Palo Alto Market in Barcelona ( 4 – 5 April 2015 ): The Power of Creativity and Music Together

ThePalo Alto market is a new idea of market: it is a handcrafted and sophisticated street market based on the idea to promote creativity and quality of the products. It is located in an urban island with a wonderful view where talents are mixed the five senses.

Why the five senses?

An area was completely dedicated to food and testing different kind of street food: from Thai and sushi to vegan, but also Spanish and Latin American.

Another area was dedicated to workshops: touching and transforming materials, such as recycled materials, cardboard, but also learning to construct of vegetal puppets and decorative objects. 

Three galleries were dedicated to fashion and design: the design gallery, with handcrafted decorative objects, the Boehme and the fashion gallery, mainly with handmade shoes and clothes.

Creativity and quality were the key words. A huge number of Spanish designers and fashion designer were present there to promote their cretions and let them know to the public.

Music & Performances were also present:

In order to create the right atmosphere, music could not miss in such an event. Two places were dedicated to music, an open air space with dj set and a bar where you could taste martini and vermouth, called “Jazz Club Martini”. There, a fantastic trio, Khaoula & Friends Trio, exhibits in a captivating show full of rhythm and different sonorities: jazz mixed with African and South American influences. Incredible was the energy and the positiveness released by the singer; she was able to live up all the public of the bar.

Here is a video:

What about the location?

Actually it was not in the city center but in a new area, called Poblenou. Poblenou is one of the few areas that has grown independently, keeping away from mass tourism and maintaining its identity. As a result it has become one of the most genuine and prolific metropolitan scenarios of Barcelona city.

In recent years, a series of creative atelier have found their home in Poblenou, since cultural and commercial spaces are present to offer innovative proposals. It is there where new buildings coexist with art galleries, foundations, design studios, advertizing agency, hotels and restaurants.

The area is living an incredible transformation due to the creative community of “Poblenou Urban District” which promotes, reinvents and creates ideas to transform this postindustrial zone in a Barcelonan vanguard and referring point.

We shuould wait for the next Palo Alto market, the 2 and 3 of May to see the community at work again to revive the magic of the place where creativity and music mixed together.