This year, we are doing the Festival Z «for the love of art»!
07.04.25
How many times have you heard that you were doing something for the love of art? This romantic and apparently beautiful image of doing something because you love it, with passion, hides a precarious reality, in which artists and creators work and fight to start their projects often with love as the only exchange.
Continuing with these ideas, this year’s edition of Festival Z, to be held from July 10 to 13 in Girona and Salt, takes as its motto «For the love of art», as a celebration and denunciation at the same time. On the one hand, we want to celebrate love as a creative force that, through the path of art, unites different people and realities, accompanies us, embraces us and makes us feel stronger. On the other hand, we want to use the theme ironically to denounce how this love of art has been used to perpetuate the precariousness of the cultural sector and especially of the youngest creators.
True to our essence, in the 2025 edition of Festival Z we claim love, yes, but also the professionalization of young artists. That is why, once again this year, the festival will feature a selection of shows created by young people (and aimed at all types of audiences), as well as connection spaces so that young artists can get in touch with professionals in the performing arts sector and generate links that help them to move their projects forward.
THE IMAGE: THE MOUSE
The mouse is a curious and playful animal. A creature that, like us, moved by the desire to discover, often ends up trapped in some trap. At the same time, it is his curiosity that makes him strong, as well as the ability to sneak through any gap, to manage to survive in the most adverse conditions. His image alerts us to the traps in which we can fall when we take the first steps in the artistic field, but it also leads us to claim the strength of the small, of enthusiasm, of the desire to play, and of love, not only as a trap, but as a driving force.
FESTIVAL Z, FIFTH EDITION
Festival Z, which will celebrate its fifth edition from 10 to 13 July, was born in 2021, from the Joan Bosch Private Foundation, owner of the University School of Arts ERAM – UdG, with the desire to be an engine of promotion and visibility of creators and stage creators under thirty years and also a space for reflection and transmission of transgenerational knowledge between professionals with more and less experience, in the municipalities of Girona and Salt. All in line with the objectives and trajectory of the foundation, focused on research, qualification and professionalization in the fields of visual and performing culture.