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Thu 4 Sep 08

9pm at L’Auditori, Hall 1 Pau Casals ( Lepant, 150)  30€  Buy tickets

After many years in the business, Moncho is returning to his roots, accompanied on his new album by a number of artists who confess to having listened to him ever since they were kids.

To them all (Lolita, Diego el Cigala, Josemi Carmona, Niña Pastori, Tomatito, etc.) MONCHO is Tío MONCHO. At the Auditori, a great show surrounded by top-flight musicians, the artist will recover the fusion of which he was a pioneer when, as a precursor of Catalan rumba, he sang flamenco and melodic song with Cuban airs and jazz tendencies.  (Taken from www.auditori.org).

Until Sun 2 Nov 08

Tue to Sun from 11am to 8pm / Thu 11 am to 10 pm / Closed on non-holiday at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona CCCB ( Montalegre, 5)  Mon 4,5€

This exhibition offers an itinerary through Ballard’s creative universe: his times and obsessions, his dissection of the secret keys of the contemporary, the traces of his own life in his fictional body of work, his artistic and literary referents, and his precise, disenchanted intuitions of a future life governed by the concepts of aseptic dystopia and disaster.

Ballard’s work represents an open-ended body of work that still has many revelations in store for his readers and the capacity to throw light on the course of our future. An author with an enormous influence on later generations of creators in all disciplines, from fantasy cinema to industrial music, Ballard is the author, among many other works, of The Empire of the Sun and Crash, adapted for the cinema by Spielberg and David Cronenberg, respectively. (Taken from www.cccb.org)

Until Thu 28 Aug 08

10pm at  Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona CCCB ( Montalegre, 5)  Free admission

Gandules 08 looks at the theme of interculturality, taking as its starting point an essential film principle: the viewpoint. In the form of fiction, essay and documentary, the films shown during Gandules 08 present works from the West and beyond which deal with two major themes that question the point of view: journeys that lead to another culture and situations of coexisting cultures in a single place.

Gandules 08 extends this year to provide a space for creation, inviting four young film makers to make a short film that dialogue with the programme.  (Taken from www.cccb.org).

See programme