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Peñas' training began with classical studies and later progressed to jazz. His innovative compositions have won the USA's press and audiences' attention, attracting a wide variety of fans through its unique combination of different grooves over American jazz base. He leads his band with harmonic imagination and authenticity, writing his original compositions with minimalistic and sensitive musical strokes, exchanging spontaneous creativity with his bandmates.

Featuring guitarist Oscar Peñas, violinist Sara Caswell, bassist Motohito Fukushima, and drummer Richie Barshay.

Dates:

Feb 25, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, CA

Feb 27, San Jose Winter Jazz, SJZ Break Room, San Jose, CA

March 1, Sam First Jazz Club, Los Angeles, CA

March 2, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, San Diego, CA

March 3, Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque, NM

March 4, Kerr Cultural Center, ASU, Scottsdale, AZ

March 5, SFJAZZ, San Francisco, CA

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Today, the National Endowment for the Arts announced that Ann Kaiser will receive a Literature Translation Fellowship to translate from the Catalan Unnameable, a collected works of Anna Gual into English. Ann Kaiser is one of 24 Literature Translation Fellows selected for year 2022. In total, the Arts Endowment will award $325,000 in grants to support the translation of works written in 16 different languages into English.

Since 1981, the National Endowment for the Arts has awarded 550 fellowships to 487 literary translators, with translations representing 78 languages.

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Catalonia's flourishing publishing sector has helped to foster the interest in, and knowledge of, Catalan language and literature around the world. Livres Canada Books presents a webinar on the Catalan book market as an introduction to the Catalan Culture Spotlight at The 2022 London Book Fair.

The Catalan Book Market

Thursday, January 27, 2022

1:00 pm EST

Register here

This live webinar will be followed by an interactive Q&A period with the hosts.

*Presentation in English with simultaneous French interpretation.

Organized by Livres Canada Books

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Thirty-two years after their Quebec debut, the peerless Jordi Savall and his ensemble Le Concert des Nations return to Lanaudière, bringing audiences the splendour of Versailles in the Baroque period. This rare and exceptional event is the perfect remedy against the winter doldrums, a haven of beauty and warmth.

A special edition concert at the Festival de Lanaudière

February 26, 7:30pm

Joliette Cathedral

Royal Concerts in the Baroque Versailles

Jordi Savall, conductor and bass viol

Le Concert des Nations:

Manfredo Kraemer, violin 

Charles Zebley, flute 

Philippe Pierlot, bass viol  

Rolf Lislevand, theorbo 

Marco Vitale, harpsichord 

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The Collateral Event Air/Aria/Aire Catalonia in Venice of the Biennale Architettura 2021, shows the results of a study on air pollution carried out in the city of Venice.

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  For the first time, air pollution data has been collected from 25 locations of Venice city centre: all results are above the annual NO2 average recommended by the WHO.
  


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  Two of the selected locations, the stations at the Vaporetto of Ponte dell’Accademia, and Fondamente Nove exceed the annual NO2 average demanded by the EU.
  

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Dream-e-scape is an interactive projection art installation about lucid dreams, created by filmmaker Laia Cabrera and multimedia artist Isabelle Duverger, in collaboration with interactive designer Aniol Saurina Masó and composer and instrumentalist Nana Simopoulos.

Dream-e-scape, An eye-opening journey into the sleep state
An immersive interactive cinematic art installation

Flutter Experience Art Gallery, 217 S La Brea Ave, Los Angeles

Dec 2, 2021 through Dec 2022

Conceived and Directed by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
Interactive Design by Aniol Saurina Masó
Original music composition by Nana Simopoulos
Cinematography and Editing by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger

 

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Institut Ramon Llull Is promoting a stay on screenwriting for fictional feature films. This initiative is supported by the Catalan Film Academy, Associated Screenwriters of Catalonia (GAC) and the collaboration of Catalan Films (ICEC).

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Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations return to the New York's Carnegie Hall with two concerts in February 2022: Monteverdi's Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi (Libro ottavo), and a Baroque music program that will include works by Marais, Rameau, Rebel, and others. 

Jordi Savall's 2022 North American tour

 

Carnegie Hall, New York

Jordi Savall: Monteverdi’s Madrigals of Love and War

Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 8:00pm

Jordi Savall: Royal Concerts in the Baroque Versailles

Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 7:30pm

 

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Catalan writer, Max Besora, talks about his satirical novel which traces the life of Joan Orpí, one of the most unknown, yet fascinating, characters in Spanish history. In his torrential book, The Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orpí, Conquistador and Founder of New Catalonia, we learn all about the odyssey that brought him first to Barcelona, later to Sevilla, and finally to America, where he experiences a series of outlandish situations.

TPL Culture

Max Besora: The Adventures and Misadventures of Joan Orpí

This event’s guests: Max Besora and Charles Foran

Fri, Dec 3, 2021 12:00 PM

Live and online.

 

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The Ramon Llull Foundation has presented the Ramon Llull International Awards in Andorra on November 26, 2021, aimed at recognizing people or institutions from outside the linguistic domain who have worked for the international promotion of the Catalan language and culture. The winners in this ninth edition have been the filmmaker Naomi Kawase (Award for the International Promotion of Catalan Creation) for programming a Focus of Catalan Cinema directed by women within the Nara International Film Festival; the translator Ronald Puppo (Literary Translation Prize) recognized for the translation of texts by Joan Maragall published in the poetic anthology One Day of Life is Life; and the Australian linguist Joseph Lo Bianco (Catalan Studies and Cultural Diversity Award), for promoting multilingualism and finding the balance between local and official languages, and for their knowledge and interest and commitment to Catalan culture and society .

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The Catalan Film Festival returns to Scotland 25 November – 12 December 2021 with a mesmerising programme of award-winning films, bringing summery Mediterranean vibes to heat up the Scottish winter. We are extremely excited to return to our favourite Scottish cinemas, while maintaining an online window for Catalan Arts lovers across the UK and globally via Festhome.

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ICEC and Institut Ramon Llull organize in Girona an IETM Network satellite event

Girona City Council and the Temporada Alta festival collaborate in the proposal to bring the local artistic context closer to professionals from 18 countries

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To celebrate the Robert Gerhard Year 2021 in the United Kingdom, the Institut Ramon Llull has prepared an exciting programme of concerts in three different cities: two concerts by the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Edmon Colomer, in Huddersfield and London, and a concert by the Gerhard Quartet in Cambridge. These concerts are part of “Music and Exile” programme of the Government of Catalonia.

The London Sinfonietta concerts will be conducted by Edmon Colomer, a conductor with a distinguished career and commissioner of the Robert Gerhard Year.

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In December 2020, we, Gila Kolb and Aina Tur, were asked by the Institut Ramon Llull, in collaboration with the Goethe Institut Barcelona, to curate an online and transnational talk series. The series was to address the question of how cultural practitioners have been confronted with the global pandemic emergency and how this has changed the way cultural experiences are created and shared. Almost a year after this commissioning, we summarise in this article what we have learned and unlearned from these conversations, their guests and audiences. We also want to share the doubts and questions brought by people from different disciplines, cultures and countries as they came together and discussed.

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