Beyond Entertainment
Shôko’s Commitment to the Barceloneta Neighborhood Shôko Barcelona has celebrated its 20th anniversary on the Barceloneta waterfront—the very neighborhood that saw it born and grow as a restaurant and nightclub, and which has become an essential part of its identity. From the very beginning, the establishment has been committed to ensuring that its activities also […]
Taking care of ourselves to live better: emotional well-being and support among women in Barceloneta
When we talk about health, we often think of physical health: exercising, eating well, or seeing a doctor when we need to. But health is much more than that. It also includes how we feel, the relationships we have, our economic situation, the caregiving responsibilities we take on, and the support network we rely on. […]
Women for Women Program
Community, roots and mutual support in Barceloneta Since last October, the SURT Foundation has been promoting the Dones per Dones community agent training program in Barceloneta , an initiative that centers the knowledge, experience, and strength of migrant women and local residents. The project aims to train local women as community agents specializing in health, […]
Opening up job opportunities for women in Barceloneta
At the SALE Foundation, we want to build a more equal neighborhood with more opportunities for everyone, and we want to do so hand in hand with the social, cultural, and economic fabric of the region. A key part of this fabric are the companies linked to the Port of Barcelona and social agents such […]
Barceloneta’s “Women for Women” initiative promotes intercultural coexistence
This September, SURT is launching the “Women for Women” project in the Barceloneta neighborhood, an initiative that focuses on training and empowering women from different cultural backgrounds to become community agents, with the mission of supporting migrant families and promoting intercultural coexistence in the neighborhood’s socio-educational spaces. The “Women for Women” network will be closely […]
Twenty years of the Barceloneta Community Plan
We will soon be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Barceloneta Community Plan. Over the last twenty years, neighbors, organizations, businesses, facilities, and services in the neighborhood, with the support of the public administration, have been implementing a series of projects with the aim of improving the quality of life of Barceloneta residents and responding […]
Friends of the Gent Gran
Preventing loneliness, building community Unwanted loneliness is one of the great social challenges of our time. Although it has been associated mainly with older people, the truth is that it affects people at any stage of life and manifests itself in different ways depending on the context. In youth, it can appear amid digital hyperconnectivity […]
A festival with a bright future
“Maintaining tradition while adapting to the times. This is the goal that has guided our work since we took over from the much-missed Pepe Vilches and began organizing this celebration that is so dear to us.” We place special emphasis on encouraging neighborhood participation in the streets, an activity that once characterized the festival. Currently, […]
Barceloneta Festival
This festival is held in honor of Saint Michael the Archangel, patron saint of the neighborhood, whose feast day is September 29. This celebration maintains, in a big way, its essence: a mixture of tradition, community, popular culture, and Mediterranean spirit. It has managed to renew itself without losing its roots, incorporating everything from “correfocs” […]
We are starting a new academic year
There is a wide and varied range of activities on offer at the Casal Cívic After the summer holidays, it’s time to get back into action and return to normality. It’s time to start again with the routines that are both cursed and necessary: going back to work, going back to school, returning to the […]
BATEC, Barceloneta loves Catalan
BATEC is a group set up by local residents to provide spaces where people can practice or learn Catalan in an informal way by taking part in different types of activities. It arose from the need and interest of new residents from outside Catalonia to find spaces where they can learn about Catalan and practice […]
I lived in El Somorrostro
Reunited with the siblings Carmen (74 years old) and Paco Montes López (70), as they explain, family of the «Hot» nickname; and with José Montes Ribas (80). Curiously, the two men were experts in metallurgy, in the no longer existing Pons Workshops and in the Vulcan . They all came to Barcelona from their native Andalusia (La Chuck and Castell de […]
El Somorrostro
Shacks by the Sea El Somorrostro was one of the most iconic shack neighborhoods in the city of Barcelona. It was established around 1875, on a site where fishermen’s shacks might have previously stood. The neighborhood was hidden from prying eyes, nestled between the factories and the railway. In the 1940s, it began to grow […]
Art and Misery
It could be the title of a film, but it is the title of a stark and curious reality. Misery Only catechists and what we would call NGOs today and were then known as Social Works, cared for the lives of these people. The church built a small school-chapel that only a tiny fraction […]
Colita
Colita She was 22 years old when he got to know The Somorrostro . She arrived with the task of photographing the extras for the film “ Los Tarantos .” and discovered a world of great poverty and subsistence, but also of joy and a zest for life despite the circumstances. She quickly gained the […]
SURT Barceloneta, a space for growth, empowerment, and connection
The month of March saw the opening of the SURT Space in Barceloneta, a benchmark organisation in the field of equality and the fight against male violence, which promotes different programmes aimed at empowering women, especially those who are most vulnerable. Different projects have already been set up in the first months of the year. […]
More open to everyone, more activities
Participate in Casal Cívic i Comunitari Barcelona-Barceloneta In recent years, with the transformation from Casal de Gent Gran to Casal Cívic i Comunitari, changes have been introduced to create a more open facility in the neighborhood and with a greater variety of activities and profiles of the people who participate. This has involved the incorporation […]
In the “Sostre” there are fifty of us who need you
The Sostre Project, located on the ground floor of 44 Pescadors Street, provides shelter 365 nights a year for six Barceloneta residents who live permanently on the neighborhood’s streets and who, due to their personal circumstances, are unable to use other available resources. At Sostre, there are 50 of us who divide up our schedules […]
The SURT Foundation opens in Barceloneta
The SURT Foundation opens a new space for women’s empowerment in Barceloneta Barceloneta has welcomed the SURT Foundation, an organization that works to empower women and defend the rights of the most vulnerable groups. On March 7th , in the framework of International Women’s Day, its new space was inaugurated at 18 Doctor Aiguadé Street […]
Celebrating 8M at the Barceloneta Civic and Community Centre
During the week of 3rd to 9th March we celebrated with great success the International Women’s Day with a series of events in which many of the women who give life to the house have been able to participate. Beyond the activities that are organized directly by the management of the house, there are many […]
Chess at Casal Cívic
Casal Cívic I Comunitari Barcelona Barceloneta has created an open chess group, with children and adults, to learn from scratch or to improve their level. You can meet us on Thursday afternoons, in the reading room on the first floor from 5 pm. We look forward to seeing you! There are few games as universal […]
Pact for Old City
Barcelona launches the Pact for Ciutat Vella to promote the comprehensive transformation of the district through dialogue and citizen collaboration. On July 10th, at an event held in the auditorium of the Liceu Conservatory and chaired by the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni , and also with interventions of councilor of the district, Albert Batlle […]
Civic and Community Centre. For the elderly and now, for everyone
For decades, many elderly people in the neighbourhood have had the Casal de la Carrer Baluard as a place of reference. In a neighbourhood where the houses are mostly small, the casal has served as a place of recreation, where you could do workshops, eat cheaply, socialise, take shelter from the cold in the winter […]
A look at the elderly
Radars arrives in Barceloneta The community project Radars, promoted by the Social Services of the City Council, has just been presented in Barceloneta with the aim of acting and trying to alleviate the effects of unwanted loneliness of the elderly in the neighbourhood and prevent risk situations. The coordination of Radares in Barceloneta is carried […]
Diverse Barceloneta
We weave complicity for equality in diversity! Let’s build Barceloneta together for everyone. The Barceloneta Diversa community project represents an opportunity to highlight the cultural richness of the neighbourhood, giving more visibility and space to the different existing cultural traditions. The aim is to break cultural stereotypes and combat racism, while defending the right to […]