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Institut Ramon Llull
107-111 Fleet Street
London EC4A 2AB
Tel. +44 (0) 20 7936 9041/9431
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The London Spanish Film Festival takes place in the city of London from September 24 to October 4, with a series called Catalan Window, in which eight Catalan films will be screened.
South Street supported by Institut Ramon Llull & Estrella Damm presents the UK Premiere of the play “DESIRE” by Josep Maria Benet i Jornet, translated by Sharon G. Feldman. From the 13th to the 31th July at the White Bear Theatre.
The artistic proposal for Catalonia and the Balearic Islands for the 2011 Venice Biennale has been set in motion with the announcement of an international competition to choose the project’s curator. The winning artistic project will be included in the Collateral Events section, which forms part of the official programme of the International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale and is made up of exhibitions organized by institutions involved in the areas of art and culture.
The Centre for Catalan Studies at Queen Mary University of London is organizing an interdisciplinary Conference on representations of illness in Catalan culture to be held on 25th and 26th June 2010. The Conference is funded by the Institut Ramon Llull and organized byJordi Larios (Queen Mary, University of London) and Montserrat Lunati (Cardiff University).
The Greenwich & Docklands International Festival will be held in London June 24 through July 4. Artists representative of Catalan culture, such as Toni Mira, Voala, Efimer, Osadia, Nats Nus Dansa, Vero Cendonya & Adele Madau will take part in the dance festival and street fair. Deserving of special notice is a performance by the Catalan choreographer Toni Mira’s dance company, which will open the festival on the night of June 24. The performance will take place at the National Maritime Museum, located in Greenwich.
On June 10 at 6:30pm, Book Haus will present Stone in a Landslide, the English translation of Maria Barbal’s Pedra de Tartera.
From June 10 through September 5, Dublin’s Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) presents an exhibit of the works of painter Fernando Garcia Sevilla. 42 works reflecting the eclectic style of the Mallorcan artist will be displayed.
The presentation will take place on 20th May at the Instituto Cervantes in London
The Liverpool Sound City Festival will take place May 19 - 22 in Liverpool (England). This event, very similar to Brighton’s Great Escape Festival, is intended to help emerging artists from every part of Europe be discovered.
On May 13, 14, and 15, the Great Escape Festival, an international musical showcase for emerging groups and new sounds, will take place in the city of Brighton (England). The groups “Mujeres” and “dj John Talabot” are participating with the support of the ICIC (Catalan Institute for the Cultural Industries) and the Institut Ramon Llull.
[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 and the Ramon Llull Institute, and has its central offices in Andorra.]