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Concha Buika greets Bogotá in Catalan
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The concert that Concha Buika will give on 23rd March at Bogotá’s bullring is one of the most eagerly awaited moments of the 12th Ibero-American Theatre Festival of Bogotá. This biannual celebration has invited Catalonia and the Balearic Islands as guests of honour, with a programme organized by the Institut Ramon Llull in which Buika’s concert is one of the star events.
Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, guests of honour at the Ibero-American Theatre Festival of Bogotá
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The 12th Ibero-American Theatre Festival of Bogotá (FITB) gets underway this Friday, 19th March, with Catalonia and the Balearic Islands as this year’s guests of honour. For this reason, the Institut Ramon Llull has coordinated a programme with 11 different shows, and a total of 44 performances during the 18 days that the Festival lasts. In total, some eighty Catalan and Balearic artists will go to Bogotá to present their work.
150 people attend the lecture by Carme Riera in Berlin
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Last Wednesday evening, the Majorcan writer Carme Riera gave a lecture on "The island as a legend: Majorca" at Berlin's Cervantes Institute.
The exhibition Interpreting Ramon Llull, the lover and the beloved opens in Berlin
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The President of the Balearic Islands Government, Francesc Antich, and the assistant director of the IRL, Fanny Tur, opened the exhibition
Presentation of the first volume of Memòria personal by Antoni Tàpies
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The Fundació Antoni Tàpies presents the publication of Memòria personal. Fragment per a una autobiografia (Obra escrita completa. Volum I) (Personal Memoir. Fragments for an Autobiography (Complete Writings. Volume I)) in Catalan, Spanish and English on Wednesday, 10th March at 7 p.m. The book is a collection of Tàpies’ memories and reflections from the 1940s to the present day.
Catalan language exams. 1st Open Call 2010 (May – June)
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The Institut Ramon Llull is once again organising an open call for exams to obtain Certificates of Knowledge of the Catalan Language outside the Catalan-speaking territories. The registration period for exams opens today, 15 March, and will close on 27 April.
The Government and the Institut Ramon Llull present Be Balears in Berlin
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On 10, 11 and 12 March the Islands' artistic output will be present in the heart of Berlin. The aim of these activities, which are part of the Be Balears project, is to raise awareness of Catalan culture abroad.
A full house at the first international concert by the Orchestra of Young Musicians from the Catalan Countries
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The Palácio Foz was too small to host the large numbers of people who wanted to attend the concert
The IRL and Gandia City Council sign a collaboration agreement on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Francesc Borja
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On Friday, 5th March, the Institut Ramon Llull and Gandia City Council signed a collaboration agreement for the organization of a series of cultural and literary events to mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Francesc Borja. To commemorate the occasion, Gandia City Council has planned a series of cultural events to celebrate the work of the Borja family, and which will feature an important number of Catalan, Valencian and Majorcan artists and intellectuals.
Hèctor Parra’s opera Hypermusic Prologue and BCN 216 at the Ars Musica festival in Belgium
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This year’s edition of the Ars Musica festival offers two programmes of contemporary Catalan music. On one hand, the opera by Hèctor Parra, Hypermusic Prologue, premiered at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, performed by the Ensemble Contemporain, which opens the festival on 4th March at 8.30 p.m.; on the other, a concert by the group BCN 216 the following day, the 5th, at 8.15 p.m.
[The
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]