What to Do in Barcelona Spain

If you are lucky enough to visit sunny Spain, then you want to visit Barcelona, ​​as there are many things to see and do in this part of the country where you never get bored.

Some of the events in Barcelona and want to explore during your visit to Barcelona Spain are as follows.

The Asian Film Festival

During the last weekend in April through the first weekend in May, you can see the annual Asian Film Festival, which occurs at the Cultural Center of Contemporary Barcelona. This event explores and celebrates Asian cinema. There are several awards for best film in different categories. This is an important event for those involved both as a participant.

 

Magic Mountain Juice Fountain

This fountain, which began to charge in 1929, is an event that occurs regularly throughout the year. During the summer months, the light source during the weekend nights. If you want to see the true beauty is a place you want to visit and the lighting of the fountain is an event not to be missed when you are in Barcelona.

 

Open Sabadell Atlantico

If you like tennis, so they do not want to miss the annual open games that take place in the Real Club de Tennis on the last weekend of April. This event is an annual tennis event, and includes some of the biggest names in tennis. If you like sports, visit the Real Tennis Club last weekend of April, the best that Barcelona has to offer.

 

Brazil Art Fest

If you experience a touch of Brazil when in Barcelona, ​​be sure to visit the Museum of Contemporary Art Festival Brazilian Art in February each year. This annual event celebrates not only the art of Spain, but also the art of Brazil.

 

Barcelona, ​​Poetry Festival

Each year during the last weekend in May brought together poets from all over the country to celebrate poetry in Barcelona. It is an event that is dedicated to the written word and features workshops, readings and poems. This event takes place throughout the city of Barcelona at the weekend and almost every where you look, you will see verses. You can celebrate this annual event easily by simply coming out of coffee, each of them to participate in the annual festival of poetry.

 

Palau de la Música concert series

The annual series of concerts that take place during the month of October at the Palau de la Musica is an event that any lover of classical music are sure. This annual series presents the best of Barcelona when it comes to classical music. You can also see international artists at this annual event which takes place during October. If you are in Barcelona in October, be sure to take in one of the concerts that take place every Thursday though Sunday at the hall.

Classical music, art and poetry, Barcelona is full of culture, history and fun for all ages. So come and see. You might even want to rent an apartment in Barcelona too!

 

Barcelona and Hermeticism

In his admirable and perhaps not well understood book Modelo de espaldas, Samoan writer Albert Hanover wrote his book in exactly seventy-three pages, which is the number of names of God according to the Kabbalah, including the secret name which gives access to the real world and true life and according to Hanover, can also be found hidden somewhere in the work of Cervantes, LXIIII chapter of the second part of the ingenious Don Quixote, in which he is defeated by the false knight of the white Moon, who had previously presented as a false knight of the mirrors on the beach of Barcelona Spain.

 

For Hanover it is not a coincidence that the fateful battle that took place in Barcelona, and he has no hesitation in supporting that fact on a rich analysis that introduces a full text book in the Renaissance Hermetic tradition in the telluric properties of Barcelona, favored without doubt because of its privileged location between sea and mountains, as described in prehistoric times through dolmens and megaliths carefully placed at points particularly suited for flows and electrical transmissions, and whose most unique modes of expression are streams groundwater that fed more than eight hundred wells that the city had.

 

Although the efforts of Hanover can be described as eccentric and parodic – despite the inveterate affinity of many of critics for interpreting the writer of Samoa, perhaps too literally – it is clear that Barcelona is given a wonderful path for all kinds of hermeneutical, prone to magic and mystery that insist on presenting it as one of the greatest cities on the map, painted with secret fire of the alchemical tradition. From the rare vitality of the secret of the Catalan Rosicrucian societies -connected with Gnostic cabalistic and traditions of the nearby Girona and Provence – the amazing symbolism found in modernism, reaching the sublime to the shocking bestiary and enigmatic and sinuous forms of the Gaudí architecture, to the intriguing octagonal design of the blocks of the Eixample designed by the franc-masón Ildefonso Cerdá. It is no possible to deny the arguments to support that Barcelona could seem hermetic for anyone.

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Jacques Léonard Barcelona Gypsy

L’Arxiu Fotogràfic of Barcelona exhibits a selection of photographic works by Jacques Léonard entitled Barcelona Gypsy. In the framework of the exhibition, which will be on display until the 14^th of January 2012, the documentary Jacques Léonard, el payo Chac, directed by Yago Léonard  and produced by Curt Ficcions Pruduccions, will be also presented at the French Institute of Barcelona.

 

This important archive is organized with around 18,000 negatives, 3,000 of these are about the Gypsy community in Barcelona Spain ranging from the late fifties to mid-seventies. These images are a unique document about life and all kinds of activities that identify the Gypsy culture of those decades.

For 15 years the photographic archive remained in forgotten, despite its historical and aesthetic significance. This exhibition rescues the memory of that time, aculture and an artist whose life mission was seeking to make a segregated community visible forever.

