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Exhibitions Paral·lel Avenue, 1894-1939 Bolaño Archive, 1977-2003Pasolini RomeEspriuWorld Press Photo 13

Festivals and Open Formats

Festivals and Open FormatsChildren’s and Family Programme

Spaces for Debate and Reflection

Debates and LecturesIn CollaborationCourses, Postgraduate Certificates and Master’s Degrees

CCCB Lab Associated Projects

CCCB Education Activities and WorkshopsItineraries

Beyond the CCCB Exhibitions European Prize for Urban Public Space

Archives Archives in CollaborationPublications

Collaborating institutions and companiesSpeakers at debates and lecturesUse and rental of spacesVisiting figures and audienceBudgetCCCB Staff

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This exhibition explained how and why a new area for shows and entertainment emerged in the city of Barcelona, and everything that happened there during a period of over forty years. The Paral·lel Avenue was the home of a cultural offering that was gen-uine and unique in Europe due to its size and singularity. It hosted a wealth of manifestations of popular and mass culture, the result of historical circumstances that transformed the social, econom-ic and political landscape and established the city of Barcelona’s footing in modernity, with all its contradictions.

What happened on the Paral·lel between the end of the 19th century and 22 January 1939 – the day on which all the theatres of Barcelona closed, at the end of the war – is similar to the case of Montmartre in Paris or Broadway in New York, but it should be emphasised that it is a unique case worldwide. Unlike these and other international examples, the Paral·lel was an environment of popular hegemony that, from its birth, became a genuine cultural expression of the social and political conflict that characterised the Barcelona of the first half of the 20th century and that gener-ated shows with contents and formats that were perfectly differen-tiated, put together by the public and by the artists.

Produced in the manner of a stage-set, the exhibition showed photographs, audiovisual materials, recovered sound documents, books, leaflets, magazines, programmes, posters, scores, atrezzo, costumes and diverse props. The plastic arts were a fundamental part of the exhibition, and among other artists, the following were featured: Isidre Nonell, Ricard Opisso, Pablo Picasso, Francesc Domingo, Ricard Canals, Ricard Urgell, Rafael Barradas, Emili Bosch, Ismael Smith, Jaume Pasarell, Josep Brangulí and Gabriel Casas.

Prizes— Prize for the Best Exhibition of Historical Research of 2012 from the Catalan Association of Art Critics (ACCA)Related Activities— “Paral·lel Avenue seen by...”, guided visits led by Xavier Albertí (17 January), Jaume Sisa (24 January), Benet Rossell (31 Janu-ary), David Carabén (7 February) and Yoya Pigrau (14 February)— The Pianola on the Paral·lel, pianola concerts by Josep Domènec on alternate Saturdays and Sundays— Paral·lel Routes, an online project that allows users to down-load three itineraries to discover the Paral·lel of the 20th century.— “The Future of the Paral·lel. Between Nostalgia and Desire”, series of debates, 15 January, 22 January and 29 January, see page 39— Pensar i interpretar l’oci. Passatemps, entreteniments, aficions i addiccions a la Barcelona del 1900, book presentation, 13 FebruaryActivities for Friends of the CCCB— Iitinerary organised by the Museum of History of the City of Barcelona (MUHBA), 13 January, see page 63Educational Offering — See the section “CCCB Education”, page 67Social Programme — Guided visits for Alzheimer patients, their families and carers, see page 74

Curators —Xavier Albertí and Eduard MolnerSpace design —Emiliana Design StudioSpace graphic design — La JaponesaGraphic design of publicity material and catalogue —Saura-Torrente, Edicions de l’Eixample

Organisation and production —CCCBSpecial collaboration —Institut del TeatreSponsorship —Fundació Catalunya Caixa Collaborating media —El País and Catalunya Ràdio

Paral·lel Avenue, 1894-1939Barcelona and the Spectacle of Modernity

26 October 2012 — 24 February 2013

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Bolaño Archive, 1977-20035 March — 30 June

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Coinciding with the sixth biennial edition of Kosmopolis, the ex-hibition “Bolaño Archive, 1977-2003” was presented, as a tribute to the Chilean writer on the tenth anniversary of his death.

The project was conceived based around three thematic focal points that express some of the keys of the creative universe of the author of The Savage Detectives. The first defined a specific geog-raphy by way of three localities, where Roberto Bolaño created nearly all of his work, the second presented his creative chronolo-gy and the third recreated an existential landscape.

The exhibition route took as a base these thematic cores and developed them through a prologue, an essential reference to the years he lived in Mexico, and three precise phases: The Unknown University (Barcelona 1977-1980), Inside the Kaleidoscope (Gi-rona 1981-1985) and The Visitor from the Future (Blanes 1985-2003). The route was completed with an epilogue or coda that analysed Bolaño’s influence on the literature of the 21st century.

The visit to the exhibition was conceived as a detective-style investigation. The reader-visitor was a sleuth subjected to a series of tests and games, not lacking in humour and irony. In the for-malisation of the itinerary, preference was given to the kaleido-scope metaphor, to which the author himself referred in different passages of his books.

However, the exhibition’s singularity was constituted by the presentation of previously unseen material from the Archive of the Heirs of Roberto Bolaño: novels, tales, poems and various writings, booklets and exercise books, correspondence, family photographs, magazines and fanzines, his personal library, all the interviews, strategy games and other valuable materials that al-lowed a more in-depth acquaintance with the creative universe of Bolaño and an increasingly free and fertile reading of his work.

Related Activities— “Bolaño on stage”, a talk with Àlex Rigola and Pablo Ley about the stage adaptation of 2666, and a staged reading of El policía de las ratas, by the actors Joan Carreras and Andreu Benito, within the framework of Kosmopolis, 14 March — Il futuro, premiere of the film by Alicia Scherson, 14 March— “Roberto Bolaño: The Gestation of a Myth”, debate with the participation of A.G. Porta, Jorge Herralde, Jaume Vallcorba and Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas, with the events for Kosmopo-lis, 15 March— Hojas escritas en la escalera de Jacob, poetic recital per-formed by Olvido García Valdés and Chefa Alonso, within the framework of Kosmopolis, 15 March— 28 April #DiaBolaño (Bolaño Day), a series of free-of-charge activities during the whole day to remember the life and work of the author on the day he would have been sixty years old, 28 AprilActivities for Friends of the CCCB— Guided visits led by the curators, 10 and 18 April, see page 63— “Roberto Bolaño and the Unknown University”, talk organised by the UB, UAB and UPF universities in collaboration with the CCCB, 27 and 28 MayEducational Offering — See the section “CCCB Education”, page 67Catalogue— See the section “CCCB Holdings. Publications”, page 86Tours— See the section “Beyond the CCCB. Exhibitions”, page 79

Curators —Juan Insua and Valerie Miles Space design and graphic design —Bonjoch AssociatsGraphic design of publicity material and catalogue —spread: David Lorente

Organisation and production —CCCBParticipation —Casa del Lector, MadridCollaboration —Instituto Cervantes Collaborating media —El Periódico and Catalunya Ràdio

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Curators —Gianni Borgna, Alain Bergala and Jordi BallóSpace design —Guri Casajuana arquitectesSpace graphic design —Marc Valls, with the collaboration of Oriol SolerCatalogue design —Maquette & Mise en page

Graphic design of publicity material —Wladimir MarnichCoproduction —CCCB, La Cinémathèque Française, Paris; Palazzo delle Esposizione, Rome; and Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin Collaborating media —El País

Pasolini Rome22 May — 15 September

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The exhibition “Pasolini Rome” offered a close-up look at the Ital-ian writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) through his relations with Rome. And this close-up meant entering ful-ly into everything that constituted and defined Pasolini: poetry, politics, civil commitment, sex, friendship, film. The exhibition was structured into six chronological sections that corresponded to the six vital and creative phases of Pasolini. It began with his arrival in Rome on 28 January 1950 and closed on 2 November 1975, when his lifeless body was found near to Ostia.

