Since its founding in 1992, Art Omi Writers (previously known as Ledig House) has hosted hundreds of authors and translators, representing more than fifty countries. The colony's strong international emphasis reflects the spirit of cultural exchange that is part of Ledig's enduring legacy. The collaboration between Institut Ramon Llull and Art Omi started back in 2010. Since then, Art Omi has hosted at least one Catalan author per year. Some of the Catalan writers in residence have been Gemma Gorga, Francesc Serés, Marc Pastor, Anna Ballbona, Albert Forns, Sebastià Alzamora, Marina Espasa, Anna Aguilar-Amat, Mònica Batet, Marta Carnicero, Sebastià Portell, Martí Domínguez and, last year, Núria Perpinyà and Irene Solà.

Selected out of 22 candidates, Monika Zgustova will travel to Art Omi in the Fall 2020, and Max Besora in 2021.

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Prof. Roser Salicrú is Senior Researcher in Medieval Studies at the Institució Milà i Fontanals of the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) in Barcelona. She received her PhD from the University of Barcelona in 1996, and is the author of several books on the relationships between Christianity and Islam across the Mediterranean, the history of maritime communications, slavery, and travel in the Middle Ages. Prof. Salicrú will offer a course entitled “Christianity and Islam in the Late Middle Ages: Human Contacts beyond Diplomacy, Trade and Captivity in the Western Mediterranean”.

The University of Chicago, Romance Languages and Literatures, Minor in Catalan Studies

Roser Salicrú i Lluch: Christianity and Islam in the Western Mediterranean World during the Late Middle Ages

 

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For Manel Lledós, painting is a rapprochement between the tangible and the abstract, the permanent and the transformative, the certain and the unexpected. His painting develops slowly towards an organic geometry which reflects on place, time and belonging.

Side to Side, Three Ways

featuring Emily Berger, Manel Lledós and Kim Uchiyama

Key Projects Art Space 

4129 41st Street, #2G Sunnyside, Queens, New York

April 25 - May 10, 2020

Opening Reception: April 25th, 2-4pm

 

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Oil paintings by Catalan artist Esteve Prat Paz on view at Montserrat Contemporary Art Gallery in Chelsea, New York, show a great sense of color, movement and composition.

Montserrat Contemporary Art Gallery

547 W 27 St., New York

April 1-30, Wed-Sat 12-6pm

Contemporary Reality. E. Prat Paz

Opening reception: Thur April 2, 6-8pm
 

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As someone said, the Catalan language may have a small global footprint with approximately 10 million speakers. But when you learn Catalan, a whole new world opens up to you! Come and join Cafè català at your university to mingle and practice your Catalan! Free and open to everyone!

Learn Catalan at your university!

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The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program was founded by former ALTA board member Allison M. Charette and is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator on a project selected by the emerging translator. The mentorship duration is nine months. The emerging translator is expected to choose a project that can be completed in that time, and they will only be advised on that particular project. ALTA's Emerging Translator Mentorship Program in Catalan is funded by Institut Ramon Llull.

Read more about the ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program. This year’s Catalan prose mentee, Tiago Miller, will be mentored by Mara Faye Lethem.

Peter Bush is an award-winning translator who lives in Barcelona. His translations from the Catalan include Josep Pla’s Life Embitters (Archipelago) and The Gray Notebook (NYRB Classics), Emili Teixidor’s Black Bread (Biblioasis), Teresa Solana's A Shortcut to Paradise (Bitter Lemon Press),  Prudenci Bertrana’s Josafat (Francis Boutle Books) and Joan Sales’ Uncertain Glory and Winds of the Night (NYRB Classics), among other titles. Open Letter recently published his translation of Quim Monzó's Why Why Why.

See the complete list of Catalan books translated by Peter Bush on TRAC: Traduccions del català!

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The seminar taught by Dr. Krauel will investigate how consensus and conflict have played out in Catalan culture from 1898 to 1978. By focusing on momentous events in twentieth-century Catalan history, students will explore how cultural works (essay, narrative, poetry, and photography) respond to, and engage, social antagonisms. By paying special attention to social categorizations of class and nation, they will discuss works that will help them understand how some of Catalonia’s most prominent social theorists, novelists, poets, and visual artists responded to the crises and changes undergone by their societies (possible events include the Cuban-Spanish-American War of 1898, the deathly confrontations between the Spanish army and the Barcelona working class during the Tragic Week in 1909, the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, and the Spanish Transition to democracy in 1975-1978). 

Javier Krauel, “Consensus and Conflict in Catalan Culture (from 1898 to 1978)”

The Mercè Rodoreda Chair, Graduate Center - CUNY

PhD Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures

Spring Semester 2020

Online course

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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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Catalonia is one of the world’s biggest exporters of street performance and arts in public spaces. But why? What are the reasons behind this success and international recognition? Anna Giribet, artistic director of FiraTàrrega, tells us about it.

 

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Vela is a new band with a fresh sound of the minds of Xavier Lecouturier, Dylan Hayes and Serena Dominguez. It features songs created in collaboration with all members, in search of a new sound that pushes the boundaries of genre. Born in Seattle, Vela brings jazz, pop, folk and hip hop together in an unforgettable music experience. 

Zinc Bar

82 West 3rd St., New York

March 31, 2020, sets at 7:30 & 9:00pm

Serena Dominguez Albero, voice
Dylan Hayes, piano
Xavier Lecouturier, drums
Martin Budde, guitar
Stanley Ruvinov, bass
Noah Halpern, trumpet
Santosh Sharma, saxophones

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Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) is a city at the forefront of exciting artistic movements like Catalan rumba and nuevo flamenco. It’s also home to the band Los Aurora, a name that refers to “the rosy light that immediately precedes the sunrise”. 

“Aurora, the flamenco that makes you cry and recites Dante.” – Silvia Cruz Lapeña (Vanity Fair)

Flamenco Festival New York

Los Aurora on tour

March 29, 2020, at 8:00pm

Le Poisson Rouge, New York

March 31, 2020, at 8:00pm

City Winery, Boston
 

 

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Cyrus Cassells’ vibrant translations grow on the page as though the essence of Francesc Parcerisas’ work has also moved forward in a Janus-like fashion. These translations are not simply the same poems in a different language; Cassells has crafted new poetry. The gentle and delicate rhythms of Parcerisas have been contracted into shorter lines that explore sharper cadences whilst Cassells carefully maintains a sensitive continuity in the opening feet. This is poetry for the ear first and the page second, Cassells has stronger consonants at his disposal, a resource that he skilfully exploits. The ultimate product of his labours is a short collection of poetry that reads and feels like a work of English Literature, a sensation that is perhaps the highest compliment one may bestow upon a Literary Translation.

Cyrus Cassells: Winner of The Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation of a Book, for Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas.

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The unstoppable advances in technology affect the automation of processes of industrial production and the global economy in many ways. The final goal of artificial intelligence (AI)—that a machine can have a type of general intelligence similar to a human’s—is one of the most ambitious ever proposed by science. In terms of difficulty, it is comparable to other great scientific goals, such as explaining the origin of life or the Universe, or discovering the structure of matter.  

 

Monday, March 23, 2020

7:00pm

Instituto Cervantes New York

211 East 49th St., New York

RSVP: bec3cultny@cervantes.es

In Spanish with simultaneous translation 

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