Rizomes is a festival born once a year in the heart of a poplar plantation in La Cellera de Ter, Girona. An ephemeral cultural space in search of old and new ways of doing, where play and collective experimentation take center stage.

Every year, 315 adult poplars are cut down for timber production. These give way to 315 newborn poplars, which will grow and live rooted in the plantation for more than two decades. This cycle of renewal, of life and death, is an integral fact of Rizomes. Everything is movement, and movement is an opportunity for the renewal of creative avenues.

Using the limitations and possibilities of this peculiar spatial configuration, the festival reinvents itself with each new cycle. The fluctuating grid invites us to adapt each year, to collectively find renewed solutions for the design and distribution of the festival facilities, in line with agricultural activity.

Year after year we create a rhizomatic network of interrelated installations, with the grid of trees as the initial game board. Each edition of the festival is the result of co-creation between different artists, designers, musicians and architects.

We also promote artistic production through REG, an annual call for artistic and architectural installations that takes place in residence on the plantation. The results become part of Rizomes' artistic ecosystem.

Using the wood from trees felled by autumn winds or bamboo canes harvested for fiber sanitation, we create the necessary infrastructures for cultural production: building showers or ashtrays, responsibly channeling water from the canal for hygiene or dishwashing, and crafting chairs, bars, stands, and backstage areas.

Our main challenge is to integrate into the forest and leave no trace behind. Every year, we reduce our ecological footprint to achieve zero impact.

Environmental sustainability goes hand in hand with economic sustainability. We measure sustainability from four perspectives: conditioning the space to reduce electrical consumption, a conscious management of potable and non-potable water, the use of recycled, donated, or reused materials for building infrastructures and a maximum reduction of waste and creation of compost.