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"Distinghised Anyways 2021" is a performative project by La Ribot and his team. The exhibition project is developed from La Ribot's proposal for the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022. Like that proposal, the current one for the Spanish Academy in Rome proposes to occupy the space of the temple of San Pietro in Montorio, erected around 1502 - 1510 by the Cinquecentista architect Bramante in one of the courtyards of what was then the Franciscan convent of the same name. La Ribot stands out in contemporary arts for her research in the living arts and the multiple relationships that are established between them, music, dance, theater or performance, among others. His knowledge of dance and choreography has been merging into a compact whole with the visual, film and action art, in such a way that his artistic practice has focused on establishing links and inventing dialogues between disciplines and artists. , including diversity, precariousness and the ephemeral.

Since 1952, the Festival has been one of the most emblematic and attractive cultural events in Granada, held between June and July, in the Alhambra palaces and the main monuments and corners of the city. This edition once again has the support of Acción Cultural Española. This edition opens on the night of June 17 with a visual concert at the Palacio de Carlos V, conceived by the Granada-born filmmaker José Sánchez-Montes, with the enigmatic "Night transfigured" by Arnold Schoenberg on the lecterns, followed by the popular page by Felix Mendelssohn, based on the original text of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", both performed by the City of Granada Orchestra and Choir under the direction of the renowned British conductor Paul McCreesh. This same music, sprinkled with pages of electronic music by Daniel Teruggi and Bertrand Maillot, will be replicated at the Teatro del Generalife by one of the best companies in Europe, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, directed by Jean-Christophe Maillot, reference of current dance, with his elegant and groundbreaking Le Songe (2005), on the work "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Henry Purcell's operatic version on this same Shakespearean theme, "The Fairy Queen" will be a very special musical and scenic project of the Baroque Academy of the Granada Festival, born last year in the of the Manuel de Falla Courses. It is aimed at young musicians, singers and dancers under the musical tutelage of Aarón Zapico, vocal of Carlos Mena and stage performer by Rita Cosentino. The theme of the night will also be present in other works such as Night Music, Night of the Four Moons, Sea-Nocturne by Vox Balenae or The Yellow Moon of Andalusia, by George Crumb (Contemporary Atlantic Workshop); Nights in the gardens of Spain and El amor brujo de Falla (National Orchestra of Spain); the Christmas cantata Obscura noche by the baroque composer Francisco Hernández Illana (Concerto 1700) or the Nocte program directed by Carlos Mena at the head of the Festival's Baroque Academy.

The graphic novel residency at the Maison des Auteurs is organized by Acción Cultural Española (AC / E) and the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’image, with the collaboration of the French Embassy in Spain. Aimed at a Spanish graphic novel author, the residency may take place at La Maison des Auteurs de Angoulême (France) for six months between January and June 2022. ANNOUNCEMENT - Presentation of applications: until September 5, 2021. - Publication of results: as of November 22, 2021 on this website. - See conditions > - Download the application form > - More information: residenciasliteratura@accioncultural.es 

This second edition of CELA (Connecting Emerging Literaty Artists) brings together eleven European cultural institutions from ten different countries and has, once again, the support and funding of the European Union through the Creative Europe programme. AC/E supports the Spanish partner Escuela de Escritores, which in September 2019 selected the three young writers and nine translators who form the Spanish representation in this second edition of the programme. The second edition of CELA, which runs between 2019 and 2023, allows 30 writers, 80 translators and 6 professionals from the world of editing to access a training, editing and promotion program in which some of the best writing schools participate of the continent (the Scuola Holden of Turin, School of Writers), literary festivals (Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe (Krakow, Poland) and cultural companies led by the Dutch literary producer Wintertuin (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Huis deBuren and Passa Porta (Brussels, Belgium), Goga (Novo Mesto, Slovenia), the Association of Publishers of Romania (Bucharest, Romania), the Czech Literary Center (Prague, Czech Republic), the Municipal Chamber of Óbidos (Óbidos, Portugal) and the KROKODIL Association (Belgrade , Serbia). For more info>  

