2011
Spanish Cultural PrograM Spring Season
COVER BY ALEX TROCHUT Alex Trochut was born in 1981 in Barcelona. He studied Graphic Design at Elisava, and started working as a freelance designer and illustrator in 2007.
Alex Trochut’s illustrations, designs and typography take the modern notion of minimalism and flip it on its side. Trochut’s work philosophy is ‘More is more.’ It is rich with elegant, brilliantly detailed executions that simultaneously convey indulgence and careful, restrained control. Trochut is driven by a desire to constantly evolve which can be seen in his eclectic body of work. Renowned for his technically exquisite type creations and designs, Trochut attributes his special connection with typography to his grandfather Joan Trochut – a typographer and the creator of a modular typographic and ornament system built in the 40s. Alex Trochut´s clients include Nike, The Rolling Stones, Nixon, British Airways, Coca-Cola, The Guardian, Non Format, Wieden + Kennedy, Saatchi and Saatchi, BBH, Fallon, and Beautiful Decay. Trochut is based in Barcelona.
Promoting Spanish Culture in the U.S. is both a privilege and a challenge.
On one side, Spain is the homeland of centuries of artistic excellence, marked by such universal icons as Picasso, Goya, Cervantes and Lorca. Whereas on the other, Spain is one of the most vibrant scenes worldwide in contemporary creative fields such as fashion, cuisine, design and videogames. It is a place where new generations of young creators share a passion for creativity, elegance, and style, characteristics that helped our national team win the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
Thus, Spain is an old country with a young soul, where tradition and innovation interact freely with each other. The Spain, Arts &Culture 2011 program looks forward to bringing a taste of all that creativity, history and talent to the American public.
However long gone are the days when cultural promotion could be conceived just as a one sided endeavor. In this interconnected world of ours, culture is a fluid concept, constantly being reinvented through a never ending dialogue that extends well beyond national boundaries. In this context, we are particularly happy to be in collaboration with an ever growing list of prestigious American cultural institutions. We are confident that everyone will find something of personal interest in this exhaustive program. Enjoy!!
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Articles ////// • A Gem to be discovered • Juli Capella on Design and Architecture • Valerie Miles on Young Writers
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Highlights //// • Urban Culture • Design • Architecture • Visual Arts • Film • Heritage • Performing Arts • Literature • Sketching the future • Music
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City Agenda /// • Washington DC • New York • Texas • Los Angeles • Puerto Rico • Miami • Seattle • San Francisco • Boston • Chicago
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A GEM TO BE DISCO VERED A new Brand to SHOW the spanish arts and culture to the U.S.
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It was in 2008 when the Spain-USA Foundation along with the Embassy of Spain in Washington launched an annual program called ‘PreviewSpain, Arts & Culture’, to showcase Spain to the American public. The program included a wide range of activities related to Spanish art and culture, from its greatest classics and artistic legacy to its most contemporary works. The three past editions brought in a varying array of referents and creators of Spanish culture, mainly to Washington D.C. and its surrounding area.
Now, with three editions already produced, it is time to expand this successful program to all of the United States, taking advantage of the great work carried out by the Spanish consulates, the Cervantes Institutes and many other private and public institutions. With this new, more complete semiannual program, we launch a new brand that represents an entire country. It is an ‘umbrella brand’ which will bring the entire Spanish Culture closer to the American public. In 2010 the Barcelona based graphic design studio Toormix, was asked to create a new brand, using the name ‘Spain, Arts & Culture’ to reflect all the expressions of Spain, and convey the cultural variety of the country. Without doubt it was a difficult yet exciting assigment as there is much of Spain to talk about and summarizing all of that into one image is no easy task. Spain, Arts & Culture was conceived with the idea to be a universal brand for all Spanish Culture: a brand that is identified and recognized by everyone. It must be a brand that is capable of integrating the past with the present. For this concept we worked on what defines the history of Spain, on what identifies it, but also what differentiates it from the history of other nations. The imprint of the different cultures left throughout time: the Romans, Arabs, and Northern European tribes among others have shaped Spain’s history. It is much like nature, when the Earth takes ordinary minerals and turns them into precious gems over time. But just as Spain is a combination of living cultures, it is a stone that is continuously shaped and polished in different ways by the constant influences and the many creators that form it. An evolving stone, therefore, is the new symbol that helps us reach the United States from the other side of the Atlantic, a stone that moves, almost alive, that evolves constantly and shows new expressions with each step it takes. We present to you the new brand that represents Spanish culture. It is a gem that wants to be discovered and admired, because many engravers have worked on it and others continue to give it shape. There is much to be discovered. Ferran Mitjans & Oriol Armengou, Creatives of Toormix, designers of the new image
Š2009 Roland Halbe
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Urban Culture, DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, VISUAL ARTS, FILM, HERITAGE, MUSIC, LITERATURE, SKETCHING THE FUTURE, PERFORMING ARTS From Spain
Urban Culture Chicago & SEattle May
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NEW URBAN CULTURES ‘New Urban Cultures’ showcases the best examples in different disciplines of Spanish Contemporary Creativity in Chicago and Seattle.
When
May
Where
Cervantes Institute Chicago 31 W Ohio St. Chicago, IL 60654 MAP tinyurl.com/cervanteschicago +Info
www.chicago.cervantes.es OTHER LOCATIONS
Seattle > Venue to be announced
The ‘New Urban Cultures’ series brings an overview of the most dynamic expressions of modern urban culture of Spain to audiences in major cities around the world. After enjoying great success in Tokyo, Berlin and Seoul, the series this year will visit Chicago and Seattle. This year’s program will include a main exhibition on contemporary Spanish drawings ‘Nulla dies sine linea’. They are comprised of a selection of works by twenty-three different artists, conversations between architects and designers from Spain and the U.S., screenings of contemporary Spanish films, conversations among writers, Spanish animation screenings… Indeed, it is a wide and intensive series of activities that ilustrate the best examples of Spanish contemporary creativity.
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DESIGN Washington DC April-May
BRAVOS
Groundbreaking Spanish Design
An exhibition of design about the great new generation of the 21st Century Spanish Designers at American University Museum.
When
Thanks to BRAVOS, American audiences will be able to appreciate the latest works of some of the most talented and successful young Spanish designers. The exhibition features internationally renowned designers Jaime Hayón and Patricia Urquiola, experimental and cutting edge designers Curro Claret and Nacho Carbonell, and well-established designers such as Martín Azúa, Marti Guixé and Antoni Arola, among others. The works of these twenty-one designers, who come from all over Spain, display a remarkable diversity of styles and techniques, and represent the best product design work of the Spanish Design Boom. This important exhibition is curated by the great Spanish design expert, Juli Capella.
April 4 – May 15 Where
American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016 MAP tinyurl.com/katzenarts +Info
www.american.edu/cas/katzen OTHER LOCATIONS
Chicago > See on page 59 June 12 – August 30
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Architecture and Design in Spain Spain, an emerging creative power. An interview with Juli Capella We spoke with architect and designer Juli Capella, who is the curator of BRAVOS, an exhibition on contemporary design from Spain featured in this year’s Spain, Arts & Culture program, and one of the best experts on Spanish avant-garde architecture and design.
