Barcelona will triple the number of music points in the street

Barcelona will triple the authorized street music points, which will arrive in all the city's districts.

Barcelona will triple the number of music points in the street

Barcelona will triple the authorized street music points, which will arrive in all the city's districts. The increase in musical spaces on the street is one of the actions included in the new government measure Culture and public space: right to access and cultural participation in the street, which is part of the Barcelona Cultural Rights Plan.

The project Música al carrer, which is part of the Cultura Viva program of the Municipal Institute of Culture of Barcelona, ​​will experience exponential growth starting in September. If today the city has 18 points reserved for live music, all of them in the Ciutat Vella district, after the summer the network will expand to nearly 50, distributed throughout the city. Next June, a pilot test will start that will take music to the streets in five districts.

The expansion of this circuit is part of the deployment of the Cultural Rights Plan of the Barcelona City Council, presented a year ago. The measure presented today also includes the launch of the Cilindre de Horta, a new creation factory focused on urban art; the incorporation of the cultural perspective in the urban planning of the city; the promotion of "cultural superblocks"; the constitution of a Night Commission to jointly address the challenges surrounding the night and its cultural dynamics, or the incorporation of the agent of change principle, common in the United Kingdom, to preserve the ecosystem of music venues and concerts live.

With the Horta Cylinder there will now be 12 municipal creation factories. This new facility aims to be a reference space in Barcelona's urban art. It will have an information and advice point and will be a connection space for municipal programs and actions around urban art. It will promote relations with other facilities and international projects with similar characteristics.

In the field of urban art, the measure establishes a system to plan and manage all the artistic interventions of these disciplines that are carried out in the city, with the definition and promotion of three types of walls: open, regulated and intervention exceptional.

Among the actions promoted within the framework of the measure, the creation of a work table to study the viability of the declaration of Cultural Asset of Local Interest (BCIL) for the Sant Joan bonfires in Barcelona also stands out.

Another initiative is to use cultural expressions for the pacification of the streets, promoting superblocks as spaces for legitimate and non-legitimate culture, both that promoted by the estates and entities formally recognized as cultural and that arising from the initiative citizen.

Finally, different actions are established for the protection of music in urban planning regulations, such as those inspired by the principle of the British Agent of Change, which in the face of any new use of the land preserves the pre-existing ones. This figure is designed, among other functions, to protect live music and concert halls from new housing developments or changes in urban planning


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