Throughout the last centuries countless Basques crossed the Atlantic, sometimes with dishonest intentions, others with the hope of looking for a new opportunity, but always guided by a restless and adventurous spirit. Between 2003 and 2019, photographer David Quintas organized several photographic expeditions to Latin American countries, the United States and Canada, covering more than 20,000 kilometers of asphalt and immortalizing places, names, customs, anecdotes and architectures that still preserve the stamp of Basque emigrants. . ‘Basque Way’ crosses the continent from end to end and recovers surprising and exciting testimonies from those who went to America without a return ticket. To honor the memory of those lives, as bland as they are extraordinary, the street exhibition is made up of 12 cubes that run through 12 stories (‘destinations’) and a great variety of contextual photos (‘road stops’). The 12 destinations are written by the journalist and writer Martín Ibarrola, they describe events and historical figures with a style halfway between the journalistic and the literary. Stories of lives that, although they have been extensively documented, do not enjoy the media or social recognition they deserve.

“A JOURNEY TO THE INNER SPAIN. THE DEMOGRAPHIC QUESTION: MEMORY AND OBLIVION. ” ALMA TIERRA is the result of a photographic journey that has led José Manuel Navia to explore several territories especially significant to show the demographic crisis in the inland Spain. The project is an Acción Cultural Española production that takes the form of an itinerant photography exhibition and a co-edited book with Ediciones Anómalas, with texts by Julio Llamazares. A lyrical and visual tour of that “dying world”, as Miguel Delibes called it, an inland Spain that, although hit hardly, resists to disappear completely.

​The exhibition brings together 50 portraits of European filmmakers made by photographer Óscar Fernández Orengo. Of these half, a selection of 25, correspond to Spanish filmmakers in black and white and in panoramic format, portrayed in spaces and places that they themselves have chosen. Among these are Bigas Luna, Josefina Molina, Víctor Erice, Rodrigo Sorogoyen or Belén Funes. The other 25 portraits correspond to filmmakers from other European countries, photographed in black and white, in color and in different formats with special predominance of the square. Among them Béla Tarr, Agnès Varda, Theo Angelopoulos, Roy Andersson, Pedro Costa or Mia Hansen-Løve. Some of Fernández Orengo’s superb photographic work has already been shown in several travelling exhibitions both in Spain and abroad, such as "A través de mis ojos", "Cineastas contados","Cineastas contados... de ambos lados", "Cineastas en su lugar” or "Seguimos rodando", this last organized by AC/E  that brought together portraits of Spanish and Colombian filmmakers from a selection of about thirty portraits, with the aim of bringing the Colombian public Polyhedral face of both its cinema and the Spanish. The photographer, who usually works with a Hasselblad X-Pan and who believes in black-and-white photography because "it gives versatility in all light conditions, as opposed to colour, which is more plastic", also takes as his inspiration other artists who have worked mainly in black and white, such as Eugène Atget, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Robert Frank, David Goldblatt or Cartier-Bresson.

The Festival celebrates this edition its 20th anniversary (2001-2021) with a very special program in which the creative connection of the entire Madrid region stands out as essential, through Madrilenian authors of the Golden Age such as Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, María de Zayas, Francisco de Quevedo, Tirso de Molina or Miguel de Cervantes and the Latin American reception of Baroque theater and its influence. Ibero-American Meeting Acción Cutural Española collaborates in the organization of the international meeting that will take place, between June 16 and 20, at the Parador de Alcalá, and to which creators and managers of Latin American festivals. Programme of the Meeting >

The translation grants programme organized by AC/E, of which this is the third edition, aims to contribute to the dissemination of our authors in the international market and promote the translation of Spanish literature within the framework of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022 when Spain will be the Guest of Honor. . The translation grants have proven to be an efficient tool for promoting Spanish literature around the world. The first call in 2019 had a budget of 230,000 euros; this was increased to 400,000 euros for the second, in 2020. For this edition it has raised once again.   ► See Open Call Conditions > Subscriptions - For technical problems contact: convocatoriaspice@accioncultural.es - For content doubts contact: traduccion@accioncultural.es  The Frankfurt Book Fair is the most important in the world in its sector, where it is estimated that 80% of publishing contracts are negotiated there, and it provides an excellent opportunity for the promotion of Spanish titles in Germany and other strategic markets of interest to the Spanish publishing industry, such as Anglo-Saxon, French or Italian. The aim of these grants is to take advantage of the interest that  impact that the Fair generates. Through initiatives like this, AC/E aims to improve awareness of Spanish literature, which is going through  one of the most interesting periods in its recent history. > See briefing Spain at the Frankfurt Bookfair 2022