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Is Spain considered a creative country in terms of art? Which creative disciplines are the most prominent in Spain? Spain is a country that has one of the most brilliant art histories in the world. Spain’s painting reached its highest potential during the Golden Age (XVI-XVII), similar to that of Spanish literature, and is well-known through such artists as Velazquez, Goya, Picasso, Miró, Dalí, Tapies, and more recently Barceló. Spain has also a rich architectural heritage with its top rated Romantic, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque buildings. Concerning art nouveau (or modernism as it’s known in Spain) the figure of Antoni Gaudí is lauded as a universal icon at the beginning of the 20th century. But later, the Civil War (1936-39) cuts short the development of the promising rational and organized architectural movement. Two exiled Spaniards of renown are Josep Lluis Sert, who settled in Harvard, and Felix Candela, who traveled to Mexico and afterward settled in Chicago. Among those architects that stayed in Spain, the sober talent of Alejandro de la Sota or that of Jose Antonio Coderech are worth mentioning. What is Spain’s contemporary contribution to the arts? Since the recovery of democracy in 1976, Spain has experienced a creative boom in many areas, such as music, fashion, graphic design, furniture design, interior design of ‘bares’ (pubs) and stores, as well as architecture. The latter is now integrated into a new social urbanism that wants to give back to the people a public space with facilities, plazas, walkways and gardens.
What makes Spanish architecture unique? For one, a large amount of masterpieces were erected in a few years. Spain has experienced a real architectural boom from the mid 1990s until the recent crisis of 2007, with prominent world class works, mainly facilities, museums, auditoriums, hospitals. These are works designed not only by Spanish architects, but also by main international firms, Spain becomes a platform that generously
Moritzburg Museum Extension, Exterior view. Photo ©2009 Roland Halbe
The architects that stand out in this rebirth are people like Ricardo Bofil, Rafael Moneo, (Pritzker award) or engineer and architect Santiago Calatrava. Also, Enric Miralles, who entered the avantgarde international scene but was cut short due to his premature death in the year 2000. His work is continued today by his wife Benedetta Tagliabue.
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©Gas Natural Office Building - EMBT Arquitectes
welcomes main international firms. The Guggenheim of Bilbao by Fanck Gehry, was perhaps the most emblematic work, but also there are other prominent works by Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid, or Peter Eisenman that unveiled his most ambitious project in Galicia. It is important to mention the brilliant work of local architects such as Carlos Ferrater, Tuñón and Mansilla, RCR, or the experimental Ruiz Gelli. All this creative effervescence was noticed by MOMA, which in 2006 presented the exhibition ‘On site: New architecture in Spain’ that celebrated this unique creative phenomena. How can its main characteristics be defined today? It is like a mix of quiet expressionism with a certain conceptual radicalism, but without ever losing its practicality. They are pieces with social desire that innovate aesthetically, but are not often strident living structures. Clearly, there are many different attitudes that coexist, a certain deconstructivism, and elegant neorationalism, or even an eco-high-tech experimentalism, but never losing functionality while at the same time giving form and beauty to the city. Does Spanish design really exist? Spanish design does exist and has a strong presence, but it’s still not well known. When people discover it, they are surprised by its innovation and ingenuity. The problem is that Spain is lumped together with a general image of Europe where great styles of other countries already exist and dominate the world view. Such countries like Italy, the Nordic countries and Holland. Few people know that Spain is an economic power in the production of furniture design and has excellent lighting fixtures that are sold all over the world. Also, our street furniture reaches a high level of excellence. Spain is a country that promotes a life of outdoors and open space and, like few nations, we take care of public areas. In Spain the street and the ‘plazas’ (squares) are for everyone, not simply leftover spaces of urban areas. Spain has a noteworthy design industry as well as high quality interior design, especially in the ‘bares’ (pubs) and shops. Also with great potential is Spain’s fashion and accessory design industry such as footwear (Camper), jewellery and even graphic and editorial design.
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What characterizes this design? It’s impossible to define it clearly because it resonates with so many styles around the world. At the forefront we have the generation of masters that have known to give ‘character and shape’ to their works. These are the classic artists such as Ricard, Milá o Tusquets. Also, there are other creative professionals that have known how to design commercial works, conceived for a minor industry like that of Spain, using less than state of the art technology, but with great imagination and genius. Such people include Pensi, Lluscà, Liévore, and Arola. Another figure that breaks from the norm is Javier Mariscal, who makes furniture, paintings, comics and movies. We also have a healthy array of experimental youth that work in political design, ecodesign, and are searching for new participatory designs, more suitable for the 21st century. Spanish design is internationally defined as lively, daring, simple, fun. It is a style that abounds in gestural and organic tendencies and knows how to use (like few countries do) the power of color. Who has been behind Spain’s emerging success in design? Jaime Hayón has stood out from the beginning. He has achieved great international renown through his peculiar creative universe which mixes glamour and revival. Another great designer that stands out is Patricia Urquiola, a Spaniard living in Milán with excellent taste. People that are more conceptual include Martí Guixé, or avante garde artists like Martín Azua, Elimiana, Curro Claret or Hector Serrano. Other groups that have emerged onto the scene are Último Grito, Cul de Sac or La Granja. Another new trend that is emerging is art-design, where Nacho Carbonell is growing in importance.
ARCHITECTURE Washington DC March
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SPOTLIGHT ON DESIGN
NIETO/SOBEJANO LECTURE Barceló Temporary Market, View from the air. Photo ©2009 Roland Halbe
These great architects will lecture on their work and ideas about architecture in the prestigious series Spotlight on Design.
Spain’s architecture will be featured this year again at the prestigious lecture series Spotlight on Design. Distinguished Spanish architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano will discuss past and future works at the National Building Museum in collaboration with Virginia Tech.
When
March 22 / 6:30 – 8:00 PM Where
National Building Museum 401 F Street Northwest, Washington D.C., DC 20001 MAP tinyurl.com/nationalBM +Info
www.nbm.org
In the last two decades, Nieto-Sobejano Architects have gained international recognition through their work which represents some of the best examples of Spanish contemporary architecture. Nieto-Sobejano participated among other great Spanish architects at the legendary exhibition On Site: New Architecture in Spain, MoMA 2006, as well as at the Biennale di Venezia 2000, 2002 and 2006. They have worked extensively in Europe, and lectured in the best schools of architecture all over the world. They have won multiple prizes and awards including their most recent achievement the 2010 Aga Kahn Award for Architecture with the Madinat Al Zahra Museum in Cordoba, Spain.
In collaboration with The National Building Museum and Virginia Tech
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ARCHITECTURE CHICAGO March/April
YAS: YOUNG ARCHITECTS OF SPAIN
YAS shows the best new architects from Spain following the steps of the great Spanish contemporary architecture tradition.
In the last decades, Spain has become known as an international center for design innovation and excellence in architecture. The exhibition Young Architects of Spain. A Window to the Unknown (YAS) shows the extraordinary quality of work by a new generation of young Spanish architects. The rigor of the construction of their buildings and their sensitivity to the surrounding environment are both common concerns found in the over sixty projects that were selected by an international jury made up of prestigious architects and critics (Kenneth Frampton, Alberto Campo Baeza and Juhani Pallasmaa, among others).
