2024 Festival

Our New Gold Festival 2024 edition will be hosted by Professor Beatriz Eugenia Salamanca at Universidad Pontificia Javeriana, Cali and Professor Alexander Samson at University College London, funded by the Center of Humanities Education fund.

We are now open to receiving work from college students exploring texts from the Spanish Golden Age period towards digital storytelling pieces, such as Video Art, Short Films, or Podcasts, in English or with subtitles in English. The length of the pieces should be 5 minutes max.

OUR NEW GOLD is an interdisciplinary and international festival exploring 17th Century Hispanic theatrical and poetic texts focusing on current social issues (such as gender, racial and social inequality, systemic oppression, cultural identity and environment) towards the creation of digital storytelling pieces translated and adapted into English or including English subtitles. 

This Festival aims to promote essential aspects of creating artistic works inspired by the Spanish Golden Age Theatre internationally and in the present time. We encourage students to delve into different tasks such as translating, rewriting, filming, acting and producing their creations, hoping to open new ways of understanding and portraying the Spanish Golden Age legacy in our digital times: a more social, inclusive and vibrant approach.

The first edition of this festival was organized and created by Ohio Wesleyan Students Jazmine Lew, Fiona Hansen and Marcos Crespo. 

For more information see our Open Call 

Registration will open from September 23, 2024, to December 14, 2024.

This Call Out is directed to Universities and Institutions supporting the participation of undergraduate students, recently graduated students (5 years since graduation), and MA and PhD students.

We also accept applications from individuals who are undergraduate students, recently graduated students (5 years since graduation) MA and PhD students.