The Backpackers Hostel Blog

Until 24 Sep

Mon - Wed 11am-8:00pm; Thu & Fri 11am - 12am; Sat 10:00am-8pm, Sun and holidays 10am-3pm at MACBA (Plaça dels Angels, 1 -Raval) 4€

Until 2 Aug 08

At The Gracia Arts Project (Carrer Sant Honorat 11) Free admission

The Gracia Arts Project has brought together six European photographers to celebrate its one year anniversary as an international association of artists.

A collaborative exhibition of the artists’ work entitled “Integración”.

(Taken from www.graciaartsproject.com)

Until Sun 31 May 09

At CosmoCaixa Barcelona (C/ Isaac Newton, 26) Free admission

Tue - Sun & Mon (Holiday) from 10am - 8pm / Summer (23 Jun - 14 Sep) Mon - Sun from 10am - 8pm

What have in common a lobster, a car and a bubble of champagne? And two chairs with two hands and two feet? The family of numbers has accompanied us since the primitive epoch and even nowadays it is here to the service of our progress.

Along five millenniums there has been arising different families of numbers, in order to resolve problems that required an increasing creativity: the natural numbers, the whole numbers, the rational numbers, the real numbers and the complex numbers.

The numerical development has permitted to count, to order, to situate, to compare, to distribute, to calculate, to codify… and to have a language that nowadays turns out to be essential, so much for the everyday life as for the development of the science and the technique. (Taken from http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es).

Thu 18 Sep 08 - Sun 22 Feb 09

At Museu d’Història de Barcelona (Plaza del Rey, s/n)

This exposition intends to explain the origin of “chabolas” in the “Sorromostro” neighbourhood” and its development, along the 20th century, the process of the “informal” growth of the city, in conflict with the urban planning.

More than 150 photographs, paintings, urban maps and other documents showing the old “Somorrostro” “chabola” neighbourhood between the “Barceloneta” beach and “Poblenou”; and also to remember the families that used to live there. (Taken from www.museuhistoria.bcn.cat & http://w3.bcn.es)

July and August

Wed until 11pm / Tue until 10pm at Caixa Forum (Av. Marques de Comillas, 6-8)

Concerts, Scenic Arts and Poetic Recitals, Cinema, Multimedia Performances

Tríada (Bulgarian Voices: Valya Petrova, Boryanka Dimitrova, Elena Aleksieva; Pulshar, La muerte y la primavera (Teather), EEDL (electronic music), Branquicefalias mistéricas, Ni Romeo ni Julieta, Barco de arena (Scenic Art), Sitjazz Band, Digital China (Audiovisual Thematic Concert), Los libros arden mal (tango novel), Zaharregia, txikiegia agian / Una manera de mirar (poetry and music), Binomis (Down-tempo experimental electronic + Balago Dance & Erre que Erre, Asíkides (greek music), Divine Gospel Reunion, A paso de Rosalía de Castro (poetry), Carta de una mujer desconocida (Letter from an unknown women Xu Jinglei, China, 2004, 94 min, Movie in VOSE), One Woman Blues & Swing Show, Sforzinda (Flute concert), Flamenco (Mercedes Cortés/voice, Jordi Flores/guitarra; Jesús Flores & “el Nano”/palms), Institut FATIMA (Multimedia Spectacle), December Quintet, Sunflower Zhang Yang, China, 2005, 131 min, VOSE (Movie), The Baghdad Ensemble (Classic Music from the Middle East), Fernando Lagreca (electronic pop), Vida (Poetic Recital), Ping-pong mongol Hao Ning, China, 2005, 107 min, VOSE (movie), Barbad (Classic Music from form Persia, tradicional Armenia and popular Magreb), A paso de Charles Baudelaire (Scenic art), Micro Music BCN (multimedia concert), La boda de Tuya Wang Quanan, China, 2006, 95 min, VOSE (movie), One Woman Blues & Swing Show, The Orient Express Orkestra (sefardi and klezmer music), edukando.org (electronic music), Pere Arquillué dice a Gabriel Ferrater (Scenic art).

(Taken from http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es).

See Program (just in Spanish language)

Until Sun 31 Aug 08

At Palau Robert (Pg de Gracia, 107) Mon - Sat 10am to 7pm Sun 10am to 2:30pm   Free Admission

This is a selection of more than 80 photographs about current affairs issues such as globalization, terrorism, climate change and immigration that were taken during the period 2000-2005. The name of the exhibition “Reuters: The State of the World”, it is dedicated to the 240 journalists who have died since 2000 while exercising their profession.

The photographs that make up this exhibition have been selected from an archive containing millions of pictures. All of them were taken by the 600 photographers who work for Reuters, the largest news agency in the world. These photographs were also used in the book with the same title as the exhibition that contains more than 500 photographs and news articles.

The exhibition is divided into five sections: Big Issues (which covers terrorism, natural disasters and migration), Patterns of Belief, Ways of Living, Power Politics and War and Conflict.

On their route through the exhibition, visitors will have the chance to see a video showing how Reuters’ photographers work and containing many other photos of great impact that could not possibly fit into the limited space of an exhibition but which were published in the book mentioned above. There will also be a screen where visitors can consult the images coming in to the Agency from any part of the world.

The exhibition has already been shown in France, China, Germany, England, United Arab Emirates, Belgium, Italy, Greece and Luxembourg.  (Taken from www20.gencat.cat)

Wed 2 - Fri 4 Jul, 2008

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).

Until Sun 21 Sep 08

Varanasi 2006

At Biblioteca Jaume Fuster (Pl Lesseps, 20) Free admission

Mon & Sat from 10am - 14pm & 4pm - 9pm
Tue to Fri from 10am - 9pm
Sun from 11am - 2pm

Toru Morimoto is a Japanese photographer who now lives in Barcelona, after working in Nairobi, New York and Abidjan. Morimoto, who specialises in photo reporting, has devoted himself to projects that deal with social problems.

A good example of this can be seen in his photographs of India, in an exhibition at the Jaume Fuster library that has been organised as part of the Barcelona Intercultural Dialogue. One of the photos on display won the Award of Excellence at the 2007 International Picture of the Year Awards. (Taken from www.torumorimoto.com & http://w3.bcn.es)

Until Sun 24 Aug 08

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

The work of Hannah Collins (London, 1956) is a reflection on the passage of time and on human presence. Her works are investigations that reveal an explicit social history, not far removed from news. Though interdisciplinary in nature, her work is based on photography (featuring works that are monumental in scale) and on experimental cinematography (with a film language that verges on the documentary and the staged scene). This exhibition, curated by David Campany, will be opened until the 24th of August. (Taken from http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/)

More info about the exhibition