Rome was not just a stage set or a simple place of residence for Pasolini, but it also represented a true physical, carnal and pas-sionate existence. His encounter with Rome was for the author like a great love story, with all its disappointments, its traditions and its mixed feelings of passion and hatred, phases of attraction and phases of rejection, of distancing and return. For Pasolini the polemicist, the analyst of the evolution of Italian society, Rome constituted his main space for observation, his permanent field of study, reflection and battle. It was based on the transformations of this city that he so loved, that he analysed the changes of the Italy and the Italians of the 1960s and 1970s.

There is a Rome before and a Rome after Pasolini. His texts and his films created a new imaginary of the city of Rome. It was not enough for Pasolini to integrate the city as a backdrop to his novels and his films, but rather he “re-founded” Rome through literature and film. As the great creator that he was, he conceived a new myth of this Vatican and political city, of its neighbourhoods and its inhabitants.

“Pasolini Rome” was the result of a co-production between four European cultural institutions and the project was selected, evaluated and financed by the European Commission due to its significance in terms of the European, transnational and current nature of the work of Pasolini and of the project in itself. After the CCCB, it was scheduled to be presented at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris (16 October 2013 - 26 January 2014), at the Azienda Palaexpo-Palazzo Delle Esposizione de Roma (15 April– 20 July 2014) and at the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin (11 Septem-ber 2014 - early January 2015).

Related Activities— “Thinking Differently. Pasolini and the Critique of Mainstream Culture”, a series of debates on 17 and 25 June, 1 and 9 July, see page 40— “Pasolini at the Lab”, I+C+i debate, 2 July, see page 57— Calderón, staged reading of the play by Pasolini, 7 September— “The Mote in the Eye”, Xcèntric Classroom 2013 devoted to the art of provocation and protest from Pasolini to the present day, from 5 to 28 November, see page 49Activities for Friends of the CCCB— Guided visits of the exhibition led by the curators, 6 June, 2 and 10 July, see page 63 — “Il cinema secondo Pier Paolo”, lecture given by Luís Aller, organised together with the film school Bande à Part, 26 JuneEducational Offering See the section “CCCB Education”, page 67Social Programme — Guided visits for Alzheimer patients, their families and carers, see page 74Catalogue— See the section “CCCB Holdings. Publications”, page 86Tours— See the section “Beyond the CCCB. Exhibitions”, page 78

With the support of —European Union’s Culture ProgrammeThis project has been financed with the help of the European Commission

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The year 2013 marked the commemoration of 100 years since the birth of Salvador Espriu (1913-1985). The CCCB, in collaboration with the Catalan Government’s Department of Culture, organised one of the central events of Espriu Year: the exhibition “Espriu. I Looked Upon This Land”, which offered the public an approach to the creative career and life history of the writer, to show not only the capital importance of his figure for Catalan culture, but also the complexity and richness of Espriu’s work which transcends any labels and thus establishes it under the heading of timeless classics.

The exhibition developed different aspects of his biography, of his literary world and of the public repercussions of his work. It also defended the currency of the writer, and the validity of his themes and viewpoints in the world today, based on the triple per-spective that the exhibition proposed: the mythical and symboli-cal world, social transcendence and indomitable criticism.

A poet, narrator and playwright, Espriu asks himself about the great human questions. The exhibition evoked the myth of Sinera; ethical commitment when faced with the Civil War and the post-war years; the defence of Catalan culture in difficult times; the Espriu phenomenon, when he became an indispensable reference point in Spanish Culture; his vision of the “bull’s hide” based on dialogue and tolerance; his candidature for the Nobel Prize, and his imaginary world – sometimes grotesque, sometimes evoca-tive, but always of an extraordinary power.

The exhibition presented a great quantity of unpublished ma-terials originating from archives and private collections. The last part of the exhibition recreates one of Espriu’s fundamental ideas: the world as a grotesque labyrinth, based on a gallery of characters that inhabit his narrative, his poetry and his theatre, presented

in animations produced by young creators. The characters of this gallery were integrated into an animated tale, of surprising cur-rency, allowing the visitor unfamiliar with the Espriu universe to enter it from a new perspective.

“‘I Looked Upon This Land’” takes us to Espriu’s way of looking at his land and his world: sometimes critical and wildly amusing, but also understanding and full of compassion towards human weaknesses.” (Julià Guillamon).

Related Activities— “Lavínia. The Barcelona of Salvador Espriu”, literary itinerary, 10 and 24 November, see section “CCCB Education”, page 71— Voices from the Street. Rosa Novell speaks Espriu, a staged reading of texts by Salvador Espriu read by actress Rosa Novell, accompanied by cellist Fanny Silvestre, 27 November.Activities for Friends of the CCCBEspriu at the restaurant 7 Portes, dinners with recitals and concerts, 19 October and 9 November, activity with discount for Friends of the CCCB— Guided visits of the exhibition led by the executive curator, 6 and 12 November, see page 63 — Un Rèquiem per a Salvador Espriu (A Requiem for Salvador Espriu), show at the TNC, from 15 to 17 November, activity with discount for Friends of the CCCBEducational Offering — See the section “CCCB Education”, page 67Social Programme — Guided visits for Alzheimer patients, their families and carers, see page 74

Idea and original script —Xavier Bru de SalaExecutive curator —Julià GuillamonAdvisors —Ramon Balasch, Sebastià Bonet, Rosa Delor, Julià de Jòdar, Víctor Martínez Gil and Agustí Pons, with the collaboration of Gabriel PlanellaSpace design —VA62 Arquitectos

Space graphic design —Opisso EstudiGraphic design of publicity material — Josep BagàOrganisation — CCCB Coproduction —Espriu Year (Government of Catalonia) and CCCBCollaborating media —Ara and Catalunya Ràdio

EspriuI Looked Upon This Land

30 October 2013 — 16 March 2014

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The ninth edition of “World Press Photo” included the 143 win-ning photographs of the prestigious international photojournal-ism prize. The selection included three Spanish winners, Bernat Armangué, Emilio Morenatti and Daniel Ochoa de Olza. Further-more, the CCCB became the only Spanish centre that exhibited the winning works in the multimedia projects category, created in 2011, which also included two Spanish prize-winners, Pep Bonet and Miquel Dewever-Plana.

In this edition a total of 5,666 photographers of 124 nation-alities took part (235 of whom were Spaniards), with 103,481 images submitted, classified into eight categories: General News, Spot News, Contemporary Issues, Daily Life, Observed Portraits, Staged Portraits, Nature and Sports.

“Face Reality”, the slogan for the presentation of “World Press Photo” in Barcelona, invited visitors to witness, free of censorship and manipulation, the state of the world today and it confront-ed us with the global and also the local reality to be able to re-flect on and broaden our points of view. As every other year, the prize-winning images informed us, moved us and questioned us, converting “World Press Photo” into an unmissable appointment for any citizen wishing to be better informed.

Related Activities— Masterclass offered by photographer Miquel Dewever-Plana, 6 November— Alma. Hija de la violencia (Alma, a Tale of Violence), pres-entation of the web documentary by Miquel Dewever-Plana and Isabelle Fougère, 6 November— Masterclass offered by photographer Pep Bonet, 7 November— “3 Scenarios. Agency Photojournalism”, meeting with three winning photographers of the World Press Photo 12 competition (Bernat Armangué, Daniel Ochoa de Olza and Emilio Morenatti) and screening of their recent works, 8 November— Presentation of the winning works of the multimedia competi-tion World Press Photo 12, 3 December Activities for Friends of the CCCB— Guided tour of the exhibition, 21 November and 4 December, see page 63 Educational Offering — See the section “CCCB Education”, page 67

Organisation —Fundació Photographic Social VisionProduction —Fundació Photographic Social Vision and CCCB

Collaboration —Catalan Government’s Office of Support for Cultural Initiatives (OSIC)General sponsorship —Canon and Nationale Postcode LoterijSponsorship in Barcelona —Fundació Banc de Sabadell

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6 November — 8 December

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XcèntricThe Cinema of the CCCB

January — June


Organisation —CCCB

Directed by —Carolina López

Beginning in the last quarter of 2012, the twelfth season of Xcèn-tric was inaugurated with two sessions devoted to Antoni Padrós, and it presented the series “Museum Cinema”, which began with two sessions based on the film collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Once into 2013, and continuing with Xcèntric’s interest in the introduction of film into museum halls, the second part of the series “Museum Cinema” was held, with Carles Guerra, head cu-rator of the MACBA, presenting the programme that he himself prepared to raise awareness of this museum’s collection.

