Visual Arts.  New York,  01/05/2014

Catalan artist Jordi Colomer featured in BEYOND THE SUPERSQUARE, a group exhibit at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, opening May 1st, 2013

The indelible influence of Latin American and Caribbean Modernist architecture on contemporary artists will be explored by The Bronx Museum of the Arts in the exhibition Beyond the Supersquare, on view May 1, 2014 through January 11, 2015. The exhibition features over 30 artists and more than 60 artworks—including photography, video, sculpture, installation, and drawing— that respond to major Modernist architectural projects constructed in Latin America and the Caribbean  from the 1920s through the 1960s.

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Music.  New York,  02/05/2014

Catalan indie pop band MANEL to perform at the Santos Party House in Manhattan, New York, on Friday May 2nd at 7pm

Folk rock with a Mediterranean feel or the perfect mix between Dylan, Beirut and Joan Manuel Serrat, for the first time at New York’s Santos Party House!

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Music.  Pittsburgh,  02/05/2014

Composer Marian Márquez's SYNCHRONIES FOR ENSEMBLE premiered by the Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University Contemporary Music Ensemble, May 2

Under the direction of Daniel Nesta Curtis, the Contemporary Music Ensemble will perform the works of Charles Wuorinen, Simon Steen-Anderson, Marian Marquez and John Adams. Featured on the concert will be Adams' Chamber Symphony - a virtuosic piece that has already become a major work in the contemporary ensemble repertoire.

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Architecture and design.  New York,  26/03/2014

PALACES FOR THE PEOPLE OPENS AT THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK MARCH 26, 2014

Discover the Guastavinos' contribution to some of America's greatest public spaces.

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Performing Arts.  New York,  06/05/2014

"Los columpios", by Roger Simeon, premiere on May 6 at the IATI Theater, NYC

A man and a woman meet up in a playground. And what it looks like a casual encounter soon becomes the broken dialogue of two people who know themselves too well and who are scared to hurt one another. Hence, they talk about everything and about nothing in particular. They discuss random topics and issues in order to avoid doing what they are supposed to do: talk about themselves.

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Visual Arts.  New York,  06/05/2014

NEW SPANISH PHOTOGRAPHY_Visions beyond borders, featuring Aleix Plademunt and Salvi Danés, among others

This exhibition aims to portrait the current contemporary Spanish photography panorama. More specifically, it shows the view of several artists on the urban and natural landscape across our borders, always captured from a critical or emotional perspective through photography.

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Thought and Science.  Stanford University,  09/05/2014

Joan Ramon Resina and Tomàs Alcoverro to take part in Journalism As Literary Praxis, one-day symposium at Stanford University

This one-day event will bring together several journalists and speakers from different countries to explore the connections between journalism and literature.

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Literature.  New York,  15/05/2014

POETAS POR KM2, Poetic Festival, May 15-19 in New York City

Poetas por Km² is not a poetry festival, it’s a poetic festival. This is the premise of one of the most ambitious projects of the literary landscape in Madrid and now, in New York.

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Music.  New York,  20/07/2014

CATALAN SOUNDS ON TOUR: MISHIMA, TXARANGO and HEADBIRDS AT THE SUMMERSTAGE FESTIVAL IN CENTRAL PARK, JULY 20, 2014

SummerStage Festival, a program of City Parks Foundation, and the Institut Ramon Llull partner for the first time ever to feature Catalan bands Mishima and Txarango and DJ sets by Headbirds in what promises to be an unforgettable Sunday afternoon of Catalan music at Central Park.

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