Barcelona International Community Day to welcome and bring together the city’s international talent for yet another year

šThe ini­tia­tive, or­gan­ised by Barcelona City Coun­cil, will be held Sat­ur­day 22 Oc­to­ber at the Mar­itime Mu­seum. Entry is free of charge. You can get your ticket by reg­is­ter­ing on­line at barcelona.cat/in­ter­na­tion­al­com­mu­ni­ty­day .

“You feel Barcelona. You make Barcelona” is the slo­gan for Barcelona In­ter­na­tional Com­mu­nity Day 2022, the ninth edi­tion of the an­nual gath­er­ing for the expat com­mu­nity, that high­lights the rich­ness that the in­ter­na­tional com­mu­nity brings to the city, and its con­tri­bu­tion to mak­ing Barcelona a vi­brant, di­verse and mul­ti­cul­tural place worth liv­ing.

This event-fair will fea­ture nearly 80 ex­hibitors. At­ten­dees will find spe­cialised re­sources and ser­vices to meet the needs of ex­pats who have re­cently moved to Barcelona. It will also fea­ture a pro­gramme of more than 60 ac­tiv­i­ties through­out the day in a va­ri­ety of for­mats: in­for­ma­tive talks and work­shops, net­work­ing ac­tiv­i­ties, live music and ac­tiv­i­ties for chil­dren. Around 100 speak­ers and ex­perts from all over the world will be par­tic­i­pat­ing.

Barcelona In­ter­na­tional Com­mu­nity Day’s venue will open doors at 10 a.m. and the ac­tiv­i­ties, held from 10.30 a.m. to 7 p.m., re­volve around three main themes: set­tling in the city, with in­for­ma­tion on legal and tax is­sues and how the ed­u­ca­tion and health sys­tems work; doing busi­ness or pur­su­ing a pro­fes­sional ca­reer; and en­joy­ing and so­cial­is­ing in the city, with dy­namic net­work­ing events to help peo­ple build per­sonal and pro­fes­sional net­works.

Barcelona Ac­tiva’s re­sources for job seek­ers and busi­ness start-ups will also be pre­sented and ex­plained in de­tail, as well as the per­ma­nent mu­nic­i­pal sup­port and wel­come ser­vice for newly-ar­rived in­ter­na­tional tal­ent, the Barcelona In­ter­na­tional Wel­come Desk, which pro­vides per­son­alised in­for­ma­tion and guid­ance.

The event also has a fun and fam­ily-ori­ented side to it. Through­out the day, there will be a play cen­tre with var­i­ous ac­tiv­i­ties for chil­dren, and in the Mar­itime Mu­seum Gar­den there will be live per­for­mances by artists from dif­fer­ent back­grounds: Taiko Japan­ese tra­di­tional drums, Irish music or In­dian dances, among oth­ers.

Plus, as a new fea­ture this year, the day will end with a big party from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., bring­ing to­gether ex­hibitors, speak­ers and at­ten­dees. The party will fea­ture Amer­i­can folk music, DJ en­ter­tain­ment, some give­aways and a final toast with every­one pre­sent.