🌞 Summer is often presented to us as a massive commercial showcase of overcrowded festivals, quick escapes, and passive consumption. However, popular celebration built from below is something much deeper: an ancestral ritual where we meet, share our vulnerabilities, and trace alternative narratives for living together. As the philosopher Marina Garcés masterfully points out:
«Taking charge of our lives today means unleashing the richness of the world we share. To do this, critical thinking must adopt a new perspective: that of a body engaged in life as a shared challenge».

💃🏻 These summer gatherings, far from being mere entertainment, constitute true exercises in political imagination and collective resistance where citizens take center stage in social transformation.

👉🏼 Today we invite you to take a look at three exceptional initiatives that, from different corners of our territory, redefine the meaning of collective celebration. These are independent festivals that do not seek economic profit, but rather weave mutual support networks, defend diverse identities, and protect the natural environment we inhabit. Uniting forces through combative poetry, the visibility of sexual diversity in rural areas, and the assembly-based organization of local festivities, these projects remind us that public space is a common good that we must actively inhabit. We propose discovering how, with your support on Goteo, you can ensure the continuity of these trenches of joy, free culture, and community sovereignty.

Colabora com o XXXVIII Festival da Poesia no Condado

✍🏼 In Salvaterra de Miño, almost four decades of history have proven that the shared word is an unstoppable tool for transformation. The Festival da Poesia no Condado, organized independently by the Sociedade Cultural e Deportiva (SCD) since 1981, is a collective project that intertwines poetry, music, and visual arts to foster critical reflection and popular coexistence. In its XXXVIII edition, under the combative slogan "Antiimperialistas", the festival takes a firm stand against wars, genocides, and the denial of peoples' rights, reclaiming culture as an active form of resistance. Behind this monumental work is a deeply committed driving team —including names like Xocas Lourenzo, Vicente Galego, and Íria Bértolo— who have designed an expanded program for September 4th and 5th that, for the first time, will feature two full days of events, international concerts, and the I Certamen Nacional de Regueifa Joven to pave the way for younger generations.

❤️ Supporting this festival means defending a self-managed, popular cultural model completely detached from commercial logic or institutional tutelage. In a global context that tends to homogenize artistic expressions, this intergenerational meeting is of paramount importance by dignifying and promoting the Galician language and culture in the public space, strengthening community bonds from the grassroots. Essential voices of contemporary poetry such as Oriana Méndez, Igor Lugrís, or Masha Álvarez will dialogue with cross-border musical proposals like A Banda da Loba, Loita Amada, or Rebelión do Inframundo, proving that poetry is a common good capable of generating solidarity networks that cross any border.

👥 For Salvaterra de Miño's torreiro to continue vibrating freely and without cost, citizen involvement in this crowdfunding campaign is vital. By making a donation, you not only help cover the organizational costs of an independent festival, but you also become an active part of a movement that defends the sovereignty of the spoken word. As a token of gratitude, you can choose rewards as valuable as the poetry anthology published especially for this edition, exclusive t-shirts, or even backstage passes to experience the festival from the inside.

👉🏼Support the Festival da Poesia no Condado here.

XI Festival Agrocuir da Ulloa

🌈In the town of Monterroso, within the Comarca da Ulloa, a group of friends from diverse backgrounds and with no professional experience in cultural management decided eleven years ago that LGTBIQA+ pride, feminism, and ecology should also take root in rural areas. Thus, Festival Agrocuir da Ulloa was born, a sustainable and intergenerational gathering taking place on August 21st and 22nd with a program packed with music, theater, storytelling, workshops, and round tables across various spots in the village. The Agrocuir Collective, enriched over time by people who exchanged the city for the countryside to inhabit it in a conscious and connected way, keeps its commitment of not charging admission, guaranteeing a truly open, family-friendly, inclusive, and non-crowded space.

🏡 Sustaining Agrocuir is essential because of its ability to show that the countryside is not a stage of the past, but a living, diverse territory in constant transformation. By reclaiming natural spaces through care and sustainability, the festival highlights the material and immaterial wealth of the region, while fostering valuable cooperation between neighbors and local associations. Furthermore, its ecological commitment goes a step further by collaborating with the land custody project Eira da Xoana in the neighboring parish of Ramil —an area threatened by the planned construction of Altri— offering the opportunity to sponsor native trees to actively fight the expansion of eucalyptus in Galician forests.

🤗 Since the festival is free and open to everyone, community financial support is the only engine that guarantees its viability. Donating to this Goteo campaign is a joyful and bold act of co-responsibility that allows you to defend sexual diversity and local sustainability. In return, you can reserve rewards to collect directly at the festival: from cards for its legendary popular bingo, t-shirts from this edition, or physical copies of the poetic "Periódico de las Cuirtopías", to delicious local zero-kilometer product baskets.

👉 Make the Festival Agrocuir possible here

La Saligarda 2026, Festa Major Alternativa de la Garriga

🧙🏼‍♀️Born in 2018 to answer the need for a closer, more community-oriented, and non-commercialized town festival, La Saligarda has established itself as the Alternative Festa Major of la Garriga. This year 2026, the initiative takes a historic step by hosting its activities parallel to the official town festival dates, from July 30th to August 2nd. To explain this new era, the festival debuts a symbolic narrative centered around the witch Saligarda and her three gusts of wind, which represent how locals react to change: the Root (l'Arrel), for those who cling to memory and traditions; the Spore (l'Espora), for those who fly high, scattering utopian seeds; and the Ember (la Brasa), for those who spread the fire of transformation.

🎭 Supporting this self-managed project is a decisive stand for cultural sovereignty and a critical lens against consumerism, social inequalities, and the commercialization of culture. La Saligarda is built through assemblies of local cultural entities to offer a space where communal meals, traditional games, art, and concerts truly belong to the community once again. The donations received will not only fund the communication, design, decoration, and programming of the festival, but will also go toward building their own festive beast, turning the traditional big-head puppet into the figure of the witch Saligarda with her custom-made outfit and broom.

✊🏻 For the wind of the Saligarda to blow strong and disperse the commercial fog from our squares, we need you to blow with us by adding your contribution to the project. Your donation is the direct tool to build an autonomous, sustainable, and lasting festival infrastructure that proves that celebrating differently is possible. As a thank you, you can get the traditional bandanas (mocadors) for each gust of wind, or exclusively obtain a simple, hand-crafted, limited edition of the beautiful story written by local children's author Oriol Garcia.

👉 Join the campaign here

What about you? What are you interested in?

😙 At the Platoniq Foundation we are dedicated to disseminating innovative democratic initiatives that add value for citizens, as well as to promoting crowdfunding for projects with social impact through our platform Goteo.org. Join us at our events and continue promoting democratic transition and collective empowerment.

🥰 Join this transformation! Let the social and solidarity energy flow, because in a seemingly devastated world, we can still build change. Donate to our campaign and participate in the new version of Goteo.

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That's as far as we go. We hope this newsletter has encouraged you to keep walking towards the society of all and for all that we are gradually approaching. See you next time!