Bilbao celebrates the impact of culture on social change with the Fair Saturday awards
Bilbao has once again become the headquarters for international humanist projects through the Fair Saturday awards. These awards were born in Bilbao it is 2017 with the purpose of recognize inspiring individuals and organizations internationally that generates a social impact through the positive art and culture. In addition, they emphasize the need for new similar action models in search of a more inclusive, fair and sustainable growth, also seeking to inspire other organizations in the territory of Bizkaia and enable connections between projects.
This year they have been eight organizations and artists recognized at the Fair Saturday Awards, which were held this Monday at the Guggenheim Museum. The act, which they have attended about 400 peoplehas had an outstanding institutional, cultural and social representation of Bilbao and all of Bizkaia. Likewise, it has had the exceptional participation of the singer-songwriters and emerging talents Idoia Asurmendi and Maren. The winners came in this edition from Italy, the Netherlands, Korea, Spain, the USA, Jordan and the United Kingdom.
The Fair Saturday prizes It is developed in collaboration with the BBK Foundation and has the support of the Bilbao City Council and the Bizkaia Provincial Council. One of the prizes has been the teacher, writer and philosopher Nuccio Ordina, considered to be the best-known Italian essayist in the world. Through his work, he stresses the importance of basic scientific research and joint humanistic research to resist the dictatorship of the useful and the immediate.
Music, reading, art…
Laura Hasslerfounder and director of Músicos sin Fronteras, has received the award for the exceptional work carried out by her organization in the cultural integration through artistic educationeliminating differences, building communities and healing the wounds of War.
The work of the Lindenbaum Festival Orchestra for facilitating the meeting and dialogue between North Korea and South Korea, promoting a message of reconciliation, peace and harmony through classical music.
Sonia Gainza, founder of Apropa Cultura (Barcelona), has been awarded for contribute to improving the lives of people in situations of vulnerability through culture, opening the doors of theaters, museums, auditoriums and festivals in Catalonia so that these groups have access to their usual programming. Saturday of the Fair has also recognized the Playing for Change Foundation as one of the most relevant non-profit organizations in the cultural field at an international levelproducing positive social change through music and arts education.
Among the recognized projects is also We Love Reading, founded by Rana Dajani, one of the leading scientists of the Islamic world, whose work has inspired and empowered communities (especially young people and women) around the world through reading. In addition, Ramón Barea has collected the prize for the artistic career of Pabellón Number 6, a reference and innovative space born as a counterpoint to virtuality and the speed at which societies advance today.