Xarxa Z, a finalist for the 2026 Lluís Carulla Award, begins its incubation phase

The Xarxa Z project has been selected as one of the finalists for the 2026 Lluís Carulla Award and is entering the program’s incubation phase, after participating in the “Academy” alongside nineteen other cultural initiatives from across the country.

Promoted by the Carulla Foundation, the Lluís Carulla Award is a cultural entrepreneurship program that aims to identify and nurture projects with the capacity to transform society through culture. In this first phase, twenty proposals were selected to join the Academy, a space for intensive training and exchange between projects.

Within this framework, Xarxa Z participated in five face-to-face sessions held between February 19 and March 19 in Barcelona. These sessions focused on cultural impact, entrepreneurial skills, project evaluation, and communication. The process culminated in a day of presentations before the selection committee.

Following this journey, the project has been chosen as one of the ten finalists moving on to the incubation phase, where they will receive personalized support to strengthen their proposal and work on its viability.

Xarxa Z is conceived as a scale-up of Festival Z, aiming to connect creation, support, and exhibition processes for young companies within a continuous circuit. Under the motto “connecting young creation, territory, and community”, the project proposes open and accessible professional paths that link emerging artists with the local context and the audience.

Moving into the incubation phase consolidates Xarxa Z’s path within a program that will culminate in the selection of two winning projects and subsequent support for their development.

This milestone reinforces Festival Z’s commitment to creating stable structures for young creation and expanding its impact beyond the festival format, connecting agents, territories, and communities through the performing arts.