The Raindance Film Festival, billed as the UK's largest independent film festival, will take place in London from 25 October to 4 November.

The Franz Schubert Filharmonia led by Conductor and Artistic Director Tomàs Grau presents its first ever concert in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. The orchestra, which makes its primary home in Barcelona and also holds annual concerts in other Spanish cities, performs Casal's Sant Martí del Canigó, Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" in an emblematic program celebrating the strong cultural and historical ties that exist between Spain and the United States. 

Prof. Josep Soler Carbonell is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Department of English, Stockholm University. He specialises in the study of language ideologies and on the macro-micro dynamics of language policy configuration in different settings, including internationalising higher education systems, family multilingualism, and minority language contexts. His research has appeared in journals of reference in sociolinguistics, such as Language in Society, Journal of Sociolinguistics, and the International Journal of the Sociology of Language.

The seminar Curing the Institutions with Francesc Tosquelles. Politics and exile, desalienation and outsider art. will discuss the legacy of the Franco-Catalan psychiatrist Francesc/François Tosquelles. In the occupied France of the 1940s, he healed his patients by “curing” the psychiatric institution itself.

Like any other digital technology, or the Internet itself, the current explosion of AI research and applications relies on their conceptualization as immaterial technologies. The idea of clean, ethereal networks whose data is stored in a bodiless Cloud is nothing but a fallacy that hides thousands of miles of fiber optic cables, innumerable data centers, and increasing global energy consumption. The Internet that feeds and fuels AI is made up of a series of materials, constructions, and interventions that are hidden from the naked eye; from inconspicuous buildings in the centers of our cities, to urban beaches where the undersea cables that connect countries and continents are buried under the sand.

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

In a long-lasting partnership with Institut Ramon Llull, the 2024 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program will again ofer a mentorship for an emerging translator from the Catalan. In previous years, mentees Samantha Mateo, Tiago Miller, Marlena Gittleman, and Scott Shanahan have worked alongside some of the most prominent translator from the Catalan, such as Ronald Puppo, or Mara Faye Lethem. This year's ALTA mentor is Julia Sanches whose recent translation of Boulder by Eva Baltasar was shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize.

The 60th International Art Exhibition will be held in Venice from April 20 to November 24, 2024. The present edition is under the curation of Adriano Pedrosa, who has chosen the theme Foreigners Everywhere.

Oscar Peñas uses his unique skills to arrange, produce, and perform compositions in many US best venues fusing jazz and classical genres, using non-traditional instrumentation in either style, outlining his arrangements and unique sound.

Vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Mar Vilaseca was born in 1998, in Barcelona, Spain. Mar grew up in a musical environment and learned how to play and sing at a very young age, being exposed to a wide variety of music. She was classically trained in piano and traditional harmony at the Conservatorio del Liceo. At the age of 14, she started singing professionally in her father’s band, where she began her career in jazz and modern music.