FESTIVALS

THEATRE AND DANCE

Que, El Nou Musical
Five errant teenagers undergo a behavioural modification programme at the hands of a stern adult disciplinarian but they all still find the time and the opportunity to break into song, dance or both when the need arises.

Until 12 October

Schedule: Tuesday through Friday, 9:30pm. Saturday, 6pm and 10pm. Sunday, 6pm
Price: EUR 19

Coliseum
Gran Via, 595
08007
902.33.22.11
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Sombreros
Philippe Decouflé, who trained with mime master Marcel Marceau, presents this multimedia dance work and homage to cinema filled with fantasy, poetry and humour about a young French couple on a trip to Mexico.

25 - 28 September

Schedule:Thursday and Friday, 8pm. Saturday, 9:30pm. Sunday, 6pm
Price: EUR 17-32

Teatre Nacional de
Cataluña
Plaça de les Arts, 1
08013
93.306.57.00
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Cómo es Posible Que Te Quiero Tanto
Javier Daulte wrote and directs this drama about a young woman who moves in with the love her life, a photographer for the National Geograpahic. But when he’s off to China on assignment, she begins receiving phone calls from an anonymous admirer. 

Until 12 October

Schedule: Wednesday through Friday, 9:30pm. Saturday, 6:30pm and 9:30pm. Sunday, 6:30pm
Price: EUR 17-21

Teatre Poliorama
La Rambla, 115
08001
93.371.75.99
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Fama - El Musical
Inspired by the hit film and television series of the 1980s, the all-singing, all-dancing tale of a group of talented young people at a special school for the performing arts.

Indefinite

Schedule: Tuesday through Thursday, 9pm. Friday, 10pm. Saturday, 7pm and 10pm. Sunday, 7pm
Price: EUR 24-49

Teatre Apolo
Avda. Paral-lel,59
08004
93.441-90-07
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Cirque du Soleil’s Quidam
The innovative Canadian troupe which redefined the concept of the circus returns with another display of eye-popping acrobatic stunts and amazing costumes in a new production, this one a comment on the anonymous Everyman who lives among us.

Until 19 October

Schedule: Tuesday through Thursday, 9pm. Friday and Saturday, 6pm and 10pm. Sunday, 1pm
Price: EUR 25-155

Gran Chapiteau
Av. Litoral/Josep Plá

For ticket purchase information see: www.cirqudusoleil.com
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La Tortuga de Darwin
A surrealist comedy in which a historian gets a surprise visit from the ancient tortoise Charles Darwin brought back from the Galapagos Islands and who has not only outlived the naturalist, but lived through the momentous historical events of the past 150 years.

Until 5 October

Schedule: Tuesday through Saturday, 9pm. Sunday, 6:30pm
Price: EUR 17-27

Teatre Romea
Hospital, 51
08001
93.301.55.04
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Spamalot
Monty Python’s West End and Broadway hit translated into Spanish and presented by this country’s own wacky comedy troupe, Tricicle, as King Arthur and crew searching for the Holy Grail. 

26 August - 30 September

Schedule: Tuesday through Thursday, 8:30pm. Friday and Saturday, 6:30pm and 10pm. Sunday, 6:30pm
Price: EUR 24 – 44

Teatre Victória
Avda. Paral-lel, 67
08004
93.318.81.81
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Mamma Mia!
Based on songs by that world-conquering 70’s band, Abba, this was the first musical using tunes from a pop group. Queen, Boy George, Rod Stewart and others have followed with mixed success.

Indefinite

Schedule: Wednesday, 8:30pm. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 6pm and 10pm. Sunday, 6pm
Price: EUR 33-70

Barcelona Teatre Musical
Avda. De la Guardia Urbana s/n
93.423.64.63

CINEMA

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
In this film adaptation of John Boyne’s bestseller, the son of a Nazi concentration camp commandant befriends a Jewish boy prisoner.