The month of January was devoted to the festival “Collage ex-quisit”, four days of film and scissors with screenings of classic authors of collage such as Larry Jordan, Robert Breer and Stan Vanderbeek, along with new talents, audiovisual performances and animated collage workshops.

During the following months works were screened by authors such as Kenneth Anger, Paolo Gioli, Luc Moullet, Bruce Nauman, Jef Cornelis, Samuel Beckett, John Baldessari, Laida Lertxundi, Hollis Frampton, Bruce Baillie, Morgan Fisher, Nathaniel Dorsky, Harun Farocki, Emile de Antonio, Stan Brakhage, Robert Bea-vers, Gregory Markopoulos, Warren Sonbert, Stephen Dwoskin, Shirley Clarke, Peter Whitehead, Thom Andersen, Pat O’Neill, Robert Frank, Abel Gance and Craig Baldwin, among many oth-ers. There were also premieres of films by young authors from our area, such as Víctor Iriarte, Elías León Siminiani and Jorge Tur.

In addition to the usual collaborators – Gonzalo de Lucas, Ce-leste Araújo and Oriol Sánchez – the season also boasted the col-laboration of recognised international programmers such as Marc Webber (United Kingdom), João Laia (Portugal), Andrey Shental (Russia) and Philippe-Alain Michaud (France), who, together with Carles Guerra, brought diversity and international projec-tion to the programme.

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Soy CámaraThe CCCB’s TV Programme

monthly programme broadcast by TVE’s La 2

In 2013 Soy Cámara celebrated four seasons on TVE’s La 2, three years of ongoing work that have made the programme a reference point in cultural television today. In 2013, eight programmes were broadcast with a total of 819,000 spectators.

The programme has a patchwork structure with a friendly and intelligible approach, built based on a large quantity of voices and audiovisual fragments, originating from archives from all eras, textures and genres. There is no presenter or voiceover narrator, and the title varies with each episode, as does the typography, style and thread of the programme, which to date has had the collabo-ration of twenty-five different directors and scriptwriters: Andrés Hispano, Félix Pérez-Hita, Juan Insua, Oscar Pérez, Juan Carlos Rodríguez, José Antonio Soria, Cristina Giribets, Luis Cerveró, Juan Bufill, Mariona Omedes, Virginie Manuel, Toni Curcó, Rory Lambert, CCCB Alzheimer Programme, Silvia Omedes, Helena Velez, Jordi Calafell, David Bravo, Judit Carrera, Elisabet Goula, Jorge Luis Marzo, Arturo “Fito” Rodríguez, Ingrid Guardiola, Miguel Ángel Blanca and Joan Carreras.

Soy Cámara usually raises more questions than answers, as it seems more opportune to offer open reflections and explore voids than to give categorical and forceful answers.


Production —CCCB and TVE

Off ProgrammeJanuary — December


Off Programme is a space for all those audiovisual works that emerge from the commitment and solidarity of their authors, the screening of which is enhanced by the presence of the producers, of experts or of people directly involved in the subject and with a follow-up debate with participation by the audience.

In 2013 four sessions were held:On 9 April, the session “The New Poor” presented five short

films by the collective Why Poverty? which analysed the alarming situation of poverty in Europe.

On 27 March, the screening of Notre Poison quotidien (Our Daily Poison) gave rise to a debate on whether consumers know what they eat and whether they are really protected by the food health and safety agencies.

From 24 to 26 March, within the context of the 21st edition of the International Exhibition of Women’s Films of Barcelona, the session “After the Conflict” presented three documentaries direct-ed by women on social conflicts.

On 5 June, there was a presentation of the documentary pro-duced by Javier Gascón Manos arriba, esto es un contrato (Hands Up, This is a Contract), which showcases the numerous cases of banking abuses occurring all over the country.



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Poetry Slam BarcelonaCreation Centred on the Word and the Stage

January — December

Poetry Slam Barcelona is a poetic competition with a flexible, dy-namic and participative format where a new relationship is es-tablished between the audience and the poets, on a platform of contemporary artistic creation that has the word and the stage as central cores. The regular Slam championship has been held since February 2010 and it now has hundreds of followers, who each month meet to compete, share and applaud the performances.

The 2013 season consisted of nine sessions that included eight Slam and Spoken Word championships and three Slam Classrooms. At the first workshop, Mark Kelly Smith, founder of the Poetry Slam movement, presented the basics of poetic performance on stage through writing exercises that showed participants the close rela-tionship between text and performance. At the second, Marçal Font, winner of the Barcelona Poetry Slam league (2010 and 2011) and the Spain Poetry Slam Championship (2011), and semi-finalist of the Coup du Monde de Slam in Paris (2012), offered a brief theoretical introduction to the arts of poetry writing and poetic recital focusing on the poetry slam format. The last of the workshops was led by Chil-ean actress and storyteller Alejandra Hurtado who, thanks to a col-laboration with the Fundación Mustakis of Chile, taught a practical class on oral and corporal expression in telling stories.

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Organisation —Hipnotik Faktory and Red927Collaboration — CCCB and ICUB-Ajuntament de Barcelona

Animac at the CCCBInternational Animation Film Festival of Catalonia

8 February and 21 — 24 September


Organisation —Animac (Lleida) and CCCB

The 2013 edition of Animac explored the creative potential of doc-umentary animation and the prior presentation session of the festi-val held at the CCCB had as a very special guest, Hanna Heilborn, a Swedish documentary-maker who, in partnership with David Aronovitch, has created some of her best works by making use of animation. At this session, the director of the exhibition, Carolina López presented the Animac 2013 programme and this was fol-lowed by a screening of the short film Slavar, by Hanna Heilborn and David Aronovitch, followed by a debate with the director.

Animac CaminaCoinciding with the Mercè 2013 celebrations, a selection was of-fered of the best films screened at the Animac exhibition in Lleida. First of all, “Petit Animac Camina” offered screenings designed for all the family, and secondly, “Realitat 2.0” presented a selection of short films that explored the reality of animation, with works by Hanna Heilborn, Isabel Herguera, Daniel Sousa and PES, among others. Finally, with the collaboration of the Escola de Cinema de Barcelona and the Escola d’Animació de Catalunya 9zeros, a workshop was organised on animation with pixelation and a sec-ond workshop on VFX with Nuke.


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Emergència!Independent Music Festival

16 February

Once more, the festival Emergència! opened the music season at the CCCB with a programme that focused on the promotion of today’s musical underground and that had the support of a now consolidated and increasingly numerous audience, attracted by the latest from the independent local, national and international music scene.

At the fifth edition of the festival, the stages of the CCCB, lo-cated in two different venues, the Hall and the Auditori, played host to seven names from the independent music scene: Tasha-ki Miyaki (USA), VIVA, Pájaro, Tiger Menja Zebra, Diego Hdez, Ocellot and Villarroel.

Organisation —CCCB and Analogic Té

Collaboration —Centset and San Miguel

BCNmp7Music in Process

8 March, 5 April, 28 June, 11 October and 5 December


Within a music context which has seen the popularisation of amateur music self-editing and production tools, and in which it is increas-ingly possible to listen to music via different portals online, the 2013 edition of BCNmp7 aimed to show a commitment to live shows. The objective was to present unique and compact proposals, in which the performance was almost always accompanied by a debate aimed at a diversified audience.

Of the five sessions during the year, three were programmed by the group A Viva Veu, which proposed very current topics in debates on music: “Prescribers”, with the live performances of disk-jockey and musical activist Andy Votel, and ethnomusicologist and founder of the label Awesome Tapes from Africa, Brian Shimkovitz; “Analog-ical Music” with performances by Zombie Zombie, Akron and Diego Garcia; and “Clubs Culture” with live performances by the mysteri-ous Dean Blunt and local group Headbirds. Àlex Gómez-Font pro-grammed the fourth session, “1960s progressive rock in the Iberian Peninsula”, which reunited the band Màquina! and in which Toti Sol-er presented Guitarra catalana. The final session of the season was “MinimAcció”, for which Lluís Nacenta commissioned Roger Goula to produce a composition which he himself performed, accompanied by the group Experimental Funktion.