When
March 24 – April 17 Where
Cervantes Institute Chicago 31 W Ohio St. Chicago, IL 60654 MAP tinyurl.com/cervanteschicago +Info
www.chicago.cervantes.es
VISUAL ARTS PUERTO RICO January-March
An exhibition of contemporary art by eight avant-garde young artists who work with different media and different concerns. When
January – March Where
Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española Calle La Puntilla, 3, Viejo San Juan, 00901 MAP tinyurl.com/arsenalPR +Info
www.icp.gobierno.pr
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SPANISH YOUNG ART: THE NEW GENERATION Through the work of eight promising young artists, Spanish Young Art: The New Generation provides a fresh new vision of Spanish contemporary art with a selection of works in different mediums such as videos, photographs, paintings, drawings and industrial design. The result is an excepcional exhibition which captures the essence of today’s contemporary Spanish art scene.
The exhibition features the works of artists such as Javier Arce, Cristina Cañas, Óscar Carrasco, Carles Congost, Ángel Hernández Tuset, Cristina Lucas, Pablo Pérez Sanmartín and Fernando Sanchéz Castillo.
Sponsored by BBVA Compass Bank, Fotofest, the Embassy of Spain in Washington and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs In collaboration with Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
E.CO
VISUAL ARTS Washington dc June – August
© Supay Fotos, Perú
In the exhibit E.CO different European and LatinAmerican photographic collectives show their concerns about environmental problems. When
June 4 – August 14 Where
American University Museum/ Katzen Arts Center 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 2001 MAP tinyurl.com/katzenarts Seminar
National Geographic Society 1145 17th St N.W. Washington D.C., Washington 20036 MAP tinyurl.com/ngsdc +Info
www.fotoeco.es/blog
By using the environment, the photographic exhibition E.CO demonstrates the relevance of the collective photographic phenomenon, presented through the work of 20 major Latin American and European groups. Each group freely chose the topics and locations of their respective projects. Thus, the exhibition will be a sample of the most pressing environmental issues in the different countries where the photographic groups are operating. At the same time, it also sheds light on the peculiarities of teamwork and new modes of representation. Each screening will be followed by a seminar with some of the photographers.
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JAUME PLENSA ECHO Madison Square Park Conservancy has invited Spanish artist Jaume Plensa to install his monumental work ‘Echo’, a monolith over 13 m. (42.65 feet) tall, in the Central Oval Lawn in Madison Square Park. The sculpture, which depicts a 9 year old girl´s dreamy face, was inspired by the daughter of a Barcelona restaurant owner who lived near Plensa’s home. The piece derives its name from the Greek nymph Echo who could only reflect the thoughts of others. This massive scultupture in turn is meant to reflect the thoughts of all those who encounter the sculpture.
THE AMSTER YARD
The Cervantes Institute of New York will present Proyecto Amster Yard (Project Amster Yard), an initiative which aims to provide exhibition space for the youngest, most alternative artists in its galleries, gardens and other city centers. The project hopes to encourage the development of artistic projects which may be difficult to display in conventional spaces. The Project Amster Yard exhibition features works from artists of different nationalities that explore the intricacies of the human language.
VISUAL ARTS New york May-August
A monumental work by the great artist Jaume Plensa will be erected at the Lawn in Madison Square in New York. When
May 5 – mid August Where
Madison Square Park Madison Square Park 1 East 23rd Street, New York MAP tinyurl.com/mSQpark +Info
www.madisonsquarepark.org
VISUAL ARTS New york February-March
The Amster Yard will host works by alternative young international artists exploring Human Language. When
February 24 – March 26 Where
Cervantes Institute New York 211 East 49 th Street. New York, NY 10017 MAP tinyurl.com/cervantesNYC +Info
nuevayork.cervantes.es
VISUAL ARTS Boston March-April
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MUNTADAS ON ACADEMIA © Photo: Irina Rozovsky
The last work of Muntadas, one of the pioneers of video art, reflects on the production of knowledge and economic power. When
March 7 – April 7 Where
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 MAP tinyurl.com/carpentercenter +Info
www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/muntadas.html
VISUAL ARTS ALBUQUERQUE January-March
Curated by Jose Falconi, On Academia is the latest project by renowned Spanish artist Antoni Muntadas, awarded with the Velazquez Prize of Arts in 2009 among many others. The video project analyzes the troublesome relation between the production of knowledge and economic power.
In collaboration with The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University
Women & Women
The exhibition consists of a series of photographs of women created by female artists from Spain exploring the world of women.
Where
Albuquerque Instituto Cervantes 1701 4th St SW. Albuquerque, NM 87102 MAP tinyurl.com/CervantesNM +Info
albuquerque.cervantes.es OTHER LOCATIONS
Oklahoma April – June
©Photo: O uka Leele
When
January – March
This exhibition illustrates change in the international and Spanish panorama for female artists in recent decades. Women & Women explores the intimate female world through the eyes of five photographers: Isabel Muñoz, Gabriela Grech, Soledad Córdoba, Beatríz Moreno, and Ouka Leele.
VISUAL ARTS NEW YORK January-March
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CONCRETE IMPROVISATIONS:
Collages and sculptures by Esteban Vicente
Concrete Improvisations is the first major American museum exhibition to pair the collages and sculptures of the distinguished abstract painter Esteban Vicente. This exhibition features some 60 works on paper and 20 small-scale sculptures (which Vicente refered to as ‘divertimentos’) gathered from public and private collections in Spain and the United States. These ‘divertimentos’ (works of amusement) display his thorough understanding of Cubism, Constructivism and assemblage. Together, this group of works reveals interesting facets of the career of an accomplished artist.
Lecture: Nueva York, c. 1929: What García Lorca Didn’t See (or Say) by Prof. James D. Fernández (NYU, Spanish and Portuguese Department; curator of ‘La Colonia’). In collaboration with SEACEX, Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior, Grey Art Gallery. New York University, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente
The exhibition displays Esteban Vicente’s collages and sculptures. He was a Spanish artist of the New York School. When
January 11 – March 26 Where
100 Washington Square East. New York 10003 KCCI: February 23, 6:30 pm Venue
Grey Art Gallery. New York University 100 Washington Sq E, NY MAP tinyurl.com/GreyArt +Info
www.nyu.edu/greyart
Visual Arts Washington DC April
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Santiago Sierra
NO, Global Tour
©Photo: Lisson Gallery
‘NO, Global Tour’ is the latest work by the controversial artist Santiago Sierra premiering in the U.S at the Phillips Collection. When
April 9 / 2 PM Where
The Phillips Collection 1600 21st St., NW, Washington, DC 20009 (Near 21st & Q Str.,NW) MAP tinyurl.com/PhillipsCol +Info
www.phillipscollection.org www.santiago – sierra.com
VISUAL ARTS NEW YORK March
In collaboration with The Phillips Collection and American University Museum
ArtBus
© Photo: Rodrigo Pereda
Art bus an itinerant exhibition space will offer guided tours across museums, galleries and other cultural events in the city.
Since July 2009, Santiago Sierra’s sculpture, NO, has visited different European and North American cities. The NO, Global Tour video was completed in Washington, DC in June 2010. This video presentation tells the story of this particular tour.
When
March 3 – 6 Where
Armory Show Piers 92 and 94 on west 55 th Street & 12 th Ave. New York MAP tinyurl.com/ArmoryNYC +Info
www.thearmoryshow.com www.art-bus.com
Coinciding with New York Art fairs Armony Show and PINTA, Art bus will offer guided tours across museums, galleries and other cultural events in the city. Designed as a travelling exhibition space, Art bus presents video screenings, performances and interventions by international artists during the rides, making these tours a truly unique experience. Curated by Raúl Martinez.
