Festival Clàssics

The Festival Clàssics, organized by La Casa dels Clàssics and Abacus, puts the classics at the center of today's creative energies, promotes dialogue with the past to give strength and depth to contemporary culture, and encourage rereadings of the classics that move us and help us think about essential concerns of humanity. The Festival of Contemporary Arts and Thought was born in 2019 and over four editions has featured artists such as Silvia Pérez Cruz, Àlex Rigola, Las Impuxibles, Jordi Savall, Maria Arnal and Marcel Bagés, Abel Azcona, Enric Casasses or Sandra Balsells, among others.

The 2024 edition of the Festival dels Clàssics

In this year's edition, the Festival dels Clàssics celebrates the second centenary of the Bernat Metge collection, focusing on the theme of Nature. The question of what human beings are like in their natural state and the big question of whether we will be able to save nature will shape the entire content of the festival, which will run from October 22nd to December 22nd. It will be three months of theater, dance, conferences and music in emblematic spaces of the city. An interrogation launched to the past and present, to classical and contemporary authors, to explore what and who is nature.

The Bernat Metge Collection

The Bernat Metge collection was launched in 1923 with the publication of Lucretius' book De la natura. This primordial work of Epicurean physics influenced philosophical, scientific and literary thought from Antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond. It influenced scientists such as Galileo, Giordano Bruno or Isaac Newton; philosophers such as Karl Marx, Nietzsche or Thomas Hobbes; and writers such as Voltaire, Milton or Montaigne. De la natura is a classic work of great power, which has endured over time.

La Casa dels Clàssics

La Casa dels Clàssics is a space that vindicates the validity of the classics of all times and disseminates them in all possible languages and formats, among a wide, diverse and transversal public. Bringing them to schools, the media, politics and the street, it seeks to be a source of inspiration when building the country and the world we want. La Casa dels Clàssics is the entity responsible for the edition of the collection "Bernat Metge" and organizes since 2019 the Festival Clàssics and other events such as seminars, walks and conferences.