Becatalaiotica will close its seventh edition on July 10, starting at 7.30 pm, with a closing ceremony at the Torralba d'en Salort site. The winner of a 2,000-euro grant will be announced. This contest is organised by the Associació d'Amics del Museu de Menorca and the Department of Culture of the Consell Insular de Menorca, in collaboration with the Fundació Illes Balears.
The closing ceremony will include an exhibition of the objects used in the Becatalaiotica 2023 events, and the winning event from last year's edition will be repeated: "Tala-tic-tac", by Miquel López. The name of the winner will be announced at around 8.30 pm. Music and snacks will complete the evening.
This year, five groundbreaking proposals from different fields have taken part. Paula Planas (Barcelona, 1998), a professional dancer, presented a dance performance in Talatí de Dalt, where she then taught the audience how to dance polka and fandango. Maria Casadellà (Baix Empordà, 1997), exhibition designer and member of a group of giants, created the first Talayotic giganta and presented it in Torre d'en Galmés accompanied by the group of giants and grallas of Es Castell.
Irene Trapote (Gijón, 1998), a multidisciplinary artist, invited us to reflect on the landscape and the ways of managing it through a journey with different artistic installations around Torrellafuda. Kitty Vollmer (Philadelphia, 1994), architect, left us open-mouthed with a nocturnal installation in Torralba d'en Salort where she created a network of bioluminescent pieces inside the taula enclosure. And finally, Raquel Roldán (Tarragona, 2000), violist, delighted us with the first solo viola concert in the necropolis of Cala Morell.
Becatalaiotica is a cultural project of Amics del Museu de Menorca that aims to vindicate the landscape of Menorca as a source of inspiration and to discover new ways of experiencing and disseminating it. People between 18 and 28 years old who are studying or who want to study any kind of studies can apply. The aim is to create free, innovative and original events or activities at different sites in Talayotic Menorca. The public attending the events is responsible for evaluating and voting on the proposals; the winner receives a €2,000 study grant.