Abstract
In this article we will analyse a community festival in which the Public Archaeology and Heritage Group (GAPP, Grup d'Arqueologia Pública i Patrimoni) participated. As GAPP members, we helped to organize a street parade for this festival (the 4th Rua Xic, in 2014) which ended at the Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya (MAC, or Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia) where a short play with an historical theme was performed. Based on this participatory experience, we aim to ponder the limits and possibilities of heritage in triggering critical thinking, even when archaeologists take a secondary role. We discovered that even when people access the past in an uninformed way, with ‘heritage’ in an ancillary role, it can help resolve social tensions and positively reinforce community identity.
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