The Institut Ramon Llull supports great classical music orchestras and ensembles to promote extraordinary Catalan talent internationally. In the coming months, they will perform in some of the major cities in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, Chile, Greece, the Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Poland, Italy and Belgium, among others.

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“Si les Troyens peuvent voir le fils de Ménèce avec des armes si brillantes, il nous suffit que quelqu’un dise: Maintenant, on ne peut plus reculer. C’est tout ou rien!”

Trois pas ver le sud (Le troiacord I), Miquel de Palol (Zulma, 2024), translated by François-Michel Durazzo.

The Pink Plastic Glove, Dolors Miquel

A pink plastic glove arrives, I say hello, pink plastic glove, you’ve arrived. If you’re here, it’s because someone sends you, someone who knows the price of bread and milk and other useful stuff. Someone who’s thinking of me and sends you. Someone who thinks: a dead man has been found in the sink, someone who knows what life can be like. Someone who understands what my life is now. An exceptional being. A being who didn’t go to any school. A being who thinks of me and knows that what I need is not a Bible, is not property or an electoral register or a wedding list, but a pink plastic glove. Not a signifier but a glove. It’s not a signifier but a Pink. A pink tutu on the slender, muscular legs of the Moscow ballet’s ballerina-swan. And, above all, the idea of slipping into the glove. The glove’s carapace. The soul entering the glove and the body entering the soul. If this someone knows the way out, say it. Say, for example, walk straight on and turn three hundred light years to the right, then shift to the north pole of the first magnetic magnitude, when there, go through the kitchen door, take the apron, the scourer, the mask of Santa Ana of Teloxtoc, where one can still trace the nose, parts of the mouth and jaw. And begin the ritual. Like the kings and priests of antiquity would do, you commence, watched by a vestal virgin, you commence.

Translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush (El guant de plàstic rosa/ The Pink Plastic Glove, Tenement Press, 2023).

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April 2024

Dear friends,

Very important information: please, remember that our Translation, Production and Illustrated Books grants deadline is closing next 30th April!

NEW! PUBLISHING PRODUCTION GRANTS (Poetry & Theatre)

1st call: from 12th February to 30th April 2024

2nd call: from 2nd May to 20th June 2024

3rd call: from 1st July to 31st October 2024

TRANSLATION GRANTS

1st call: from 12th de February to 30th April 2024

2nd call: from 2nd May to 20th June 2024

3rd call: from 1st July to 31st October

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS GRANTS

1st call: from 12th de February to 30th April 2024

2nd call: from 2nd May to 20th June 2024

3rd call: from 1st July to 31st October

Míriam Sugranyes

The Minister of Culture, Natàlia Garriga, visited the exhibition accompanied by the director of the Institut Ramon Llull, Pere Almeda, the artist Carlos Casas and the curator, Filipa Ramos. The inauguration featured a performance by the composer Marina Herlop.

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The KulturBrauerei cultural centre will host a day of Catalan literature and music organised by the Institut Ramon Llull. The event is in collaboration with several institutions in the city and aims to publicise the Day to the German public.

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The American Folk Art Museum will exhibit the legacy of Francesc Tosquelles and his ground-breaking therapeutic, political and cultural practices from 12 April to 18 August. The exhibition, which is supported by the Institut Ramon Llull, is accompanied by a publication and a programme of public events. The psychiatrist saw theatre, cinema, art and writing as fundamental therapeutic tools.

Foto: Eva Cruz

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The audiovisual installation, which features sounds and images of creatures that inhabit the countryside and imaginary landscapes of Catalonia, will open on April 18th in Venice and will be available for viewing until November 24th.

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Children, mothers and siblings looking for one another, others not knowing they exist or believed to be dead, and others that will never be able to find one another. Thousands of cases of stolen children in Spain took place between the late thirties and early nineties. Newborn babies were stolen from single or undesirable mothers. They were told that their babies were dead, while being sold to pro-Franco Regime ‘model’ or favorable families.

LOST... EVERYWHERE

April 2-3, 2024

KJCC-NYU Auditorium, 53 Washington Square South, New York

RSVP required

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This year the festival will pay particular attention to female desire and the taboo’s that surround it. The Catalan Film Festival, created and produced by CinemaAttic with close support from Institute Ramon Llull and Screen Scotland, will feature the latest Catalan films, from award-winning features to the best short films, as well as in-depth Q&As with guest directors.

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The Department of Culture’s stand will host 18 Catalan publishers from 12 to 14 March.

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This scholarship is aimed at doctoral students and is endowed with €20,000.

This talk is based on the Manifesto for a Feminist Nationalism that Dr. Ojeda published on March 8, 2023, along with the Matriotes collective in the Catalan Countries.

Manifesto for a Feminist Nationalism. National and Gender Opression in Catalan Countries

With Dr. Júlia Ojeda Caba, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

12:00 - 2:00pm

Loreen Rona Lydeen Library, Rolfe Hall, UCLA

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