The archive

Fifteen years, and it is still happening.

More than six hundred events since 2010, across Barcelona, Catalonia, the rest of Spain and, from this year, Norway.

600+events since 2010

2010first performance, as Improtext

500people in the room, our largest audience

5original formats, all documented

Milestones

How it grew.

2010Improtext, created by Marcos Xalabarder with the musician Rubén H. The first live literary performance.Barcelona

2014Several seasons of sessions at Club Cronopios, and the creation of the Writing Slam.Barcelona

2015The sessions spread across the city: Galería de Arte Mutuo, The Collective and many others.Barcelona

2016Grand Final of the Writing Slam at the Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm, in front of three hundred people.Barcelona

2017ASEV is founded — Asociación Cultural Escritura en Vivo, a non-profit.Barcelona

2018The discipline travels: sessions in Bilbao, Santander and Madrid. The Literary Casino is created.Spain

2020–24LABDRAM, four years of dramaturgical laboratory at Sala Beckett.Barcelona

2024A Writing Slam for playwrights, developed with Sala Beckett for its summer programme.Barcelona

2025Workshops in collaborative playwriting, and the beginning of the collaboration with Unge Viken Teater.Norway

2026Launch of Live Writing, our international brand, and of the Live Writing Show, co-produced with Unge Viken Teater.Norway

The Writing Slam final at the Antiga Fabrica Estrella Damm, Barcelona, 2016

A writer at a keyboard among the audience at Club Cronopios, Barcelona, 2015

An audience reading projected text, Barcelona, 2016

A dancer and a writer during a Writing Slam

Text projected onto a wall with live musicians below

Projected text on a wall, Galeria de Arte Mutuo, Barcelona, 2015

Participants writing at the Literary Casino

A writer with cellists playing behind him, Cartagena

A writer and a musician during a Writing Concert

Hands on a keyboard during a session, 2015

Photography: Mar Perla / Mar C. Llop (until 2020) · Josep Tobella (from 2024) · J. Albaladejo, Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

On film

Fifteen years, in eight minutes.

Still from the Live Writing retrospective video

The years so far

Watch on YouTube →

A run through several seasons of sessions, slams and concerts, from the early bars to the big rooms.

Still from the Writing Slam grand final at the Estrella Damm brewery

The Grand Final

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The Writing Slam final at the Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm, in front of three hundred people.

Selected venues

Where it has happened.

Theatres & art centres

Sala Beckett
CCCB
Centre de Creació Fabra i Coats
Unge Viken Teater, Norway
Convent de Sant Agustí
Hangar
Centre del Carme, València
Nau Bostik

Museums & libraries

Centro Botín, Santander
Museu del Disseny
Museo ARQUA, Cartagena
Bidebarrieta, Bilbao
Biblioteca Central de Móstoles
Casa del Llibre

Cinemas, galleries & festivals

Cinemes Girona
Cinemes Aribau
Galería Espronceda
Centro de Arte Mutuo
Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm
Festival Índice, Tenerife
Saló del Cinema i les Sèries