Cabanyal's Visual Arts Campus Returns for Third Edition

The event, from July 7-10, aims to foster visual and cultural education with workshops and meetings at CC La Reina 121.

Generic image of visual arts and community in a Mediterranean neighborhood.
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Generic image of visual arts and community in a Mediterranean neighborhood.

The Cabanyal Visual Arts Campus returns from July 7-10, 2026, for its third edition at CC La Reina 121, establishing itself as a key event for promoting visual and cultural education in the neighborhood.

This initiative, driven by Siroco Cultural and Jorge Alamar, utilizes visual arts as a catalyst for territorial transformation. The program combines participatory workshops, talks, and encounters focused on photography, audiovisuals, printmaking, and drawing, aiming to create a space for expression and dialogue that strengthens a sense of belonging through shared creation.
Among the highlighted activities is Cris Bartual's Les empremtes que ens envolten (The Imprints That Surround Us), a printmaking workshop inviting participants to discover and transform the marks of everyday objects into a collective imaginary map. Additionally, Marina Reig presents Saber mirar: una peça audiovisual del barri (Knowing How to Look: An Audiovisual Piece of the Neighborhood), where children will create an audiovisual piece based on their perspectives and questions about El Cabanyal.
The program also includes Guillermo Navarro / Amic Espai Creatiu's Retrata’t a la plaça! (Portrait Yourself in the Square!), which will set up an open-air photography studio in Plaça de l’Àngels to build a collective portrait of the neighborhood. Furthermore, Mario Álvarez and Pep López Escrivà are organizing Un comboi per dibuixar El Cabanyal (A Train to Draw El Cabanyal), an open urban drawing day to explore the neighborhood with sketchbooks, techniques, and views of the public space.
The campus also dedicates spaces to reflecting on the link between image and territory. In Trobar-se en el paisatge (Meeting in the Landscape), Jesús Monterde will present a photographic journey through the Alt Maestrat, reflecting on roots, rituals, and landscapes as places of encounter and memory.
In its previous editions, the Campus has hosted artists such as La Breva, Coletiv@s.psd, Massa Salvatge, Azucena Abril, and Selen Botto, along with talks by Anaïs Florin, Julián Barón, and Antonio Ovejero. It also promoted the collective piece Dels Poblats Marítims to the Seaside Neighborhoods, created from an open call for photographs submitted by citizens.