The international festival Kleines Fest, held since 1986 in the Herrenhausen Gardens of Hannover, will this year shine a spotlight on Catalan artistic creation. In the 2025 edition, and with the support of the Institut Ramon Llull, the festival will host five Catalan companies, in recognition of the excellence and innovation that define Catalonia’s street arts.

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On 18 July, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam will host the Dutch premiere of this work by the Catalan composer, as part of a concert dedicated to Ravel. The OBC’s performance in Amsterdam is supported by the Institut Ramon Llull.

The festival programme focuses on Catalan musicians from the 14th to the 19th of July, featuring performances by Tarta Relena, Dhikra, Dame Area, and Za! + Perrate. These performances are supported by the IRL through grants for international programming.

The 39th International Conference for Catalan Language Lecturers, organised by the Institut Ramon Llull, will this year centre its focus on Artificial Intelligence.

Txell Feixas at Hay Festival Cartagena, Marta Sagarra at l’Écode de l’Anthropocène, Pol Guasch at the PEN World Voices, Eva Baltasar at Festival du livre de Paris, and other authors present at FIL Bogotá and at Sant Jordi in Paris and in Berlin.

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  PROMOTION GRANTS
  

2nd call: from 25th June to 8th October 2025.

This grant covers the expenses of promotional events of literary works, graphic materials, literary texts in cultural journals and promotion of illustrated works.

The activities should be carried out between October 1 and December 31 2025.

From November 29 to December 7, Barcelona will be the Guest of Honour at the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), the most important cultural event in Latin America, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of Barcelona’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature.

With a programme featuring over sixty authors, the event —curated by journalist Anna Guitart in collaboration with the entire literary sector and the Institut Ramon Llull— will showcase the vitality of Barcelona’s literary ecosystem in Mexico.

The Palau del Baró de Quadras is hosting two events as part of Grec Pro: a round table on the internationalisation of playwriting, and a meeting with the partners of the European project Fabulamundi, who are in Barcelona for the Sala Beckett’s Obrador d’Estiu.

As part of the Olot Tèxtil programme, taking place this spring in the city of Olot, a group of textile artists will convene for a week-long residency to share knowledge and participate in a series of activities centred on the art of sewing and its role in building networks and preserving tradition.

The programme is part of "LATITUD(e)S", the internationalisation measure within the Circus Promotion Plan of the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia, which this year focuses on Portugal. The IRL supports this initiative through its grant scheme for the international programming of Catalan artists.

From 23 June to 9 July 2025, the application period will be open for the literary residency at Art Omi, in the United States.

Aimed at writers in the Catalan language, applications are accepted until 9 July.

From 20 June to 8 July 2025, the application period will be open for the literary residency at Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, in Germany.

Aimed at writers in the Catalan language, applications are accepted until 8 July

From 20 June to 7 July 2025, the application period will be open for the Casamia musical residency, in Pesariis, Italy. The residency, located in Friuli Venezia Giulia, operates itinerantly throughout the region, has strong ties to the local area, and promotes interaction between participants and the residents of the host villages. At the end of each residency, the artists offer a concert to the local community.

The residency will take place from 10 to 19 October 2025.

Aimed at musicians and groups of up to 4 members, applications are accepted until 7 July

The Royal College of Art hosted the launch of the English edition of the publication, edited by Eva Franch, Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño, on June 19. The volume is part of Water Parliaments, a project organised by the Institut Ramon Llull that is representing Catalan culture at the Venice Architecture Biennale this year.

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The stay, promoted by the Institut Ramon Llull, is an opportunity to express Catalan poetry in French, English, German, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Galician, Spanish and Basque. It will take place from 9 to 13 June in Olot.