A new window opens onto Catalan cinema at the Cambridge Film Festival held from 24 to 31 October, which includes some of its most outstanding recent titles. The films that will be screened this year are Casa en flames House on fire), El mestre que va prometre el mar (The teacher who promised the sea), Llobàs, Tu no ets jo (You are not me) and The human hibernation.

The Human Hibernation

At the Fair, scheduled to run from 16 October to 20 October, the Department of Culture will host a booth where industry professionals and leading organisations promoting and enhancing the global recognition of Catalan literature will be in attendance.

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This year, FIBA, a prominent performing arts festival held in Buenos Aires from 18 to 27 October, will showcase four Catalan productions on Argentine stages.

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The opening ceremony will take place on 14 October at the university. A performance by Explica Dansa dance company will open the event, followed by an institutional reception and a staged reading of Victoria Spunzberg's play, El pes d'un cos (The Weight of a Body), translated into English by Helena Buffery.

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The residency's second edition, running until 11 October, has the objective of promoting the publication of Catalan and Balearic authors internationally.

The project was initiated by the Direcció General del Patrimoni Cultural (General Directorate of Cultural Heritage) and the Institut Ramon Llull. The first edition of the project features a partnership with Festival Clàssics, which has scheduled a double session on 23 November to display the creators' pieces.

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The Rencontres européennes de la traduction littéraire, which are organised by the European Council of Associations of Literary Translators (CEATL), will focus on key challenges facing the literary translation industry this year, including linguistic and editorial diversity, artificial intelligence, and freedom of expression.

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Two debates will be held on 10 October at the CCCB as part of the Biennial of Thought and will be titled “Wild rumours and sound art”. Additionally, a seminar, a listening workshop, sound activations, and a screening of Carlos Casas' Cemetery will take place in Venice on 17 and 18 October.

Raül Garrigasait will teach at Stanford University in California, Melissa Moyer at the City University of New York, Sílvia Perpiñán at the University of California-Berkeley, and Yairen Jerez at the University of Havana.

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The Architecture and City Festival, considered the most important in America, will feature exhibitions by the two architects with support from the Ramon Llull Institute from September 19 to 23.

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She will be performing live in the Scottish premiere of “Become Ocean”, a musical composition by John Luther Adams that will be played by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and conducted by Clark Rundell.

This year, the Llull's participation in the Catalan Book Week (La Setmana del Llibre en Català) also includes a round table on translation and multilingualism, and the presentation of the book A camp obert. Contemporary cultural practices co-edited with Arcàdia.

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The meeting, organised jointly with the International Catalan Institute for Peace (ICIP), aims to be a healing experience for the participants, taking into account that the impacts of war and conflicts in the three countries are still particularly active.

Thinkers and artists from various fields reflect on 21st century culture with the aim of opening a global dialogue on creativity, imagination and knowledge.

The prize, endowed with 6,000 euros, is announced annually and jointly by the Fundació Ramon Llull and the Fundació Congrés de Cultura Catalana.