For the fifth year in a row, Making Catalan Literature Travel for International Publishers and Agents will be held within the framework of The Catalan Book Week 2021. With this mission, this year 14 professionals from Germany, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Italy, Argelia, Lebanon, Brazil and Serbia will meet with around thirty Catalan publishers and agencies who will present their most important titles and attend several sessions to deepen the knowledge of Catalan literary fiction, illustration and the publishing sector.

As in the previous edition, this year's Mission will take place in exclusively online, from September 13 to 17.

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40th Annual Battery Dance Festival features 56 performances, 32 premieres, and 14 countries. Free virtual performances will be available online on YouTube from August 12-14, 7-8pm EDT. Free in-person & liestreamed performances will take place from August 15-20, 7-9pm EDT at Robert F. Wagner Park in New York and livestreamed on YouTube.

 

40th Annual Battery Dance Festival

Young Voices in Dance, August 16, 2021. The link for the 7pm livestream will be posted on the day of the event. The video will be available to watch for 10 days after the premiere and will expire on Aug 26th.

Register here for free for this event to receive reminders and bonus content.

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FiraTàrrega and the Ramon Llull Institute are publishing a call addressed to creators who, on an individual basis, wish to present a research proposal for the writing of an artistic creation linked to performing arts and the public space.

The goal of this programme is to contribute to the development of writing processes in the best conditions, through research, knowledge sharing and mentoring from experts selected to ensure the excellence of the writing, investigation and creation.

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For the second year running, the Institut Ramon Llull is promoting Barcelona as one of the stand-out locations for the well-known electronic music festival

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The Freden International Music Festival (Internationale Fredener Musiktage) takes place annually in the city of Freden in Lower Saxony, Germany over nine days and it is one of the most well-known festivals in Germany and beyond. This year's programme includes “Duo Seraphim”, a piece composed by the Catalan composer Bernat Vivancos especially for the occasion and performed by the Catalan soprano Núria Rial and Miriam Feuersinger from Austria.

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Catalonia will take part in the 59th International Art Festival in Venice as part of the Eventi Collaterali programme with a project commissioned by Oriol Fontdevila, which will be called Llim (Silt), with artwork from the artist Lara Fluxà. The Catalan exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia, opening on 23rd April 2022, is produced by the Institut Ramon Llull.

Oriol Fontdevila. Photo by Eva Carasol. Couretsy by Fabra i Coats

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For the second year running, the Conference, which was to be held at the University of València, will take place online.

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Maria Lladó Ribot (Palma, 1976) Graduate on Humanities studies, Performing Arts and Music Sciences Management. Lladó was the music delegate at the Balearic

Islands local Government during the period 2000-2004. She has also developed her professional experience in public institutional music policies focussed at programmes for international promotion of Catalan Culture and music advisor of music festivals as Mercat de Música Viva de Vic or Grec Festival. Since 2003, she has been coordinator of the music department at the Institut Ramon Llul, a public organisation dedicated to the international promotion of Catalan Culture.

The Board of Directors of the Institut Ramon Llull, held today, Wednesday 14 July, has appointed Maria Lladó as the new director of the Llull Arts Department.

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Faberllull is a network of residences of arts, sciences and humanities located in the cites of Olot (Catalonia) and La Massana (Andorra) managed by the Institut Ramon Llull in collaboration with Olot's town council and the Governement of Andorra. It is a place for professionals from the Arts, Sciences or Humanities fields (writers, translators, artists of diverse disciplines, scholars and scientists and so on) come to work on their personal projects for a time.

For more information visit Faberllull.

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To celebrate its 40th edition, the Cambridge Film Festival has organised “Rewind”, a monthly selection of great films screened throughout its history. The “Rewind” season continues in July with a Catalan theme that includes Black Bread, a must-see film that was Spain’s 2012 Oscar contender.

UK film lovers have a new opportunity to watch interesting, unique and alternative cinema.

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The online course is aimed at literary translators from Catalan into English who have already published at least one translation of a work of Catalan literature and who wish to broaden their skills as translators. The course will be directed by translator Peter Bush in collaboration with editor Sophie Lewis, and will run for three days, from Tuesday 9 to Thursday 11 November 2021.

The uniqueness of the course is its advanced level: participants will be translators from Catalan into English who have already translated and published at least one work of Catalan literature.

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Dance and theatre made in Catalonia are coming to the Festival d'Avignon, one of the most important international contemporary performing arts events. Among the fifty or so performances at the festival, Marcos Morau and Aina Alegre are separately presenting two vibrant dance pieces inspired by Iberian folklore. And as part of the theatre programme, the 48 Rencobtres d’été and the 5th Forum de Nouvelles Écritures Dramatiques Européennes –both events at La Chartreuse in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon- will showcase dramatised readings of Victoria Szpunberg and Helena Tornero, respectively. From 5th until 25th July

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The Llull Governing Board, held today, Wednesday June 30, 2021, has appointed Francesc Serés as the new director of the Institut Ramon Llull. The writer will replace Iolanda Batallé, who has held the position since September 2018.

Photo: Pablo Rogero

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• The London Book Fair, one of the most prestigious book fairs on the international publishing scene, is being held this year in virtual format, from 21 June to 1 July.


• The Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies and the Institut Ramon Llull are organising various activities at the fair to promote Catalan literature and internationalisation of the publishing sector.

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