| Summary: | Abstract
The purpose of this article is to explore the important role of the arts to communicate and share with others.
As Arts Managers, we study the impact of arts and how they engage audience members and their community.
This paper analyzes the consequences of the Spanish economic crisis on the arts and the appearance of new
spaces where audience members encounter art and a community. In order to carry out this study, several
interviews with companies and new cultural spaces in Spain were carried out. Through five case studies we will
explore who develops these new places and why, their characteristics and how they respond to the needs of
the 21st century audience members. It also explains why these new venues are searching to become third
places where artists and audience members can grow as human beings. Some of the conclusions of this project
suggest that these new venues were created to help people encounter themselves with the arts, but they also
point out the idea that changes in how people consume cultural activities are happening, which are provoking
a shift in the way we produce and present them.
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