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EVEN THE RAIN
FILM LOS ANGELES & Washington DC January-February
(También la lluvia)
Chosen to represent Spain at the Academy Awards, the director Icíar Bollaín is already a legend of Spanish Cinema.
rena Films ©Photo: Mo
También la lluvia (Even the Rain) was selected by Spain to be presented to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with hopes for an Oscar nomination. The film, directed by Icíar Bollaín and written by Paul Laverty, tells the story of a film crew who finds themselves in the middle of Bolivia’s Cochabamba Water Wars.
After its tremendous success in the Recent Spanish Cinema Series in Los Angeles, and Spanish Cinema Now in New York, the film will return to L.A. to become a contender, this January and February, in the Oscar race. In Washington DC the film will be released commercially on February 18 at E-Street Cinema Landmark Theatres.
In addition to a special screening for members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, two other screenings will be held in Palm Springs in early January.
When
January, February Where
Egeda, L.A. E St. Cinema – Washington, D.C. 555 11th St. NW Washington, D.C. 20004 +Info
www.landmarktheatres.com
FILM SILVER SPRING June
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AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
SILVERDOCS 2011
Documentary Festival
AFI Silver Spring will feature the best international documentaries for the last year. When
June 20 – 26 Where
American Film Institute Silver (AFI) Theatre & Cultural Center 8633 Colesville Road. Silver Spring, MD 20910 MAP tinyurl.com/AFItheatre +Info
www.silverdocs.com
FILM Washington dc March
During seven days, the 9th edition of Silverdocs will present the best documentaries from every corner of the globe including fourteen Academy Award nominated films. This festival also includes a five-day concurrent conference that promotes film documentaries as a leading art form.
ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
LIRA: Reserva de Vida Na Costa da Morte (An enclave of life on the Coast of Death)
The U.S. Premiere of a film showing the hardships of LIRA’s crew after the Prestige the ecological catastrophe in Spain in 2003. When
March 15 – 27 Where
Washington, DC 50+ Venues within Washington, DC +Info
www.environmentalfilmfest.org
‘A small fishing community survives in spite of the Prestige oil spill’
For Lira’s sailors, the Prestige catastrophe marked a breaking point in their relations with a sea punished by pollution and overfishing. LIRA: Reserva de Vida Na Costa da Morte as part of Enviromental Film Festival, one of the world’s largest and most influential showcases of environmental film in Washington, D.C., illustrates a relevant trend toward sustainability among the fishing communities of the world, increasingly conscious of the overexploitation of the oceans and the extinction of the species.
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FILM Washington dc April
DC FILM FESTIVAL
Spanish film: ‘For 80 days’ by Jon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenaga.
©Photo: Irusoin y Moriarti Produkzioak
Once again Spanish films will be featured in the annual DC International Film Festival, a festival which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. This event presents a great opportunity to discover some of the world’s most talented and innovative filmmakers and their works, some of which will even be presented by the directors themselves. For 80 days (80 Egunean) by Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga, Flamingo Flamingo by Carlos Saura and Paper Birds by Emilio Aragón, will be some of the Spanish films shown throughout the festival.
2011 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 37th Edition of the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)
The largest film festival in the United States, with over 550 screenings of 250 features and 125 shorts in 25 days, comes this year with an important innovation: in addition to their Golden Space Needle Audience Awards, SIFF will offer prizes in five different categories. This great cinematic event that takes place in Seattle should not be missed this spring.
The most important festival of International film in DC with great presence of Spanish productions from the last year. When
April 7 – 17 Where
Washington, DC Different venues +Info
www.filmfestdc.org FILM Seattle May-June
A great representation of Spanish films at one of the most important and the largest North American Film Festivals. When
May 19 – June 12 Where
SIFF Cinema (Seattle Center) 321 Mercer Street. Seattle, WA 98109 MAP tinyurl.com/SIFFSeattle +Info
www.siff.net
Heritage El Paso January – April
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THE THREADS OF MEMORY
A perspective about Spain’s role in the formation of the U.S. through 138 rarely exhibited documents, maps and portraits.
When
January 23 – April 24 Where
El Paso Museum of History 510 N. Santa Fe Street. El Paso, TX 79901 MAP tinyurl.com/historyElPaso +Info
www.ci.el-paso.tx.us/history/ OTHER LOCATIONS
New Orleans When
May 10 – July 10 Where
The Historic New Orleans Collection 533 Royal Street • New Orleans, LA 70130 MAP tinyurl.com/HNOCollection +Info
www.hnoc.org
The exhibition examines Spanish heritage in North America, including Spain’s role in America’s quest for independence. This exhibition provides an unprecedented opportunity to go over our common heritage through a series of 138 rarely exhibited documents, maps and portraits that normally reside in the vaults of the Archive of the Indies. These documents offer a perspective that only time can provide as their survival is a testament to Spain’s proud role in the formation of the United States.
In collaboration with The Ministry of Culture of Spain, SEACEX (State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad), the Rafael del Pino Foundation and The New Mexico History Museum present The Threads of Memory: Spain and the United States
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Heritage Washington DC February
‘THE WAY’ BY Emilio Estévez Workshop on Pilgrimage Studies
Emilio Estévez directs Martin Sheen in this film about a search through the Way of Saint James in Galicia, North West of Spain.
©Photo: Emilio Estevez
Estévez’s latest film The Way staring Martin Sheen (Estévez’s father) is an extraordinary film about an American doctor who travels through El Camino de Santiago (The Way of Saint James) to finish what his son couldn´t… Equipped with his son’s backpack and guidebook, Tom (the main character) begins his pilgrimage through this historic 800km path leaving behind his ‘California bubble life’. The screening will be followed by a reception for the participants. This event is presented as part of the new program of Pilgrimage Studies by a Consortium of Universities.
In collaboration with The College of William & Mary and Georgetown University
When
February 18 Where
Georgetown University, Rafik B. Hariri Building 37 th and O Streets, N.W., Washington D.C. 20057 MAP tinyurl.com/RafikHariri +Info
www.sacredstepsinspain.com Oficial website
www.theway – themovie.com
Heritage Louisiana & TEXAS May
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EL CAMINO REAL DE LOS TEJAS
National historic trail
An exhibit and seminar about the only primary overland route connecting the Southern United States to what is now Mexico.
When
May
Where
Louisiana Venue to be announced Texas Venue to be announced +Info
www.nps.gov www.elcaminodelostejas.org
For three centuries, ‘El Camino Real de los Tejas’ was the only primary overland route connecting the Southern United States to what is now Mexico. During the Spanish Colonial Period in America, this royal road was used by settlers, missionaries, and soldiers who populated the settlements, missions, and presidios of East Texas and Northwest Louisiana.
The Consulate of Spain in Houston is pleased to present an exhibition about this important historical trail. The information panels and wall texts featuring ancient maps will serve as a basis for an accompanying seminar about the past, present and future of the Camino Real de los Tejas as well as a series of guided tours for university and high school students.
In collaboration with National Park Services
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Performing Arts NEW YORK June
teatro stage festival
© Photo: Paula Anta
The most important Latin Theatre Festival in New York City. When
Teatro Stage Fest is the most important Latin theatre festival in New York. In addition to the large number of plays staged throughout the city, this year’s festival will include several roundtable discussions.
