\/h1><\/div>
Know those Artists who have taken part in the previous l’Altre International Performing Arts and Mental Health Festival in Barcelona. <\/div><\/header><\/div><\/div>
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& Serrat<\/span><\/h3><\/div>
As a unique duet, Joan Manuel Serrat and James Rhodes opened the Festival. <\/div><\/header>
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Marc<\/div>

Lockyer<\/span><\/h3><\/div>
He portrayed as himself in a delirious monolog.<\/div><\/header>
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La Trifulga<\/div>

dels F\u00fatils<\/span><\/h3><\/div>
Winner of the Josep Clusa Award (2017); a theatrical company which has performed in all of the Festival\u2019s editions.<\/div><\/header>
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Efectes<\/div>

Secundaris<\/span><\/h3><\/div>
Rock and blues live during the Festival.<\/div><\/header>
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Etiquetes<\/span><\/h3><\/div>
They took part in the \u201cNight of Dance\u201d in 2021 together with La Taimada company.<\/div><\/header>
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Teatro<\/div>

do Mar<\/span><\/h3><\/div>
They presented their show \u201cInsomnio\u201d during the fifth edition of the Festival.<\/div><\/header>
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Are you in?<\/span><\/h3><\/div>
Discover the Festival’s news.<\/div><\/header>
<\/div>Newsletter<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

News<\/span><\/h1><\/div>
Discover the Festival’s news.<\/div><\/header>
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Interviews with l’Altre Festival<\/a><\/span><\/h3><\/div>
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Discover several interviews recorded at the Barcelona l’Altre festival of mental health and performing arts in 2025. From its two main organizers, you will learn about the festival\u2019s origins, its involvement in the European INSPIRE project, and the l\u2019Altre \u201cdelegation\u201d trip to the partner festival Mezi ploty in Prague. Representatives of another project partner, the […]<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t

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What is the role that\u00a0culture and arts\u00a0play in our\u00a0mental health\u00a0and quality of life?\u00a0 The final meeting of the INSPIRE project will take place on the\u00a017th, 18th, and 19th of September from 6 to 8 pm\u00a0as an on-line conference. It will be attended by experts, artists and policymakers from several EU countries, exploring arts, mental health, […]<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t

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Women and Mental Health<\/a><\/span><\/h3><\/div>
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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 […]<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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