Institut Ramon Llull Newsletter NEW YORK

Newsletter JUNE 2014 / NY, USA	38

Music. New York, 03/06/2014

Avant-garde jazz pianist Agustí Fernández's upcoming North American tour

Agustí Fernández starts his North American tour in New York, where he will be playing at The Stone, June 3-8, with well known US musicians, such as Nate Wooley, trumpet, or Joe Morris, guitar, and a young Menorcan cellist Míriam Fèlix. After New York, Fernández will be heading to the festival Suoni per il Popolo in Montreal, June 17. The tour will end with two performances at the Okka Festival in Milwaukee, June 21-22.

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Music. New York, 03/06/2014

Barcelona born jazz bassist Alexis Cuadrado and his band, at Jazz at Lincoln Center

A Lorca Soundscape, with Alexis Cuadrado, bass; Claudia Acuña, vocals; Yosvany Terry, saxophone & chekere; Robert Rodriguez, piano; and Mark Ferber, drums.

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Architecture and design. New York, 14/06/2014

Judit Carrera and "Open to the Public Symposium", examining the multiple dimensions of public space

Held in conjunction with the exhibitions Polis: 7 Lessons from the European Prize for Urban Public Space (2000-2012), the Swiss Touch in Landscape Architecture, and Open to the Public: Civic Space Now, “Open to the Public” is a day-long international symposium that will examine the multiple dimensions of public space.

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Literature. New York, 23/06/2014

Catalan writer Marc Pastor on a New York City publicity tour to promote "Barcelona Shadows", June 23-29

Marc Pastor will be participating in a New York City publicity tour from June 23-29 to promote the U.S. debut of his book "La mala dona", translated from its original Catalan into the English by Mara Faye Lethem as "Barcelona Shadows" and published by Puskin Press in 2014. Join the author at the Strand Bookstore on June 23rd and at the Wythe Hotel Cinema on June 24th!

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Architecture and design. New York, 02/06/2014

Guastavino's Palaces for the People at the Museum of the City of New York

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

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Performing Arts. Austin Texas, 11/06/2014

Barcelona based choreographer and tap dancer Roxane Butterfly at the 14th Annual Soul to Sole Festival in Austin, Texas

Tapestry Dance Company presents its 14th Annual Soul to Sole Festival bringing dancers from around the country and the world to the home of the International Tap Association, June 11-15, 2014, in Austin, Texas.

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Visual Arts. Salt Lake City, 23/05/2014

The Central Utah Art Center (CUAC) presents the first exhibition of Catalan collaborative Momu and No Es in the United States

Incoming Video Call… is an installation inspired by the aesthetic and sensuous pleasures of the digital realm. Momu & No Es constructs a set interspersed with paintings, lights, objects and screens creating a rising plotline.

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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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Performing Arts. New York, 27/07/2014

Catalan playwright Esteve Soler and his Trilogy, featured at the Between the Seas Festival in New York City, the only Mediterranean performing arts festival in North America

Between the Seas Festival is a cutting-edge, international platform showcasing Mediterranean arts and culture in New York City. This year the Festival will take place from July 21-27 at The Wild Project, and will feature Catalan playwright Esteve Soler, among others. Staged readings of Soler's Trilogy Against Progress/ Against Democracy/ Against Love will be presented on Sunday, July 27th.

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Literature. Canada, 01/07/2014

Wilfrid Laurier University Press soon to publish "K.L. Reich" by Joaquim Amat-Piniella, translated by Marta Marín-Dòmine and Robert Finley

Available in English for the first time, Joaquim Amat-Piniella’s searing Catalan novel, K.L. Reich, is a central work of testimonial literature of the Nazi concentration camps. Begun immediately after Amat-Piniella’s liberation in 1945, the book is based on his own four-year internment at Mauthausen.

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