STREETS ALIVE! - A MINI FESTIVAL OF STREET PERFORMANCE
Sat 13 JUNE, 11am - 5pm
L’Animalada - Katakrak 11am - 5pm
kATAKRAK : L’ANIMALADA
A mini-festival of Catalan street performance that encourages interaction and participation.
Some of the things we throw away have been revealed. They do not want to be abandoned and forgotten when they get older. They have escaped from their sad fate and have become game-animals. Out of the scrap heap things are slowly forming shapes, colours and everywhere there are bits of games and many questions. Which animal is it? How do you play? Will it be difficult?
Can you imagine giving cherries to a crocodile?
Do you want to help an elephant to water some flowers?
Have you ever become a bee lost in a field of flowers?
If all this seems strange (but also funny) then perhaps you have the desire of l’Animalada inside you and so the only solution is to set it free.
Some of the animals are winking at you. Do you want to play?
About Katakrak:
Since the beginning Katakrak has maintained three important concepts: play, creativity and recycling. In other words, we using ingenuity to create original games (play) that they invent (Creativity) with recovered and recycled materials and objects (recycling) for all the public.
What is the Katakrak creative process?
Objects of our imagination: Over time Katakrak has come across a huge number of industrial and household objects. They have internalized the many shapes, mechanisms, qualities, and textures which allows them to create new, fun, itinerant artefacts from original objects.
Knowledge: They need to learn all kinds of techniques such as the basics of electricity, energy sources, tools for assembling and manipulating objects, mechanisms, paints, game dynamics and human skills, concepts such as replayability. Katakrak is constantly learning new things in order to put their imagination into practice.
“Without a very large dose of willpower and passion we wouldn't have started on this adventure nor would we have held out so long. We are constantly challenging ourselves to create new artefacts that can be enjoyed by the public while contributing positive values like sustainability, increased self-sufficiency, and creativity.”