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The Grec Festival 2013

Published: May 8, 2013Posted in: Barcelona Events, Barcelona what to doTags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Grec Festival of Barcelona 2013 is about to begin! The Grec Festival of Barcelona is an international theatre, dance, music and circus festival. Over the course of its history, this long-standing event, which will take place for the thirty-seven time in 2013, has become not only the major summer attraction in Barcelona, but also a reference on the European performing arts calendar.

Grec Festival 2013

The festival takes its name from its main venue: an open-air theatre (the Teatre Grec) built on Mount Montjuïc for the 1929 Universal Exhibition. At first, this “Greek Theatre” was the only venue used for festival productions, but, today, the Grec programme embraces many other theatres, cultural facilities and public spaces all over the city of Barcelona.
The festival, which will take place from July 1 to 31, will include several new initiatives, including a season aimed specifically at family audiences: this MiniGrec, as it is known, will feature thirteen productions at seven Barcelona theatres, including such shows as “El petit Dalí” and “Perduts a la Viquipèdia”.

A circus show with music by Shostakovich? That is what we can look forward to in “Opus”, by Circa, a company that our city has taken to its heart and which will open the festival at the Teatre Grec on July 1 and 2 this year. In this show, the Australian company explore the language of the circus, their breath-taking acrobatic skills accompanied by the Russian composer’s string quartets, performed live by Quatuor Debussy.
But “Opus” is just one of the shows on the Grec 2013 programme revealed in the first advance preview. Audiences at the Teatre Grec will enjoy a choral show starring one hundred anonymous Barcelona women (“100Femmes”, July 19); whilst Marc Rosich and Josep M. Pou will take them on a journey into the intimate world of Marguerite Yourcenar in “Fuegos” (July 26-28); and the venue will also host a show created by theatre schools from three major European cities (“Utopies”, July 9).
The festival dance programme sees the return of one of the international choreographers most acclaimed by Barcelona audiences: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, whose “Puz/zle” (Teatre Grec, July 15 and 16) speaks to us, through dance, about the beauty of fusion. In another outstanding choreography, “L’ADN de l’ànima”, the Catalan dancers Mudit Grau and Ramón Giménez will explore the world of feelings (Teatre Grec, July 6 and 7).
Turning now to music, the Municipal Band of Barcelona will team up with the Catalan actress Lloll Bertran in a truly unusual concert entitled “Bandalismes” (Teatre Grec, July 12). The festival programme also features such renowned artists as: Diego “El Cigala” (Teatre Grec, July 10); Jorge Pardo (Teatre Grec, July 22), Kiko Veneno (Teatre Grec, July 31); Buika (Teatre Grec, July 21); and Wynton Marsalis with The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, celebrating the band’s twenty-fifth anniversary at the Teatre Grec on July 17. Catalan music will be represented by Blaumut (Teatre Grec, July 30) and Ja t’ho diré (Teatre Grec, July 3), a band returning to Barcelona as part of a short one-off tour.
The Grec 2013 programme will also include activities aimed at professionals in the theatre world, including the International Performing Arts Meeting, whose purpose is to boost the Catalan theatre internationally. Amongst educational events, we can highlight the Sala Beckett’s summer workshop, held at a new venue in Poblenou this year, and taking anger as its theme; as well as activities aimed directly at audiences, such as the “Spectator Workshop”, which offers fresh insight for theatre-goers; and “Explica dansa” (“Modern Dance Speaks!”), presented by the choreographer Toni Jodar.
Festival-goers are reminded that tickets for shows at the Teatre Grec will be available online and at Tiquet de Rambles box offices in the Palau de la Virreina from May 2. The full festival programme will be revealed in late-May, when tickets for all other productions will also go on sale, at www.bcn.cat/grec.

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Mnac: National Museum of Catalonia

Published: April 30, 2013Posted in: Barcelona Exhibitions, Barcelona what to doTags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The hill of Montjuïc hosts some of the most interesting cultural attractions of Barcelona. In addition to all the Olympic space, where you can visit the stadium of Barcellona’92, swimming pools and trampolines, the famous tower of Calatrava and Palau Sant Jordi, the most important museums in the area are the Joan Miro Foundation and the National Museum of Catalonia (MNAC).

