This summer from the 17th until the 19th of June get electrified with one of the most important world advanced music and multimedia art festival. This year don’t miss performances by The Chemical Brothers, Roxy Music, Air, LCD Soundsystem, Plastikman, Jónsi, Dizzee Rascal, 2manydjs, Booka Shade, Hot Chip, Fuck Buttons, Aeroplane, King Midas Sound, Broadcast, The Sugarhill Gang, Matthew Herbert’s One Club, Flying Lotus, Pete Tong, Joy Orbison, Zomby, New Young Pony Club, Roska, Necro Deathmort, Mary Anne Hobbs, David M, John Talabot, Bradien, Speech Debelle, Emilio José, Uffie, Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu, Hudson Mohawke, Carte Blanche (DJ Mehdi & Riton), Nosaj Thing Visual Show, Delorean, The Pinker Tones, Noaipre, Sandwell District, bRUNA, Bomba Estéreo, Cora Novoa, Cluster, Mike Slott, Aufgang, bcn216 + Tristan Perich, Bflecha, The Slew featuring Kid Koala, Caspa feat. MC Rod Azlan, Eclair Fifi & John Computer, Machinedrum, Cabo San Roque & Orquestra Mecànica de la França Xica, American Men, The Blessings, Elektro Guzzi, Zigmat, dp-S, Lesley Flanigan, Post War Years, bcn216 + Cristian Vogel, Ricard Marxer & Oscar Sol: Japó, Robot Koch, Larytta, Round Table Knights, Goldielocks, Tim and Puma Mimi.

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From Saturday, May 15th at 16:30 until Sunday, May 16 at 11:30

Sunny Singh, the choreographer and dancer born in Mumbai, India, transmits the most authentic and original spirit of Bollywood, the film industry and Indian dance. With an experience of more than a decade in Bollywood film industry ..  Participation in over 53 films, several foreign productions in Hong Kong and London.  Also as an expert choreographer offers the most faithful style and sense of current and modern Bollywood dance. Currently in Spain has its own set of artistic, BAILAMOS BOLLYWOOD, teaching Bollywood dance classes to anyone who wishes.

Come and enjoy a Bollywood dance Class!!!

Where: Escuela de baile “asisebaila”  (Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes, 432)

More info: Ph. 687 93 17 87   www.asisebaila.com

Niu is a community that supports and helps artists flourish. Going beyond simply hosting exhibitions, concerts and workshops, the space offers creative services to companies and artists alike. They employ dancers, DJs, graffiti artists and others for parties and festivals and even help artists build their websites and create press releases.

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The Flamenco Festival of Ciutat Vella is a chance to enjoy the voices, dances, and guitars of both famous flamenco artists and emerging talents. The shows will take place from May 19 to 22 at the CCCB and Mercat de les Flors and is ideal for those who want to experience some of Spain´s most traditional dance and music. http://www.flamencociutatvella.com/

On 11 Mai you see in the street C / Hospital many stands with honey, herbs and spices, fruits, wines, herbs and other natural products. This is part of the celebrations of the Holy Sant Ponç, the patron saint of beekeepers and herbal specialists. The fair has been done for centuries. Its origins date to the 16th century, when in Spring herbalists took medicine to the sick. Today Sant Ponç fair is celebrated to preserve the antique customs.

It’s that time of year again! As Barcelona’s winter continues to fling a surprising array of nastiness at us, we’re already getting the occasional day that lets us dream of spring. And spring in Barcelona means one thing: the Primavera Sound festival. This year’s festival takes place from the 27th to the 29th of May, at the Parc del Fòrum.

This is the line up so far. It’s pretty much final, though a few more acts will likely be named. The big names so far appear to be The Charlatans, The Fall, Gary Numan, Orbital, Pet Shop Boys, Pixies, Wilco and Wire.

