Category Archives: Cultural Activity

What’s On in Barcelona Autumn 2012


Autumn is always an event-ful time in Barcelona for concerts , exhibitions  and shows so we’ve rounded up some of the best around town…

For 44 years Barcelona has played host to an increasingly popular annual jazz festival. This year the music gets going  on 30th October until 30th November in venues across town. Once again, there is a great line-up with performances from the likes of Sonny Rollins, Melody Gardot, Samantha de Siena and the Buena Vista Social Club Orchestra. You need to buy individual tickets for each event – there is not one ticket that covers the whole event. Venues vary from the grand Palau de la Musica to small smoky bars like Jamboree and Harlem Jazz Club.
For more information go to Barcelona Jazz Festival

The Liceu Theatre offers some enticing opera and ballet in the run-up to Christmas including the Barber of Seville and The Nutcracker. For tickets go to
www.liceubarcelona.cat

Japanese cooking is the star of this year’s edition of the Manga Fair which is moving to Barcelona for the first time.  From 1st  to 4th November, the Palau 2 of the Fira de Barcelona in Montjuïc will be the venue for this gathering, renowned in the world of Manga (Japanese comics) and anime (Japanese animation). The main reason why the fair has abandoned its usual venue in Hospitalet de Llobregat is the need to cater for the increasing number of visitors. For more information go to Manga festival Barcelona

The exhibition “Explosion! The Legacy of Jackson Pollock” is on at the Fundació Miró until mid February and explores the North American artist’s influence on action painting and performance art. The exhibition explores his influence, which has been felt in areas like action painting and performance through the work of numerous artists, including Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman and Yves Klein. Joan Miro exhibitions

Over a hundred of the New York Times Magazine’s published pictures, by photographers such as Sebastião Salgado, Nan Goldin and Lee Friedlander can be seen in an exhibition at Palau Robert, representing thirty years of the magazine’s history. Genres include photojournalism, fashion reporting and conceptual photography. Until 2nd December. New York Times Magazine exhibition

In the world of sport you can catch the ‘Freestyle Masters’ of Barcelona – basically acrobatics from the expert riders of Supercross. On at the Palau San Jordi.  And finally, concerts this autumn include Diana Krall at the Auditori, Skink Anansie at Razzmatazz and  Patti Smith at the Palau de La Musica.

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Costa Brava Properties and the Mysterious Landscape

The latest pride of the Dali Theatre-Museum in the northern Spanish town of Figueres, Landscape with Mysterious Elements, is now on exhibition, and makes a perfect stop-off when viewing Costa Brava properties. Purchased for close to 8 million Euros, the 1934 work by the world’s most recognized surrealist painter, Salvador Dali, is now displayed as part of the museum’s permanent collection.

The purchase is a coup for the museum, which is dedicated to promoting Dali’s works and his impact on the world art stage. In negotiations since 2004, the Museum was finally able to convince the previous owners that the painting would be better appreciated by a worldwide audience and more easily preserved in the pristine environment of the museum, rather than continue in the hands of the private collector.

Figueres is a northern town slightly inland from Spain’s stunning Costa Brava coastline, and makes a great rest point when inspecting the properties Costa Brava has to offer.

Costa Brava is expected to have a strong tourist season this year, as Spain continues to receive a surge in visitor numbers throughout the summer. This will bring holidaymakers to the area who are also interested in viewing the properties Costa Brava has available for sale, while travelling around the scenic landscape or when settling in to their holiday accommodation along the northern Spanish coast. Since the start of the year, airport passenger arrivals have been up by 20%, and this area is forecasted to see a sustained tourist increase of between 5 and 10% throughout the summer months.

Costa Brava properties home of Dali's museum

Viewing a new Dali acquisition makes an excellent sidetrip when inspecting Costa Brava properties

Landscape with Mysterious Elements is one of two significant works purchased by the Foundation this year, and will be on exhibition with the gallery’s other most recent acquisition, Study for ‘Honey is Sweeter than Blood’.

 

The Dali Theatre-Muesum makes a perfect excursion when holidaying in the area. There are also night exhibition opening hours throughout August. Visitors are encouraged to beat the queues and arrive early. If you are staying in the area while inspecting Costa Brava properties, a half-day at the Museum makes an excellent sidetrip and by arriving first thing, you can enjoy all that the Museum has to offer without the pressure of crowds limiting your viewing.

New Exhibition in Barcelona; ‘Haiti. 34 Seconds Later’

When here this Spring in Barcelona, immerse yourself in the truth about the Haiti earthquake first hand. Read some real life stories, see some hard hitting images and experience extra impact with the earthquake simulator; all at the CaixaForum until the 12th June this year. ‘Haiti. 34 Seconds Later’ really is worth seeing to learn more about what really happened and opening our eyes to this disaster that occurred just over a year ago, January 12th 2010.

Recently, tides have turned away from the effects of this Haiti disaster, with the overwhelming occurrence of the more recent natural disaster in Japan as well as the hard hitting conflicts in the Arab countries. Meanwhile, people are still attempting to live their lives in Haiti; continue to ‘live as normal’….as they previously knew it; although, this is impossible to perceive.

So why not make time to visit this exhibition when you are here in Barcelona and see the exhibition with photos from Emilio Morenatti and Marta Ramoneda taken between June and October last year; of those attempting to continue with their daily lives in Haiti.

From 23/03/2011 to 12/06/2011 at CaixaForum Centre Social i Cultural Av Francesc Ferrer Guàrdia, 6 Sants-Montjuïc.