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The Palau Nacional, the emblematic building of the 1929 International Exhibition, is the home of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. It is situated on the mountain of Montjuïc, a privileged site from where you can enjoy a magnificent and unique view of the city of Barcelona.

The MNAC embraces all the arts (sculpture, painting, objets d’art, drawing, engraving, posters, photography and coinage) and has the task of explaining the general history of Catalan art from the Romanesque period to the mid-twentieth century. With regard to the Renaissance and Baroque collections, the works included lead to a more international discourse, with the work of great painters, such as El Greco, Zurbarán, Velázquez, Cranach, Rubens… The MNAC art collections from the end of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century are once again mostly made up of the work of Catalan artists, forming a discourse which explains Modernisme, Noucentisme and the Avant-garde, always taking into account all the arts.

From April 19th to September 15th 2013, the Mnac hosts the exhibition of the immense canvas The Battle of Tetouan (1863 – 1865), realised by Marià Fortuny, has become an icon of our cultural imagination. On occasion of the 175th anniversary of the artist’s birth, the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya joins the acts of commemoration with an exhibition providing the viewer with a range of perspectives in understanding the richness and complexity of this great composition. More than 130 pieces occupy the space where Fortuny’s great work has been displayed since 2004.
A further section is dedicated to Salvador Dalí, author of a version of the Battle of Tetouan which was exhibited alongside the homonymous work by Fortuny in the Saló del Tinell in the year 1962.

A series of photographs of Dalí’s work and some of his preparatory drawings recall this event. In addition, the exhibition features major loans from important public and private collections, like those of the Real Biblioteca de Madrid, the Fundación Lázaro Galdiano, el Museo Nacional del Prado or the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí of Figueres. All info at the official webpage of the Museum.

National Museum of Catalonia MNAC

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Sónar 2013

Published: April 22, 2013Posted in: Barcelona EventsTags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Sonar is the International Festival of Advanced Music and New Media Art taking place in Barcelona for three days every June. Sonar 2013 will take place on June 13,14 and 15.
Created in 1994, Sonar is a pioneering festival with a unique format and content. It’s first class reputation as a leading reference for international festivals is by virtue of a carefully balanced cultural offering, combining a playful nature, the avant-garde, and experimentation with electronic dance music’s newest trends.

Sonar 2013 apartments

Sonar is constantly on the pulse of the current electronic music landscape. Its interactions and hybridizations with digital creation and new media, unites established artists with emerging talent, in all areas of musical and audiovisual production.

Sonar Barcelona’s activities are divided into two main locations: Sónar by Day, in Fira Montjuïc, with concerts, showcases and an area for professionals, the essence of which is discovering and tracking new talent; and the larger shows at Sónar by Night, in Fira Gran Via de L’Hospitalet, which stage the leading names in the current international music scene.

Each year Sonar is host to more than 80,000 people from more than 90 countries around the world as well as bringing together 3.500 professionals and 1.000 accredited journalists.
Sonar is also a meeting point for professionals from various creative industry sectors (artists, promoters, software / hardware developers, app makers, digital designers, hackers, creative new media), who all find Sónar+D the ideal place to do business, exchange ideas and network.

Sónar+D presents a set of activities with a common goal: to make the relationship between creativity, technology, mobility, innovation and business more transparent and accessible.

Since 2002 Sonar has organized more than 40 festivals in many different parts of the world, incorporating Barcelona’s festival philosophy of spaces and unique environments while showcasing the most interesting international talent from the music scene of each country where Sonar is held. Aside from the annual Barcelona date, Sonar festival is currently held in Tokyo, Osaka and Reykjavik.

Kraftwerk (3D show), Pet Shop Boys, Skrillex, Paul Kalkbrenner, Ed Banger 10, Richie Hawtin presents ENTER., Jurassic 5, Two Door Cinema Club, Soulwax, Major Lazer, Hot Natured, Laurent Garnier, Luciano, Bat For Lashes, Seth Troxler, Diplo, Nicolas Jaar, Chromatics, Liars, Skream, Lindstrøm & Todd Terje, TNGHT, Karl Hyde, AlunaGeorge, Sébastien Tellier, Sherwood & Pinch, Maceo Plex, Jamie Lidell, Modeselektor dj set, Richie Hawtin. This is just a little part of the line up of Sonar 2013. All info on the Sonar official webpage.