Organisation —CCCBProgramme —A Viva Veu, Àlex Gómez-Font and Lluís Nacenta

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On 14, 15 and 16 March the 7th biennial edition took place of Kosmopolis, the Amplified Literature Fest: three days during which the Centre again became the meeting point for lovers of literature and the letters, with lectures, chats with authors and readers, round tables, presentations, children’s and family activi-ties and music performances linked to the three central themes of this edition: science, science fiction and humour. An attendance of over 6,000 people and over 15,000 visits to the website con-firmed that Kosmopolis has become consolidated as a literature festival understood in its broadest sense, and that brings together a large community of followers.

Kosmopolis featured participants from around the world. Brit-on Dave McKean, one of the most important illustrators of comics today, showed his work and talked with the audience. Juan José Millás and Andreu Buenafuente, two masters of irony, debated about humour, which was also be the central theme of Café Eu-ropa, which featured the participation, among others, of Carles Hac Mor, Josep Pedrals, Monika Zgustova, Eduard Escoffet, Krystof Cryzewski and Bashkim Shehu. Journalist Jacinto Antón debated with physicist Lara Saiz, communicator from the train-ing and visitors centre of the space station at Robledo de Chavela, about the real and imaginary worlds that are suggested to us by the red planet. Writer Jordi Carrión and filmmaker Nacho Viga- londo offered a peculiar Battle of science-fiction series. The Higgs boson was the star of a session with scientists and writers who offered two views regarding the particle in an exercise in third culture.

The programme for Kosmopolis occupied all the spaces at the CCCB: the Pati de les Dones was the setting for a new edition of BookCamp, transformed into an information and knowledge point revolving around literature. Experts and professionals from diverse sectors (publishing, the business world, mobile apps, printing and the social networks) debated about the dilemmas surrounding liter

ary practice in times of crisis. The CCCB’s Theatre hosted the first meeting of digital cultural journals, LiberDig, organised by Revista de Letras; and the European platform Literature Across Frontiers was presented, with an exchange between two writers, Catalan Francesc Serés and Egyptian Eman Abdelhamid.

Kosmopolis also paid two tributes. Firstly, Jaume Cabré, au-thor of Jo confesso, received recognition for his entire body of work, in a conversation with Xavier Pla, with a musical surprise included. Secondly, the festival paid tribute to Roberto Bolaño with the exhibition “Bolaño Archive, 1977-2003”, and a discussion with publishers, critics and writers such as Pere Gimferrer, Jorge Herralde, Jaume Vallcorba, A. G. Porta and Juan Antonio Maso-liver Ródenas; a poetry performance with Olvido García Valdés, winner of the National Prize for Poetry; a debate on the theatrical adaptation of 2666 and a preview of the work El policía de las ratas by Àlex Rigola.

Faithful to the spirit of experimentation, the programme in-cluded activities of such diverse format as the traditional final of the Gran Slam, the international Poetry Slam competition, and a concert by David Carabén. Alpha Channel offered continuous programming with unpublished works and other literary classics, and the K Archive allowed discovery of all the digitalised contents of past editions of the festival. Not to forget the children’s activities and a meetup with readers organised by Biblioteques de Barcelo-na, who presented the urban itinerary, «Barcelona Reads», created together with CCCB Education, with visits to singular places in Barcelona for lovers of books and reading.

Kosmopolis has a powerful presence in the virtual sphere. The festival website received a total of 51,657 visits during the year 2013. Of these, 14,659 were during the week of festival (a 21% increase in visits compared to the 2011 edition). Moreover, the Twitter account @kosmopolisCCCB reached the figure of 4,728 followers, who make up a sizeable community created around lit-erature at the CCCB. Finally, it is important to highlight the 2,470 people who followed the festival events via streaming, and the 9,027 plays of the 35 videos from the 2013 edition, which include debates, lectures, interviews and reports from the festival.

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LA FESTA DE LA LITERATURA AMPLIFICADAVII EdIcIó 14 - 16 de març. Barcelona. cccB

KosmopolisThe Amplified Literature Fest

14 — 16 March

Organisation —CCCB Collaboration —Atlas Experiment, Biblioteques de Barcelona, Biocat, B·Debate International Center for Scientific Debate Barcelona, British Council, Catalan Arts!, Catalunya Ràdio, CERN, El Periódico, Embajada de Chile en España, Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT), FILMIN,

Fundación Chile-España, Goethe-Institut, ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Institut Ramon Llull, Instituto Polaco de Cultura (Madrid), Literature Across Frontiers, Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Revista de Letras, Seix Barral and Business Development Service (SDE) of the Catalan Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia


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MecalInternational Festival of Short Films and Animation of Barcelona

18 — 21 April

Mecal, the International Festival of Short Films and Animation of Barcelona, held an event with four competition sections: Inter-national Oblique, Documentary and Animation (new for 2013), a genre to which the festival devoted several lectures and a mas-ter class. Furthermore, parallel sections were programmed that toured different themes, genres and nationalities: “Tribute to Tim Burton”, “Guest country: Finland”, “Short Films of Jacques Tati”, “London Calling”, “Animateka Special”, etc. In total, it was possible to see some 350 short films from over forty different countries.

Organisation —Mecal

Collaboration —CCCB, Cinemes Girona, Antic Teatre, Convent de Sant Agustí, Institut Français de Barcelona and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge

D’AInternational Art House Film Festival of Barcelona

25 April — 2 May


The basic objective of this festival is to explore contemporary film authorship in its broadest sense, tracking down the best of new film creations and combining established names with new talents. The desire of the event is to become an urban festival of reference and to give satisfaction to the cinephile public of the city by pre-senting works that never reach the commercial billboards but that find in the Festival an ideal place among an audience eager to view independent and high-risk cinema.

Based on an exhaustive review of worldwide cinematograph-ic current affairs, the third International Art House Film Festival of Barcelona presented the best international contemporary film previously unseen at our cinemas and offered spectators the pos-sibility of enjoying some sixty films with a long track record inter-nationally, successes and prizes from critics and audience alike, combined with proposals from new talents and new cinematogra-phies, both international and local alike.

In addition to the CCCB, the venues that the Festival occupied for this third event were Aribau Club 1 and 2 and the two halls of the new premises of the Filmoteca de Catalunya.

Organisation —Noucinemart

Collaboration —CCCB, ICEC-Generalitat de Catalunya, ICUB-Ajuntament de Barcelona, Diputació de Barcelona and Filmoteca de Catalunya


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Estrena al CCCB18 May and 4 June


This is a space for supporting emerging audiovisual productions. Within the context of the International Museum Day, the month of May saw the premiere of the transmedia project El Cosmonau-ta, a feature film produced by Riot Cinema Collective, a group that proposes a new model for financing, production and distri-bution, taking advantage of the communication tools available: Internet, social networks, communties and mobiles.

The month of June saw presentations of the short films Canto a Fidel and La matança del porc, by Isaki Lacuesta, and L’edat de pedra, by Lluís Calvo and Ester Xargay.


Primera Persona is a series of theatrical presentations in small format, which welcomes an entire series of artists making use of the first person to take up a position in the sphere of culture by explaining personal, honest and sometimes very funny stories.

The second edition of the festival brought together top-class names who over the course of two days presented their propos-als for the stage which were especially conceived for the Teatre CCCB. The first day featured, among others the monologue “Mas-turbation, God and McDonald’s” by Shalom Auslander and the conversation “Nerds, Reggaeton and Superheroes” between Junot Díaz and Iván de la Nuez. It also included the musical component with the session “Hip Hop 80s” with DJ Neas, Ramón Giménez El Brujo and Luis Hidalgo, and the concert by the pioneers of British post-punk The Raincoats and one-woman-band Lidia Damunt.

