‘The street is ours, and so are festivals’ project wins the award for its proposal to create a guide of recommendations and best practices to improve Barcelona’s the purple points, adopting an intersectional and anti-racist feminist approach
The winning project, ‘The street is ours, and so are festivals,’ involves creating a guide of recommendations and best practices to improve Barcelona’s purple points, adopting an intersectional and anti-racist feminist approach.
‘The project represents a form of social innovation, as it promotes effective solutions to the social realities faced by women in Barcelona and complements municipal government action,’ the panel explained in their decision, also noting that ‘it clearly incorporates women’s voices into its design and places intersectionality at the heart of the proposal, enabling the co-creation of purple points that are more inclusive and respectful of the full diversity of women in the city.’
Aim of the award
The theme for the nineteenth edition of the award is ‘Barcelona, free, safe spaces,’ focusing on practices that create public spaces free from gender-based forms of violence.
The initiative aims to provide financial resources and institutional support to facilitate the implementation of the winning project, which must be either entirely new or in its initial stages. The award amount is 15,000 euros.
Award ceremony
The event, held in the Picasso Museum’s Function Room and hosted by journalist Júlia Bertran, also presented an update on the progress of last year’s winning project, ‘Educating for intercultural life. Building a society free of sexism and racism,’ developed by the Association for Migration and the Social and Solidarity Economy (MigrESS), and featured the dance performance ‘Les paraules fan mal’ by the Dona Cançó Association, as well as musical performances from the ‘Música al carrer’ project, with pianist Merx Samà and singer Bea Fernández.
A well-established award
Since 2005, the Barcelona City Council has organised the 25 November Award to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women within the framework of the Citizen Agreement for a Barcelona Free of Violence against Women.
Each year, the chosen theme provides an opportunity to publicly recognise a proposal that addresses any area or form of violence against girls, women, and their children while also offering financial support. Regardless of the field or topic, the key is to promote social change in relation to all forms of gender-based violence.