The exhibition explores the multifaceted character of Emilia Pardo Bazán (La Coruña, 1851-Madrid, 1921), novelist, influential cultural and political journalist, critic and historian of literature, playwright, prolific and decidedly modern short story writer; cultural entrepreneur with a magazine and a publishing house -Nuevo Teatro Critico and La Biblioteca de la Mujer, 1890- which were pioneers in the dissemination in Spain of Russian literature (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy or Turgenev) and of the French and British debates on feminism , with the translation and commentary of the works of John Stuart Mill and August Bebel. The exhibition seeks to convey to viewers, in a visually expressive way, a work and a life that are crucial to review and update the literary and intellectual history of the last third of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. To do this, it brings together some two hundred works including printed books, manuscripts, engravings and photographs, among others, from both the National Library of Spain and other institutions.

S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico and Acción Cultural Española (AC / E) organize this residency with the aim of continuing a line of work that seeks to open new paths for emerging creators, facilitating the creation of exchange ties with the internationally recognized LIFT- Liaison of Independent Filmmakers. LIFT is a non-profit organization of international prestige, created in 1981, directed by artists and dedicated to promoting excellence in cinematographic creation through training, the provision of technical and production resources and the dissemination of creations. in these formats. The duration of the residency will be between 4 and 6 uninterrupted weeks to choose between mid-January and March 2022 and will be subject to the availability of the LIFT facilities in Toronto. In the event of being absent during the agreed dates without pertinent justification, it may lead to the cancellation of the stay and the aid granted in each case. Registration will be made until 23:59 (GMT + 1) on September 5, 2021 through the Mostra website www.s8cinema.com,, filling in the corresponding online form. All the information here >

Acción Cultural Española collaborates with the Ministry of Development by organizing the Spanish Pavilion at the 17 Mostra Internazionale di Architettura of the Venice Biennal. The Mostra, originally arranged between May and November 2020, has been postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Curated by Hashim Sarkis (Beirut, 1964) under the motto 'How will we live together?', it will take place between May 22 and November 21, 2021. The commissioners of the national participations are called to address one or more of the sub-themes of the Exhibition, such as the need for more inclusive housing and social equipment or more urban and territorial connective fabric. All of them highly current issues and that it is urgent to resolve in both emerging and advanced economies. AC/E supports the participation at the International Section of the Biennial of the following architects: Arquitectura expandida: Ana López Ortega Cristina Parreño & Sergio Araya ​Daniel López-Pérez​ EMBT: Benedetta Tagliabue ​​GFA: Urtzi Grau y Guillermo Fernández Abascal ​​Iñaki Ábalos Iván López Munuera / Ignacio García Galán ​​LACOL ​​PRÁCTICA: Jaime Daroca, José Mayoral y José Ramón Sierra |Rojo Fernández-Shaw|: María Begoña Fernández- Shaw Zulueta y Luis Rojo de Castro The Ministry of Development has launched a contest for the commissioning and design of the Spain Pavilion. More info >

The exhibition is a production of Acción Cultural Española that brings together photographs of the nightlife in the main cities of Spain during the first half of the 20th century. A tour of its streets, its taverns, cafes, cinemas or theaters through photographs signed by the great masters of Spanish photojournalism such as Cortés, Marín or Santos Yubero in Madrid, or Torrens, Gaspar or Segarra in Barcelona.

But was there ever science in Spain? This series of five chapters in which AC / E collaborates aims to disseminate our scientific past. Historians, librarians, scientists, and artists tell us about certain pieces and chapters of our cultural heritage: a medieval manuscript, a Renaissance anatomy treatise, a collection of botanical illustrations, the fossil skeleton of an extinct animal, and an international vaccination campaign. Five episodes that also allow dealing with issues such as the relationship between science and art, the appearance of deep time or the fight against pandemics. A series that wants to contribute to making scientific culture in Spain, made by the brothers Paco and Juan Pimentel, filmmaker and researcher at the CSIC respectively. Direction: Paco Pimentel Distribution: Pilar Farjas Abadía, José Pardo-Tomás, Esther García Guillén, Juan Pimentel, Laura Fernández

