Andanes d’Art, from local catalog to living platform
2024. Andanes d’Art, the first catalogue of artists, artisans, creative spaces, and cultural resources in l’Horta Nord, based in Alboraya, is launched. The Alboraya Department of Culture, in collaboration with Tectónica Cultural, is launching an open call for submissions from creators who live, work, or study in the municipality. The aim is to create a useful and publicly accessible map, strengthen collaborative networks, and showcase the artistic and artisanal work of the area. The catalogue includes studios, workshops, academies, art spaces, and public and private resources that can be used by the creative community.
Vision. Andanes d’Art was created to revitalize the cultural sector, attract and promote local talent, and position Alboraya as a municipality that welcomes cultural and creative industries. The tool is designed to serve the community, with a commitment to growth and a sustainable approach to existing resources.
2025. We present the Andanes d’Art website, a natural evolution of the catalog that consolidates the project and facilitates its public access in an agile and up-to-date manner. The site integrates the collected information, organizes the resources, and improves the browsing experience. The design and information architecture were developed by the Demartes studio. With this platform, Andanes d’Art becomes a meeting point for artists, venues, and the community, and lays the groundwork for new initiatives that will continue to strengthen creativity in Alboraya and its surrounding agricultural area.
Open Studios and Activation of the Andanera Cultural Sandbox 2026
In 2026, Andanes d’Art takes a step further with the launch of the Andanes d’Art Open Studios and Activation of the Andanera Cultural Sandbox, an initiative that will open studios, workshops and creative spaces connected to Alboraia’s artistic ecosystem to the public.
The programme is conceived as an opportunity to bring local artistic creation closer to citizens, provide direct access to artists’ working processes, and activate cultural routes throughout the territory.
During the weekend of 26–27 September 2026, participating artists will open their studios to visitors and become part of a cultural route distributed across the municipality. The open studios will allow the public to discover creative processes, methodologies, materials, works in progress and artistic practices, fostering direct encounters between artists and the community.
Andanera: Culture, Innovation and Territory
In this edition, the programme is linked to Andanera, a project conceived as a space for cultural experimentation in a real-life context.
Andanera explores new ways of connecting artistic creation, citizenship, territory and innovation. Therefore, the Open Studios are not understood solely as a dissemination event, but also as a testing environment where different cultural formats, collaborations, routes and forms of interaction with audiences can be explored and observed.
Within this framework, the open studios and cultural routes themselves operate as a prototype for cultural activation within the territory, generating useful insights for the future development of the project.
Two Ways to Participate
The open call is structured around two participation formats:
1. Open Studios
This format is aimed at artists and cultural practitioners connected to Andanes d’Art who have a studio, workshop or working space in Alboraia or linked to the routes of the programme.
Participation may involve opening the workspace to visitors, presenting creative processes, showing artworks, materials or tools, engaging in conversations with audiences, or offering small demonstrations related to artistic practice.
2. Collaborative Micro-actions
Alongside the open studios, a call is launched for collaborative micro-actions: short experimental cultural proposals developed by teams of at least two artists from different disciplines.
These micro-actions function as cultural prototypes within the Andanera Cultural Sandbox. Their aim is to test formats for cultural activation in real-life conditions, create moments of interaction with audiences, and explore new relationships between art, space, territory and citizenship.
Up to 5 micro-actions will be selected, each receiving a €300 production grant to cover basic expenses.
What Kind of Micro-actions Are We Looking For?
Priority will be given to proposals that are lightweight, feasible and collaborative, with a maximum duration of 30 minutes and minimal technical requirements.
Examples may include:
- performative conversations
- interdisciplinary dialogues
- commented readings
- shared work-in-progress presentations
- minimal studio actions
- small demonstrative workshops
- activations of shared spaces
- short routes or site-specific proposals
Proposals incorporating simple digital or technological elements —such as QR codes, audio content, digital maps or lightweight interactive resources— will also be positively valued, provided they enhance the experience without becoming technically complex.
Timeline
The process will unfold in several phases:
- 9 May 2026 Co-creation session with artists
- 11 May 2026 Open call launch for studios and micro-actions
- 11 June 2026 Deadline for submissions
- 18 June 2026 Selection of micro-actions
- 26 June 2026 Submission of final project sheets
- 29–30 June 2026 Follow-up and development meetings
- July 2026 Technical and organisational follow-up
- 26–27 September 2026 Andanes d’Art Open Studios Weekend
Open Call
The call is open to artists and cultural practitioners connected to Andanes d’Art who wish to participate by opening their studio, proposing a collaborative micro-action, or becoming part of the cultural route of the programme.