Liber 2010

The leading event for the Spanish-language publishing industry

Wednesday 29 September to Friday 1 October 2010

La cursa de la Merce 10km run

Event Date: Sunday 19th September 2010 – from around 09.00 to 12.00

The Cursa de la Merce is a popular 10 km fun run running event in Barcelona, which is part of the annual La Merce festival of Barcelona. About 10.000 runners are expected to take part in 2010.  The Cursa also features 2k route for disabled athletes. Runners can register online online until 20.00 on 13th September. (registration is in Catalan but you can use Google Translate for English version) In the weeks before the Cursa de Merce you will also be able to register at various locations in Barcelona. Cost 5 euro with chip or 8 euros without chip
Registration details here

La Cursa de La Merce Route 2010 – see map of route
START: Avda. de Rius i Taulet – C. de Lleida – c. Tamarit – c. d’Entença – Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes – c. de la Marina – c. d’Ausiàs Marc – pl. d’Urquinaona – rda. De Sant Pere – pl. de Catalunya – rda. De la Universitat – pl. de la Universitat – rda. De Sant Antoni – c. de Sepúlveda – av. del Paral•lel (costat Besòs) – av. del Paral•lel (costat Llobregat) – pl. d’Espanya – FINISH: Avda. Reina María Cristina

From: www.barcelonayellow.com

Les festes de la Mercé

Thursday 23rd September to Sunday 26th September 2010

La Mercè Festival 2010 Barcelona takes place from Thursday 23rd September to Monday 27th September in 2010. The Merce is the biggest festival of the year in Barcelona.

You can see the top Merce events, highlights, practical info and links *here 

*Please take note that details of 2010 programme will be available at the beginning of September

LADY GAGA in Barcelona

THE MONSTER BALL TOUR COMES TO SPAIN!!!

DATE: DECEMBER, 7, 2010.

PLACE: PALAU SANT JORDI.

HOUR: 09:30PM.

LOCATION: BARCELONA (SPAIN).

BUY TICKETS HERE

SHAKIRA in Barcelona

Live in Concert Tour!

Whenever, wherever, Shakira has quickly become the unofficial ambassador for her home country, representing all the good things Columbia stands for: great music, great dancing, and lovely women. Her first English album Laundry Service marked her international breakthrough in 2002 and has been a celebrated artist ever since. Fans are always fighting for tickets for a spectacular Shakira concert, which means that you have got to get your Shakira tickets quickly! Famous for her spectacular belly dancing, Shakira’s hips certainly don’t lie.

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www.shakira.com

Supertramp in Barcelona

Supertramp has announced their 70-10 TOUR, celebrating forty years since the release of their first album, “Supertramp”, in 1970.  Joining Supertramp’s founder, lead singer and keyboardist, Rick Davies, are legendary Supertramp members John Anthony Helliwell, saxophones and woodwinds, and Bob Siebenberg, drums. Veterans of past Supertramp tours, Jesse Siebenberg, lead vocals, guitars and percussion, Cliff Hugo, bass, Carl Verheyen, guitars and Lee Thornburg, horns, will round out the lineup.

Rick Davies, along with set and lighting designer, Michael Brian Duncan, is developing a new stage production that will provide the audience with a total Supertramp experience, a delight for both the eyes and ears. Rehearsals are currently underway in New York and during the two hour plus show the band will perform a plethora of classics from their forty year history, including Bloody Well Right, Dreamer, From Now On, Goodbye Stranger, The Logical Song, Rudy and many, many more.

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More info: www.supertramp.com

U18: ALL TIME LOW

All Time Low is a pop-punk band. They formed in 2003, in Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland. The band’s lead singer and guitarist is Alex Gaskarth. The other band members are guitarist Jack Barakat, bassist Zack Merrick, and drummer Rian Dawson. The band signed to Emerald Moon Records in 2004, and released their first album, called The Party Scene, in 2005. They signed to Hopeless Records in 2006, and released their second album, So Wrong, It’s Right, in 2007. The bands newest album, called Nothing Personal, was released on July 7, 2009

Where: Sala Apolo  Cost: 23€
Tickets: Fnac, Carrefour, Halcón Viajes, www.ticketmaster.es (902.15.00.25), www.servicaixa.com

U18: www.u18.es
All Time Low: www.myspace.com/alltimelo…

VIDEOARTE INDIA

A selection of Indian artists portray their homeland through short film in this exhibition at CaixaForum.

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Date & Time Wed, Jun 02, 2010 to Sat, Oct 02, 2010
Mon–Sun 10am–8pm.

Phone 93 476 86 00

Price Free

40 EL MUSICAL

The veteran radio station Los 40 Principales inspires a very successful musical of the last forty years, written by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo

Premiere on September 9th!

Musical inspired by the veteran radio station Los 40 Principales, which loads on their backs over forty years of history. The argument of ’40 The musical ‘revolves around the adventures and misadventures of a group of young people whose friendship is tested when faced with conflicts of maturity. Issuing a radioblog by one of the actors adds chaos and confusion to the situation. On this occasion, the libretto of the show has gone to the screenwriter and film director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo (DarkBlueAlmostBlack and Fat), which defines the assembly as the story of a group of twentysomethings to which it is time to leave and enter the fantasy in reality. A reality for which none of them is ready. The musical features songs that have well-knownmarked the lives of several generations, ‘Let Me’ by The Secret, ‘Heart departed’ by Alejandro Sanz, or ‘The Girl From Yesterday’ by Nacha Pop Its makers have had to choose between more than 2,200 numbers a who had the list of the 40 since its inception in 1966. The show is designed for those people who at some point in their life heard the 40 and made his radio soundtrack of memories. But, although it includes a radio program, is a musical about the radio. The show features the artistic director of the actor and singer Miquel Fernandez, a tanned man in the musical, which starred in ‘We Will Rock You’, ‘Today I can not lift’ or ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’. In the large cast of actors and dancers include Pablo Puyol (star of One step forward and musicals such as Beauty and The Beast), Adrián Lastra (Today I can not lift) and Susan Martin (Jesus Christ Superstar).

Where: TEATRE VICTORIA av. Paral.lel, 67 – 69

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Tossa de Mar Old Town

Tossa de Mar, in the Selva region, has one of the most important mediaeval city walls on the Costa Brava.

In 1931, the Vila Vella of Tossa was declared a National Historical-Artistic Monument. The city walls in the Cape of Tossa are currently the only example of a fortified mediaeval town that still remains on the Catalan coast. The beauty of its beaches and its artistic and cultural heritage have made this place a must for tourists.

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