FLAGSHIP PROGRAMMES
National Network
Spain
Address
Vila Vall-Llebrera, 18 (Àtic), 08912Country
City
BadalonaProvince
BarcelonaMobile Phone
+34680340536Telephone
0034680340536Year of Establishment
2023Contact Person1
Marc Bosch MolaJob Title 1
ArtistContact Person 2
Andreas AvgoustiJob Title 2
ArtistOrganisation Type
Non-Governmental OrganizationFields of Activity
Arts, Democracy and community development, Gender, Others, Youth and educationGeneral Information
FRACTUA is a collective working at the intersection of circus arts, social facilitation, and research, using embodied and artistic practices as tools for critical thinking, community engagement, and social transformation. Emerging from the context of social circus training at the Ateneu Popular de Nou Barris (Barcelona), FRACTUA brings together practitioners from diverse backgrounds, including gender studies, education, social sciences, and performing arts.
The collective develops projects in rural and urban contexts, with a strong focus on situated knowledge, horizontality, care, and non-extractive cultural practices. FRACTUA works across Catalonia and maintains connections with other Mediterranean contexts, including Cyprus.
Mission and Objectives
FRACTUA’s mission is to create spaces of collective learning, reflection, and creation through artistic and embodied practices, particularly in contexts that are often peripheral to dominant cultural and academic circuits.
Its objectives are to:
•Promote cultural rights and access to critical knowledge through non-formal and artistic methodologies.
•Use circus and performance as shared languages to explore social, political, and relational questions.
•Foster horizontal, inclusive and care-based processes that value lived experience as a source of knowledge.
•Strengthen territorial and community-based cultural practices, especially in rural contexts.
•Develop research processes that challenge traditional hierarchies between theory and practice.
Main Projects / Activities
FRACTUA’s work is articulated around four main lines:
1.Creation and Performing Arts
Development of circus and performing arts pieces for theatre and other contexts, combining artistic research and collective creation.
2.Social Circus
Facilitation of social circus processes with communities and groups at risk of exclusion, including work around gender, ageing and diversity.
3.Research through Circus
Development of research projects that use circus and embodied practices as tools for knowledge production. Key projects include Paradoxa (part of the APCC Interseccions – Pla d’Impuls) and Circ and Catalan, currently in development.
4.Circus as a Mediation Tool
Use of circus and facilitation methodologies to support group processes, team dynamics, and collective reflection.
A current flagship project is Barraca, an itinerant rural university that explores how critical knowledge can emerge from rural contexts through art, facilitation, and collective learning.
How can you contribute to the Network in your country?
We can contribute to the ALF network by:
•Activating local and rural contexts as spaces for intercultural dialogue and knowledge exchange.
•Sharing methodologies based on embodied learning, facilitation, and artistic research.
•Connecting cultural practitioners, researchers, and communities across territories.
•Hosting or co-developing pilot projects, residencies, or learning spaces that foster dialogue between different Mediterranean realities.
•Offering experience in care-based, horizontal and non-extractive cultural practices, relevant to cross-cultural collaboration.
Why do you want to join the ALF Network?
FRACTUA wishes to join the ALF network because it aligns with a vision of culture as a space for dialogue, learning, and mutual transformation, rather than representation or export of fixed models. The Mediterranean context is central to FRACTUA’s interests, both politically and culturally, particularly in relation to questions of territory, identity, care, and knowledge circulation.
Being part of the ALF Network would allow FRACTUA to:
•Connect with organizations working from similar values and challenges.
•Develop transnational collaborations, especially between rural and peripheral contexts.
•Share and learn from diverse approaches to intercultural dialogue rooted in practice.
•Contribute to a network that values process, exchange, and long-term relationships.