This online library exhibition celebrates the magnificent diversity of languages that advance research, teaching, and learning at the University of California, Berkeley. It is the point of embarkation for an exciting sequential exhibit that will build on one post per week, showcasing an array of digitized works in the original language chosen by those who work with these languages on a daily basis — librarians, professors, lecturers, staff, and students. Many of these early-published works are now in the public domain and are open to the world to read and share without restriction.

The Languages of Berkeley

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When Salvador Dalí & Luis Buñuel’s film Un chien Andalou premiered in the City of Light, Paris was an avant-garde hothouse rife with artistic conflict and friendly rivalry. Midnight in Paris: Surrealism at the Crossroads, 1929 immerses visitors in this particularly rich and vital creative era by examining the works, friendships and clashes of Jean Arp, André Breton, Luis Buñuel, Alexander Calder, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy and others.

Midnight in Paris: Surrealism at the Crossroads, 1929

Special Exhibit

November 23, 2019 – April 9, 2020

The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

See exhibit-related events & programs

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TRAC stands for "traducccions del català a altres llengües" (translations from Catalan into other languages). It is made up of the databases of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes and the Institut Ramon Llull, which is now responsible for managing and updating the database. Additionally, the TRAC has had new tools added recently, such as the translation map or the rankings for the most translated authors and books.

The book in Catalan that has been translated to more languages is Rodoreda's La plaça del Diamant.

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For more than 50 years, Jordi Savall, one of the most versatile musical personalities of his generation, has rescued musical gems from the obscurity of neglect and oblivion and given them back for all to enjoy. A tireless researcher of early music, he interprets and performs the repertory both as a gambist and a conductor. Performing with his ensemble, Jordi creates a world of emotion and beauty that he shares with millions of early music enthusiasts around the world. 

Jordi Savall: 2020 Performance Dates 

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Peter Bush's new translation of short stories by Quim Monzó, now available from Open Letter Press, has drawn wide praise in the United States, and was recently featured on the New York Time's shortlist of notable fiction in translation. 

Not Lost in Translation: Provocative Foreign Fiction

"Why, Why, Why?" available from Open Letter Press

Intrigued by the aesthetic and philosophical possibilities of the haiku, Dolors Miquel introduces "elements of our own daily life to the typically nature-centered themes” of the classic Japanese version in "Truck Driver Haikus/Haikús del Camioner," now available in an English translation by Clyde Moneyhun.

Truck Driver Haikus/Haikús del Camioner by Dolors Miquel, translated by Clyde Moneyhun

Translations from Catalan available from Francis Boutle Publishers

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For over 30 years, Total Theatre Magazine has been at the forefront of the advocacy, celebration and documentation of contemporary theatre and performance – including the support of artforms and practices such as circus, outdoor arts, site-responsive performance, puppetry, and physical and visual theatre, which have often been ignored, or not treated with the seriousness they merit, by other publications.

Read "Homage to Catalonia – Street Theatre and Circus Pioneers" 

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Winner of the 2015 London Book Fair's International Literary Translation Initiative Award, Asymptote is the premier site for world literature in translation. The September 2019 issue focuses solely on Catalan literature in translation and includes fragments from writers such as Joan Brossa, Maria Cabrera and Dolors Miquel. A whole world of Catalan literature awaits here...

Asymptote's special issue on Catalan literature

Read Catalan literature in translation for free here!

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Winner of the 2015 London Book Fair's International Literary Translation Initiative Award, Asymptote is the premier site for world literature in translation. The journal takes its name from the dotted line on a graph that a mathematical function may tend toward, but never reach. Similarly, a translated text may never fully replicate the effect of the original; it is its own creative act.

Dive into the issue!

 

 

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The most ambitious, creative and complete international retrospective of works by Pere Portabella will tour London’s most engaged cultural institutions from 26 November 2019 to 15 February 2020. Programme supported by the Institut Ramon Llull, showing at Close-Up Film Centre, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Whitechapel Gallery, Brixton Prison, Cafe Oto, BFI Southbank, Low Company and University of Cambridge.

Christopher Lee: "Portabella is a very intelligent man and a wonderful film director"

Portabella & Films 59

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Join the group of enthusiastic Catalan students, plus other members of the community, for a weekly Cafè Català this Fall semester at Columbia University. Starting September 25th, 2019, Catalanophiles and Catalan speakers of all kind will meet Wednesdays from 2:30 to 4:00pm.

Columbia University- Casa Hispánica (612 W. 116th St)

Wednesdays from 2:30 to 4:00pm

Free and open to the public

Join the “Català a Columbia University” group at FB!

 

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"Perseguits i Salvats," presented in conjunction with the Diputació de Lleida, tells the story of the escape of Jew refugees during the Holocaust through the mountains that connect France and Spain. The exhibition's opening will include a conference and and documentary screening focusing on the experience of survivors of the Holocaust who fled to the Pyrenees and their families.

Exhibition: Perseguits i Salvats

Opening December 10, 2019

Instituto Cervantes

211 E 49th St, New York, NY

 

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The Bacelona-based physical theatre company Los Escultores del Aires will perform their work La Caja (The Box) at Teatro Latea in Manhattan, and at Jersey City Theater Center as part of International Voices Theater Festival.

Los Escultores del Aire: La Caja at Teatro Latea

December 5 - 7, at 8:00pm

December 8, at 3:00pm

107 Suffolk St., New York, NY

 

Los Escultores del Aire: La Caja at Jersey City Theater Center

December 10 and 11, at 8:00 pm

Merseles Studios, 339 Newark Ave., Jersey City, NJ

 

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On September 11, The National Day of Catalonia, Catalan Institute of America (CIofA) will launch a film series for its members. Screenings will take place regularly. A week later, the CIofA Book Club in Catalan, also free for members and coordinated by translator Mary Ann Newman, will start meeting on the third Wednesday of each month. Both series will be held at the Center for Social Innovation in Chelsea, NYC.

Film Series

LES DISTÀNCIES (2018) by Elena Trapé

Wednesday, September 11, 2019, 6:30pm

In Catalan with English subtitles

Book Club 2019 

October 14, November 18, December 9, 2019 and January 20, 2020

PRIMAVERA, ESTIU, ETCÈTERA by Marta Rojals

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

6:30 - 8:00pm

Center for Social Innovation

601 W 26th Street #325, New York

For CIofA members only!

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This Fall semester, Prof. Antoni Monegal of Barcelona’s Universitat Pompeu Fabra will teach a course on “Visuality, Memory and Citizenship: Archive and Activism in Catalan Photography” for students at the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.

Antonio Monegal

Course: Visuality, Memory and Citizenship: Archive and Activism in Catalan Photography, Stanford University

Lecture: Citizenship and Visuality: Filming Catalonia’s Cultural Landscape

November 7 at Stanford University

November 15 at UCLA

December 2 at University of California, Berkeley

 

 

 

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