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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

From 02/03/2010 to 27/06/2010

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

 From 17/02/2010 to 13/06/2010

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

Until Fri 19 Sep 08

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)

Until Tue 30 Sep 08

Mon – Sat from 10am to 8pm. Sun 10am to 2pm

at Museu Egipci de Barcelona (Valencia, 284) 11€ Buy tickets at the museum

This exhibition has more than thirty sarcophagus, one mummie and other funerary pieces that belonged to five generations of priests of the Amon Temple. All pieces were found in the princes Jaemuaset and Setherjepeshef, sons of the Pharao Ramses III (dinasty XX).

Taken from (www.museuegipci.com)

Tue 16 – Wed 24 Sep 08

This is the 7th edition of the Asia Festival, this year is dedicated to India. During this time there will be more than fifty activities and shows in three different places: Ciutadella Park, Mercat de les Flors and CaixaForum.

More info

(Taken from www.casaasia.es)

Programme

9:30am – 9pm at L’Aquàrium de Barcelona (Moll d’Espanya del Port Vell) Adults 16,50; Kids 11,50; Seniors 13€  Buy tickets

In L’Aquàrium de Barcelona, as well as the tanks and the displays, you can enjoy the different services we offer you for your visit to be as pleasant as possible (cafeteria / self-service, L’Aquàrium shop, souvenir photo, the auditorium, etc).

The Oceanarium in Barcelona, the only one of its kind in Europe, is the largest tank and the one with the greatest number of species in L’Aquàrium de Barcelona.

It has a diameter of 36 metres and 5 metres in depth, it contains 4,500 m3 of water. Such diverse species are found as giltheads, morays, ocean sunfish, rays and two kinds of sharks: the sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus) and the sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), the true stars of L’Aquàrium.

(Taken from www.aquariumbcn.com)