SubjectCulture and leisure
Summer in Barcelona is equated with the Festival Grec
Summer is the time for festivals, street art and beach concerts. For street festivals and outdoor activities. In Barcelona, the summer performing arts scene...
Women in the audiovisual industry. Flash in the pan or rising trend
The number of female filmmakers has been burgeoning in the past few years. The presence of female directors, screenwriters, producers, and so on, is growing...
“We must take responsibility for changing so that the world changes too”
Elvira Dyangani Ose
Photographers claim that some people make the camera fall in love. If that’s true, Elvira Dyangani Ose is one of those people. Those in high-ranking positions...
The year of the buffalo never ends
Javier Pérez Andújar’s latest novel, El año del Búfalo [The Year of the Buffalo], is an astronomical novel because it is the work of someone who has...
Two (hidden) artists behind a machine
The extraordinary work and cultural life of Ricard Giralt Miracle and Enric Tormo take centre stage in two books that recognise their contributions as...
Vestits Lali clothes shop
Remei and Maria were born two years apart, one in Gràcia, the other in Horta. Their paths would probably have run in parallel, without ever crossing,...
‘Most architects are not the elite or complicit in property speculation’
Carme Pinós
Carme Pinós is a truly trail-blazing architect. In 1991, she founded her own practice in a field where women were the exception, and after countless obstacles and...
‘The ones learning the most aren’t the actors with a disability, but rather the audience’
Clàudia Cedó
Clàudia Cedó’s (Banyoles, 1983) relationship with the city of Barcelona can be traced by mapping out the theatres where her plays have been premièred. This playwright...
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