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International Comic Fair of Barcelona

Published: March 27, 2013Posted in: Barcelona Events, Barcelona ExhibitionsTags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The 31st edition of the International Comic Fair of Barcelona will take place in Hall 8 of Fira Barcelona Montjuïc from 11 until 14 April. The show will be open from 10.00 am to 8.00 pm and the access will be by Avenida Reina María Cristina, Plaza de España. The venue of the event will feature some 19,000 m2.

The International Comic Fair of Barcelona 2013

The initial list of confirmed foreign guests included renowned authors like the French Manu Larcenet, the Italian Lorena Canottiere, responsible for the graphic novel Little People, Liniers, considered one of the best exponents of the new Argentine humor. This list also includes the Canadian Guy Delisle, author of the award-winning graphic novels Shenzhen, Pyongyang and Chronicles of Jerusalem.

This year one of the themes of the International Comic Fair of Barcelona is the Western genre in comics. ‘A fistful of comics’ is the title of an exhibition that’ll show some of the classics Western scenarios in comics, where cowboys, soldiers, Indians, outlaws and vigilantes live great adventures.
The International Comic Fair of Barcelona will host over a hundred pages of original comics and illustrations by authors of different nationalities. There will be an anthologic exhibition for the 75th anniversary of Superman, the popular character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and Friends Forever: The X-Men and the Avengers, two series created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby that meet its 50th anniversary this year.

The 31st edition of the International Comic Fair of Barcelona is organized by FICOMIC will feature the participation of renowned national and interncionales cartoonists and numerous cultural and recreational activities such as exhibitions, conferences, workshops or author signatures. It will also be part of professional meetings with foreign and nationals publishers and authors. All info on the official webpage of the International Comic Fair of Barcelona.

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Barcelona 2013 Fina World Championship

Published: March 8, 2013Posted in: Barcelona EventsTags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

In 2013 the city of Barcelona will be host to the 15th FINA World Championships. Barcelona will be the capital of Planet Water and you can become one of its inhabitants. The 2013 Swimming Championship in Barcelona, from 19th July to 4th August 2013 will be a great happening and you’ll be able to live inside it, booking one of our exlusive accommodations in Barcelona.

Barcelona 2013 Fina World Championship

Swimmers, fans, water lovers, athletes, press, you all have an important date. You’ll be able to be part of this project and above all that you become the protagonists of everything that goes on.

During two weeks, thousands of people from different countries and cultures will join together. Barcelona and the world of swimming have a unique opportunity to once more surprise the world with what the city and sport have to offer. Your participation in these Championships will ensure that Barcelona 2013 become the best World Championships in history.

Barcelona has always had a Mediterranean heart but now it will Mediterranean from head to toe. Since the Olympic Games in 92, Barcelona has opened itself up to the sea and from an urban standpoint has created new leisure and sporting areas, a city where the beach is now a focal point. Today the Barcelona coast is an emblematic place full of life, activity and fun.
The venues of the 2013 Swimming World Championship will be the same of the mythical Olympics Game of 1992, on the hill of Montjuic.

The historical sporting tradition and thousands of people who practice swimming in Barcelona mean that it’s a unique scenario worldwide.
The financial and political capital of Catalonia will put all its architecture, art, culture and sea at the service of the 2013 Swimming Championships with one aim in mind, to ensure that the Championships are an absolute success both in and out of the water. Vitality and elation will wash over the city of Barcelona, a wave of emotions will run down the streets, and we invite you to submerge yourself in it. All info about the Barcelona 2013 FIna World Championship on the official webpage.

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The Guitar Festival BCN

Published: February 27, 2013Posted in: Barcelona EventsTags: , , , , , , , , ,

From 20 February to 16 June, The Guitar Festival BCN reaches its 24th edition with a change and an innovative proposal that you can enjoy in the coming months. The Guitar Festival BCN will kick off its most innovative edition, young and alternative, since its birth 24 years ago.

24 Guitar Festival BCN

The Guitar Festival BCN presents an exceptional line up. The Guitar Festival BCN wants to bring bands, with the guitar as a crosscutting, that are being consolidated in the current musical landscape. The difference is a nearest, warmer format, with better comfort and sound quality, and on the other hand, more extensive in time.