Some of the offers on the second day were “Pulp, a Tribute to Curtis Garland” with Laura Fernández and Robert Juan-Cantavella, and “Blood, Redemption and Vengeance in the South of the USA”, with Donald Ray Pollock. The final point of the festival was the con-cert by The Go-Betweens accompanied by The Part Company. Also participating in the festival were, among others, Carlo Padial, Mar-cos Ordóñez, Oriol Llopis, Dani El Rojo, Ainhoa Rebolledo, Isabel Sucunza, Patxi Irurzun, Federico Montalbán and Manuel Jabois.

Primera Persona3 and 4 May

Organisation —CCCBDirected by —Miqui Otero and Kiko Amat

Collaboration —Literatura Random House, Editorial Empúries and Blackie Books


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DocsBarcelona29 May — 2 June

The CCCB hosted the 16th edition of DocsBarcelona with 6,355 spectators, a figure that represented an increase of around 40% with respect to the last edition of the event. The titles most viewed, apart from the inauguration and closing session films and the ses-sions for children and teenagers were Bajarí, Whore’s Glory, The Act of Killing, Google i el Cervell mundial and Con mi corazón en Yambo.

For five days, the Pitching Forum held at the Teatre CCCB re-ceived over 450 documentary professionals from 34 countries. A total of 25 projects selected in advance were presented to 30 po-tential financers (Financing Pitching Panel).

The other venues of DocsBarcelona were the Aribau cinemas, the Auditori de La Pedrera, Cinemes Renoir Floridablanca and the Filmoteca de Catalunya.

Organisation —Paral·lel 40

Sponsorship —CCCB

Allò que devem estar dibuixant amb les nostres formes de viure7 June — 31 August

To coincide with its 90th anniversary, the Catalan PEN, together with La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, the MACBA and the CCCB, promoted the installation in the public space of Allò que devem estar dibuixant amb les nostres formes de viure (What We Must Be Drawing Through Our Ways of Life) by Perejaume. Between 7 June and 31 August, every evening, this phrase was lit up on Carrer del Carme in Barcelona, between La Rambla and Carrer de Jerusalem. This is an open and polysemic work that, once installed on Carrer del Carme, paid tribute to the cause of imprisoned writ-ers as well as the defence of linguistic rights and freedom of ex-pression, and it became a shout for resistance against all attempts at appropriation of collective and individual wills.

Installation by Perejaume

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Grec Experimental CCCB Activities parallel to Montaldo and Jo mai

13 and 29 June, and 5, 10 and 23 July

In 2013, the CCCB and the Grec Festival of Barcelona launched a new line of collaboration. In addition to the two central works of the programme, Grec Experimental CCCB encompassed a set of activities parallel to the programme of the Grec at the CCCB, which emerged from the joint work of the staff of the CCCB, the theatre companies and the production teams. All together they commenced a collective process of creation to enrich the experi-ence of all those involved.

In this edition, two productions from the Grec programme were presented at the CCCB: Montaldo and Jo Mai. In paral-lel with Montaldo, an activity was programmed titled “Let’s Tell Lies. Art, Fiction and Reality”, a chat about art and fiction with the director of the work Ernesto Collado, cultural producer and researcher Bani Brusadin, art historian Jorge Luis Marzo and art-ist Job Ramos. “Icaria, The Utopia Now” was the other proposal parallel to the work, in which Collado explained his approach to the Cabetian movement and the utopian city of Icaria. As for the work Jo Mai by Ivan Morales, the parallel session included the presentation of the screening of the short film Dibujo de David (2007) by the same author and with the live performance of the group Nitch, authors of the work’s sound track.

Organisation—CCCB and Grec 2013 Festival of Barcelona

Collaboration —Velvet Events, Fundación Collado-Van Hoestenberghe, Bitò Produccions and Companyia Prisamata

Sónar 2013Closing Night with Max Richter and BCN216

16 June


Sónar 2013 held the closing night of its 20th anniversary edition at the historical venues of Sónar de Dia, the CCCB and the MACBA, and it once more collaborated very closely with two of the city’s emblematic venues. Two top-class concerts were presented that shared the common characteristic of reinterpretation and re-com-position as the conceptual base of musical discourses.

The Teatre CCCB hosted the concert by Max Richter and BCN216, in which the British composer and the group from Bar-celona performed the version that Richter composed of The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. The interest in the proposal meant that tickets sold out many days beforehand and it was necessary to programme a second concert.

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Hipnotik Festival14 September


At the tenth anniversary of the Hipnotik festival, the different stages of the CCCB were, for another year, devoted to urban cul-ture and hip hop, and Barcelona became once more the world-wide hip hop capital with over thirteen hours full of music, com-petitions, dance exhibitions, urban art and graffiti, MCs, DJs and charity actions.

Prominent among the participating artists were Mala Juntera, Duo Kie, El Chojin, Nasta, Tribute Corp, El Santo & Tosko and Rayden. Since its creation, the only hip-hop festival that takes place in Barcelona has congregated over 50,000 visitors, over 1,150 national and international artists, over 260 accreditations and over 1,800 participants at competitions.

Organisation —Hipnotik FaktoryDirected by —Marta Torras and Salvador Torras

Collaboration —CCCB, ICUB-Ajuntament de Barcelona and Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia

Gandules Gas Natural FenosaBetter with humour!

Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays during the month of August

For the 2013 edition of Gandules, titled “Better with Humour!”, contemporary films were selected that talk about everydayness: the fears, obsessions, yearnings and passions of each day... All this, however, without ever losing the touch of irony and humour so necessary in current times.

Through an open public vote, the programme for the elev-enth edition was chosen from among twenty titles proposed that, although they had been premiered and had received prizes and honours at various festivals, for one reason or another, they had only had very short runs at the cinemas on the commercial circuit.

The new films screened were: Dans la Maison (François Ozon), Persépolis (Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud), In the Loop (Armando Iannucci), Tulpan (Sergei Dvortsevoy), Les Bureaux de Dieu (Claire Simon), Kynodontas (Giorgos Lanthimos), Les Her-bes folles (Alain Resnais), Departures (Yojiro Takita) and Arrugas (Ignacio Ferreras). In addition, before each film, a short film was presented as an appetiser.


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The programme of the tenth edition of Barribrossa included a trilogy of shows titled Vicent Andrés Estellés: el poeta del cos, with the intention of commemorating the twenty years since the death of the Valencian poet and of keeping his figure alive. The shows, which were performed at the Teatre del CCCB, featured the pres-entation of poet Albert Roig and of the director of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes, Laura Borràs.

Escena PoblenouCourse for spectators

8 October

The Festival Escena Poblenou organised the course for spectators with the intention of offering to professionals and non-profes-sionals alike the tools to be able to look closer at contemporary stage languages. The complete course consists of five meetings in different centres in the city, each devoted to a discipline and di-rected by a professional from the sector and a guest artist who presents his or her project.

At the session held at the CCCB, “Vides de la ment” (Lives of The Mind), Roberto Fratini, playwright and dance theorist, con-textualised prejudices that situate dance exclusively in the field of action, distancing it from processes of abstract thinking, in order to underline the public meaning of this art as criticism and di-agnosis of reality. Sònia Sánchez, a flamenco dancer with a long career in the world of dance, was the artist invited to present her project which Roberto Fratini used in order to give examples of tools for performing.

Organisation —Festival Escena PoblenouCollaboration —CCCB, Arts Santa Mònica, Goethe Institut and Universitat de Barcelona

With the support of —Generalitat de Catalunya, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Districte de Sant Martí and Can Felipa

Barribrossa20 October


Organisation—Barribrossa 2013Production —La Seca Espai Brossa

With the support of —Institució de les Lletres CatalanesCollaboration —CCCB


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The ninth edition of The Influencers was devoted once more to exploring a little known territory situated between art, the com-munication technologies and the dynamics of the collective im-agination. Daring projects that break with the normality of the urban space were presented such as Dead Drops by Aram Bartholl (Germany); projects that open up cracks in reality based on the social networks, such as Face to Facebook Hacking Monopolism Trilogy by Paolo Cirio (Italy); initiatives that eliminate toxins from genetically manipulated information such as the visual art of Sam3 (Spain); and interventions such as Cacophony Society by John Law (USA).

