To coordinate community culture venues to encourage exchange and shared learning

In order to guarantee social and cultural work from the most local standpoint it is necessary to benefit from a plan to detect, lend dignity to and coordinate all community culture venues to allow people to act, meet and energise culturally and socially. These voluntary work actors and organisations need to have institutional scenarios which allow them to enter into cooperation agreements relating to their activity and enabling their work to be dignified to steer them away from the competitiveness of subsidies and help them work freely from the front line, fostering cooperation between agents and the sharing of experiences, actions and lessons learnt. In locations where scope for action is identified but there is a shortage of venues, schools could offer the ideal arena; however, in addition, there is a need for a critical review of the 2010-2020 Plan for Cultural Facilities of Catalonia (PECCat), which is targeted at providing our towns with facilities to assure all citizens are granted access to culture, re-examining how it has been implemented and re-structuring the Plan taking into consideration the outlook up to 2030 and post-Covid needs, focussing particularly on planning and supporting pacts for regular community use of live music venues, which are at a genuine risk of dying out. It is also important to involve young people in examining the relationship that must be forged between the digital realm and participation in culture, associative life, social action and creativity after the pandemic. Moreover, it is also vital to look at the models that will be adopted by these community venues, new formats, participation differences in terms of genders and platforms. This programme should be devised and built on a philosophy of open innovation so that the learning experiences derived from it benefit the associative and educational communities.