In the Guitar Festival BCN we’ll find established artists of international alternative music as Eels or Ron Sexsmith, iconic bands from the local scene as Antonia Font, Standstill and Delafé y las Flores Azules, or songwriters as Nacho Vegas and Quique González. And even emerging bands with a bright future as Anni B Sweet or Jane Joyd. All info on the official webpage.

We’ll see on the stage the superstar Lucinda Williams, in a unique cycle (Time Out Ladies), dedicated to great ladies of music like Marisa Monte and Madeleine Peyroux, and ultimately more of a dozen concerts featuring them.

The 24 Guitar Festival BCN will present 40 concerts across different prestigious scenarios in Barcelona, during the months of February, March, April, May and June 2013. The chance to hear high quality artists in the best conditions of comfort and sound guarantees a first class musical experience, while while it tries to reach the public of the independent scene as those who are far away from these alternative circuits.

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Seduced by Art. Photography Past & Present

Published: February 14, 2013Posted in: Barcelona ExhibitionsTags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Obra Social “la Caixa”, in collaboration with the National Gallery in London, presents from 22 February to 19 May, ‘Seduced by Art. Photography Past & Present‘, an innovative exhibition on the relationship between the great masters of art history, photography of the mid-century XIX and the fascinating work of contemporary photographers developed in relation to its predecessors.

Seducidos por el Arte, Caixa Forum

What is the connection between the great masterpieces of painting, the first photographs and the work of some contemporary photographers? The exhibition shows the way in which the pioneers of photography adopted historical art as a point of reference and as a stimulus to their creativity. It also shows how today’s photographers take their inspiration from the same sources and rework the same themes, but by using new media that were unimaginable just a few years ago, and filtering them through a modern sensibility.
Photography first appeared in the 1830s, at a time when art was more accessible than ever before. Big exhibitions and public art galleries all helped to popularise the great works of painting and sculpture. With the aim of legitimising their art, photographers such as Roger Fenton, Julia Margaret Cameron, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson took well-known images as their point of reference.

The public of the time thought that photography reproduced reality in an over-literal manner, far removed from the expressive, emotive synthesis achieved by paintings. But by looking closely at works of art, photographers gradually refined their perceptions and began to develop their own forms of expression. Nowadays, thanks to communication technologies, art can be found absolutely everywhere, but photographers no longer have to imitate or reproduce it relatively literally. They can borrow specific aspects from art works and play with the imaginary of the viewer and the role of the artwork in the cultural tradition, so as to create new meanings and excite new emotions.

Caixa Forum is on the Montjuic, close to Plaza España. All info on the official webpage of the museum.

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Sónar by Day 2013, new venue

Published: February 12, 2013Posted in: Barcelona EventsTags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

After 19 years at the CCCB, the MACBA and the surrounding area, the Sonar festival is moving its daytime headquarters to the Fira Montjuïc area in Plaça d’Espanya, an emblematic location in the city.

Sonar 2013 in Barcelona

The new location will breathe new life into Sónar by Day, with extensive spaces that will facilitate optimal movement by those attending and the professionals participating. Sónar by Day keeps its 4 stages (SonarVillage by Estrella Damm, SonarHall, SonarDôme and SonarComplex), all of which have increased capacities in their new locations. The new Sónar by Day is significantly nearer Sónar by Night, which is still at its usual venue in the Fira Gran Via area in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, and consolidates its four-stage format, (SonarClub, SonarLab, SonarPub and SonarCar, located next to the bumper cars). With the festival’s shuttle buses, the two sites are now only 10 minutes apart.
All the info on the official webpage of the festival.

Sonar 2013 will be held from 13 to 15 June. Te line-up it’s not colosed but yet includes the performance of two great references as Kraftwerk, presenting a 3D technology show, and Pet Shop Boys.
And then Two Door Cinema Club, Diplo, Skrillex and Major Lazer, among others.
And for those who go to the festival for dance, Sonar 2013 offers the outstanding performance by Paul Kalkbrenner, Maceo Plex and a long list of high-level DJs.
And after twenty years, Sonar has also invited artists who have participated to the festival since the beginning. This is the case of Laurent Garnier, who acted in the first edition, or Matthew Herbert Modeselektor.

