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Thu 19, Fri 20, Sat 21 Jun

Program at CCCB - MACBA - SANTA MÒNICA - FIRA GRAN VIA - L’AUDITORI - PALAU DE LA MUSICA CATALANA Ticket info Buy tickets

Sónar is a three-day annual music festival held in Barcelona. It is described as a festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art (Concerts, Dj´s, SonarCinema, SonarMática, Sonarama, Conferences and Panels, Profesional and Editorial Fair).

‘Three days and three nights in touch with the most up-to-date developments and featuring the most relevant national and international artists.’

‘Sónar is the essential meeting point for an alert public, cutting-edge artists and the most influential professionals from the sectors of music and modern arts.’ (Taken from www.sonar.es and www.wikipedia.org)

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Until Sun 8 Jun

Mon-Sun from 10am to 8pm (Sat until 10pm) at CaixaForum (Av. Marquès de Comillas, 6). Free Admission

Jonathan Meese is a German painter and sculptor. He explores the idea of “carnival” through themes such as euphoria, collective chaos and wearing costumes to disconnect from reality.

Paintings, sculptures, text and a video performance titled Dracula’s Loly hot like El Dorado - cold all come together to create an atmosphere of fleeting freedom, like carnivals themselves. (Taken from www.cfa-berlin.com and http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es).

Until Sun 7 Sep

New York, 1989. © Bruce Gilden / Magnum Photos

From Tue - Sun from 11am to 8pm / Thu 11 am to 10pm / Mondays Closed at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (Montalegre 5) 4,4€ Buy tickets at CCCB ticket offices

Ten photographers from Magnum Photos evoke the influence of the cinema on their imaginary. The exhibition has invited photographers representing different generations and trends of documentary photography to each produce an original work, showing how the cinema can infiltrate their way of capturing reality. The resulting pieces, photographs or audiovisual installations, reveal how a filmmaker, a film or a single shot have left an imprint on their imaginary and their body of work. Transition, infiltration and superposition between the two worlds.

The ten photographers and the filmmakers or works that have inspired them are: · Abbas / Paisà (1946) by Roberto Rossellini · Antoine D’Agata · Bruce Gilden / American film noir · Harry Gruyaert / Michelangelo Antonioni · Gueorgui Pinkhassov / Andrei Tarkovsky · Gilles Peress / Repérages, by Alain Resnais · Mark Power / Camera Buff (1979) by Krzysztof Kieslowski · Alec Soth / Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit, 1976) by Wim Wenders · Donovan Wylie / Elephant (1989) by Alan Clarke · Patrick Zachmann / The cinema of Shanghai in the 1930’s. (Taken from http://www.cccb.org).

As an international specialist trade fair for Street and Urban Wear, BREAD & BUTTER BARCELONA represents a marketing and communication platform for brands, labels and designers from the areas of Denim, Sportswear, Street Fashion, Function Wear and Casual Dressed Up, as well as for suppliers from the preliminary stage of the textile industry.

All the brands, all the essential information, clearly arranged and compact in the BREAD & BUTTER Brand Bible Online! (Taken from http://www.breadandbutter.com).

Fri 11 Jul

9pm at Sala Razzmatazz (Almogavers, 122) 25 - 30€ Buy tickets

Duffy, is a British singer-songwriter. In 2003 and was invited to appear on Wawffactor, a Welsh television show similar to Pop Idol on local station S4C. She was expected to win, but came second to winner Lisa Pedrig.

She recorded a three-song-EP in Welsh in 2004 and also appeared on two tracks on the album See You in the Morning by Mint Royale. Owen Powell of Catatonia and Richard Parfitt of Newport band 60ft Dolls, introduced Duffy in August 2004 to former Public Image Ltd. member turned music manager and part-owner of Rough Trade Records, Jeanette Lee. Lee moved Duffy to Crouch End in London, and orchestrated a meeting between Duffy and Suede’s ex-guitar player Bernard Butler.

Contracted to A&M Records during 2007, together with another rising star, Adele, Duffy was the most prominent of the so-called “new Amys” (a reference to singer Amy Winehouse. On 21 April 2008 Duffy was at the top of the Pan-European Album chart for Rockferry and the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles chart for “Mercy”.  (Taken from http://www.iamduffy.com/ and www.wikipedia.org).