Opens 26 September

Starring: Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis and Jack Scalon
Directed by Mark Herman
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Los Ojos de Ariana
A Spanish documentary about how the employees of Afghanistan’s National Film Institute hid and protected the country’s cinema archives from the ruling Taliban who set out to destroy all film and television programmes as un-Islamic.

Opens 26 September

Directed by Ricardo Macián and Carlos Muguiro
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Woody Allen’s latest about a pair of young American women who become involved with a Barcelona artist and his ex-wife. US critics have hailed it as the director’s return to greatness.

Opens 19 September

Starring: Javier Bardem, Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz
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Cuatro Vidas (The Air I Breathe)
A drama following wrenching events in the lives of four people and based on a Chinese proverb which breaks down life into four emotional states: happiness, pleasure, love and sorrow.

Opens 19 September

Directed by Jieho Lee
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Julie Delpy and Brendan Fraser
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Wanted (Se Busca)
James McAvoy plays a trained assassin out to avenge his father. Based on the comics by Mark Millar and co-starring Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman.

Opens 12 September

Directed by Timur Bekmambetov
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Un Verano en la Prozenca (Le Fils de Lépicier)
A nostalgic comedy about a how a young man’s life changes while working as a travelling salesman in the villages of southern France.

Opens 12 September

Directed by Eric Guirado
Starring: Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme and Daniel Duval
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Che, El Argentino (The Argentine)
Director Steven Soderbergh’s take on the early life of the future Latin American revolutionary hero and t-shirt icon played by Benicio del Toro

Opens 5 September

Starring: Victor Rasuk, Armando Riesco, Catalina Sandino
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3:10 to Yuma
Praised by some critics as the best Western since Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, this remake of the 1957 Glenn Ford vehicle was also lauded for Russell Crowe’s portrayal of the outlaw protagonist.

Opens 5 September

Directed by James Mangold
Starring: Christian Bale, Logan Lerman and Peter Fonda
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Gifted Mexican director/writer/producer Guillermo del Toro returns with another tale of the good-hearted demon who fights the forces of darkness. This time the foes are mythical beings gathering to vanquish the human race and rule the world.

Opens 29 August

Starring: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair and Doug Jones
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Los Girasoles Ciegos
In post-war Spain, a former soldier gets a job as a teacher in Oviedo where he falls for the mother of one of his students. His obsession opens up dark secrets in the lives of all.

Opens 29 August

Directed by Jose Luis Cuerda
Starring: Maribel Verdu, Javier Camara and Raul Arevalo
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Virgin Territory
A comedy based on Boccacio’s Decameron and set during the time of the Black Death about the romantic shenanigans of a group of young Florentines. 

Opens 8 August

Directed by David Leland
Starring: Hayden Christensen, Misha Barton and Tim Roth   
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Mamma Mia!
Film version of the long-running musical about a girl living on a Greek island whose three possible fathers show up to attend her wedding. The plot is moved along by the cast singing virtually every hit by those kings and queens of schmaltz, Abba. 

Opens 8 August

Directed by Phyllida Lloyd
Starring: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth
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Peregrinos (Saint Jacques…La Mecque)
A French road movie about three brothers who detest one another setting off on the Camino de Santiago pilgrim trail along with six other people in search of an inheritance. 

Opens 8 August

Directed by Coline Serreau
Starring: Marie Bunel and Jean-Pierre Darroussine 
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Taken (Venganza)
A retired intelligence officer dusts off his old skills to search for his estranged daughter who has been sold into slavery in Paris. 

Opens 8 August

Directed by: Pierre Morel
Starring: Liam Neesom, Maggie Grace and Famke Jannsen 
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Wall-E
Disney and Pixel’s latest animation blockbuster aimed at both adults and children takes place in the distant future when a garbage-cleaning robot sets out to save Mother Earth and his girlfriend from the fiendish Buy N Large corporation.

Opens 1 August

Directed by Andrew Stanton
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Prométeme (Zavet)
Serbian writer/director/bandleader Emir Kusturica’s comedy about a man who sends his son to the big city to sell the family cow and come back with a wife.