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Mobile World Congress 2013, Barcelona

Published: January 22, 2013Posted in: Barcelona Congress, Barcelona EventsTags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Mobile World Congress 2013 will held in Barcelona from 25 to 28 February 2013. The landscape of Mobile World Congress will look different in 2013. While the Mobile World Capital Barcelona remains the host, the congress moved to a new facility. The MWC2013 will take place at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona. The new venue is located a mere 4 km away from our previous location. Fira Gran Via is a large state-of-the-art event space which will allow the show to grow and expand in the years to come.

Mobile World Congress 2013

The mobile ecosystem is expanding at lightning speed, with endless innovation and new applications of mobile technology. From contactless payments and augmented reality to embedded devices and connected cities ¬– mobile technology is changing the landscape. The impact mobile will have on the world is limitless.
Join us in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress 2013 as together we explore the New Mobile Horizon.

Depending on the type of pass you select, attendees can take advantage of the many components that make up this industry-leading event:
• A world-class thought-leadership conference featuring visionary keynotes and panel discussions
• A cutting-edge product and technology exhibition featuring 1,500 exhibitors
• The world’s best venue for seeking industry opportunities, making deals, and networking
• App Planet, the Centre of the Mobile Apps Universe, where the mobile app community gathers to learn, network and engage with innovators
• mPowered Brands, where marketers, advertisers and global brands explore the possibilities in mobile marketing
• And the Global Mobile Awards programme, where we recognise advancements and achievements in the industry

Mobile World Congress 2012 was a record-breaking year:
• Highest-ever total attendance: more than 67,000 attendees
• Highest-ever C-Level attendance: more than 38,000 C-Level leaders
• Highest-ever number of CEOs in attendance: more than 3,500
• Largest-ever number of exhibitors: Nearly 1,500 exhibitors utilising 70,500 net square metres of exhibition and business meeting space
• Largest-ever number of press: 3,300+ press members representing 1,500 media outlets from 92 countries
• Largest-ever gathering of Mobile App Developers: more than 12,000

Year over year, the GSMA Mobile World Congress attracts the largest number and highest-quality attendees of any event in the mobile industry. And true to his name, this is truly a global event: attendees came from 205 countries from around the world.

Mobile World Congress Barcelona

After an 18-month search, Barcelona was selected as the first Mobile World Capital in 2011. The aim of Mobile World Capital, with its headquarters in Barcelona for the next seven years, is to drive and develop innovative mobile initiatives with the capacity to transform the traditional way of doing things, both in industry and in people’s day-to-day lives.

Mobile is changing the world and people’s lives. But the change has just begun. Imagine a city where people move, learn, pay and work in a fully mobile-enabled environment. As a city, Barcelona will become a living lab where the industry will develop innovative technologies and people will experience culture and entertainment in new mobile-enhanced ways.

To learn more about Mobile World Congress visit its official webpage.

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Antoni Tàpies from the inside

Published: January 8, 2013Posted in: Barcelona ExhibitionsTags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Jointly organised by the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies and curated by Vicent Todolí, Tàpies. From the Inside will present about 100 works from the artist’s studio and from the Fundació Antoni Tàpies collection.

Antoni Tàpies Foundation

This large retrospective exhibition will take us from the first paintings in the 1940s, under the influence of various avant-garde trends and his participation in the Dau al Set group, to the ones he did shortly before his death in 2011. Thanks to the collaboration of the Tàpies family, this exhibition will allow an in-depth understanding of the legacy of the painter’s studio and unearth works that had remained virtually unseen or, in some cases, even unknown.

From the earliest works, Tàpies embarked on an aesthetic research which involved experimenting with materials and forms, leading in the 1950s to the ‘matter’ paintings that earned him his international reputation. During that period, he placed his hopes in an art that made an impact on the public, that shook people up. From that moment on, for the rest of his life, Tàpies continued experimenting tirelessly, even obsessively, developing his iconography, his vocabulary made up of varied signs and materials, colours and recognisable objects.

The exhibition From Inside is being presented from juny 2013 in Barcelona at two sites, the Fundació Antoni Tàpies and the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. It will then go on show at different international museums.

National Museum of Catalonia

Antoni Tàpies died a year ago. He was a catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist, who became one of the most famous European artists of his generation. Antoni Tapies even is one of the most important witnesses of the Barcelona artistic and creativity mood. That It’s a city that offers its visitors endless opportunities to enjoy the wonders of art and culture. Book one of our exclusive luxury apartments in the city center or directly on the beach, for a unique experience in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

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