LOOP BARCELONA is the annual point of contact for the lovers of videoart of the world. This year, the platform adopts the form of Festival-Fair-Conferences.
The sixth edition, LOOP’ 08, will be able to be enjoyed until the 18 May of the 2008. Artists, curators, collectors, directors of museums, critics, and fans to videoart, have a good way to interchange theirs experiences.
Look at the exhibitions:
‘La Imatge com a Llenguatge’
Casa Àsia - Av Diagonal, 371*373 - 933680320
09/05/2008
‘LOOP the video art fair’08′
Hotel Catalonia Ramblas - C Pelai, 28 - 933168400
10/05/2008
One of the museums more visited of Barcelona, is the Picasso Museum, that now open it doors in Sundays, with the special cycle: Sundays in the Picasso.
This is a proposal of scenic arts that it tries to turn the museum in a space of citizen participation. The program of Sundays in the Picasso includes spectacles of circus, theater, music, dance.
The activities have a popular prices, 3 € only is the cost, and the children have a free pass.
For more information you can telephone 932 563 000/22 or email: museupicasso_reserves@bcn.cat.
Until 29 of June, 2008, and since 6 of July until 21 of september.
The writer will presents “Mirrors”, this Monday in Barcelona. Eduardo Galeanodefines to his text like `Around the world in 600 stories” .
The Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano advances that he will read a selection of them in his presentation Monday in “American House in Barcelona“. In an interview, the recognized journalist and writer speak of his work like “a house that has many doors and many windows”, and invite the reader “to enter by where she wants”.
I remember the beautiful “Genesis” of “Memory of fire” (1982):
“The woman and the man dreamed that God was dreaming about them. God was singing and clacking his maracas as he dreamed his dream in a tobacco smoke, feeling happy but shaken by doubt& mystery. The Makiritare Indians know that if God dreams about eating, he gives fertility and food. If God dreams about life, he is born and gives birth.”
Something about Galeano and “Mirrors”, here (spanish).
An interesting exhibition is in Barcelona this days. Women of Water is about Africa, women and the problem of water.
Through the photographies of the catalan photo-journalist Tomás Abellawe can see this problematic in some places of Africa, focussing in the zone of Ethiopia mainly.
Abella illustrates a daily life of women in diverse African countries, searching water, to which they dedicate between five and twelve hours in a day.
Until 18/05/2008, the exhibition is in CASA AMATLLER: Pg Gràcia, 0041 - Tel. 934961245
From now, until 7 of June Guitars Festival of Barcelona (a classic one of the primaveral season), arrives this year at his 19 edition and presents one of the most complete programmings of its history.
Josep y Patrick Henríquez, Joe Satriani, Al Kooper, Dickey Betts (Allmans Brothers), Luis Eduardo Aute, Fito Páez, Jorge Drexler, Milton Nascimento y Jobim Trio, José Mercé, Pedro Guerra, Noa and Paul Anka are some of the artists who will be in this Festival of Barcelona until the 7 of June.
Look at the Calendar:
EDUARD INIESTA Secrets guardats
10 April- 21.00 h.
L´Auditori (Sala 2)
NOA Geans & Jeans
12 April- 21.00 h.
Palau de la Música Catalana
THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS
14 April- 22.00 h.
Luz de Gas
FITO PÁEZ A solas
23 April- 21.00 h.
Palau de la Música Catalana
JOSÉ MERCÉ
26 April- 21.00 h.
Palau de la Música Catalana
LA SHICA Trabajito de chinos
26 April- 21.00 h.
Teatre Joventut (L´Hospitalet)
MILTON NASCIMENTO & JOBIM TRIO 50 anys de bossa nova
29 April- 21.00 h.
Palau de la Música Catalana
JOE SATRIANI
6 May- 21.00 h.
Palau de la Música Catalana
EGBERTO GISMONTI
7 May- 21.00 h.
Petit Palau
DICKEY BETTS & THE GREAT SOUTHERN
12 May- 21.00 h.
Bikini
SEU JORGE
14 May- 21.00 h.
Palau de la Música Catalana
HAIG YAZDJIAN Amalur
15 May- 21.30 h.
Bikini
PEDRO GUERRA Vidas
16 May- 21.00 h.
Palau de la Música Catalana
PASCAL COMELADE
17 May- 21.00 h.
Auditori Can Roig i Torres (Santa Coloma de Gramenet)
V MOSTRA DE JOVES GUITARRISTES
18 May- 20.00 h.
L´Auditori (Sala 2)
LUIS EDUARDO AUTE
23 May- 22.00 h.
Teatre-Auditori Sant Cugat
SON DE LA FRONTERA
24 May- 21.00 h.
Teatre Joventut (L´Hospitalet)
AL KOOPER
30 May - 21.00 h.
Bikini
JOSEP I PATRICK HENRÍQUEZ Clàssica + fusió
31 May- 21.00 h.
Luz de Gas
CHICUELO Diapasión
6 June- 22.00 h.
L´Auditori (Sala 2)
CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ
i altres clàssics
Xuefei Yang (guitarra)
amb l´OBC (Dir: Francesc Prat)
7 June- 21.00 h.
L´Auditori
- Of this Festival, I don’t want to lose nothing, but I really love Satriani, Nascimento and Mercé. And you?
To all persons who like spanish guitars, here a little time of music:
Those that we are in Spain, we have been seeing for a time a Tv publicity of Aquarius (Coke), of “the Colifata”.
But, what is La Colifata? The Colifata is a radio that was born in 1991 in Buenos Aires, and at the microphone they are the patients of the psychiatric center Jose Tiburcio Borda.
It was born like an alternative therapy, and as his director Alfredo Olivera says: “We want that madness speaks, but also the fears that come associate to it… Everything are possible: a related soccer match that not yet has gambled, to interview to Nerón and to connect with the special envoy to Mars, where “trains are not seen flying over the sky”.
Friday 4 of April of the 2008 in Barcelona, you can see ”LT22 Radio the Colifata“, the documental of Carlos Larrondo, already awarded in Gijón in December.
In his prime opera, Larrondo, also accompanies to several members of the radio in its trip by Spain, France and Italy, where initiatives inspired by the experience of the Colifata work. In Barcelona, the camera related the meeting with Manu Chao, that already was cooperated with thems, with a edition of a disc to benefit of this peculiar radio.
(So sorry, but I can’t know where will be the exhibition, that if you know, please tell us)
From 29 of March to 31 of March, the popular Barcelona-Sitges vintage car rally (Great Audi Prize), arrives at 50.ª edition.
Until the moment, this edition of rally registers a spectacular record of participation, with almost 150 cars and participants coming from diverse points of Spain and Europe.
If you are in Barcelona, this is a good oportunity to see old cars (built 1920), and as it indicates in the regulations, participants who will go dressed according to the vehicle’s period.
Spain have an important catholic traditions, and Spain Holy Week traditions are some famous in the world. The most glamorous celebrations are in Seville, Malaga and Cadiz. (until Antonio Banderas has been there, like in another years)
The participants in the Processions, names “nazarenos”, and they dress with a tunic and a “capirote” (hood wiht conical tip). Ironically, is similar to the uniform of Ku Kux Klan. The “nazarenos” carry candles, and some of them, carry a great Virgen or Jesus on theys shoulders.
Holy Week is an all Spain celebration, and Barcelona to. Look at a “Proccesion” in Barcelona:
The new roller coaster of the amusement park of the Tibidabo (Barcelona) will have a length of 718 meters, that it will cross in 85 seconds and it will get to reach a speed of 80 kilometers per hour. The attraction will begin promoting 33.2 meters of unevenness with motor until reaching its higher point, located to 522 meters on the level of the sea.
Soon, the reduction of 37 meters with a slope of 66% will begin, that will allow to contemplate the Vallès and Barcelona. The requirement to accede to this attraction is to have a minimum altitude of 110 centimeters, something that normally all the children of more fulfill than five years.
Its installation goes accompanied of controversy, because the persons who live in the zone supposes that it will cut several trees.
The Gala Dalí Castle in Púbol, open to the public since 1996. Is a medieval building in which Salvador Dalí lent material form to an exuberant creative effort with his mind set on one person, Gala.
Sundays 23 of March, 13 of April and 11 of May, the Castle of Púbol open to a interesting familiar visits.
“We are going to discover the castle and Dalí in full dress. Visit guided for children and children accompanied by adults. With your aid, a parchment and games we will discover the Castle of Púbol and the treasures that Rescuing Dalí gave to Finery, its wife and lady of the castle. ”
To live this experiencie, is essential to reserve to the tel. (034)972 677 518 or difusio@dali-estate.org
“The nothing”, or the silence or the emptiness, is a creative elements in the art (in music or design for example). The exhibition “The utility of the emptiness”, in the Museum of the Decorative Arts of Barcelona, compiles up to 120 pieces that make us think about the importance of the emptiness.
The exhibition explores the relations between the matter and the nonmatter, the emptiness, in plastic arts, the natural architecture, design, sciences and industrial engineering.
Sailing by Internet and looking for pretty and differents photographies , from the city of Barcelona, I have found the interesting blog of the photographer Carlos Lorenzo.
He says about his blog: “Barcelona pictures there are many, commented Barcelona photos there are few, so I intend to provide not just images but information about the daily life of the city and some aspects of artistic expression”.
Yoy must visit his web, is another point of view of Barcelona. One of Carlos’s picture is this, and from me is marvellous!:
Barcelona Movie is a new web, that will serve to give relevance to certain locations of Barcelona that still are not tourist icons.
The idea is that the tourists organizes the visit to the city from a cinematographic point of view, crossing the scenes where diverse rolled films was success in Barcelona.
The web Barcelona Movie, is to discover the city since the cinema, so that the person who consults the Web finds the relation of the scenes and its location in a plane of the city, as well as complementary information of Barcelona.
For example, now you can find Almodóvar’s scenes in Barcelona (”All About My Mother”) : Monument a Colom, Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, Palau de la Música Catalana.
The scenes of “The Perfume” in Barcelona of Tom Tykwer, “Erasmus Students’ Barcelona” of Cédric Klapisch, also Giovanni Veronesi, Peter Greenaway, Alejandro Amenabar, Fernando Trueba, Michelangelo Antonioni, whoare some of the directors who have used the city as a location for their films.
In the Drassanes Reials of Barcelona, “Bodies” will be until day 31 of March.
This exhibition on the human body, that it has attracted more than 3 million people everywhere, has obtained in Barcelona more than 110,000 visits from its inauguration, the past 17 of November.
”Bodies” arrived at Barcelona like a exhibition that broke records, simultaneously that did not leave indifferent anybody. Guaranteed by the great success achieved in cities like New York, London, Amsterdam, Lisbon and Sao Paulo, the exhibition shows the human body as it is, with real human rest.
These bodies, of people died by natural causes, have been dissected by means of a revolutionary system, conserved with polymers and sectioned detail yet to be exposed everywhere.
You can enjoy (or not ;-)): until 31/03/2008, at Reials Drassanes de Barcelona, Av. Drassanes, 1, Ciutat Vella.
Valentine’s Day is a special celebration, as you know, on February 14.
Generally, the lovers express their love sending presents, flowers, swets, and some of them, going to special site in the night.
In this order, we can suggest you a good thing to enjoy with your lover (if you remember an love ABBA):
The Barcelona Teatre Musical is now showing the Catherine Johnson musical with the ABBA songs we all know, like Dancing Queen, Chiquitita, Voulez-Vous and Take A Chance On Me. (C Guàrdia Urbana, 7 - Sants-Montjuïc)
But while I’ve been looking for special activities for this day, I saw an interesting article in ABC, in which TERESA DE LA CIERVA, MARTA BARROSO, PATRICIA ESPINOSA DE LOS MONTEROS talks about a study of the Valentine’s day traditions:
”The fragrances and the oils for the bath, among other products of beauty, do not fail, but either the romantic escapes. According to the study of Expedia, the best thing to reinforce a relation is a trip; that said 61% of the people at least. 41% of the women (always more positive) thinks that it helps to recover “the flame” (39% declare that when finalizing a trip has returned to fall in love with its pair), and the men, (”always so optimistic”), consider that “he is not going to suppose no change” (42%)… What yes it is certain is that it does not solve a crisis (only 6% take advantage of it to solve problems). One of the tactically important points is the planning of the trip. Women (36%) gives to much more importance him to the details whereas to them (23%) she costs to them more to put itself in agreement on the budget…”
What do you think about this study? And what you prefeer your lover do tomorrow?
LOOP BARCELONA is the annual point of contact for the lovers of videoart of the world. This year, the platform adopts the form of Festival-Fair-Conferences.
“The nothing”, or the silence or the emptiness, is a creative elements in the art (in music or design for example). The exhibition “The utility of the emptiness”, in the 
For example, now you can find Almodóvar’s scenes in Barcelona (”All About My Mother”) : Monument a Colom, Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, Palau de la Música Catalana. 
Valentine’s Day is a special celebration, as you know, on February 14.