Other participants included the Chim Pom group (Japan), filmmaker and artist Tellervo Kalleinen (Finland) and the collec-tive The Troll Face, which took over the channels of the social networks of the Influencers while live, to supplant identities based on online reality.

Organisation —The InfluencersDirected by —Bani Brusadin, Eva and Franco Mattes (0100101110101101.org/d-i-n-a)

Collaboration —CCCB, Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia, ICUB-Ajuntament de Barcelona, Goethe Institut and Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Barcellona

ArtFutura1 — 3 November

As every year, ArtFutura devoted its programme to making an analysis of the current state of digital creativity and it presented the latest contributions in 3D animations, viral videos, video clips and everything related with new aesthetics.

As well as the three programmes, (3D Futura Show, Futura Graphics and Artworks), also screened were the documentaries Downloaded and Indie Game: The Movie, and also presented was the special “Feeding the Web”, a selection of works related with the Internet and freedom and also with the control that the Web generates.

Organisation —Art Futura and CCCB


The InfluencersNon-conventional Art, Guerrilla Communication, Radical Entertainment

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Mira LabResearch and training in the field of technology and live visual arts

14 — 16 November

First edition at the CCCB of Mira Lab, a space devoted to research into new music and live visual arts shows, an event of an interna-tional nature that promotes the exchange of knowledge between all the agents involved in the creative industry. This laboratory, which is framed within the context of the Mira Festival, which was celebrating its third edition, brought together artists and groups of experts in the subject for three days.

The programme offered workshops, conferences, presenta-tions and competitions at the Sala Raval and the lobby of the Tea- tre CCCB, and two shows open to the public that filled all the seats at the Teatre CCCB: Trinity, an audiovisual interactive dance project by Electronic Performers, produced by Oscar Sol, Iris Heitzinger and Ramon Prada; and In-Structure/Moogger Fogger by the lcollective NOBU_LAB, a show that reveals the texture of music based on the use of electronic, analogical and digital instru-ments, and field recordings.

Organisation —Mira FestivalDirected by —Oriol Pastor and David Domingo

Collaboration —CCCB, Ajuntament de Barcelona, ESDI, VjSpain and Institut Français de Barcelona

L’AlternativaIndependent Film Festival of Barcelona

18 — 24 November


In 2013, L’Alternativa, an annual date that has become unmissable for lovers of independent film, celebrated its twentieth anniversa-ry. And to commemorate it, the Festival prepared a special pro-gramme of twenty-two feature films with the aim of recovering emblematic titles and authors, such as La Ville Louvre, by Nico-las Philibert; Alice in den Städten, by Wim Wenders; Mes petites amoureuses, by Jean Eustache, and J’entends plus la guitare, by Philippe Garrel, among others.

Over fifty films from all over the world formed the different sections of the Festival. The official competitive sections presented short films, documentaries and feature films selected from around one thousand six hundred films received. The German film Das merkwürdige Kätzchen, by Ramon Zürcher, was the winner of the official competition; Museum Hours, by Jem Cohen, received the Jury’s Special Mention; and 36, the debut work by Thailandese filmmaker Nawapol Thamrongrattanaritt, received the GAC prize for the best script. In the short films section, the prize was a tie and went to Izibene Oñederra, for Hotzanak, For Your Own Safety, and to Serbian Stefan Ivančić for Springtime Suns, which also took the Audience Prize.

Organisation —La Fàbrica de Cinema AlternatiuCollaboration —CCCB, ICUB-Ajuntament de Barcelona, Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Spanish Ministry of Culture, Filmoteca de Catalunya, SDE and Media Antena

Sponsorship —Institut Français de Barcelona, Goethe Institut, CIVI and El Periódico


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Miniput19th Exhibition of Quality Television

30 November


The 19th edition of Miniput, the exhibition of quality television, offered a selection of the most innovative, provocative, educa-tional and public service-minded programmes of the year. The pieces that were screened were those most appropriate because of their innovative, committed or experimental nature; proposals that put forward a new television format because they make use of new technologies or because they generate controversy. The pro-gramme was presented by different televisions professionals and, in some cases, by the directors of the programmes.

Coordinated by —Ingrid Guardiola Production —MiniputOrganisation —CCCB, Department of Communication of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Televisió de

Catalunya, Televisión Española, Department of Audiovisual Communication of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat de Lleida, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, and Universitat Ramon Llull

Zeppelin Comprimit 27 November

If, in the previous year, this Orquestra del Caos project had been expanded to three days under the name Zeppelin Expandit, in 2013 the collective made a proposal for a compressed one-day event titled Zeppelin Comprimit. The project dealt with the role of collaboration and altruism in human behaviours through sound creation, understood and treated as an iconic traditional element of collaborative attitudes.

The programme activities, which were carried out at the Mira-dor of the CCCB, included a round table, the Sound Art Lab on Collaborative Construction, a demonstration on Live Coding and the Live Coding concert with Shelly Knotts and Alo Allik. Also presented was Aire, the collaborative play that emerged from the international open call for submissions, Zeppelin 2013.

Organisation —Orquestra del Caos

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Drap-Art’13International Artistic Recycling Festival

13 December 2013 — 5 January 2014

Drap-Art is a showcase for tendencies in art that use objets trouvés and reject materials as a resource. It is a platform for the emerging sector of artists, designers and craftspeople the world over who use waste as raw materials; it is a forum for debating theories and urban utopias.

Drap-Art is a meeting place for specialists with a public in search of alternative paths in a world heading for self-destruction. Our typical throwaway habits, acquired during the 20th century, have to be redirected towards an awareness that nothing disap-pears, everything is transformed.

Drap-Art considers it imperative to encourage the newer gen-erations to use recycling, not just as a resource for criticism, but as a tool, within everyone’s reach, to convert protest into positive proposals, which are the seeds of a more sustainable world.

The three documentaries that form this programme share in com-mon the reflection by their authors on the circumstances of life, on those situations that will mark our future, above all that can give meaning to our life and to death which, in short, also forms part of this life cycle.

The titles presented were: Welcome to the World. Born Poor, Die Poor, produced by the collective Why poverty?; Constantin y Ele-na, featuring a couple from Romania who have been together for over half a century, and Saving 10.000: Winning a War on Suicide in Japan, in which Irish filmmaker Rene Duignan reflects on the reasons behind mass suicides in Japan.

Organisation —Drap-Art Association

Collaboration —CCCB, ICUB-Ajuntament de Barcelona and Spanish Ministry of Culture

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Flic Children’s and Young People’s Literature and Arts Festival

3 February

Festivals and Open Formats — Children’s and Family Programme

The third edition of the Children’s and Young People’s Literature and Arts Festival, which almost tripled the attendance by the pub-lic of the previous year, offered a programme devoted to literature, film and to the Brothers Grimm. The Festival featured the pres-ence of Sara, a French illustrator invited to the event, and a series of workshops on illustration, animation, film sessions on the big screen and television, a literary stroll around the CCCB exhibi-tion, the exhibition “Flic Creació” and the prize-giving ceremony.

Organisation —TantàgoraCollaboration —CCCB, Club Súper3-TV3, Institut Municipal del Taxi and 9Zeros Escola d’Animació de Catalunya

Sponsorship —Spanish Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Institució de les Lletres Catalanes and ICUB-Ajuntament de Barcelona

The Shortest DayShort Films Festival

21 December

Coinciding with the celebration of The Short Film Day, which is celebrated in a dozen countries, during the day there were screen-ings of short films of a high level and international award winners in order to promote, dignify, disseminate and defend the role of the short film in the audiovisual industry sector, and at the same time bring it closer to all audiences.

It was possible to watch short films from the following festi-vals: European Short Film Festival (FEC), DocsBarcelona, FIL-METS Badalona Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cinema de Medi Ambient de Barcelona (FICMA), Mecal, Memorimage, Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones, L’Alternativa, El Meu Primer Festival, CurtFiccions, BCN Sports Film, Subtravelling, Julius de Vic and Cryptshow Festival. In addition, it was also pos-sible to watch the ten shorts nominated for the 6th Gaudí Prizes 2014, short films by members of the Col·legi Professional de l’Audiovisual de Catalunya (CPAC), a selection from the catalogue of Marvin & Wayne, the programme Shortcat 2013 by Catalan Films & TV/PROA, the winners of the SGAE’s New Authorship Prizes, short documentaries from PRO-DOCS and the winners of the competition Fotogramas en Corto.