Opens 11 July

Starring: Uros Milovanovic and Alexsandar Bercek
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Sangre de Cuba (Dreaming of Julia)
A young boy coming of age on the eve of the Cuban revolution is torn between his friendship with a blonde American woman and the trouble facing his family as the political situation worsens.

Opens 4 July

Directed by Juan Gerard
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Harvey Keitel and Iben Hjejle
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Soom (Breath)
On learning that her husband is having an affair, a housewife takes up with a prisoner in this film by South Korean surrealist director Kim  Ki-duk.

Opens 4 July

Starring: Chang Chen, Ha Jung Woo and Lee Jo-seok
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Emotional Arithmetic
Three survivors of the Holocaust renew their relationship forged in the horrors of the death camps when they get together decades later at a country house in Canada.

Opens 6 June

Directed by Paolo Barzman
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne and Max von Sydow
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Films playing in Original Version:

To see films in their original language check out the following cinemas. Films marked 'VOS' are shown in the language the film was originally made in, with subtitles (usually in Spanish, or Catalan in Barcelona), while films marked 'VO' are shown in the original version and may or may not be subtitled.

Yelmo Icaria
Calle Salvador Espriú, 61
Ctro.Cial. El Centre de la Vila
Port Olimpic
(Nearest metro: Ciutadella)
Tel: 93.221.75.85 / 93.221.72.56
Ticket line: 902.22.09.22
Website: http://www.yelmocineplex.com/icaria_yelmo_cineplex.html

Renoir-Les Corts
Calle Eugeni d'Ors 12
(nearest metro Les Corts)
Tel: 93.490.55.10
Website: http://www.cinesrenoir.com/index.php

Renoir Floridablanca
Floridablanca, 135, Eiixample
(nearest metro Sant Antoni or Universitat)
Tel: 93.426.33.37
Website: http://www.cinesrenoir.com/index.php

Verdi
Calle Verdi 32, Gracia
(nearest metro Fontana)
Tel: 93.238.79.90

FilmoTeca de Catalunya
Avda. de Sarria 33, Eixample
(nearest metro Hospital Clinic)
Tel: 93.410.75.90
Website: http://cultura.gencat.es/filmo/

Casablanca-Kaplan
Passeig de Gràcia, 115, Gràcia
(nearest metro Diagonal)
Tel: 93.218.43.45

Méliès
Villarroel, 102, Eixample
Tel: 93.451.00.51

Boliche
Av. Diagonal, 508-10, Sarrià
(nearest metro Diagonal)
Tel: 93.218.17.88

MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS

Fotomercé 2007
Photographs by Albert Bertran who worked for decades for EL Periodico de Catalunya and provided photographs for many non-fiction books by celebrated Spanish authors. His work was honoured at last year’s Mercé festival and shots by other photographers who were exhibited then are also on display.

Until 26 October

Schedule: Tuesday through Friday, 11am-2pm and 4pm-8:30pm. Saturday, 11am-8:30pm. Sunday, 11am-3pm
Price:  EUR 4

Palau de la Virreina
La Rambla, 99
93.316.10.00
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Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)
An exhausting retrospective of the Czech-born, Art Nouveau master whose advertising posters and other works inspired the psychedelic artists of the 1960s.
Until 4 January

Schedule: Daily, 10am-8pm
Price: Free

Caixaforum
Avda. Marqués de Comillas, 6-8
08038
93.476.86.00
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Iluminar
Celebrated Argentine photographer Humberto Rivas (winner of the 1997 National Photography Prize) uses light in amazing ways in this retrospective of some 40 of his black and white shots.

Until 24 November

Schedule: Tuesday through Friday, 10am-2pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday, 11am-2pm
Price: Free

Galeria Hartmann
Santa Teresa, 8
08012
93.415.95.56
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Art Jove
An exhibition of four young artists from Spain and Portugal highlighting emerging themes and techniques current in contemporary art from the Iberian peninsula. 

