The Backpackers Hostel Blog

Until 30 Jun

The guitar and voice of Marcio Mello will start off the festival, sponsored by Voll Damm, at the Harlem Jazz Club. This year there are 80 concerts with 300 musicians in ten halls of the Barcelona district.

Highlights in the program of concerts include Matt Harding from the USA, and the Bulgarian group Romaní Chavé. But 96% of the musicians are Catalans, including Joan Pau Cumelles with his Blues Band and the composer and guitarist Joan Vinyals, also from Barcelona, and his Delta Power Trio. (Taken from http://w3.bcn.es).

Program

Until Tue 6 May

At CCCB (Montalegre, 5) and Renoir Cinema -Florida Blanca ( Floridablanca, 135)

More info (In Spanish language)

The fourth Exhibition of European Cinema arrives at the CCCB and Renoir cinemas, with directors such as Olivier Assayas, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Ferzan Ozpetek, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Erik Bullot, Stephen Dwoskin, Nicolas Klotz, Romuald Karmakar and Barbet Schroeder.

Over nine days you can sit and debate with experts and watch films including the latest from Albert Serra, El cant dels ocells, which premieres in Spain; the retrospective of Arnaud Desplechin and experience the new European cinema formats.  (Taken from http://w3.bcn.es)

Until Sun 31 Aug

Palau de la Virreina – La Virreina Centre de la Imatge – Espai Xavier Miserachs (C/La Rambla, 99) Free admission

Tue – Fri: 11am – 2pm & 4pm – 8:30pm / Sat: 11am – 8:30pm / Sun & festive: 11am – 3pm

27 years, 8 months, 14 days is the prison sentence that was given to a women charged for killing her husband, and it is the name that Vida Yovanovich choose for this exhibition.

Vida Yovanovich, Mexican photographer, brings us portraits of women who are confronting a new period: prison, a cycle which began because they had taken the lives of their partners. Once again she invites us to stop to look at and listen to women who have been almost nullified by society.

She also asks us how long these women should pay for the person that took life away from them, and how long is needed to heal the wounds sustained along the way. (Taken from www.adn.es and www.bcn.cat)