Chicago Flamenco Festival
June
Where
Several venues around the city +Info
www.teatrostagefest.org
Performing Arts CHICAGO February-March
The annual celebration of the Spanish art Flamenco in Chicago organized by the Cervantes Institute featuring concerts, workshops… When
The Cervantes Institute of Chicago is proud to present this year’s Chicago Flamenco Festival. The month long festival will feature performances, workshops, lectures, and film screenings celebrating the Andalusian art of flamenco.
February 11, March 5 Where
Location to be announced +Info
www.chicago.cervantes.es
LITERATURE NEW YORK April-June
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PEN WORLD VOICES
FESTIVAL OF INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE
Julian Rios will participate with other international well known writers at The International Literature Festival PEN.
When
April 25 – May 1 Where
Cervantes Institute New York 211 East 49 th Street. New York, NY 10017 MAP tinyurl.com/cervantesNYC +Info
nuevayork.cervantes.es
Each year the International Literature Festival PEN, celebrates Voces del Mundo (Voices of the World) with various roundtables and conferences that feature well known international writers. This year Julián Ríos will participate in this event.
In collaboration with PEN American Center and Instituto Cervantes NY
LITERATURE SEVERAL CITIES April-May
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GRANTA:
THE BEST OF YOUNG SPANISH-LANGUAGE NOVELISTS
Building Bridges: Spanish and English Writers in Conversation
©Photo: Granta
GRANTA’s selection of young novelists in Spanish will meet their American peers in a series of roundtables and meetings. Where
On November 22, 2010, Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists was issued. For the first time in the history of Granta’s Best of Young Novelists series, the authors come from outside the English-speaking world, a fact that reinforces Granta’s commitment to portraying the world through stories. This new generation of writers, which is known as ‘Generación Granta’ (‘Granta generation’) includes twentytwo best young writers in Spanish language. From Spain to Argentina, from Mexico to Peru, and from Bolivia to the United States, these young authors have already made a big impact in the literary scene. A series of meetings, roundtables, presentations and conferences, will take place in different cities around the country.
Granta en español 11: Los mejores narradores jovenes en español is available now and is published by Duomo Ediciones in Spain. The English-language edition is published as Granta 113. This is the first completely translated issue of Granta.
May 19th Chicago > See on page 59 Where
May 20 th Washington, DC > See on page 44 Where
May 23th – 25 th New York City > See on page 47 Where
Dates to be announced Los Angeles > See on page 51 Where
Dates to be announced San Francisco > See on page 57 Where
Dates to be announced Miami > See on page 56 +info
www.granta.com
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THE BEST OF YOUNG SPANISH LANGUAGE NOVELISTS Valerie Miles Valerie Miles is the publishing director of Duomo Ediciones, based in Barcelona Spain. Together with Aurelio Major, she is a founding co-editor of Granta en espa単ol. She has written for La Vanguardia, The Paris Review and ABCD, and is a professor at the postgraduate program for literary translation at the Pompeu i Fabra University, Barcelona.
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This is the first time Granta has put together a selection of the best young writers in a language other than English. The initiative grew out of Granta en español, the Spanish language sister magazine based in Barcelona, which is published by Duomo Ediciones. The list was announced and published in October, 2011, then translated into English and published in November by Granta as its 113th issue both in the U.S. and UK to great enthusiasm and critical acclaim.
Granta’s first, highly influential Best of Young Novelists series, dedicated to British writers and published in 1983, helped establish the careers of such authors as Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan and William Boyd among others, by opening up the world of translations to them. Following the success of that landmark gathering, four more lists were published, including two for young Americans (Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Safran Foer, Gary Shteyngart, Nicole Kraus). In Granta’s first gleaning of young Spanish language talent, only a handful –as yet- have been translated into English. This issue is a conspiracy of readers who would like to see that change.
All authors selected were born after January, 1975 and have at least one novel or short story collection published. 1975 marked the end of the dictatorship in Spain. It was a year of preludes and apogees of the South American dictatorships, the end of the Viet Nam war. For writers born after 1975, the warp and woof of politics and literature is more of an exception than the rule. The censorships of the left as well as the right, black lists, forced exiles and persecution, are now crossing the bridge from memory to history. Obviously, young writers have to fight other sorts of phobias and restrictions, but magical realism or the exotic are no longer literary customs that need to be fought against, and the shadows of their masters no longer haunt them. Almost all of them read in various languages and have spent time abroad studying or teaching. We invited four writers to serve as jurors: the Argentine writer and filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky, the British journalist Isabel Hilton, previously a correspondent in South America; the novelist Francisco Goldman, American of Guatemalan descent; and the Catalan writer and literary
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critic, Mercedes Monmany, who lives in Madrid. I was a jury member, along with Aurelio Major, a writer and editor of Canadian and Mexican descent. Endowed with our inevitable prejudices and carefully cultivated arbitrariness, we aimed to offer a true-to-life portrait of the vitality and diversity that thrive in contemporary literature in Spanish.
Spanish and Latin American literature incorporates all traditions, not only the regional ones. No other language shares the same territorial expanse (nor population) in contiguous ‘nations’. Hispanic America’s modernity had seemed peripheral until its literature became contemporary of all men and women in the sixties: it brought about a renovation in the metropolitan hubs of various languages, thus moving the periphery into the center. Although all literature is a magma of forces and traditions or trends in opposition, fluctuation and influence; of the living and the dead, of all languages put in circulation by other unacknowledged legislators: the editors, the critics and of course the translators. Need we be reminded that a literary culture in which there is no translation is doomed to repeating the same things to itself over and over again? Yet the inrush of a single writer can suddenly upset all readings of the past and the future. Who could have imagined fifteen years ago that the work of an outcast Chilean washed ashore in Barcelona via Mexico would exercise as wide an influence on enthusiastic young writers not only in Spanish, as Cortázar a few generations earlier? Writers, readers, critics and editors working in Spanish feel less exasperated now that the English language references to literature in our language are no longer reduced simply to the binomial Borges-García Márquez. Now at least Roberto Bolaño is also being mentioned. But this trinity is still not enough. Fifteen years ago, a selection of the best young writers in Spanish would not have encountered such favorable circumstances. Perhaps such cultural customs as using the labels of ‘Latino’ or ‘Hispanic’ to things written in Spanish, which seems more to suggest the idea of quotas, confusing literary values with those of integration, could be a culprit. Perhaps the Latin American authors who were consecrated in the 60s satisfied the scarce curiosity of the wider readership. Latin American and Spanish writers
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have been somewhat perplexed by this lack of interest in translation, given the fact that the foundation for the English literary tradition is itself a translation (the Bible). In Latin America and Spain literary translation from many languages is the norm, evidenced by the authors admired by the writers chosen for this issue: still Faulkner, Nabokov, Joyce, Bernhard, Cheever, Salinger, among others (Borges and especially and deservedly, Onetti). The situation in the U.S. is changing quickly thanks to a new generation of small independent initiatives in the wake of others like New Directions, which has been publishing translations since 1936. The influence of Cien años de soledad on American and world literature and the wide readerships gained by genre novelists, or the recent popularity of authors like Carlos Ruiz Zafón on one hand and the work of Roberto Bolaño among the young writers on the other, or the critical acclaim of Javier Marías and Antonio Muñoz Molina have all served to up the ante and renew the narrative credit of Spanish language literature in its diverse strata. The collection of young writers selected by this conspiracy of readers in Granta aims to seal a pact, a secret handshake of sorts. In ten years time we will see if our choices were correct, how many of these writers will still be read, how many of them will endure.