Organisation —Acadèmia del Cinema Català, Coordinadora de Festivals i Mostres de Cinema i Vídeo de Catalunya (CI&VI) Festivals de Cinema de Catalunya, Col·legi Professional de l’Audiovisual de Catalunya and Marvin & Wayne

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Món Llibre 2013Book Festival for Children

13 and 14 April

Món Llibre, the literature festival for children, celebrated its 9th event with over one hundred activities over the course of two days: shows, film, exhibitions and magic in an environment of literary scenarios. A programme conceived to bring books closer to little ones and with the aim of awakening in them or increasing their taste for reading and, through it, access to other areas of knowl-edge. A festival with major artists, notable authors and illustrators that, this year, paid tribute to the Brothers Grimm and invited the writer of children’s poetry Joana Raspall, among others.

During the entire weekend, children were able to enjoy a great variety of activities at the CCCB, at the Plaça de Joan Coromines and the MACBA, organised with the collaboration of children’s literature publishers from all around the country who contributed highly creative proposals and hundreds of books to the festival.

Organisation —ICUB-Ajuntament de Barcelona Participation —CCCB, MACBA, Consorci de Biblioteques, Casa Amèrica, Catalunya Llibreries, Laie CCCB and La Central del MACBA

Collaboration —Over 45 publishers of children’s and young people’s literature

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The upheavals of the economic crisis have left exposed a vast, for-gotten and neglected territory that, in these times of disposses-sion and loss, has a wonderful quality: it belongs to everyone. It is the immense domain of what is common, shared, which with-out belonging to anyone is the heritage and responsibility of each and every one of us. The voracity of the market society has often made us forget that trust in others and working together are the true foundations of collective life, and that behind each individ-ual impulse lies the unstoppable energy of the entire community. Nature, dreams, education, democratic ideals, cities, music... all form part of the tangible and intangible heritage of every person. It is necessary to vigorously defend those spaces that are not gov-erned by the standards of market values, but by the notion of what is beneficial for the entire community, and that promote a new culture of solidarity and collective capacity to preserve, create and manage common assets.

“In Common” was framed within the line of permanent re-flection on the human condition in today’s world which began in the year 2005 with the series “Passions” (2005), and continued with the debates “Life” (2006), “Sense” (2007), “The Human Con-dition” (2008), “Impurities” (2009), “Thinking the Future” (2010), “Crisis” (2011) and “Virtues” (2012).

“In Common” featured the participation of Ulrich Beck (“Europe”), presented by Jordi Vaquer; Lydia Cacho (“Human

Rights”), presented by Sílvia Heras; Peter Burke (“Knowledge”), presented by Josep Maria Muñoz; Ramón Andrés (“Music”), pre-sented by Ferran Sáez; Xavier Antich and Joan Margarit (“The City”), presented by Joan Nogué; Marina Garcés (“Engagement”), presented by Judit Carrera; Perejaume (“Agrarianism”), presented by Jacint Torrents; Josep Ramoneda (“Freedom”), presented by Jaume Casals; and Zygmunt Bauman (“Education”), presented by Jaume Cela.

Related publications — No. 61, 62, 63, 64 and 65 of the Breus collection (see the section “CCCB Holdings. Publications”, page 86).

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14 January — 11 March

Spaces for Debate and Reflection — Debates and Lectures


Collaboration —Editorial Paidós, Goethe-Institut Barcelona, Institut Français de Barcelona, British Council, Instituto Polaco de Cultura, Consolat General de la República de Polònia a Barcelona and Fundació Jaume Bofill

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The Future of the Paral·lelBetween Nostalgia and Desire

15, 22 and 29 January


Directed by — Josep BohigasOrganisation —CCCB

Collaboration —Ajuntament de Barcelona and Fundació El Molino (FEM)

Racism is Still Here. And So Are WeLecture by Tahar Ben Jelloun

6 May


Tahar Ben Jelloun explains it often: racism is a refuge. It is for those who feel fear and also for those who are not or do not want to be informed. In addition, it links very well with the crisis. In these times of upheaval, prejudices come to the surface in order to attribute all the responsibility to foreigners, immigrants, and the marginalised. The same things happens with Islam, which is also used these days as a scarecrow that incites fear and miscompre-hension. In Europe, Islamophobia has been spread as much by the parties of the extreme right as by those of the classic right, and has led to the stigmatising of Muslims who live among us. What can we do to combat this? For Tahar Ben Jelloun the answer is clear: fight against the prejudices, especially in schools, to try to remove these preconceived ideas from the heads of children before it is too late.

The lecture offered by Tahar Ben Jelloun was followed by the dialogue “Racism and Football” with ex-FC Barcelona player Lilian Thuram. Journalist Emili Manzano was entrusted with pre-senting the event and Ramon Garriga, a trustee of the Fundació FC Barcelona, gave the welcome speech.

Against the backdrop of the exhibition “Paral·lel Avenue, 1894-1939”, the CCCB wanted to debate on the future of this emblem-atic Barcelona district that today is seeking to re-find its social and cultural centrality. The so-called “Riffraff Diagonal” has a glorious past that unfortunately was not sufficiently recognised at the time by the cultural officialdom of the city. For decades the performing arts and music structured around it an intense life, forming a mix-ing pot from the highest classes to the most popular and marginal. Today, the future of this Avenue hovers between the nostalgia of what it was and the desire of what it could be.

Over recent years, steps have been taken to transform the dis-trict which, despite its significance, is still trailing many difficulties. Intervening in this process are the Fundació El Molino and many other associations that are working to promote an action plan in the cultural, economic and urban planning sphere that should contrib-ute to the Paral·lel shining once more with its own light.

Within the framework of the series, the city mayor Xavier Trias and deputy mayor for Urban Habitat, Antoni Vives, publicly pre-sented Barcelona City Council’s Plan for the Paral·lel.

With the participation of: Josep Bohigas, Albert Civit, Jordi Coca, Josep Ferrando, Juan Carlos Iglesias, Juan José Lahuerta, Maria Ser-rat, Xavier Theros, Xavier Trias, Elvira Vázquez and Antoni Vives.

Organisation —Fundació FC Barcelona, Fondation Lilian Thuram-Éducation contre le racisme and CCCB

Collaboration —Institut Français de Barcelona, Ara Llibres and Alianza Editorial

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Biomedicine is most probably the field of research that has most impact in our lives, not so much in everyday life but, rather, with regard to our state of health, the development of new drugs and, in brief, the prospects for curing many illnesses. The radical changes that have taken place in recent years are due to the fact that the struggle against disease is now based on intimate molecu-lar and genetic knowledge of the causal bases of illness. Knowing in order to intervene – this is the great paradigm that molecular biology has opened up in medicine and it is breaking new ground for treatment that now makes it possible to survive illnesses that were once incurable, to enjoy a good quality of life, and to live many more years than in other times. With this debate the aim was to explore the limits set by biomedicine and the promises that it is opening up with regard to its intervention in our health.

“Great Challenges of Biomedicine” is the first of the ICREA-CCCB Debates and the beginning of a working relationship aimed at informing the wider public about the advances being made in high-level research in Catalonia and the challenges it faces.

With the participation of: Bonaventura Clotet, Josep Dalmau, Josep Maria Espinàs, Ramon Gomis, Susana de la Luna, Josep Ma-ria Llovet, Javier Martínez-Picado and Milagros Pérez Oliva.

More than anything else, Pasolini is a heterodox thinker. His con-cern is the process of material and spiritual homogenisation in post-war Europe as fruit of the expansion of consumer capitalism and the mass media. In this context, he reflects on the eradication of differences in lifestyles and cultural substrata while simultane-ously criticising the tendency to uniformity in the life plans of a new middle class which is limited to the same ever more dehu-manising horizons. Faced with this new social reality, Pasolini de-nounces the violence and totalitarianism inherent to capitalism, shuns standard, socially acceptable thinking and seeks to lay bare the contradictions and hazards of this new way of life.

