The “Piano on the streets” programme is the most successful initiative of the OFF Competition, both for the visibility it brings during the competition period and throughout the rest of the year. It involves placing grand pianos in various public and accessible spaces in cities and towns across Catalonia, available for anyone who wishes to play them, in a friendly and festive atmosphere.

Pianos on the streets

Every year, Maria Canals places more than a hundred grand pianos in various public spaces available to the public. Squares and streets in Barcelona (Plaça Reial, Passage Maria Canals, Plaça Catalunya, Plaça Pastrana, Ciutat Meridiana, Verneda...) and municipalities in the Catalan and Spanish geography; public transport stations (metro, train stations, airports); cultural facilities (TNC, Palau Robert, El Born Cultural Center, La Pedrera, MACBA, Palau de la Música); university campuses (UPF, UAB, UB, UIC, ESADE...), among many other locations.

Permanent pianos during the year

In hospitals

Vall d'Hebron / Santa Creu i Sant Pau

Currently, at La Vall d'Hebron Hospital, patients and visitors can enjoy the piano in the lobby of the Children's and Women's Building with the support of volunteers every Wednesday from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., as well as every afternoon from 6:30 p.m.

In addition, the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau also has a piano in the lobby of Sant Quintí, available from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

The competition's involvement with hospitals began with the Vall d'Hebron Hospital and the Paliaclínic Foundation, where the Maria Canals placed a Bösendorfer grand piano permanently in the lobby. Thanks to the success achieved and the association's social commitment, the project has continued.

At the FGC stations

The Maria Canals has placed pianos in the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC) stations, available throughout the year in the following locations:

Gràcia station
Plaza España station

These pianos can be played whenever the station is open.

In Plaça Catalunya

In addition, Plaça Catalunya has a Solar Piano available from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., offering a unique musical experience in the city center.

Social commitment

The "Pianos on the streets" programme collaborates with various social, neighborhood and vindictive projects, making its grand piano available to the various groups that request it to spread their actions. Sinatraheim Association, Ronald Mc House. Donald, Fundació Juvert, Coordinadora d'Entitats de la Verneda (VERN), are some of the latest collaborations. In addition, it is weaving more complicities with hospital entities in order to create an even more committed project.

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