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LIVUA: BARCELONA NATIVE. MOVED TO GRACHA IN 1980S. w/a hippy area. It is a glamorous area. Little shops & streets. Lots of activity.

GS: It can be noisy, especially in the winter
Best known festival of Barcelona. Lots of unique street decorations. 

X: decoration came from Corpus Cristi fest..
Local fest est. 1862. MONTHS BEFORE, neighbors begin working on a theme- spaceship, food, another country.
Many decorations can be recycled. Biozlvy between ihds.

LIOIA- I live on Motzart street.We make decorations, some very nice. All people working for free. It still feels like a village.

JL: Future of Gracia

LIVIA- hope cervical stop madness of saving pieces. Festival is nice by noisy.

GS: All our lives we wanted to democratize our culture but now we're being invaded. In 19th cent. Gracia people felt they were being invaded. Now today it is really crowded.

JL- MID-AUG is FESTIVAL. There is official competition.

Decoration destroyed? JL- yes . Sometimes vandalism.

OLD PICTURES- JC- not until recently. Some pix from 1874, but mostly missing periods
LAST year loss 200 H ADVERSARY OFFES F.
Ephemeral art- not thought of as important.