Until 7 October

Schedule: Tuesday through Friday, 10:30am-2pm and 4pm-8pm. Saturday, 10:30am-2pm and 4:40pm-8:30pm
Price: Free

Galeria Trama
Petritxol, 8
08002
93.317.48.77
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Generación 2008
Thirty works selected from the annual Caja Madrid competition for young painters, sculptors, photographers and video and installation artists.

Until 12 October

Schedule: Tuesday through Saturday, 12 noon-2pm and 4pm-8pm. Sunday, 11am-2pm
Price: Free

La Capella de l’Antic Hospital de Santa Creu y Sant Pau
Hospital, 56
08002
93.442.71.71
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Dali de Cadaques, por Robert Descharnes
The French photographer chronicled the life of Dali for decades and these thirty photos and an audiovisual presentation are taken from the some 60,000 shots of the Catalan surrealist in Descharnes’ collection.

Until 28 September

Schedule: Monday through Saturday, 10am-7pm. Sunday, 10am-2:30pm
Price: Free

Palau Robert
Paseo de Gracia, 107
08008
93.238.40.00
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Ricardo Urgell. El Pintor Invisible
One of Catalonia’s most innovative yet least known artists, Urgell delighted in depicting entertainment and sports and many of the some 60 works on display here are of  theatre performances, circus acts and boxing matches. It is the first comprehensive Urgell exhibit since his death in 1924.

Until 28 September

Schedule: Tuesday through Saturday, 10am-2pm and 5pm-8pm. Sunday, 11am-2pm.
Price: EUR 1.90

Museo Diocesano
Avenida de la Catedral, 4
08002
93.315.22.13
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Maternidades. Fotografias de Bru Rovira
Studies of all the joys and sorrow of motherhood from around the world by the award-winning photographer complemented by photos, drawings and writing by children inspired by Rovira’s work.

Until 12 October

Schedule: Daily, 10am-8pm
Price: Free

Caixaforum
Avda. Marqués de Comillas, 6-8
08038
93.476.86.00
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Afriques
Visions in words and images of Africa from Europeans who have visited the continent and from Africans who have settled here in a dual exhibition at the Museu d’ Arqueología de Cataluña and the Museu Etnològic de Barcelona.

Until 9 November

Schedule: Museu d’ Arqueología de Cataluña, Tuesday through Saturday, 9:30am-7pm. Sunday, 10am-2:30pm
Price: EUR 2.40 

Paseo Santa Madrona 39-41
08038
93.424.56.77

Schedule: Museu Etnológic de Barcelona, Tuesday and Thursday, 10am-7pm. Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10am-2pm
Price: EUR 3.50 

Paseo Santa Madrona, 16-22
08038
93.424.68.07
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J.G. Ballard, Autopsia del Nuevo Milenio
Audiovisual presentations, documents and literary works by and about the British writer whose novles included the autobiographical Empire of the Sun and Crash, both of which were made into films. 

Until 3 November

Schedule: Tuesday through Sunday, 11am-8pm
Price: EUR 4.40 

Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona

Montealegre, 5
08001
93.306.41.00

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Entre Lo Sagrado y Lo Profano
(Between the Sacred and the Profane)
Renaissance art from the Tuscan town of Prato featuring paintings, frescoes and furniture by Bernaldo Daddi, Filippo Lippi, Luca Signorelli, Batistello and other period artists.

Until 28 September

Schedule: Tuesday through Sunday, 10am-8pm
Price: Free

Caixaforum
Avda. Marqués de Comillas, 6-8
08038
93.476.86.00 
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Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
Organised by the Tate Modern in London, this show highlights the contributions of these three artists to the Dadaist movement of the early years of last century which later had a profound influence on avant-garde, surrealism and pop art.

