Sacra Experience
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Sacra Experience is a different way to relation with the enviroment. It is a transformation concept that connect a selection of artists to the public and the landscape , the community and the protected natural area. The project presents housing and installations offer at Lugar of Pincelo(Chantada) an unique mountain and riverside small village, mantaining a deep cooperation to other cultural development projects around the area. Sacra Forma,Festival and The Small Bauhaus are the main programmes
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Sacra Experience is a cultural , social and enviromental project located in a village at the Ribeira Sacra of Miño River. Created with the intemption to promote an excellence culture in an almost abandonned area. The socio-cultural enviroment of desintegrated villages at the Ribeira Sacra is other of our objetives as well as creating synergies between the rural and the urban through projects in conjuction with the colser Town Chantada and other galicien cities.
The project focuses in three main regular programms: Sacra Forma, Sacra Festival, Pincelo Terrace.
The Sacra Forma is an interdiscipline educational programm executed from march to october. Intensive weekend workshops are offered guided by wellknown artist. The financing programme is supported by private and public institutions such as Xunta de Galicia, Diputación de Lugo, Chantada Council, Gadisa and Hermanos Hijos de Rivera. Arts for childhood is key part of this programme and it is open to funcional diversity people.
The Sacra Festival is presented during a weekend in august offering every discipline artists shows to create a dialogue with natural entourace and in the Via Romana, Adegas Amedo and Abadía da Cova Wine Cellars to make it visible.
The Pincelo Terrace is the third key part of the project created with the aim of offer an alternative local products gourmet tasting service. The participants of formation programme, local inhabitants as well as tourist share this installations at the lunch and dinner services during the summer , this generates a meeting beteen the rurall and the urban public.
Sacra Experience is a rural creative factory open to other creators offering artistic residences in collaboration to Amora2, Coreographic Context of Madrid, 5S Company...etc
The project is concern of the desintegrated comunity needs.
Key objectives for sustainability
The fundamental change of Carlota Pérez life , the coreographer and curator artist who is behind Sacra experience has marqued this project. The artist has chosen to move from the urban enviroment of A Coruña to the rural Area of the Ribeira Sacra. The first step was buying an abandonned house and restored it to live in acompanied by her two children. Only four people remained living at Lugar de Pincelo in 2020 but thanks to this project nowadays 10 people became permanent inhabitants of the village, and many other people started to buy and restores houses in it. this project collaborates with the locals through to the Pincelo Terrace, a local products gourmet tasting bussiness whom come from the neighbours vegetables and ecowine production. Through the activities foffred by our project a deep relation has been created with the closer village called Chantada (7000 people). The project has been adquired other two abandonned builts to be restored as a classroom and tourism lodging.
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
Arquitecturally the project has count on the deep knowledge of three specilist architects attendind to the Cultural Interest Area that is considered Ribeira Sacra. The main structure of ancient architecture has been repected at the same time that we restored the spaces in order to offer a high quality experience to visitants and participants(access and services) . The terraces structure for the gourmet tasting area has been designed to duplicate the effect of the famous winegrowing ancient terraces of Ribeira Sacra. . The different spaces are designed to make people feel like home, a part of our community.
Key objectives for inclusion
We are developping a deep investigation with an architect to construct an special access through the hill to functional diversity people.
With and without functional diversity people are welcome into Sacra Forma educational activities, one of our main projects. Two Social Trasformation trough the Arts meeting are part of the formation offer program with recognized professionals such as Eva García, Eugène Van Erven, Jordi Cortés, Rebeca Ponte, Esmeralda Valderrama, Manuel Aguilar y Paulo Rodríguez.