SKETCHING THE FUTURE BOSTON April
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dementia
A scientific program to discuss and support research for Alzheimer’s followed by a public screening of the film ‘Bicycle, Spoon, Apple’. When
April 27 Where
Massachusetts General Hospital Institute 55 Fruit Street Boston, MA 02114 MAP tinyurl.com/MGHBoston +Info
www.mgh.harvard.edu SKETCHING THE FUTURE WASHINGTON DC April
A lecture on the European state of the art building energy efficiency and Decathlon Europe 2010 by one of the Spanish high officials. When
April 18 Where
National Building Museum 401 F Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20001 MAP tinyurl.com/nationalBM +Info
www.nbm.org
The world is ageing rapidly. In the next four decades Spain will have the largest world’s elderly population, second only to Japan. An estimated 10% of the population over 65 years old and a 50% of those over 85 will suffer from some type of dementia. Hence, Spain is one of the leading countries developing projects to support and encourage scientific research in the field of Alzheimer’s and neurodegenerative diseases. A panel discussion will be held at Harvard University to discuss these urgent issues and raise social and public awareness. It will include a presentation of the scientific project of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation: the Barcelona Research Complex for Better Aging by key scientific leaders in the field of Alzheimer’s disease. The documentary Bicycle, Spoon, Apple will precede the discussion panel.
From 20:20:20 to Solar Decathlon Europe: A Spanish Perspective Building the 21st Century Javier Serra, Deputy Director General for Innovation and Building Quality: Spanish Ministry of Infrastructures and Director of the Solar Decathlon Europe Competition will detail the first Solar Decathlon Europe 2010 and also discuss the European building energy efficiency at the series Building the 21st Century organized by the National Building Museum and the Department of Energy.
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SKETCHING THE FUTURE Washington DC June
The rolE of museums in 21st century A discussion by some of the most important museums directors of the world on the role of Modern and Contemporary Art Museums.
What are the social and intellectual functions of Modern and Contemporary Museums in today’s so called Information Age? This question and other issues will be discussed in a conversation moderated by Selma Holo about the role of modern and contemporary art museums with the director of Hirshhorn Museum, Richard Koshalek, the director of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain, Manuel Borja Villel, and former director of Tate Modern, Vicente TodolĂ.
In collaboration with the National Gallery of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum.
When
June 23 Where
Hirshhorn Museum of Contemporary Art Independence Avenue and 7 th Street South West. Washington D.C., 20560 MAP tinyurl.com/HirshhornDC +Info
www.hirshhorn.si.edu
MUSIC PUERTO RICO February
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CASALS FESTIVAL OF PUERTO RICO
The Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, the annual homage to the great cellist Pau Casals invites Spanish Cellist Pablo Fernández. When
February 23th Where
Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferré, Sala Sinfónica Pablo Casals Ponce de Leon Avenue (Stop 22 1/2) San Juan, PR 00940 – 1287 MAP tinyurl.com/luisAFerre
The Casals Festival of Puerto Rico presents Spanish cellist Pablo Fernández in concert.
www.festcasalspr.gobierno.pr/
In collaboration with Casals Festival of Puerto Rico
• Cellist: Pablo Fernández • Pianist: Félix Rivera Guzmán
+Info
MUSIC WASHINGTON DC June ©Photo: Jesús Ugalde
DJ Toni Bass
Spain Capital Pride 2011 The Annual Party between Human Rights Campaign and the Embassy of Spain invites this year great Spanish DJ Toni Bass. When
June 9
Where
Town Night Club 2009 8 th Street NW. Washington, DC. MAP tinyurl.com/townNC +Info
www.hrc.org
The vibrant Spanish gay community will be represented this year by DJ Toni Bass from Barcelona. Producer, composer and DJ, Toni Bass has been working since 90’s composing and remixing for important artists, soundtracks, fashion videos, and art and architecture exhibitions. As DJ he has participated in several well-known festivals and has worked in some of the most important clubs in Barcelona, Madrid, Ibiza, Valencia, San Sebastián, London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow… and now in Washington, DC. With U.S. DJ’s. Don’t miss this official event of DC Capital Pride!
Music AUSTIN March
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SPAIN ROCKS
AT SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST FESTIVAL Some of the best Spanish rock bands will tour the U.S. starting the great indie music festival South by Souht West in Austin, TX.
©Photo: Artica
A taste of the thriving moment of Spanish Rock will be ready for you at South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conferences & Festivals where the Spanish bands The Cabriolets, Polock, Black Gandhi, Canteca de Macao, Capsula, Mujeres, Murfila, Nubla, Russian Red, Telephunken and Za! will perform for the American public. SXSW is one of the most important events of the year that relates to music in the U.S.. Some of the bands that perform there will go on tour throughout the U.S. in the weeks following the festival. Don’t miss out!
When
March 15 – 20 Where
South by Southwest ® (SXSW®) Conferences & Festivals Austin, Texas +Info
www.sxsw.com
For 21 years, Taberna del Alabardero has taken pride in being a company with deep Spanish roots and identity, with 15 locations throughout Spain, from Madrid, Sevilla, Marbella and Cordoba to the Basque Country. Our locations in the Nation’s Capitol will make you feel as if you were in Spain while enjoying a glass of wine with a “Tapa de Jamon Iberico”. Having 2 culinary institutes and vocational training services offered worldwide, we continue to grow with the increasing demands of the new generations while maintaining a global image. Recently reaching international recognition and prestige from Michelle Obama’s visit to our Marbella location, we regularly host many dignitaries, diplomats and artists. Such guests include the Royal Family, Placido Domingo, Morgan Freeman and even The Rolling Stones. We look forward to another 21 years of excellence.
