6 September 2026 · Sara Marugan
A Festa Major Saturday on the Travessera, with Col·lectiu Minerva
This article was machine-translated from Sara's Catalan original. The writing is hers; the translation has not been reviewed by a person. Read the Catalan original →
On Saturday 27 June we spent the whole day on the Travessera de Gràcia, between Carrer de Sardenya and Carrer de Sicília, for the Festa Major of Camp d'en Grassot i Gràcia Nova.
We were there with Col·lectiu Minerva, at a stall of artworks, books and pieces made by the other women in the collective: Alizée Denise, Gemma Grandia Piñol, Lídia Salas Ros, Rosa Obiols i Segués and Teresa Vergés Adrià. I brought along Ramon Llull com mai te l'han explicat.
What comes out of a Festa Major stall isn't a literary fair: it's a street. People walk past on their way to buy bread and stop, children read the name on the cover out loud, neighbours ask you who that man was and leave knowing that he wrote in Catalan before anyone else. There isn't always a sale; there's always a conversation.
And it's also how the collective makes itself seen. Six women doing different things —art, writing, craft— at a single stall, in the middle of the neighbourhood, on a festival Saturday.
I'm writing about it now, a while later: that Saturday had been left without a post of its own, and the things we do together are worth putting down in writing.
Col·lectiu Minerva activity: minervadonescreadoresdegracia.cat/activitats/fira-per-la-festa-major-camp-den-grassot-i-gracia-nova-2026/