Jacques Léonard was born in 1909 in Paris. Son of a wealthy family in the wine regions of Jurançon, he grew up in a 40 rooms house, among fine horses and haute couture fine Parisian silk workshops owned by his family. He was horse trainer movie film editor, photographer, writer, designer, dreamer and adventurer. There was no creative activity Léonard didn’t enjoy.

 

His love for Gypsy people started when he discovered that his father belonged to that community, although he kept it in secret and had fully assimilated into Frenchculture. Aware of the changes operating in the post-war European society that condemned the extinction of the nomadic gypsy culture, he began his works and moved to Barcelona.

 

There he fell in love with a gypsy woman who worked as a model for painters and lived in the barracks of Montjuic. Her name was Rosario Amaya and was famous for her beauty and expressiveness. It was a lightning love. He left all the comforts of his lifestyle and moved to barracks of Montjuic.

Dances, dirt roads, slums and cooking stoves are some of the issues that describe the life of the Gypsies from the post-war photography humanistic perspective, in which poverty and marginalization are topics that inspire many filmmakers and photographers.

The stories that decorate the Léonard´s archive reveal his character and his passion for life. From engaging to transfer people fleeing the Spanish Civil War through the uncertain routes in the Pyrenees, to being a spy during World War II and moved to Australia with a contortionist circus, are some of the stories that you’ll see in the documentary that gave life to this exhibition at L’Arxiu Fotogràfic of Barcelona.

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Daniela Ortiz exhibit in Barcelona

ACTE 20: ​​Daniela Ortiz, Black Round Table” is the presentation that  ​Zero Level of the Suñol Foundation in Barcelona Spain will exhibit. This project was the winner of the 3rd edition of the scholarship held annually in conjunction with the institution Can Xalant Creation Centre of Mataró.

 

What  Daniela Ortiz has done in her productión “Black Round Table” is a documentary which aims to make a utopia of what Gassama did, an important artist from Senegal who settled in Barcelona and goes from the concepts that existed in the forefront of  the Soviet Russia to modern architecture that currently exists in the West, this way Ortiz looks at the fragmentation, the instability and the location of objects of that time and she links them with today.

In the documentary you can watch and enjoy some of the most important art works that were made during the twentieth century. Among them are some of Le Corbusier, Miles van der Rohe and the Russian vanguard of El Lissitzky and Rodchenko. The criticism of “Black Round Table” is centered in Barcelona, ​​which is shown as a city taken as object of consumption and the story of Gassama, a Senegalese immigrant who set up  his workshop, which also functions as a home on Caputxes street in the Born neighborhood.

Gassama, beyond living in a society that has stunning urban buildings, continues to create his own structures, furniture and houses with his own hands, creating in this way, his own utopia.

Daniela Ortiz was born in Cuzco in 1985 and is only 25 years, little by little, she is finding her place in the world of art. She has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and held  several exhibitions in her  native Peru, Spain and the United States.

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Dansalona 2011 in Barcelona

Inaugurated not long ago, Dansalona has become one of the main international dance events in Barcelona Spain. This great cultural event will exhibit the best of the corporal movements accompanied by music and art as an expression of effort to share experiences in the universal language of dance.

The second edition of Dansalona has as its main objective to consolidate the festival as an artistic reference event in Europe, as well as attracting tourism that’s interested in international culture.

Referenced by the excellent results obtained in the first edition, this year the festival includes a wide range of presentations that will take over the theatres and various public spaces in the city. Dansalona is so popular tthat it will even be an integral part of traditional festivals such as the Gràcia Festival and the Sants Festival, which will take place in August.

This year, the festival has the fortune of having the backing of the Theatre Companies Association of Catalunya, ADETCA, who will perform the organisation of the events in the public spaces and theatres. The places that will become venues will be, among others, the Mercat de les Flors, Poble Espanyol and, of course, the Gran Teatre del Liceu.

With a series of works of renown artists both local and international, Dansalona offers a wide range of shows that include explorative works of cultural identity and lifestyles of today which are of global reach and that encompass classic and contemporary dance.

This festival is definitely one of the best activities this summer in the Catalan capital. So if you’re a fan or a professional of dance, you’ll enjoy observing the most aesthetic, passionate and sensitive movements or, if you just want to get out of your routine and go to a festival that will take your breath away, Dansalona is your best option. If you want, you can also bring your family, these shows are thought for young and not-so-young so there’s no excuse to miss out on this magnificent event, unique in its type.

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Bread & Butter 2009

Barcelona will once again host on 21st, 22nd and 23rd January the most important trade fair for street fashion and urban informal wear worldwide. Wednesday will open the season of autumn and winter with Bread & Butter and thousands of visitors from around the world will flock to the city to not miss out on the trendiest show at the moment. Many repeat their visit and it is the most important street and urban wear trade fair in this particular sector.

Read More about the B&B trade fair here: Apartments blog