Confirmed artists: A Sunny Day In Glasgow, The Almighty Defenders, The Antlers, Apse, Atlas Sound, Beach House, Beak>, Ben Frost, Best Coast, The Big Pink, Bigott, Bis, Biscuit, Black Lips, Black Math Horseman, The Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77, The Books, Boy 8-Bit, Broken Social Scene, Built To Spill, The Bundles, Camarón: La Leyenda Del Tiempo 30 Años Después (Kiko Veneno, Duquende and Chicuelo amongst others), The Charlatans performing “Some Friendly”, Circulatory System, The Clean, CocoRosie, Cohete, Cold Cave, Condo Fucks, Crocodiles, Delorean, Diplo, Dr. Dog, The Drums, Dum Dum Girls, Emilio José, Endless Boogie, Fake Blood, The Fall, The Field, Florence + The Machine, Fuck Buttons, Ganglians, Gary Numan, Grizzly Bear, Half Foot Outside, HEALTH, Here We Go Magic, Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions, Japandroids, Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard, Joker featuring Nomad, Junip, The King Khan & BBQ Show, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Les Savy Fav, Lidia Damunt, Liquid Liquid, Low perfoming “The Great Destroyer”, Major Lazer, Marc Almond, Matt & Kim, Mission of Burma, Moderat, Monotonix, Mujeres, Nana Grizol, The New Pornographers, No Age, Nueva Vulcano, Orbital, Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy), Panda Bear, Pavement, Pet Shop Boys, Pixies, Polvo, The Psychic Paramount, Real Estate, Roddy Frame, Scout Niblett, Seefeel, Shellac, Sian Alice Group, Sic Alps, Sleigh Bells, The Slits, The Smith Westerns, Spoon, Standstill, Sunny Day Real Estate, Superchunk, Surfer Blood, Thee Oh Sees, Titus Andronicus, Tortoise, Ui, The Wave Pictures, Wilco, Wild Beasts, Wild Honey, Wire, The XX, Yeasayer.

TICKETS:

Next Sunday 21st of February is the last day to buy the full festival ticket at the price of 140€ (+ booking fee). From Monday the 22nd of February these tickets will cost 150€ (+ booking fee). The sales points are: Ticketmaster network (Tick Tack Ticket), Servicaixa, Atrapalo.com Spain, Atrapalo.com Italy, Codetickets, the CD Drome shops, Seetickets UK, Fnac France and through PayPal on the festival webpage.

Access to San Miguel Primavera Club / San Miguel Primavera Sound
http://primaverasound.com/

LISTEN TO THE FESTIVAL’S LINE-UP ON PRIMAVERA RADIO
http://www.scannerfm.com/player/player_only_primavera_v0.2.html

Teatro Romea presents a slightly different version of “sleeping Beauty”, performed by Santa Coloma de Gramane Ballet and under the direction of David Campos. He aimed to modernize the classical ballet story, turning it into a more contemporary and cinematic act. To achieve this visual effect, the director has used multimedia projections and virtual sets, making the characters in the story more vivid than ever.
Showing Times: Tues- Fri (incl. 7 Dec.)- 9pm, Saturdays- 6.30pm; 9.30pm, Sundays and Holidays- 6.30pm
Tickets: Teatro Romea. Ticket Office: http://www.telentrada.com/  Ph.902 10 12 12

Fortuny, el mag de Venècia (Fortuny, The Magician of Venice) spans the artistic career of Mariano Fortuny, one of the most creative and innovative figures of the first half of the twentieth century. Still unknown to the general public, he was a multidisciplinary artist ahead of his time.

Fortuny’s work contains items from arts as diverse as painting, etching, stage design, lighting, photography, textile design and fashion.

Where: Casa Milà-La Pedrera. Pg. Gràcia, 92

Contact Information: 902 400 973

Free entrance

With over 400 items, including photographs, film extracts and drawings, Federico Fellini. The Circus of Illusion reviews the creative process of one of cinema’s strangest imaginations, the director of films such as La Dolce Vita, 8 ½ and La Strada.

The exhibition is organised around typical Fellini themes, illustrating his obsession with women and religious symbolism and his interest in dreams and popular culture. Some unpublished documents are also on display, including the first colour stills from the shooting of 8 ½.

Where: CaixaForum Centre  (Av Francesc Ferrer Guàrdia, 6)

http://www.lacaixa.es/obrasocial 

Free entrance

Mon to Fri 9am – 2pm/Wed & Thu 4pm – 6pm at Archivo Histórico de Barcelona (Plaça de Pons i Clerch 2)

This exhibition is composed by sixty four photographs that shows the evolution of the mountain of Montjuic. The photographers responsible for the project were Rosin, Sagarra, Brangulí, Godes and de Rozas, taking more than seven thousand photographs capturing the transformation of the mountain between 1915 and 1923.

More info

(Taken from http://www.bcn.cat/arxiu)