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

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Vicente Ferrer organization, founded by a former Jesuit priest, has been working for over 50 years to better the condition of the “untouchable” class and other disenfranchised people in India. The foundation is based in Anantapur, a remote region in the Andra Pradesh region, devastated by constant drought. In that region, the most marginalized in Indian society live in the midst of a dry and rocky landscape.  Forty years ago in that rural, abandoned region, Vicente Ferrer dedicated himself to planning the “miracle seed,” as he termed it, giving the farmers their first rupees through microloans. Through these means, the first wells were built, crops were planted and the first businesses started. In 1969, before he received international awards such as the Prince Asturias prize, Ferrer wrote, “I’ve declared war on pain and suffering.” Those words help start a peaceful war that motivated millions of people.

The foundation has developed a colossal organization that today supports 2,278 villages and benefits 2.5 million people. Today, Anantapur has three hospitals, an HIV/AIDS center, and 11 rural clinics, more than 1,180 schools where 100% of the local children are enrolled, 21,000 homes for the poor and 1,000 homes for the disabled.

Foundation’s website (only in Spanish): www.fundacionvicenteferrer.org

Information in English: download PDF

RITA BLUE

Bohemia meets modernism at this chilled-out spot near the Ramblas. The funky, retro interior includes 50s-style lamps and lanterns hanging from low ceilings, a swish upstairs bar, and a dark basement dance floor that gets crowded later on for live acts during the week and house and techno sets on weekends. You might want to start off with a beer at a table on the terrace in the square first, before graduating to martinis or margaritas in the upstairs bar later. Food is pretty basic Mexican and Mediterranean fare but the great drinks will get you grooving. Rita is not too blue.

Placa Sant Augusti 3 , Barcelona, 8001
Telephone: +34 93 342 4086

More info: www.ritablue.com

CAFÉ DE L’OPERA

Another classic, with that afterglow of golden, olden days adding to its charm. Here girls hold hands with boys, or boys with boys, and it’s all very relaxed. The decor’s rather English but the atmosphere’s more like a siesta. No better place for people watching in the Ramblas.

La Rambla 74 , Barcelona
Telephone: (00 34 93) 317 7585

More info: www.cafeoperabcn.com

Bar LA FIRA

A fairground ride for dedicated revellers, the owner of this bizarre booze boutique brought the rusting scraps of a disused fun fair here piece-by-piece. Drinkers can gaze into distorting mirrors, try out the dodgems or roundabouts or have their fortunes read. Part fairytale, part Fellini, we say sit back on a swing, take a sip, and enjoy the ride.

C/Provença 171 , Barcelona

More info: www.lafiraclub.com

BAMBÚ LOUNGE

Bambú puts the ‘bar’ into Barcelona, for not only is it decorated to great effect in the Oriental style, it has cocktails for which you would sell your own grandmother. After midnight an atmosphere so electric it could light up a room. Bambú is the gathering place for Barcelona’s it crowd, staying open until the early hours. Arguably the foremost bar in the Gracia district of the city, here you can recline on low slung-sofas while sipping a perfectly mixed mojito, your ears gently massaged by the chillout music in which Bambú specialises. Proceedings tend to start a bit late in Spain, so wait till the witching hour to make an appearance

Vallfogona 23 , Barcelona, 08012
Telephone: +34 93 368 6883

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.

The Arc de Triomf, gate of entry to the Ciutadella.

The first act passed by the Parliament when it was created in 1980 declared September 11th as the Catalan National Day in the following terms: “(…) In times of struggle, the Catalan people used to mark a special day, the eleventh of September, as the National Day of Catalonia. A special day which, while representing the painful memories of the loss of liberties, on the eleventh of September 1714, and an attitude of struggle and active resistance to oppression, also embodied the hope of total recovery of its nationhood.

Catalonians celebrate their National Day with concerts, demonstrations and parades throughout Barcelona and hanging red-and-yellow striped Catalonian flags from their balconies. In the “Parque de la Ciudadela”, organisations and political parties make floral offerings to the monuments of Rafael Casanova and Josep Moragues. After that several artistic performances are offered to the public. (Taken from www.gencat.net).

at C/ Sants, 79  HowToGo

This year, twelve streets are presented to the Streets Decorations Contest.  During eight days, from Sunday to Saturday, there will be concerts, activities for the children, dances, sardanas, Havanan, foods, play, baths of foam and a long list of activities:

Mon 25 Aug: the prizes of the contest of decorations of the streets will be delivered and a dance of sardanas will be performed.

Tue 22 Aug:  Haze-Colors flamenco-fusion group

Wed 27 Aug: In the morning there will be a great childlike festival and the spectacle of animation Pugeu to the furgo, of the company of animation Vatua l’ Pot. In the afternoon the action of the Correfoc Childlike of the Guspires of Sants and when the night with the Correfoc of the Festa arrive Major of Sants 2008 in charge of the Diables of Sants. In the afternoon, you will be able to enjoy a new action of Pig the Cèlio, the Mut i the Noi of Ferreries that will present its spectacle is Not pot viure!.

Thu 28 Aug: Dani Thin, urban singer-songwriter

Fri 29 Aug: Moroccan group Amarg Fusion of Mediterranean music

Sat 30 Aug: The park will become a trail of circus with the company Circ Pànic

Sun 31 Aug: from 12hrs The Diada will be celebrated Castellera

Sun 6 Sep the Municipal Band, under the direction of Savior Brotons, will offer a concert.

(Taken from http://w3.bcn.es)

Botanic Garden of Barcelona (C/ Dr. Font i Quer, 2. Parc de Montjuïc) Tel. 93 426 49 35

Nov to Jan: from Mon to Sun 10am to 5pm
Feb, Mar & Oct: from Mon to Sun 10am to 6pm
Apr, May & Sep: from Mon to Sun 10am to 7pm
Jun, Jul & Aug: from Mon to Sun 10am to 8pm
Jan 1 & Dec 25: Closed
Admission: Normal: € 3,50

More info about special activities

The Botanical Garden of Barcelona collections contain representative samples of the plants that grow in the Mediterranean climate, a climate characterized by important seasonal variations, with hot, dry summers and mild winters, whilst rainfall is concentrated mainly in spring and summer.

The Mediterranean basin is not the only region in the world with a Mediterranean climate; indeed, there are several others, situated between latitude of 30º and 40º in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. These regions are: California, central Chile, southern South Africa and south and southwest Australia.

Itinerary

For more information see the Agenda

(Taken from www.jardibotanic.bcn.es)

May -Sep: Thu to Sunday from 9pm – 11pm
Oct- Apr: Fri & Sat from 7pm – 8:30pm.

at Font Màgica – Fonts de Montjuïc (Pl Carles Buïgas, 1-Sants-Montjuïc) Free admission

The Magic Fountain is one of the city’s most important landmarks. Carles Buigas was asked to design it for the International Exhibition of 1929. He had the innovative idea of giving the water movement and adding light, colour and sound.

He created the fountain as if it was a river at the foot of the Palau Nacional with raging waters racing down the mountain to reach the Magic Fountain before “dying” in the sea on Avinguda Maria Cristina.

Montjuïc’s Magic Fountain has a new show based on cinema music. The light and water of the fountain will “dance” to the rhythm of film soundtracks like ‘Chariots of Fire’, ‘The Godfather’, ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Jungle Book’

(Taken from http://w3.bcn.es & www.youtube.com).