Becatalaiotica is a cultural project created by the Amics del Museu de Menorca association with the aim of giving visibility to young talent, of claiming the inspiring value of the landscape and promoting Talayotic Menorca among new audiences.

Five students, between 18 and 28 years of age, comprise this free event that will take place in different Talayotic Menorca sites. Any discipline or method of expression is valid. The association is looking for critical, and artistic, essays or performative proposals of any nature as long as they give fair importance to scientific knowledge.

Entry form

The assisting audience is a crucial part in evaluating the originality, content and evocative power of each proposal. The finalist who achieves the best evaluation will be granted a 2.000 € scholarship. 






























DO YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE?
If you are between 18 and 28 years of age and you live in Spain, you can participate by filling out and sending this entry form. You have until June 2 at 11:59 p.m. to do so. You can download the contest rules at this link.

The selection process consists of 3 phases:

1. Entry selection. A group of professionals from the cultural sector of Menorca will select 10  entry forms from all those received.

2. Design and pre-selection of event proposals, during June and July. The 10 selected participants have a series of online meetings with the organizers, from which 10 event proposals must come out. The group of professionals and the organising team choose 5 of these 10 proposals.

3. Preparation and execution of events during September and October. The authors of the 5 selected proposals come to Menorca to carry out the events in 5 different Talayotic Menorca  sites in front of a real audience that will evaluate the proposals. The contestant with the highest score will win a €2,000 scholarship.

DO YOU WANT TO ATTEND BECATALAIOTICA EVENTS AS A SPECTATOR?
Starting April, the participant, title, place and date of each of the events of the Becatalaiotica edition will be made public.
If you want to come, you just have to sign up via email beca@menorcatalayotica.info or call/send a Whatsapp to 608 163 934.

What role will you play? You just have to enjoy the event and the space. Afterwards, we will discuss and reflect on what we have seen. And in the end, you will have to evaluate the proposals through a simple questionnaire. Remember that the author of the best valued proposal will receive a €2,000 scholarship.

For more information: beca@menorcatalayotica.info or tel. 617 840 204.

This project included a study of this culture’s most relevant aspects: community, architectural elements (talayots, taulas, dwellings, etc.) and everyday life (diet, illness management, burials, etc.). Also studied were the most noteworthy personalities in the world of Menorcan prehistoric research, like Margaret Murray or Émile Cartailhac.
To assist in this project, students received support from a local archaeologist on the island.

These videos are quite short in duration (around 2 minutes) and were filmed on location at archaeological sites with amateur recording equipment. As part of this educational project, each and every aspect involved, like the screenplay, design, recording and editing of the videos, was carried out exclusively by the students.

This project was designed and developed with the invaluable support and collaboration of the Consell Insular de Menorca (Island Council), as the driving force behind the  candidature of Talayotic Menorca as UNESCO World Heritage. Below you can take a look at each of the final projects: