Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 20:30 h (from the 30 of June to the 1 of August), we have the possibility of see cinema outdoors: In original version, in giant screen, in the comfortably turf, and with music and short films, previous to the projections.
This will happen like other years, in theCastle of Montjuic, in the Sala Montjuic, where in this edition the films are anticipated like: “The Labyrinth of fauno”, “First flat one”, “Offside”.
Only 4 Euros. If you want to see the complete programming, visit Sala Montjuic.
Diverse free musical activities will be this Saturday, on the occasion of the European day of music. In this occasion, between the proposals that have been programmed in Barcelona they emphasize the free activities that they take place in the Place of the Odissea.
17:00h: MANOS DE TOPO
18:15h: NUBLA
19:30h: FACTO DELAFÉ Y LAS FLORES AZULES
21:00h: LA CASA AZUL
22:30h: GERTRUDIS
Personally, i like very much “Facto de la Fé y las flores azules“, so, i share this with you, “The indian”:
To know more activities in the Music day, in all Spain, visit this web.
This Sunday, 15 of June, there is a celebration in the Castle of Montjuïc of Barcelona. The celebration will consist of a day of open doors, since 11. 00 hours to 19,00 hours, and it is tried that the citizens ” they take posesion” of the building.
During the day, all the people will be able to see some spaces that until now, were closed to the public, like ‘poterna’ and the stairs snail, or the pluvial water cistern excavated under the castle.
Besides the possibility of knowing this construction that has been witness of the history of the city, the Celebration of the Castle of Montjuïc of Barcelona, proposes diverse playful activities and of leisure like music spectacles, circus and dances.
In the summer time, some parks of Barcelona will welcome a free programming of music for all the public, it is the “Music als Parcs”. The cycle includes sessions of classic music, jazz and the music of the Municipal Band to enjoy calm evenings outdoors and in the green spaces of the city. All the concerts of jazz will take place in the “Parc de la Ciutadella“ all Wednesdays and Fridays, at 22 hours.
The first session will be this Wednesday, 4 of June, and the program will be until August. The sessions of classic music will begin in July, and they will also be realised in several parks of the city: Turó Park, Jardins de la Tamarita, Parc Ca n’Altimira, Parc Diagonal Mar, Parc de la Ciutadella, and Park Güell. The concerts will be celebrated Thursdays, Fridays or Saturdays.
The concerts of the Municipal Band will be the 5 of June, in the park Creueta del Coll, 12 of June, in the park of Diagonal Mar, 26 of June (in the park of Joan Miró) and 3 of July (in the park of the Barceloneta), at 21 hours.
This Sunday 1 of June, we can enjoy with a very interesting spectacle, in the street.
The group of spectacles of ‘ format vertical’ , Deambulants, appears next to the Fireluche orchestra in the Gardens of the National Theater of Catalonia, Barcelona, with its spectacle ” Alt”.
Deambulants is a multidisciplinary group: dancers, plastic and visual creators, illuminators, theatrical designers, musicians, clowns, who says themselves in their Web, that they are looking for:
” to vindicate the use of the deep spaces - urban or natural and of the little current interiors, to support to the culture of quality street and to make its proposals to all type reasonable of público”.
Without doubts, it is a very interesting proposal for this Sunday, if you are in Barcelona. You can read more information in the Web of Deambulants.
The exhibition is part of the program ‘Art in the street’, of Obra Social aL Caixa, that will be exposed until the 15 of June, and then it will travel to other Spanish cities.
Some of works of the artist already had been exposed in Park Avenue de New York, in the gardens of the Palais Royal of Paris, and in the castle of Chenonceau (France).
Manolo Valdés (Valencia, 1942) is one of the main contemporary spanish artists.
Resident in New York for more than one decade, alternates the painting, the engraving and the sculpture. In the last years it has realised sculptures of great format for diverse cities.
And special example of this great format sculptures are the Meninas (reinterpretation of Velázquez):
As you know, in the summer time of Barcelona, you only must to take a walk on the Ramblas, and enjoy.
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
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.
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.
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 20:30 h (from the 30 of June to the 1 of August), we have the possibility of see cinema outdoors: In original version, in giant screen, in the comfortably turf, and with music and short films, previous to the projections.
The exhibition is part of the program ‘Art in the street’, of 
And special example of this great format sculptures are the Meninas (reinterpretation of Velázquez):
