Antic Teatre – Espai de Creació, better known as Antic Teatre, is an independent Social and Cultural Centre occupying a building that dates back to 1650 and has been listed in the City of Barcelona’s Architectural and Historical Heritage Catalogue since 1979. In between the Santa Caterina market and the Palau de la Música, in the very heart of the city, it has become a landmark venue for the neighbourhood with its unique garden and wealth of cultural and social history.

As a production and exhibition space, Antic Teatre's leitmotif is to take risks.

What Antic is, what it does and why it does it is specified in the following values: commitment to experimentation and research in the field of contemporary performing arts; interdisciplinarity; attention to vulnerabilities and the gender perspective; artistic gaze of international scope and local action; prospecting and attention to novelty, and springboard for emerging creation; coherence; perseverance; criticism and self-criticism; artistic and thought independence; dialogue; commitment to art and education from the Base Culture; link with the territory and free citizen initiative; aspiration to self-management and sustainability, heritage recovery.