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L’Institut Ramon Llull presenta les principals activitats culturals de les Illes arreu del món per aquesta tardor
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Six Catalan companies to take part in the Castile and León Theatre Festival
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The 13th Castile and León Theatre Festival will take place from 24th to 28th August in Ciudad Rodrigo, and it programme includes the Catalan circus and theatre companies Circo Los, Clac & Roll, Clownx Teatre, Maxishows, Titzina Teatre and Xirriquiteula Teatre. The festival, which receives the support of the Institut Ramon, has programmed some fifty performance and expects around 30,000 spectators to attend.
Catalan language classes and cultural visits, the IRL’s principal activities this summer
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Each summer, the Institut Ramon Llull collaborates with two courses at which foreign students can improve their Catalan language skills: the International Catalan Language and Culture Sessions and the Catalan Language University Campus. The aim of these courses is to allow university students from outside Catalan-speaking areas to improve their language skills and become immersed in Catalan culture.
Trànsit: Catalan culture travels to Madrid in October
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In October Trànsit travels to Madrid in a project promoted by the Institut Ramon Llull to present Catalan culture. The initiative brings together a programme of events designed to allow people living in Madrid to sample the rich culture of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. With this project the Institut Ramon Llull continues its aim of bringing the latest tendencies in music and performing arts to the world capitals of culture. In September it travels on to Chicago in collaboration with the first Sonar event to take place in the United States.
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Estudiants de català de tot el món reben una lliçó de llengua i literatura a càrrec d’Isabel-Clara Simó
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Presentació del llibre 21 Poetas Ecuatorianos en el Fin de Siglo
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Salvador Brotons and Àlex Garrobé to take part in the Nürtingen International Guitar Festival
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The Catalan composer Salvador Brotons is to be one of the leading musicians at this year's Nürtingen International Guitar Festival, which takes place in this German town between 30th July and 7th August.
Brotons will conduct the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen in the premiere of his composition for guitar and orchestra, entitled "Mare Nostrum", with Àlex Garrobé taking the solo part. Salvador Brotons was the resident conductor of the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen from 1985 to 1991.
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The English translation of Mira'm als ulls by Sílvia Soler
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The novel Mira'm als ulls (Look Me in the Eye) by Sílvia Soler has just been released in English by the British publishing house Parthian, in a translation by Richard Thomson. This project has received the support of the Institut Ramon Llull, as part if its grant programme for translations.
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Institut Ramon Llull is a consortium made up by the Government
of Catalonia and the Government
of the Balearic Islands dedicated to the international promotion of the Catalan
language and the culture of the areas in which Catalan is spoken. The IRL forms
part of the Fundació Ramon Llull, which
was established by the governments
of Andorra, the Ramon Llull Institute, General
Council of the Eastern Pyrenees, the city of Alghero,
and the Network of Valencian Cities, and has its central offices in Andorra]