With focus on the 20th and 21st centuries, this recording showcases six song cycles by Frederic Mompou, Eduard Toldrà, Joan Comellas, Ricard LaMotte de Grignon, Narcís Bonet, and finally a world premiere recording of a new commission by living Catalonian composer, Elisenda Fábregas. This project not only furthers the scholarship in Catalan vocal literature, but also celebrates in song the human journey that is both tender and boisterous.

Bridge Records has announced a new recording of Visca L’Amor: Catalan Art Songs of the 20th and 21st Centuries, featuring tenor Isaí Jess Muñoz and pianist Oksana Glouchko. 

 

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The small Catalan cultural and linguistic community in L’Alguer, a town in the north-west corner of Sardinia, as well as the poetry written there from the mid-twentieth century onwards, are perhaps two exceptional and surprising singularities. Poet and academic Joan-Elies Adell shines a light on the poetry in Catalan produced in this Sardinian town.

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The Center for Catalan Studies at Queen Mary University of London has organized, with the support of Pushkin Press, an online reading group on Learning to Talk to Plants, the award-winning novel by Marta Orriols, recently published in the United Kingdom. The event will feature the participation of the author and Mara Faye Lethem, translator of the work into English.

The group discussion and launching event will take place online via Zoom on Wednesday 16 December at 8pm (London time).

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This year, 4 November marked 100 years since the birth of Jordi-Pere Cerdà (Sallagosa, 1920–Perpinyà, 11 September 2011), one of the most unique poetic voices in Catalan literature. And one of the most unknown, hidden under piles of clichés and reductive labels.

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We interview Raquel García-Tomás, a young interdisciplinary creator and composer who has just won the National Music Prize for the opera 'Je suis narcissiste' and who has just premiered at the Liceu 'Per precaució', a piece composed during confinement.

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Atlàntida Film Fest, the biggest online film festival in Europe, organised by Filmin, is expanding internationally and, on top of Portugal, will reach five more European countries this December (Serbia, Greece, Albania, Romania and Bulgaria). Following the exponential growth of its in-person edition in Mallorca and the online version on Filmin – with over 550,000 viewers last year – the ten-year-old festival is making the leap into new territories, thanks to its collaboration with the European Union’s MEDIA Creative Europe programme.

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Catalan Film Festival returns to Scotland with a hybrid edition 19 November - 6 December 2020. The festival responds to a challenging year with an expanded format that will bring Mediterranean vibes to Scotland’s local cinemas and households - as the festival adapts to the new reality by offering its entire programme of films, talks and events online.

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In the crucial decades in which the internet has replaced television and books as the main educator and entertainer in all ‘normal’ languages and cultures, there were no influencers communicating in Catalan. What is the current status of the Catalan language on the internet? Joan Burdeus explains.

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Prof. Miquel Àngel Pradilla of the Unviersity Rovira i Virgili was invited by The Mercè Rodoreda Chair for Catalan Language and Literature at The Graduate Center - CUNY to teach a course in Catalan sociolinguistics this Fall 2020 Semester. The Rodoreda Chair, created in 2003 and funded by Institut Ramon Llull, each semester offers a course in Catalan literature and culture, or a course in Catalan sociolinguistics, alternatively. 

Prof. Miguel Ángel Pradilla Cardona: La planificación lingüística contemporánea de la lengua catalana
November 30 – December 4, 2020

For students enrolled in the PhD Program in Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures at the Graduate Center-CUNY - The Mercè Rodoreda Chair for Catalan Language and Literature

 

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For the first time ever in Catalan cinema, ‘the chasm between the large proportion of female students on audiovisual studies courses and the lack of women in the industry is finally beginning to close’, explains film critic Eulàlia Iglesias. Names like Carla Simón – winner of the Catalan National Culture Prize – Elena Martín, Lucía Alemany, Neus Ballús and Belén Funes, among others, are proof of this.

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All auditions, which will be held fortnightly, can be followed online through the Cases de la Música website.

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Since 2008, Catalan Studies and Spanish and Portuguese Program at UMass Amherst with the support from Institut Ramon Llull have organized a yearly film festival dedicated to the recent Catalan cinema production. In the year of the COVID pandemic, the 13th Massachusetts Catalan Film Festival, UMass Amherst will take place virtually. Four films will be made available for students to stream from home: Júlia Ist directed by Elena Martín, La vida lliure directed by Marc Recha and featuring actor Sergi López, Estiu 1993 directed by Carla Simón, and Con el viento by Meritxell Colell. Students will have an opportunity to join the post-screening talks with directors and artist.

 

13th Massachusetts Catalan Film Festival, UMass Amherst

November 17 to 20, 2020, 3:00pm to 4:00pm (EST)

Tuesday, November 17
Q&A (in English) on Júlia Ist with ELENA MARTÍN

Wednesday, November 18
Q&A (in English) on La vida lliure with SERGI LÓPEZ

Thursday, November 19
Q&A (in English) on Estiu 1993 with CARLA SIMÓN

Friday, November 20
Q&A (in Spanish) on Con el viento with MERITXELL COLELL

 

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