Showing posts with label LIFEintheCITY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LIFEintheCITY. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
LIFE IN THE CITY THIS WEEK: UPDATED 02/08/05
Friday, July 15, 2005
LIFE IN THE CITY THIS WEEK:12/07/05
- 15 - 17/07/05Copyfight Copiright, copyleft and copyfight!
- 15 - 17/07/05Interferencias...Performance and vindication
- Every Tuesday Golferichsoffers free live music.
- 6/7: URBAN ACTIVITY, electronic jazz at Golferichs
- The Verdi cinemas show short films or cortometrajes free at 21:45h (Verdi)& 22:10h (Verdi Park)
- Been told there's this free open air Reggae festival at the Parc de l'Espanya Industrial -
Sants Estació-on Saturday 16th, planning to check it out but haven't seen any info.
Friday, October 01, 2004
Fira del Llibre-II
God! Am a bookoholic, always have been, but sometimes my B:A: sessions seem to work better than others!
And in case it ain't enough with the books I have at home, waiting to be read, and the ones I've already thought of re-reading, I have been buying quite a load of them lately, reduced prices and little treasures...
On this same blog I've been talking about the load of books I bought before hugo came back, and then at my B-tracks I spoke about the ones I got last weekend at the Fira del Llibre, now I passed by again and bought some Unamuno essays I hadn't read yet for only 1.80 euro, an Elmore Leonard -in Spanish, though :(- I hadn't read yet for 2 euro, and Infernaliana , by Charles Nodier , in French also for 2 euro!
Am logging off, to get back home and read a bit ;)
And in case it ain't enough with the books I have at home, waiting to be read, and the ones I've already thought of re-reading, I have been buying quite a load of them lately, reduced prices and little treasures...
On this same blog I've been talking about the load of books I bought before hugo came back, and then at my B-tracks I spoke about the ones I got last weekend at the Fira del Llibre, now I passed by again and bought some Unamuno essays I hadn't read yet for only 1.80 euro, an Elmore Leonard -in Spanish, though :(- I hadn't read yet for 2 euro, and Infernaliana , by Charles Nodier , in French also for 2 euro!
Am logging off, to get back home and read a bit ;)
Friday, September 17, 2004
Kosmopolis
Today I went to Macba to finish seing an exhibition I'd left half-way-through and had a re-visit ticket for -just to find out it's finished!
So I passed by Kosmopolis . Just for a while, as I can go in for free thanks to my 'Amics del CCCB' card. Passed by the bookcrossing section and got a book. Cursed myself a bit for not having brought a few books I would have liberated, and headed down to the Hall where they had some interesting projections. Walked half-way into Allen Ginsberg going maniac with some texts, and sat out the rest of "Poetry in Motion 2" really enjoying discoveries such as Helen Adam, a Beat Generation wild, enchanting poet who, now under a beautiful silver bobbbed hair and huge reading glasses, and wearing an incredible parsley outfit, was reciting and acting out, adn ended singing madly her tales of a haunted flat she's renting to someone 'suitable, non-smoker, no children'... once she's got rid of her husband by slaughtering him! ;) Yessir, I'm gonna dig further into this discovery. Would thank any contributions -interesting links, book donations ;)
Then came "Resistencia: Hip Hop en Colombia" , a good documentary on Colombia's toughest side, everyday life in Medellin, Cali, Bogota's hardest outskirts -barrio de Las Cruces- and how politics, U.S., paramilitar troops and drug mafias are all fighting each other and driving the population to complete misery. Hip Hop is their escape. Without any money to buy records or music equipment, there's dozens of good MCs and Human Beatboxes, kids rapping in the street against drugs & guns in the hood, breakdancers telling us what it's all about, and graffitti artists with no money to buy spray cans.
Then it was the turn for "FREEDOM HIGHWAY", which I was not sure I could stay to watch completely but was really interested in, so I stayed for a while, and once they got to the Soweto choir singing the Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika and I broke into tears as usual with this chant, I thought 'enough is enough, babe, go to the cyber and check your stuff there!'
B-track
So I passed by Kosmopolis . Just for a while, as I can go in for free thanks to my 'Amics del CCCB' card. Passed by the bookcrossing section and got a book. Cursed myself a bit for not having brought a few books I would have liberated, and headed down to the Hall where they had some interesting projections. Walked half-way into Allen Ginsberg going maniac with some texts, and sat out the rest of "Poetry in Motion 2" really enjoying discoveries such as Helen Adam, a Beat Generation wild, enchanting poet who, now under a beautiful silver bobbbed hair and huge reading glasses, and wearing an incredible parsley outfit, was reciting and acting out, adn ended singing madly her tales of a haunted flat she's renting to someone 'suitable, non-smoker, no children'... once she's got rid of her husband by slaughtering him! ;) Yessir, I'm gonna dig further into this discovery. Would thank any contributions -interesting links, book donations ;)
Then came "Resistencia: Hip Hop en Colombia" , a good documentary on Colombia's toughest side, everyday life in Medellin, Cali, Bogota's hardest outskirts -barrio de Las Cruces- and how politics, U.S., paramilitar troops and drug mafias are all fighting each other and driving the population to complete misery. Hip Hop is their escape. Without any money to buy records or music equipment, there's dozens of good MCs and Human Beatboxes, kids rapping in the street against drugs & guns in the hood, breakdancers telling us what it's all about, and graffitti artists with no money to buy spray cans.
Then it was the turn for "FREEDOM HIGHWAY", which I was not sure I could stay to watch completely but was really interested in, so I stayed for a while, and once they got to the Soweto choir singing the Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika and I broke into tears as usual with this chant, I thought 'enough is enough, babe, go to the cyber and check your stuff there!'
B-track
Friday, July 09, 2004
'Dies de Dansa', my weekend plan
Every year there is this weekend when top dance companies and smaller ones are offering their new creations: classical, contemporanious, urban, folk, workshops... For further info:
·Program Dies de Dansa
·Dies de Dansa -History
·Program Dies de Dansa
·Dies de Dansa -History
Monday, March 22, 2004
23 Jazz Festival at Terrassa
Spent a great weekend with my friends in Terrassa. Took Hugo on Saturday evening, just a shortish ride on the train, and spent the night there. Shame I have no money, as the Jazz festival is really great, but had a drink with Isabel at this cool bar, where they play good flamenco for young hippy-ish locals, and is really nice and cheap (two beers and a Fanta orange for euro 3,60 !!! )
The idea was to go to the Jazz Picnic which had been quite complicated in previous years -either storms, or I was busy, etc... But we made it this time, and I'm really glad: really good atmosphere, sunny day, good music, crowds but relaxed, kids playing in the stream... I love this parc, it goes through the town. In fact, I have often thought that, if I have to leave Barcelona, I'd probably go to live in Terrassa due to cultural movements and the Parc de Vallparadis.
The idea was to go to the Jazz Picnic which had been quite complicated in previous years -either storms, or I was busy, etc... But we made it this time, and I'm really glad: really good atmosphere, sunny day, good music, crowds but relaxed, kids playing in the stream... I love this parc, it goes through the town. In fact, I have often thought that, if I have to leave Barcelona, I'd probably go to live in Terrassa due to cultural movements and the Parc de Vallparadis.
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