We present the Concomitentes 2024 Management Report: sowing and harvesting

We are publishing our second annual report as part of our commitment to transparency and accountability.

2024 has been a crucial year for Concomitentes. A year of harvesting, but also of sowing, in which we have continued to make art a tool to strengthen democracy, sustain the planet and try out other ways of living together.

The report covers our four strategic axes: concomitances, public positioning, funding and governance. The document narrates a year full of learning, milestones and also shared challenges, and does so from a choral perspective, crossed by the diversity of the territories, languages and people that make Concomitentes possible.

2024 has been a year to celebrate. We inaugurated works such as ‘Legacy Care’ in Betanzos (A Coruña), where neighbours together with Carme Nogueira and Iñigo Segurola re-enchanted the Pasatiempo Park with art, vegetation and memory.; o ‘Living Waters’ at Llanos de Penagos (Cantabria), where the three bronze tongues by Laia Estruch gave a voice to water and collective care.. Also we celebrate the feast-ritual ‘Os sentires do monte’ in Couso (Pontevedra), thus closing the process of ‘Common Ground’, together with Asunción Molinos Gordo and Natalia Balseiro.

At the international level, we took the first steps of the European project ‘Art Living Lab to Repair the Land’, with interventions in Spain, Germany and Croatia to address the traces of extractivism. And we continue to support young people with the III Call for Youth Art for Sustainability, in which the following were selected ‘The stories of milk’, a project in defence of the territory of A Ulloa (Lugo) against the threat of Altri's macro-cellulose.

This year we also strengthened our networks: we launched the Mediation Academy, We were recognised by the Observatorio de la Cultura as the second project with the greatest social impact in Spain; and we published the book "The Social Impact of Culture", a new line of training that shared knowledge with more than 70 people. ‘Dancing Diversity’, celebrating the learnings from the Diversorium project.

Organisationally, we continued to move towards more shared and radical governance. We incorporated Selina Blasco to the Board of Trustees, welcomed new profiles to the team, and launched a process of redesigning our management model. In addition, we introduced the Donor Community, a new space for civic co-responsibility.

At Concomitentes, we firmly believe in the power of art to imagine liveable futures. Publishing this report is part of our desire to be accountable, yes, but also to open conversations, inspire practices and strengthen alliances. We hope that reading it will be a stimulus to continue making art together.