1776 I Street NW (Entrance: 18th Street between H and I) Washington DC 20006 (202) 429 2200
www.alabardero.com
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THE CITY AGENDA: CITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES FILLED WITH CULTURE From Spain
CITY AGENDA
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WASHINGTON, DC HERITAGE
FILM
ARCHITECTURE
‘The Way’
Environmental Film Festival 19th ANNUAL FESTIVAL
SPOTLIGHT ON DESIGN: Nieto / Sobejano
When
February 18 Where
Georgetown University, Rafik B. Hariri Building. 37 th and O Streets, NW Info
www.sacredstepsinspain.com www.theway-themovie.com
When
March 15 – 27 Where
MUSIC
Casals Quartet Concert When
February 19 Where
The Kreeger Museum, 2401 Foxhall Road, NW Info
www.kreegermuseum.org
Film schedule will be posted on February 7 th Info
www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org
In collaboration with the National Building Museum and Virginia Tech When
March 22 Where
National Building Museum, 401 F Street NW Info
www.nbm.org
VISUAL ARTS
No, Global Tour by Santiago Sierra In collaboration with The Phillips Collection and American University Museum When
April 9 Where
Phillips Collection, 1600 21 st St., NW Info
www.phillipscollection.org
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CITY AGENDA
More information and updates at: www.spainculture.us
PERFORMING ARTS
FILM
Sketching the future
Numancia by Miguel de Cervantes
DC International Film Festival
When
April 16 – 24
25 th edition
Where
April 7 – 17
Building the 21st Century: From 20:20:20 to Solar Decathlon Europe: A Spanish Perspective
GALA Hispanic Theatre, 3333 14 th Street, NW Info
www.galatheatre.org Where
Shakespeare Theatre Company / Harman Center for the Arts, 610 F Street NW Info
www.shakespearetheatre.org
When
Where
Different cinemas through DC Info
www.filmfestdc.org
When
April 18 Where
National Building Museum 401 F St. NW Info
DESIGN
BRAVOS In collaboration with The Phillips Collection and American University Museum When
April 6 – May 15 Where
American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Info
www.american.edu/cas/katzen
www.nbm.org
CITY AGENDA
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WASHINGTON, DC PERFORMING ARTS
LITERATURE
PERFORMING ARTS
NEXT
THE BEST OF YOUNG SPANISHLANGUAGE NOVELISTS: GRANTA
Carmen by The Washington Ballet
When
April Where
Kennedy Center 2700 F Street, NW Info
www.kennedy-center.org
When
May 20 Where
Location to be announced Info
When
May 19 Where
Harman Center for the Arts. Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F Street NW Info
www.washingtonballet.org
www.granta.com MUSIC
SPAIN CAPITAL PRIDE 2011 Spanish DJ Toni Bass When
June 9 Where
Town Club, 2009 8 th St NW Info
www.towndc.com www.hrc.org
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FILM
VISUAL ARTS
SILVERDOCS
Exhibiton: E.CO
When
June 20 – 26 Where
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD Info
www.afi.com/silver
Sketching the futurE
THE ROLE OF Museums in 21st Century In collaboration with the Hirshhorn Museum and National Gallery of Art When
June 23 Where
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Independence Avenue and 7 th Street SW Info
www.hirshhorn.si.edu
When
June 4 – August 14 Where
AU Katzen Museum of Arts 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Info
www.american.edu/cas/museum
CITY AGENDA
CITY AGENDA
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NEW YORK VISUAL ARTS
VISUAL ARTS
HERITAGE
CONCRETE IMPROVISATIONS COLLAGES AND SCULPTURE BY ESTEBAN VICENTE
ARTBUS
When
November 10 – 13
Images of a Lost World Pictures and Stories of Balkan Sephardic Life from the Centropa Interviews
Coinciding with ARMORY SHOW and PINTA When
March 3 – 6 Where
Armory Show Piers 92 and 94 on west 55 th Street & 12 th Ave Info
www.thearmoryshow.com When
January 11 – March 26
Where
Where
Pinta. Pier 92 12 th Ave at 52 nd Street
Grey Art Gallery New York University 100 Washington Square East Info
www.nyu.edu/greyart
Info
www.pintaart.com www.art-bus.com
When
March Where
The Center for Jewish History 15 West 16 th Street Info
www.cjh.org
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CITY AGENDA
More information and updates at: www.spainculture.us
VISUAL ARTS
VISUAL ARTS
LITERATURE
Antón Cabaleiro
ELÉCTRICA
Pen World Voices
When
May Where
International Studio and Curatorial Program 1040 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn
When
May 2 Where
New Museum of Contemporary Art 235 Bowery Info
www.newmuseum.org
When
April 25 – May 1 Where
Cervantes Institute New York 211 E 49 th St. Info
www.nuevayork.cervantes.es
Info
www.iscp-nyc.org VISUAL ARTS VISUAL ARTS
ABOUT FACE When
Jaume Plensa Sculpture ‘Echo’
May-June
When
Where
May 5-mid August
New Museum of Contemporary Art 235 Bowery Info
www.newmuseum.org
Where
Madison Square Park Madison Ave., 14 th Fl Info
www.madisonsquarepark.org
LITERATURE
THE BEST OF YOUNG SPANISHLANGUAGE NOVELISTS: GRANTA When
May 23 – 25 Where
Location to be announced VISUAL ARTS
Info
CREA+S
www.granta.com
When
May 4 Where
New Museum of Contemporary Art 235 Bowery Info
www.newmuseum.org
CITY AGENDA
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NEW YORK MUSIC
MUSIC
MUSIC
A tribute to Julián Gayarre
Víctor Prieto Trio
Guitarras de Barcelona Orchestra
When
February 14 Where
Carnegie Hall 152 West 57 th Street Info
When
March 10 Where
Miles Café NY 212 East 52nd Street Info
http://milescafe.com/ny/
When
April 7 Where
Location to be announced
www.carnegiehall.org MUSIC
Glorious Granados Concert
Nonet IbéricoAlexis Cuadrado
When
When
February 20
March 25 – 26
MUSIC
MUSIC
Nao de China When
May 5 Where
The Hispanic Society of America 613 West 155 th Street
Where
Where
Info
Location to be announced
The Jazz Gallery 290 Hudson Street
www.hispanicsociety.org
Info
http://jazzgallery.org
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CITY AGENDA
More information and updates at: www.spainculture.us
MUSIC
PERFORMING ARTS
MUSIC
Sonets of Love and DeathÓpera Hispánica
Teatro Stage Fest
New Hispanic talents: Concerts by Horacio Lavandera
When
May 5
In collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, Teatro Stage Festival, INAEM (Ministerio de Cultura). When
June Where
Several venues around the city
Where
Info
Museo del Barrio 1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104 st)
www.teatrostagefest.org www.nuevayork.cervantes.es
Info
www.elmuseo.org
Broken Love - Love Songs by Federico García Lorca When
June Where
Repertorio Español 138 East 27 th Street Info
www.repertorio.org
Where
Lincoln Center 10 Lincoln Center Plaza Info
HERITAGE MUSIC
When
May 28
Architecture in La Habana from the Spanish Colonial Legagy When
May Where
Centro Cultural Cubano Info
www.cubanculturalcenter.org
www.lincolncenter.org
CITY AGENDA
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TEXAS
More information and updates at: www.spainculture.us
VISUAL ARTS
HERITAGE
PERFORMING ARTS
Spanish Young Art: the New Generation
Conference by Elisa de Santos
Houston Spanish and Flamenco Festival
When
When
December 17 – February 5
January
Where
Where
The Blue Star Contemporary Art Center 116 Blue Star, San Antonio
El Paso Museum of History 510 N. Santa Fe Street. El Paso
Info
www.elpasotexas.gov/history
www.bluestarart.org/exhibits/ view/80
Info
Dance The Thread Classes of Memory with Timo Lozano HERITAGE
When
Where
El Paso Museum of History 510 N. Santa Fe Street. El Paso Info
www.elpasotexas.gov/history
When
April 14 – 16 Where
PERFORMING ARTS
January 23 – April 24
A Celebration of Art, Culture and Education
When
All School year Where
Solero Flamenco – San Jacinto College Houston Info
www.soleroflamenco.com
Solero Flamenco – San Jacinto College Houston Info
houstonspanishandflamencofestival.com
MUSIC
SpaIn Rocks When
March 15 – 20 Where
