Estrella Damm Primavera Club 08

The third edition of Estrella Damm Primavera Club will be held next December in Barcelona on the Stages of the Parc del Forum during the 12th & 13th of December and will be complemented also with a series of performances at the venues of Sala Apolo and La [2] de Apolo from December 10 to 13.
This new edition of Estrella Damm Primavera Club 2008 will be held also and for the first time in Madrid from the 11th to the 13th of December, in the following venues: Joy Eslava, El Sol and Nasti.
Names confirmed to appear on this new edtion of The Estrella Damm Club 08 in both cities, Barcelona and Madrid, are: Darren Hayman & Jack Hayter play Hefner songs, The Wave Pictures, The Thermals, Deerhoof, Giant Sand and The Extraordinaires.
More information for tickets can be found at the organizers website: Estrella Damm Primavera Club 08

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George Kolbe - The Morning - Dawn

The Barcelona Pavilion is known as one of Mies van der Rohe‘s main works. However few observations have been made regarding Georg Kolbe’s sculpture Morning, which plays an important role as an integral component of architecture inside the building.
It is surprising also that the statue was not created for the Barcelona Pavilion, into which it was so successfully adapted. Together with the female figure Evening, Kolbe had made it for Ceciliengärten,“ the residential estate of Heinrich Lassen in Berlin-Schöneberg, where both works stood opposite one another on the central lawn. In 1927 the tinted plaster model of Morning stood in the center of a Kolbe room in the Munich Glass Palace, which the architect Wilhelm Kreis had designed. This plaster model was then shown in Barcelona in 1929. After the end of the exhibition and deconstruction of the Pavilion, the model was presumably destroyed. In the 1986 reconstruction of the Pavilion stands a bronze copy.
Shortly after the end of World War II, the bronzes Morning and Evening were separated and placed in different locations in Schöneberg, but were then reunited near the Schöneberg city hall. Since 1996 they have been back in the restored Ceciliengärten“.

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Francesc Torres. Da capo

The Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona dedicates this retrospective exhibition to the work of Francesc Torres. The tile of the exhibition “Da Capo” makes reference to a vision of the human condition related both to history and time, and which questions the nature of evolution.
Formed in the Escola Massana of Barcelona; in 1967 goes to Paris, where he attends classes in l'Ecole DES Beaux Arts and exerts of assistant of Piotr Kowalski, Polish sculptor and architect, that will exert remarkable influence over Torres. Moves to the United States in 1974 till first years of 2000, when he moves back to Barcelona.
Francesc Torres (Barcelona, 1948) is the author of a very vast and varied body of work that fundamentally runs in opposition to the humanist vision of society. The exhibition includes a recompilation of Torres' works created from late 1960s up to the present day in which the influence of poetry –which the artist has developed through extensive written work over the years– can be appreciated, alongside his cultivation of artwork centred on the search for objectivity. Interested in the nature of the object, Torres has evolved toward an analysis of biological systems where the use of natural elements (water, air, earth, etc.) appears.
At the MACBA from June 6 to September 28. More information at http://www.macba.es/controller.php?p_action=show_page&pagina_id=28&inst_id=24038&lang=ENG&PHPSESSID=46eev5vat3mlivtqt6q2c3irq7

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Salon Nautico - Fira Barcelona

The 47th Salón Náutico Internacional de Barcelona , Barcelona International Boat Show is one the largest display of yachts, boats and accessories for sailing, fishing, surfing and scuba diving, and will bring again to Barcelona from November 8th to 16th the latest nautical and leisure products. The Show will take up the five halls in the new area of the Gran Via Exhibition Centre. And also the On-water Show at the Port Vell of Barcelona will wide up the offer with more than 250 boats. It is a unique chance to see the news related to the sea.
The Show will bring together all related to the sea industry, from shipyards, sailing and motor boats, nautical schools, sport ports, electronics and motors, to pneumatic, paintings, sail lofts, tug boats, fishing articles, aquatic motos, great length boats and the super yachts.

In the Fira de Barcelona Gran Via Exhibition Centre and the Port Vell. More information in the website of the organizers of the Salon Nautico 

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Barcelona Apartments - Sagrada Familia

Sunny and newly refurnished Barcelona Apartment with a nice covered balcony with table and chairs for an agreeable morning breakfast. Lovely and comfortable 64m2 Barcelona apartment completely renewed for a pleasant stay. On the eighth floor with lift of a modern corner building, this apartment has a maximum capacity of 5 people, with two bedrooms with double beds and one sofa bed in the living area and one bathroom. Modern equipped kitchen with new electrical appliances. Two minutes walk to Gaudi's Sagrada Familia Church and well connected to other points of interested of the city with buses or Metro Lines.

For more information please visit on our website this Barcelona Apartment in the Eixample Neighbourhood.

IFSA World Cup 2008

The IFSA World Cup 2008 is on. Already events have taken place in Bruxelles-BELGIUM, Nice-FRANCE, Milano-ITALY,  and is coming back again to Barcelona on the 20th and 21st of September.  These competitions serve to qualify for the World Championship.
As the World Championship of 2008 has recently taken place in Moscow-Russia  the Barcelona event is going to qualify for the World Championship of 2009.
IFSA represents inline skaters and roller skaters of different sports. The official sports for the world cup are: Freestyle Slalom, Speed Slalom, High Jump and Free Jump.
Each sport is independent from another. Competitors can perform in one, two, three or the four sports.
Barcelona also received last year the IFSA Wold Cup 2007, with a great success at the Park del Clot. Use the following link for more information on Sporting Events in Barcelona