This year we have launched a chilhood project called The Small Bauhaus(La pequeña Bauhaus). Children from 6 to 18 years old receive art formation in design, painting, gravure, graphic design to create their own label, formation open to diversity functional children. Sacra Festival 2022 is dedicated to comunity projects as¨Imágenes sacras¨that join the look of a profesional recognized photografer(Vari Caramés) and the look of the area inhabitants through disposable photography machines in collaboration to the ¨Red Museística de Lugo¨, 5S Inclusive Art Company show with its theatre spectacle ¨My place¨. The festival is created to provide an excellent culture opportinity to the people of this rural area, bringing very known artists as Oliver Laxe, Guillermo Weickert, María Vazquez, Víctor Duplá, maría Gar, Javier Collado, Mercedes peón, Niño de Elche etc. Youngs in risk of exclution(16-21) from a mentor project will attend our art formation as a collaboration with programamentor.org
Results in relation to category
1- Ressetlement of the village through artists, families and vistors of our project who has decided to buy and restore properties for example: two dancers, a fluvial route worker, a german carpenter and a german actress, a entrepeneur, a lawyer, a family and a group of friend who consolidate a multiproperty. Two old inhabitants of the village who had abandonned their proprties decides to come back and restore and live due to this ressetlement of artists. This has helped to combat the demographic challenge.
2.- Conection between the rural and the urban habittants throgh the activities and gourmet products tasting Terrace.
3.- The resumption of the neighbourhood assotiation.
4.- Promotion of the local comerce between oenologist and winemakers producers.
5. Media Comunication impact that helps to achieve economic aid and subsidies to sustain a long term activity.
6- The artistic residences promotes the synergies among the local artist and foreing visitor artists.
7.- Humanize a rural place at risk of abandonment and rural depopulation
How Citizens benefit
Sacra Experience is a project created taking care of the entourage community to be able to raise together. The project schedules regular asemblies to give voice to the neighbouring communities attendig to their artistic and personal neecessities. The project mantain Networking among the village acommodtion services and the the others villages at the Ribeira Sacra. The Terrace offers a wide list of local wines giving suppurt to the area winemakers and places the Sacra Festival Events.
The Pequeña Bauhaus workshops offer to the the village children the opportunity to share time and experience with urban children who come from all over galicia to attend the courses.
We created a local products basket to sell(wine, cheese, pathè, cold meats, chastain cream) that our pupils and visitors can buy in due to help and promote local landowners and farmers.
Lugar de Pincelo, the village must be built between everyone by respecting the aesthetic architectural of the old houses.
This beneficts are noted by the proffesional ties as well as the employment creation: chefs,waiters, cleaners, farmers, local artists...
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Innovative character
It is a center of creation placed in a risk of abandonned where the comunities can not often access to culture and art creation.
Opening the houses to most phisically and psycologically delicated people in a nature space.
Re-conect the urban childhood with green areas, the richness of rivers, and the alternative leisure and family activities.
Create regular programme in a natural entourage to promote the art profffesional in anbandonned rural villages.
Tranform the nature in center of artistic residences to every discipline and origin creators.
Promote community project that provide diverse looking about country's territory.
Creation of an inclusive arts group to bring the Riberira Sacra inhabitants together.
Creation of a design label by children with national and international distribution
Learning transferred to other parties
This project started around a roaming idea, and for that reason It draws in synergies and nets of other projects which ir shares the same philosophy.
This projects or actions are : Campo Adentro, Red Aldear, A casa do río, A Casa Vella, Fundación Ronsel...
In 2021 Sacra Experience won the Entrepreneur Prize from Ronsel Foundation and BBVA Bank, and Social and Cultural Activism Prize from Mascaras Assotiation of A Coruña.
This year 2022, the art director of the project Carlota Pérez is been formed in the Cultural Projects Direction La Fábrica in order to have more knowlege and contacts to expand Sacra Experience.
The methodology is transposible into similar projects in villages and towns of the Emptied Rural Spain or for proffesional art director who are loocking for a niche in the culture management in rural spaces.
Sacra Experience is one of the selected projects as part of Aldear net promoted by Cinema filmographer Oliver Laxe. Aldear is formed by 13 rural culture assotiations that promote the neo-ruralism in places under 200 population.
Through the sacra festival and the sacra forma the project creates an expanded programming between the rural and the urban.
