Institut Ramon LLull

29/04/2024 Music

This spring, the best stages in the world will host the great Catalan classical music orchestras and ensembles.

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.
24/04/2024

Cutting edge translation

“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.
24/04/2024

April poem

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 ...
24/04/2024

Catalan Literature on the Road

April 2024Dear 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 20242nd call: from 2nd May to 20th June 20243rd call: from 1st July to 31st October 2024TRANSLATION GRANTS 1st call: from 12th de February to 30th April 20242nd call: from 2nd May to 20th June 20243rd ...
18/04/2024 Arts

”Bestiari”, the exhibition by Carlos Casas showcasing images and sounds captured in the natural parks of Catalonia, debuts at the Venice Biennale of Art.

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.
15/04/2024 Literature

Berlin celebrates Sant Jordi (St George’s Day) with a day of Catalan culture and literature

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.
11/04/2024 Arts

The New York exhibition showcases the legacy of revolutionary Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles.

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.
21/03/2024 Arts

The Institut Ramon Llull presents Bestiari, the project by Carlos Casas and Filipa Ramos at Biennale Arte 2024

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.
New York 
14/03/2024 Arts

LOST…Everywhere: video art by Rosa Pascual on view in New York

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.
13/03/2024 Cinema

Scotland hosts the 9th edition of the Catalan Film Fest from 20 March to 14 April

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.
12/03/2024 Literature

The Catalan publishing sector is returning to the London Book Fair.

The Department of Culture’s stand will host 18 Catalan publishers from 12 to 14 March.
Los Angeles 
22/02/2024 Universities

Julia Ojeda discusses national and gender opression at the University of California Los Angeles

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.
New York 
22/02/2024 Music

An eternal return: two exhibitions in New York pay tribute to Victoria de los Ángeles in her Centennial

Fundació Victoria de los Ángeles launches the celebration of the Centennial of the famous Catalan soprano Victoria de los Ángeles with two important exhibitions in New York City, at the Metropolitan Opera House, and at the Instituto Cervantes in New York.
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