Until 28 September

Schedule:Tuesday through Saturday, 10am-7pm. Sunday, 10am-2:30pm
Price: EUR 6

Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña
Parque de Montjuic
Palacio Nacional
08038
93.622.03.60
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Olafur Eliasson
This Danish-Icelandic artist just opened his long-awaited mammoth project in the United States where where he created four waterfalls around New York harbour. In this show, Eliasson lowers his sites with a series of sculptures designed for specific spaces.

Until 28 September

Schedule: Tuesday through Saturday, 10am-7pm. Thursday, 10am-9:30pm. Sunday, 10am-2:30pm.
Price: EUR 7.20

Fundación Joan Miro
Parque de Montjuic
08038
93.443.94.70
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Monedas en Lucha: Cataluña en la Europa Napoleónica
With Madrid filled with events and exhibitions marking the 200th anniversary of the Spanish War of Independence against the French, Catalonia joins in with this display of coins, military medals, documents and other items related to the conflict.

Until 3 May 2009

Schedule: Tuesday through Saturday, 10am-7pm. Sunday, 10am-2:30pm
Price: EUR 6

Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña
Parque de Montjuic
Palacio Nacional
08038
93.622.03.60
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Francesc Torres
An exhibition of the Barcelona artist’s multimedia installations dating from the 1960’s and which are mostly comments on violence and speed. 

Until 28 September

Schedule: Monday through Friday, 11am-8pm. Saturday, 10am-8pm. Sunday, 10am-3pm
Price: EUR 7.50

Museo de las Artes Decorativas
Avda. Diagonal, 686
08034
93.280.50.24
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Olivando a Velázquez. Las Meninas
Works by artists over the centuries interpreting Las Meninas who were the subjects of one of Veláquez’s most famous paintings. The exhibition also explores the influence the court painter had on other Spanish artists through the ages, including, of course, Picasso.

Until 28 September

Schedule: Tuesday through Sunday, 10am-8pm.
Price: EUR 6

Museu Picasso
Montcada, 15-23
08003
93.319.63.10

 

CONCERTS

CHILDREN’S EVENTS

Kartodrom Catalunya
A perfect autumn escape for families with kids inspired by the successes of Spanish Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso, this go-cart track offers a kilometre-long track with plenty of curves, a grandstand for spectators, real pit-stops and single- and dual-pilot racers.

Open all year

Schedule: 9:30am-8pm
Price: 1 ticket for eight minutes, EUR 13

C 17, Km. 17.5. Pol. Industrial El Plà
Llissà de Vall
93 843 82 62
www.kartodrom.com
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Aquarium de Barcelona
Sharks, manta rays, piranhas, alligators and almost every other denizen of the fresh and salt water deep at one of Europe’s biggest and best aquariums. Guided tours and weekend activities for children are also on offer.  

Schedule: Daily, 9:30am-9:00pm. Extended hours in summer.
Price: Adults, EUR 16. Children 4-12, EUR 11

Moll d’Espanya del Port Vell, s/n
08039
93.221.74.74
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Gel Skating Club
Summer is on its way and with temperatures rising, a few hours on the ice is a great way to beat the heat. This skating rink offers daily sessions, lessons and rentals.

Schedule: Monday through Tuesday, 10:30am-1:30pm. Wednesday through Friday, 10:30am-1:30pm and 5pm-9pm. Weekends: 10:30am-2pm and 4:30pm-9pm. Extended hours beginning in May
Price: Non-skaters, EUR 1 Without skates, EUR 13.70. With skates, EUR 9.50

Roger de Flor, 168
08013
93.245.28.00
www.skatingclub.cat
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Said to be the largest of its kind in the world, this 25,000 square metre complex boasts 150 miniaturised monuments from around Catalonia. Kids delight in pointing out those they know such as  Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia cathedral and other emblematic edifices. A train ride, picnic areas and restaurants make it the ideal spot for a day out with the family.

Open all year

Schedule: Daily, 10am-7pm
Price: Adults, EUR 10. Children, EUR 7

Can Balasch de Baix, s/n
Torrelles de Llobregat
08629
93.689.09.60