The CCCB presented these debates as part of the “Pasolini-Ro-ma” exhibition with a view to considering our world through Pasolini’s works and raising the question of how a transgressive critique of mainstream culture might be possible today.

With the participation of: Jordi Balló, Enric Casasses, Alfredo Jaar, Julià de Jòdar, Josep Maria Lluró, Dacia Maraini, Miguel Mo-rey, Javier Pérez Andújar, Arnau Pons and Carles Rebassa.

Great Challenges in BiomedicineICREA-CCCB Debates

5, 12, 18 and 26 June

Thinking Differently Pasolini and the Critique of Mainstream Culture

17 and 25 June, 1 and 9 July



Organisation —Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and CCCB

Organisation —CCCBCollaboration —Editorial Minúscula, Galaxia Gutenberg and Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Barcellona

With the support of —European Union’s Culture Programme

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PlacesDialogues with British Writers

16 September, 8 October and 2 November


Organisation —CCCB and British Council

Collaboration —Literatura Random House and Libros del Asteroide

The Meaning Of Culture18 and 19 September


Does culture matter? What purpose does it serve? What do we un-derstand by culture? Who should it matter to? And above all, why? These questions are rarely formulated in such elementary terms, but they are inevitably found in the background of the current debate on public and private support in the cultural sector. The context of the economic crisis has accentuated this discussion, but what in reality it reveals is a deficit of social perception regarding the role of culture.

The objective of this debate is not to discuss certain cultural poli-cies nor to focus on the conditions imposed by the current crisis, but to address the root problem, to talk about culture’s raison d’être, avoid-ing instrumental or utilitarian justifications. Beyond its aesthetic val-ue, its financial returns and its social benefit, this series aims to place the accent on the political and ethical relevance of culture. If culture is important it is also because it has a role to play in the political scene.

With the participation of: Vicenç Altaió, Francesc-Marc Álvaro, Xavier Antich, Nicolás Barbieri, Miquel Berga, Toni Casares, Mar-ta Clari, Eduard Escoffet, Marina Garcés, Joan Miquel Gual, Simo-na Levi, Emili Manzano, Xavier Marcé, Jorge Luis Marzo, Antonio Monegal, Han Nefkens, Jordi Oliveras, Vicent Partal, Isona Passola, Rosa Pera, Jordi Puntí, Ricard Robles, Catalina Serra, Teresa Sesé and Francesc Torres.

Within the context of the Kosmopolis festival, a series of dialogues with three British writers was organised.

The first dialogue, presented by Ana Ballesteros Peiró, was dedicated to Nadeem Aslam, the British writer of Pakistani origin, on the occasion of the publication in Spanish of his latest novel, El jardín del hombre ciego (Mondadori, 2013). Although he has lived a large part of his life in the UK, Pakistan is the territory that feeds his literary imagination. The second dialogue, presented by publisher Luis Miguel Solano, was devoted to Philip Hensher, on the occasion of the presentation in Spanish of his book El rey de los tejones (Libros del Asteroide, 2013). A journalist, university lecturer and the author of seven novels, Hensher talked about the influence of place on his literary imagination. The third dialogue, moderated by journalist and writer Antonio Lozano, was devoted to Edward St. Aubyn, coinciding with the presentation in Spanish of the trilogy El padre (Mondadori, 2013), a volume that contains the first three novels of the series on English aristocrat Patrick Melrose.

With the participation of Ana Ballesteros Peiró, Nadeem Aslam, Philip Hensher, Luis Miguel Solano, Edward St Aubyn and Antonio Lozano.

Directed by —Antonio Monegal


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The theory of evolution proposed by Darwin in the early 19th century is probably one of the scientific theories that have most transformed our view of the world and of our own species. Today, Darwinism considers that the evolution of the human species has not only a biological basis but also a cultural one; what’s more, it is perhaps impossible to differentiate one from the other. Our ten-dencies towards creativity, religion or working in a collaborative way are undoubtedly traits which our social and cultural environ-ment have known how to give a concrete form, but they would not have been possible without a nature that propitiated it and an evolution over thousands of years that favoured it. Recent discov-eries in the fields of genetics and evolutionary biology confirm this intimate relationship between biology and culture.

This series of lectures continues the dialogue between the life sciences and the humanities which, since 2011, has been promot-ed jointly by the B-Debate International Center for Scientific De-bate Barcelona and the CCCB.

With the participation of: Juan-Luis Arsuaga, Guido Barbu-jani, Jaume Bertranpetit, Jared Diamond, Cristina Junyent, Joan-domènec Ros, Núria Sebastián and Montserrat Vendrell.

Power is changing. It is increasingly easy to achieve but also more difficult to keep and wield. This is the thesis of the economic and political analyst Moisés Naím, a front-row observer of the world’s centres of power. Naím believes that the great traditional pow-er-holders, for example governments, armies, companies and trade unions, are now confronted with new and surprising rivals, some of them much smaller in terms of dimensions and resources. In Naím’s view, power is not only changing hands but it is also losing effectiveness and this will radically transform the world in which we live. In conversation with journalist Antoni Bassas, Naím explained what has brought about these changes and what consequences can be expected, coinciding with the publication of his latest book El fin del poder (Debate, 2013).

With the participation of: Antoni Bassas and Moisés Naím.

Evolution and Culture Human Nature in Transformation

19 and 28 October, 4 and 11 November

Who’s in Charge? The Muta-tions of Contemporary PowerLecture by Moisés Naím

13 November



Organisation —B·Debate International Center for Scientific Debate Barcelona and CCCB

Collaboration —Editorial Debate


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Energy Challenges: Present and FutureICREA-CCCB Debates

26 November, 3, 10 and 19 December


Organisation —ICREA (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats) and CCCB

Collaboration —CADSCollaborating media —Ara

Energy drives our society. Overdependence on oil, safety prob-lems in nuclear power stations and the shortcomings of alternative sources are presenting an energy future that is full of challenges and question marks. Energy consumption is already a social and economic problem in the West and also in the developing coun-tries, and even more so now that thousands of millions of citizens in China and India legitimately aspire to the western way of life. However, can the planet permit its entire population to consume energy at the same rate as in the industrialised countries? Is this model of energy consumption sustainable? How long can we be dependent on oil? When will the renewable energies represent a real alternative? What technological solutions will the future pres-ent? And perhaps the most important question of all: how can we use energy without jeopardising the resources of future genera-tions?

“Energy Challenges: Present and Future” was the second of the ICREA-CCCB Debates, a stable collaboration for presenting to the public the advances and challenges of high-level research.

With the participation of: Jeroen van den Bergh, Andreu Cabot, Xavier Duran i Escribà, Mònica López Ferrado, César R. Ranero and Joan Vila i Simon.

It is now 500 years since Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Prince but this small book continues to be a key work in political thought and, even today, the source of many readings, appropriations, comments and criticisms. The CCCB wanted to join in celebrat-ing this anniversary and, without falling into the temptation of “updating” Machiavelli’s work, to explore the current relevance of his ideas on the relationship between politics and morality or to revisit his bleak description of human behaviour.

The actor Jordi Boixaderas opened the event with a dramatized reading of the famous letter that Machiavelli wrote from exile to his friend Vettori, describing his everyday life while he was writ-ing The Prince. This was followed with a lecture by the Italian phi-losopher Remo Bodei who discussed Machiavelli’s realism and of-fered some guidelines for reading The Prince today, accompanied by philosophers Juan Manuel Forte and Rosa Rius Gatell.

The session formed part of the “International Conference on Niccolò Machiavelli. The Prince Is 500 Years Old”, organised by the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona.

With the participation of: Remo Bodei, Jordi Boixaderas, Juan Manuel Forte and Rosa Rius Gatell.

Reading Machiavelli TodayStaged reading by Jordi Boixaderas and lecture by Remo Bodei

2 December



Collaboration —Universitat de Barcelona and Instituto Italiano di Cultura di Barcellona

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