celebrating the full moon

where: c/Lluna (Moon St.) in the Raval district/Barcelona

when: every full moon
featuring: all the shops in the area, hair saloons, Catalans with their children, people from the neighborhood, art fans.

what's going on? each edition has its own specific activities. This Sunday was about live music, workshops for children, body painting, documentaries and projections, erotic reading, swing concert and God knows what more was this street hiding. The best thing is that people get involved in this celebration and start creating their own gimmick, installation, art or games for the ones that passed by. I love it because it is all about giving and sharing. No one is there for earning money (correct me if I'm wrong) but for the supreme purpose of having fun with the others. So, from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. the Moon street was filled with happy people, all having fun underneath the shiny looks of the full moon.

My favorites:
Truly reviving the Nintendo but giving it a different purpose...the DJs were scrathin' on Nintendos!!! Where's Mario?!??!?!


Pepi's hair saloon. Specialized in natural rasta and extensions. (You will see why when you visit Barcelona). They were body painting this night.


Paper people. The project is very interesting as they inspired from Joan Colom' pictures portraying el Raval in the '60s and remade them but this time they switched the real people in the pictures with the paper ones they created.



El color da vida. So sweet!



Brazos y Abrazos/Arms and hugs. Accidentally or not, on the street with the blinking heart (it's there since forever and it never stops 'beating') there was an installation with lots of sweaters, tied by their hands, as if they were hugging. People had to add a sweater and create a big chain of...hugs.