Culture
![Leila Khaled](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/portada.png?itok=yN5ewXvN)
Refugees, homeland, class and gender awareness, disobedience and boycott. The Palestinian activist visited the Fira Literal in Barcelona.
![Entrance to the cinema / Photo: Zumzeig Cinecooperativa](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/verkami_03895c78d773c6500569bc463ea4d6aa_0.jpg?itok=azDsglZX)
In the neighbourhood of Sants in Barcelona, Zumzeig cinema offers a broad and committed programme in a space for reflexion and sharing. They explain this in this interview.
![Andanças festival. Photo by Jose Manuel Costa](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/av6ye1471613793.jpg?itok=U6cTOjsv)
The festival, organised by the PédeXumbo association and where volunteering plays an important role, has been articulating cultural and generational exchanges through folk dances for two decades now.
![Anna Corbella](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/p1050600_1.jpg?itok=YVI9cf8K)
Anna Corbella, Director of the Fundació La Roda (La Roda Foundation), explains the cause they fight for and presents the work they do all across Catalonia.
![Castle base](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/images_105.jpg?itok=mluFEx6K)
The organizational base of "castells", as is common to all popular culture, is associationism. Building human towers is a private initiative but with a public service orientation, open to society as a whole.
![Athenaeums in Catalonia: two centuries of history](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/descarga_44.jpg?itok=Q3HrD9P5)
By the term ateneu (Athenaeum) we understand an association whose aim is to promote culture and to improve its members’ quality of life by means of events, talks or conferences.