'Pa Negre' triumphs at Gaudí Awards with 13 prizes including Best Film and Best Director
Eduard Fernández won Best Actor while 'Heroes' finished empty handed despite being nominated in ten categories.
January 18, 2011 11:14 PM
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Eduard Fernández won Best Actor while 'Heroes' finished empty handed despite being nominated in ten categories.
January 18, 2011 11:14 PM
The Gaudí Awards, which are the equivalent to the Catalan Oscars are taking place tonight for the 3rd consecutive time. The movie ‘Pa Negre’(Black Bread), which was nominated this year for the Spanish Goya Awards, is tipped to win with no less than 15 nominations followed by ‘Herois’ (Heroes) and ‘Buried’.
January 17, 2011 11:05 PM
The Gala Dalí Castle in Púbol (in the Costa Brava interior land) recorded the biggest increase with 21% more tourists than last year. The most visited museum was the Theatre-Museum Dalí in Figueres, in the Alt Empordà County, near the French border.
January 13, 2011 09:48 PM
The movie has also been nominated 15 times for the Catalan Gaudí Awards, in Barcelona. 'Pa Negre' (Black Bread) is a film adaptation of a novel with the same title by Emili Teixidor.
January 13, 2011 09:12 PM
Florida has just inaugurated a brand new building that will unveil up to 2.000 works from the famous Catalan artist Salvador Dalí. After the Figueres museum, it is the second largest museum in the world dedicated to Dalí
January 7, 2011 09:33 PM
Catalan Journalist Cristian Segura has been awarded for his Catalan novel,'El cau del conill' (The Rabbit's Burrow) while Alicia Giménez Bartlett picks up the Nadal Award for her book 'Donde nadie te encuentre' (Where nobody can find you)
January 7, 2011 09:13 PM
Wondering why all the children are excited and happy? The Three Kings have already arrived in Catalonia. Their presence has already created a magical atmosphere and on Wednesday night they will deliver gifts to every single house in the country.
January 5, 2011 07:56 PM
Barcelona (ACN).- The main parade will distribute over 40 tonnes of sweets that are suitable for celiacs. It is not Santa who comes to Catalonia bearing gifts, but the Three Wise Men. That is why the 6th January, known as the Day of the Three Magic Kings is celebrated like Christmas in Catalonia
January 3, 2011 09:40 PM
The New York's StoreFront for Art and Architecture has displayed the work of Catalan artists such as Enric Miralles, Antoni Muntades and Carme Pinós.
December 21, 2010 06:58 PM
‘Extraordinary Film Studios’ may open its doors as early as 2011 and employ some 80 people. The company already has three films scheduled for the new studios.
December 17, 2010 09:53 PM
The Barcelona Centre of Contemporary Culture will see its budget decrease by 4.5% this year. Despite this, the centre has planned several exhibitions for 2011, including several photography exhibitions and conferences on themes such as immigration and the crisis.
December 16, 2010 10:32 PM
Diverse Catalan singers, musicians and directors performed in Leipzig, Hamburg, Cologne and Weimar on Thursday. Tenor singer Josep Carreras teamed up with Andrea Bocelli and David Garret to raise funds and awareness for the fight against leukaemia in Leipzig. Jordi Savall played Jean-Philippe Rameau in Cologne and Montserrat Caballé sung in Hamburg.
December 16, 2010 10:07 PM
Valencia-born architect Rafael Guastavino incorporated the Catalan vault system in over 300 buildings in Manhattan. Famous buildings such as the Grand Central Station, Saint John the Divine Cathedral, the Queensboro Bridge and the City Hall subway station, were built using this technique popularised in the U.S. by Guastavino.
December 15, 2010 10:17 PM
The MACBA, located in a Richard Meier building in Barcelona’s city centre, has a wide collection of works, particularly focusing on art from the last 25 years. The museum will double its exhibition space for its ‘permanent’ collection in 2011. The MACBA also announced some of its upcoming temporary exhibitions for next year.
December 14, 2010 11:00 PM
Barcelona resident Alfredo Zucchi wins first place for his story 'Milena è una bomba' in the ‘Sea of Words’ contest, organised by the European Institute for the Mediterranean (IEMed) and the Anna Lindh Foundation.
December 14, 2010 09:39 PM
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