Barcelona, the guest city at the Stockholm Culture Festival this August with a large Catalan program

  • The festival is one of the most popular meetings of the Swedish summer and this year will be taking place from 12 to 17 August

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11.08.2014 - 14:08

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Barcelona is the guest city this August at the Stockholm Culture Festival, one of the most popular meetings of the Swedish summer which this year will be taking place from 12 to 17 August. The Festival Organisation, along with the Institut Ramon Llull and Barcelona City Hall, has prepared some twenty Catalan activities including street arts, music, cinema and talks in a program that will be given back during the Mercè festivities: Stockholm will be the guest city at the local festival of the Catalan capital. 

The Stockholm Culture Festival is a multidisciplinary festival held mainly in the open air in the streets in the centre of Stockholm. All of the activities are free and are addressed at a large, mixed audience. Its collaboration with the IRL started in 2012, when they worked together for the first time to take five Catalan companies to the event. After this, the IRL invited the director of the Stockholm Culture Festival to different Catalan festivals to bring them into contact with the latest offers from the Catalan stage arts. As a result of these visits, the Festival management along with the IRL and Barcelona City Hall, drew up the program that can be seen at this year’s edition in Stockholm.

The Barcelona program in Stockholm includes: ‘Kamchàtka’, by the street theatre company of the same name; ‘Capas’, by the circ EIA company; ‘Arquitectura de fira’, a setup produced by Antigua i Barbuda; and ‘Transforma-T’, the opening show at the last edition of the Tàrrega Fair, by the dance company Nats Nus led by Toni Mira. Similarly, ‘Barcekholm 3D Mapping’ is on the program, a circus show that combines performances by Swedish and Catalan artists (Guillem Albà with ‘Conductor’; José Luis Redondo with ‘Ricky’, the tennis teacher; Les Capgirades with ‘Trapeze’; Irene Estradé with Rope and Sergi González with ‘Wheel’). These two activities have been joint produced with Barcelona City Hall, which has also allowed an invitation to be sent to the Sants group of human tower builders.

The Catalan program also includes three concerts: Txarango and Che Sudaka, peforming on 12 August, and Lutheas Salom, doing so on the 16th.

Several talks have also been planned on Barcelona and Catalan culture, which particularly include a discussion between Àlex Susanna and the journalist Tomas Gustafsson on Catalonia, ‘Catalonia Today’, as well as a literary meeting between Francesc Serés and Lina Wolff which will be the prelude to the Catalan participation at the Gothenburg Book Fair from 25 to 28 September, with a special focus on Catalonia organised from the IRL.

Equally, a Catalan film will be projected every day from 12 to 16 August. The titles that have been chosen are: ‘Fènix 11:23′ (Phoenix 1123), by Joel Joan and Sergi Lara; ‘Sant Andreu Jazz Band’ (Kids and music) by Ramon Tort; ‘Món petit’, by Marcel Barrena; ‘Enxaneta’ de Paulí Subirà; and ‘Una pistola en cada mano‘, by Cesc Gay.

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