The Backpackers Hostel Blog

Fri 4 Apr - Sun 18 May

Fundació Joan Miró (Av Miramar, 1 - Sants-Montjuïc)

Tue - Sat 10am - 7pm (Oct-Jun). 10am - 8pm (Jul-Sep). Thu 10am - 9:30
Sun and public holidays 10am - 2:30pm. Mon (except public holidays) Closed.
General ticket: adults: € 8. Reduced rate: € 6 /Temporary exhibitions: adults € 4. Reduced rate € 3 / Espai 13 € 2,5

The young Japanese today are characterized by their extravagant dress or by their dreams of obtaining luxury articles, as part of a search for identity. Tomoko Sawada, one of the most innovative and talented artists of her generation, questions this phenomenon with its infinite metamorphoses in the series of photographs in which she gets inside the skin of hundreds of Japanese girls.

The work of Tomoko Sawada (Kobe, 1977) is open to a number of sociological and psychological interpretations. The way her lens captures dozens of Japanese girls and women of different ages and social classes raises in the most natural way the question of the place occupied by Japanese females in society, the possibilities that each one has of achieving an individual identity, and the way in which dress can help to individualize them or, on the contrary, confirm their membership of a group. (Taken from http://www.bcn.fjmiro.cat/)

Sun 13, 20 & 27 Apr

12 h at Teatre Nacional de Catalunya - Sala petita (Pl Arts, 1) 12€

Magic, imagination and shadows. These are the three elements the Barcelona illusionist Sergi Buka combines in Umbra.

The show will surprise the audience, with the battle between the magician and Jean Claude Lavache. A duel of appearances and disappearances, of surprises, to confuse, reaching the point where it is difficult to decide what is real and what imaginary.

Fri 25 Apr

9:30pm at Palau de la Música Catalana ( c/ Palau de la Música, 4 - 6) Buy tickets

The Triple Concerto for piano, violin, cello and orchestra by Beethoven is considered one of his ‘ minor’s masterpieces .

It was composed between 1803 and 1804, coinciding in time with the creation of works such as the symphony ‘Heroic’, and the piano sonatas’ Waldstein ‘and’ Appassionata ‘.