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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Sosa will be touring with violinist-vocalist Yilian Cañizares and folkloric Venezuelan percussionist Gustavo Ovalles and playing songs from his recent album Aguas, recorded with Cañizares. Aguas reflects the perspectives of two generations of Cuban artists living outside their homeland, interpreting their roots and traditions in subtle and unique ways.  Songs range from the poignant to the exuberant, and are expressive of the exceptional musical chemistry, poetic sensibilities, and originality of the artists.

Omar Sosa Tour Schedule 2020 

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In the Catalan writer Quim Monzó’s version of classic fairy tales, a prince kisses a toad and is rewarded with the woman of his dreams. Then he wonders what to say. "Should he suggest they go straight to his place or will she take it the wrong way?”

Read the full review by Alison McCulloh in The New York Times: Not Lost in Translation: Provocative Foreign Fiction

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The book, written by Meritxell Martí with illustrations by Xavier Salomó Fisa, was noted for its "beautiful illustrations showing submarine adventures where one finds freedom without limits."

Sota les onades available from Flamboyant

New York Public Library: Los mejores libros para pequeños 2019

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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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"Paquito Forever" is a one-man show by Joan Vázquez, returning to the New York cabaret stage after his debut at Feinstein's/54 Below with his Sondheim show Something's Coming. The show is an intimate and personal account of the real-life adventures of Paquito (Paco) Alonso, a gay Catalonian growing up wanting to be a dancer in Franco's postwar Spain but grafting his way out to reach the bright lights of Broadway and beyond. 

Paquito Forever

Monday, February 24, 2020

7:00pm,  9:00pm

Club Cumming

505 East 6th Street, New York

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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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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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Daybook 1918: Early Fragments is the first substantial selection in English from the prose poetry of the major Catalan writer J. V. Foix. The core of Lawrence Venuti’s edition is forty-five prose poems from the beginning of Foix’s career, supplemented by additional poems in prose and verse, prose fictions, and essays that immerse the reader in the heady cultural ferment of early twentieth-century Catalonia.

2020 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists 

"Daybook 1918: Early Fragments" available from Northwestern University Press

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Escape the cold New York winter, let the artists take you on a journey and discover contemporary sounds from Athens, Beirut or Barcelona. Continuing to highlight a Mediterranean perspective on jazz, the Mediterranean Jazz Festival is back with its 4th edition, live at Drom on two nights, Saturday and Sunday, January 18th and 19th.

The 4th Mediterranean Jazz Festival

January 18-19, 2020

Drom, New York

Ascetic vision about a being who detests the dysfunctional social model that this society proposes and opts for the way of self-destruction. Loneliness, addiction, survival, human sacrifice and a strong ideological component, turn "Bronko" into the symbol of the new contemporary redeemer.

BRONKO

Director: Isaac Ulam

Saturday, January 18, 2020, 7:00pm

Film Noir Cinema, 122 Maserole Ave., Brooklyn, NY

 

 

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Soon to mark its eighth edition, this festival is dedicating its 2020 event to different cultures from around the Mediterranean. From 14 to 25 January and in collaboration with the Institut Ramon Llull, it will celebrate Catalan creativity by offering nine shows that exhibit local contemporary artistic talent in all its glory.

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From January 12 to 18, 2020, Faber Olot will be the third residence on the gender gap from a variety of international perspectives (Feminism III) 

Join Marina Albero in a celebration of the journey of life through music. Marina Albero presents a self-release where you’re invited to feel the world through her experiences. Albero’s music has been brewed in Spain, Cuba and the US and it’s made of a natural blend of impressionistic, jazz, flamenco, son and early music. With a strong accent on the rhythm, her music has been captivating audiences and musicians around the Northwest since she moved to Seattle in 2015 where she has been awarded as Emerging Artist  2018 by Earshot Jazz.

Marina Albero - piano, D'Vonne Lewis - drums, Colson Jimenez - bass

Friday, January 10, 2020

8:00pm, 9:00pm

Soapbox Gallery, 636 Dean St., Brooklyn, NY

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