Posted in barcelona on Dec 30th, 2011
In Barcelona, like in every other big city in the world, it sometimes happens that certain neighbourhoods (those that didn’t usually get a lot of attention) suddenly generate a lot of interest. So, the citizens of the city begin to slowly move there and, at the same time, they also begin to generate a cultural [...]
Posted in barcelona on Dec 23rd, 2011
You just have to see the names of their songs (El ectoplasta; Incendios de nieve; Te hiero mucho—also known with the name of El amante guisante–; La mirada de la gente que conspira; Noche reversible; Los colores de una sombra; Historia de una Hache que no quería ser muda; Dios por Dios es cuatro; Carta [...]
Posted in barcelona on Dec 21st, 2011
Created in 1910 by initiative of reformist intellectuals, its first location was a small hotel on Fortuny street, with a tiny garden and a capacity for only 15 students. The interior was simple, it was thought that the learning environment should be comfortable but austere. It aims to supplement the college education with a broader [...]
Posted in barcelona on Dec 20th, 2011
A good way to recover the energy lost during a tough year is to relax in spaces designed to improve the standard of living: the spas and saunas. These places are recovery centers to which we go to overcome the effects of stress and anguish caused by the overload of work and a hectic lifestyle, [...]
Posted in barcelona on Dec 19th, 2011
Gaetano Donizetti was one of the most prolific Italian composers of the nineteenth century, who wrote over 75 operas, many of them great hits that were barely released. Linda di Chamounix is one of them, a work written in the last years of the composer’s life, before he went insane from syphilis and ended his [...]
Posted in barcelona on Dec 15th, 2011
The Canadian band Simple Plan, which will offer a concert at the Sant Jordi Club in Barcelona ( http://www.nvivo.es/sant-jordi-club-salas-31619 ) on the 31st of December are one of the most current commercially successful labeled with the term pop-punk bands of recent years. Simple Plan will present in Barcelona songs of their new album Get Your [...]
Posted in barcelona on Dec 12th, 2011
Not long ago we talked about a pioneer literary award around the world, because it prized the emerging poetry, photography and art of corporal painting. Inspired in the erotic film ‘The pillow book’, the cult director Peter Greenaway, the organizers of the competition named it as the 1st Poetic-Photographic Award of Corporal Writing, and they [...]
Posted in barcelona on Dec 9th, 2011
Between the 15th and 16th of December, the Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona (MACBA) will open its doors to debate and thought on the neoliberal model and its penetration into the private world, with the seminar ‘On credit, self-esteem and sharing*: Introduction to the neoliberal condition’, where Michel Feher will participate and the philosopher Beatriz [...]
Posted in barcelona on Dec 7th, 2011
Between the 10th and 14th of December, the Palau de la Música in Barcelona will present concerts of the American band Alabama Gospel Choir, made up by 30 members who travel through traditional songs of the African-American communities of the south of the United States, melodies which have become traidtional, just like the Christmas carols [...]
Posted in barcelona on Dec 5th, 2011
On December 14, 2011, lovers of fusion music have an appointment at the Auditorium of Barcelona at the realease of Traveller, the new album by Anoushka Shankar. Anoushka Shankar, as many have elucidated by her surname, is the daughter of the music living legend, Ravi Shankar. The legacy of traditional Indian classical music runs through [...]
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