To know more activities in the Music day, in all Spain, visit this web.

You can read all the Program, here (PDF).

I see the information in Absolut BCN.

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
• ‘For Your Eyes Only’
  Fundació Suñol - Pg Gràcia, 98 - 934961032
  10/05/2008
• ‘Frágil’
  Centre Cívic Convent de Sant Agustí - C Comerç, 36 - 933103732
  10/05/2008
• ‘Visión-a’
  Palau de la Virreina - C la Rambla, 99 - 933161000
  11/05/2008
• ‘Recent Iris Films From The Imma Collection’
  Fundació Joan Miró - Av Miramar, 1 - 934439470
  16/05/2008
• ‘Imatges a peu de carrer’
  Foment de les Arts i del Disseny - Pl Àngels, 5-6 - 934437520
  18/05/2008
• ‘New York - Barcelona Via Strip Film Festival (París)’
  Fundació Joan Brossa - C Provença, 318 - 934589994
  18/05/2008
• ‘Future’, Rubén Santiago
  Museu d’Història de la Ciutat - Conjunt Monumental de la Plaça del Rei - Pl Rei, 7*9 - 932562122
  18/05/2008
• ‘Pantalla CCCB, un mes un artista’ Jaime Pitarch
  Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Montalegre, 5 - 933064100
  31/05/2008
   

More information, in Loop web and in PDF.

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 Galeano defines 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).

I see it in El Universal.

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 Abella we 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