South by Southwest (SXSW) Austin Info
www.sxsw.com
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CITY AGENDA
LOS ANGELES FILM
FILM
PERFORMING ARTS
Even the Rain BY ICÍAR BOLLAÍN
‘Matador on the Road’ by Alexis Morante
‘La Vida es Sueño’ by Calderón de la Barca
When
January, February Where
The Bilingual Foundation Of The Arts 421 North Avenue 19 Info
www.bfatheatre.org
When
January Where
The Bilingual Foundation Of The Arts 421 North Avenue 19 Info
When
February 24 – April 10 Where
The Bilingual Foundation Of The Arts 421 North Avenue 19 Info
www.bfatheatre.org
www.bfatheatre.org LITERATURE
THE BEST OF YOUNG SPANISHLANGUAGE NOVELISTS: GRANTA When
Date to be announced Where
Location to be announced Info
www.granta.com
CITY AGENDA
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PUERTO RICO VISUAL ARTS
MUSIC
HERITAGE
Spanish Young Art: the New Generation
Casals Festival of Puerto Rico. Concert of the Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández
Fifth hundred Aniversary of la Gobernación de Puerto Rico
In collaboration with: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña When
February – April Where
Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española Calle La Puntilla, # 3, Viejo San Juan, 00901 Info
www.icp.gobierno.pr
In collaboration with Casals Festival of Puerto Rico When
February 23 Where
Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferré. Sala Sinfónica Pablo Casals Ponce de Leon Avenue Stop 22 1/2, San Juan Info
www.festcasalspr.gobierno.pr
International Congress of the History of International Congress of History of Iberoamerican Atlantic Governances In collaboration with: Government of Puerto Rico, Banco Santander When
March 1 – 4 Where
Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico / Interamerican University of Puerto Rico (San Juan and San German Campus), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ponce
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More information and updates at: www.spainculture.us
HERITAGE
LITERATURE
Lectures ‘The Governors at the time of Campeche’
Festival de la Palabra
In collaboration with: Government of Puerto Rico, MAPFRE
Cuartel de Ballajá, Viejo San Juan
When
May 10 Where
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico 299 Ave. De Diego, San Juan Info
www.mapr.org
In collaboration with: Festival de la Palabra When
May 4 – 8 Where Info
www.festivaldelapalabra.net
CITY AGENDA
CITY AGENDA
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MIAMI HERITAGE
LITERATURE
MUSIC
Exhibition ‘A través del descubrimiento’
Ediciones El Puente in La Habana of the 60’s: Critical Readings and poetry Books
Música y aparte with Cristina Rebull y Lázaro Horta coordinated by Erwin Pérez
When
January 8 Where
Centro Cultural Español 800 S Douglas Rd. Suite: 170. Coral Gables Info
www.ccemiami.org
When
January 10 Where
Centro Cultural Español 800 S Douglas Rd. Suite: 170. Coral Gables Info
www.ccemiami.org
When
January 20 Where
Centro Cultural Español 800 S Douglas Rd. Suite: 170. Coral Gables Info
www.ccemiami.org
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CITY AGENDA
More information and updates at: www.spainculture.us
Sketching the future Kids
Sketching the future Kids
5 Exhibition Workshops ‘La Isla about Hundida’ Climate Change: La Isla Hundida by Javier Velasco y Anne Marie Melster Chicle. Kid’s Program: Painting workshop with Juan Llera When
January 22 Where
Centro Cultural Español 800 S Douglas Rd. Suite: 170. Coral Gables Info
www.ccemiami.org
KIDS
Program After School When
January 11 – 20 Where
Different schools in Dade County and Centro Cultural Español 800 S Douglas Rd. Suite: 170. Coral Gables Info
www.ccemiami.org
When
January 29 Where
Centro Cultural Español 800 S Douglas Rd. Suite: 170. Coral Gables Info
www.ccemiami.org
LITERATURE
Love in the narrative of two Cuban writers: Ernesto Clavelo y Enrique G. Morató When
February 14 Where
Different schools in Dade County and Centro Cultural Español 800 S Douglas Rd. Suite: 170. Coral Gables Info
www.ccemiami.org
CITY AGENDA
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MIAMI
More information and updates at: www.spainculture.us
HERITAGE
MUSIC
LITERATURE
Flamenco in The Last 50 years
A tribute to Enrique Morente
THE BEST OF YOUNG SPANISHLANGUAGE NOVELISTS: GRANTA
When
When
February 17
February 22
Where
Where
Centro Cultural Español 800 S Douglas Rd. Suite: 170. Coral Gables
Centro Cultural Español 800 S Douglas Rd. Suite: 170. Coral Gables
Info
Info
www.ccemiami.org
www.ccemiami.org
When
Date to be announced Where
Location to be announced Info
MUSIC
Piano Concert by Jose María Vitier When
February 19 Where
Colony Theater 1040 Lincoln Road Miami Beach
www.granta.com
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CITY AGENDA
SEATTLE SAN FRANCISCO FILM
LITERATURE
37th Edition of the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)
THE BEST OF YOUNG SPANISHLANGUAGE NOVELISTS: GRANTA
When
May 19 – June 12 Where
SIFF Cinema (Seattle Center) 321 Mercer Street Info
www.siff.net
When
Date to be announced Where
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway Info
www.citylights.com
CITY AGENDA
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BOSTON
More information and updates at: www.spainculture.us
Sketching the future
VISUAL ARTS
Sketching the future
15th European Career Fair
Muntadas About Academia
Dementia
When
In collaboration with: the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University
January 22 – 24 Where
Campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge Info
www.euro-career.com
When
March 7 – April 7 Where
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge Info
ves.fas.harvard.edu/muntadas.html
When
April 27 Where
Massachussets General Hospital 55 Fruit Street Info
www.alzheimerinternacional.org www.mgh.harvard.edu
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CITY AGENDA
ARCHITECTURE
PERFORMING ARTS
CHICAGO LITERATURE
Simposium YAS ‘YOUNG Calderon ARCHITECTS de la Barca OF SPAIN’
Festival de Danza Española
When
When
When
May
March 24 – April 17
June
Where
Where
Where
University of Chicago 5801 South Ellis Avenue
Instituto Cervantes 31 W Ohio St.
In several Chicago theaters Chicago, Ill
Info
Info
www.uchicago.edu
www.chicago.cervantes.es
LITERATURE
DESIGN
THE BEST OF YOUNG SPANISHLANGUAGE NOVELISTS: GRANTA
BRAVOS
When
May 19 Where
Location to be announced Info
www.granta.com
When
June 12 – August 30 Where
Cervantes Museum Instituto Cervantes 31 W Ohio St. Info
www.chicago.cervantes.es/en
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CHICAGO Urban Culture
PERFORMING ARTS
New Urban Cultures
Chicago Flamenco Festival
WHEN
May
When
WHERE
February 11 – March 5
Cervantes Institute Chicago 31 W Ohio St.
Location to be announced
INFO
www.chicago.cervantes.es
Where Info
www.chicago.cervantes.es
COMING NEXT FALL… MORE EVENTS From Spain
FILM
FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA US Tour of the Best Spanish Cinema.
ARCHITECTURE
SPANISH CINEMA NOW The best Spanish cinema in Los Angeles and New York City.
YAS ‘YOUNG ARCHITECTS OF SPAIN’ YAS the exhibit of Spanish Young Architects arrives to Washington DC and after to Dallas.
HERITAGE
VISUAL ARTS
MAREMÁGNUM
SPAIN ART FEST’11
PASTRANA TAPESTRIES
Exhibition by renowned photojournalist Jordi Socías will be displayed this November in Washington, DC as part of Fotoweek DC at the Mexican Cultural Institute.
Spain Art Fest’11 will feature the best performance, sound, video, multimedia projections and installations… and everything will take place in the iconic Times Square of New York.
Pastrana Tapestries recovered its splendor after a deep restoration will be shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
…and much more! Keep an eye on us!
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