We Came for Games series

We Came for Games is a humanist project that advocates equality, respect and solidarity between people and cultures. This project is set in Barcelona in mid-July 1936. Everything was ready for the start of the People’s Olympiad, an important international event that combined sport and regional folklore. It was intended to be the biggest international anti-fascist resistance action ever held. Unfortunately, however, the protest games were never held. Civil war broke out in Spain the very day before the opening ceremony, due to a fascist coup d’état. Hundreds of young sportsmen and women, having just arrived in the city, decided to take up arms to defend the Republic from the rebels instead of returning to our countries. They came for games and stayed to fight. This concentration of foreigners was the seed for the International Brigades.