#AzañaExpo | Manuel Azaña Díaz (Alcalá de Henares, January 10, 1880-Montauban, November 3, 1940) is one of the most relevant figures in the contemporary history of Spain, both admired and reviled. He was a politician, writer and journalist, president of the Council of Ministers (1931-1933) and president of the Second Republic (1936-1939). He had a prominent role at the Madrid Athenaeum, of which he was Secretary and President. He collaborated in different newspapers, edited the magazine España and founded La Pluma. He received the National Literature Prize in 1926 for a work on Juan Valera and was a notable translator from English and French. In his political dimension, Azaña is one of the main promoters of the arrival of the Republic in April 1931. The great debates of the period have his outstanding, and sometimes controversial, intervention: the Statute of Catalonia, the Agrarian Reform, the issue religious or women's vote. Not surprisingly, the Republic was identified with Azaña and Azaña with the Republic and was blamed for the outcome of the Civil War, if not its very beginning. The Exhibition aims to provide a complete image of Manuel Azaña, in its triple dimension: human, intellectual and political, underlining, in addition to his work as Minister, Head of Government and President of the Republic, his status as a prestigious intellectual, as well as the harsh conditions of his exile, which ended with his death in the French city of Montauban, where his memory is still present eighty years later. Following a chronological sequence that allows us to understand his career in different periods: his childhood and youth in Alcalá, his subsequent development in Madrid, the exhibition delves into three crucial stages in the history of Spain: the Second Republic, the Civil War and Exile. . About two hundred works from both the BNE and other Spanish and foreign institutions will be exhibited in the exhibition. For this commemoration, very little known photographs and videos have been rescued, which allow us to get closer not only to the figure and the work of Azaña, but also to the memory of his time.

The artist Elena Bajo, with her project “Plant manifesto” has been selected by the Sundaymorning @ ekwc jury to enjoy this residency at EKW (Oisterwijk, The Netherlands) between April 29 and July 21, 2021. > About Elena Bajo > Elena Bajo's CV All applicants to the Sundaymorning @ ekwc residence will soon receive an email notifying that they have not been selected. Both Sundaymorning @ ekwc and AC/E want to highlight that they are impressed with the high quality of the requests received. AC/E and Sundaymorning @ ekwc congratulate Elena Bajo on her selection.​ ​ EKWC's residency programme is aimed at artists, designers and architects who want to train and explore ceramic production. Located in Oisterwijk, about 100 km from Amsterdam, this non-profit institution houses around 60 residents each year. The residence facilitates training in contemporary ceramics, as well as offering a space equipped with technical material and the advice of specialists for the development of projects proposed by residents. About the Open Call Criteria An academic education and two years of independent professional work were required for admission to Sundaymorning@ekwc.  Selection The selection was based on documentation of the last five years’ work, a work plan and a motivation.  The selected Spanish artist can enjoy 12 weeks (from April 29 to July 21) of Residence, including technical advice, study, accommodation in a single room, use of facilities, machinery and ovens (up to 2,000 euros cost) round trip flights from Spain and 2,500 euros + VAT destined to cover their expenses of maintenance, materials and production. Applications were submitted through the EKWC website, within the EKWC general call at:  https://sundaymorning.ekwc.nl/en/guidelines. 

#50FotosConHistoriaExpo |  is an exhibition that surveys the history of photography in Spain over the past eight years. It shows the history behind fifty or so pictures to provide viewers with a better grasp of the essence of the work and the photographer, as well as their importance in the evolution of this discipline. They represent fifty different gazes full of nuances: documentary photographs, portraits, photojournalism, street photography and artistic photographs come together in ‘50 Photographs with a Story’.  The writer Eduardo Galeano stated that human beings are not made up of atoms but of stories. And if storytelling is the basis of our memory and all our desires, it is also, by extension, the basis of photographic language. Photography is therefore not a universal language: photographers each use a tool – the camera – to shape their own voice, their own search, their own dialogue with the observer. And at the centre of this dialogue there is always an underlying story, which can be related to the historical context, to the technique or to the people in the photograph, but always to the photographer’s gaze. 

This exhibition covers the artistic career of Víctor Moscoso (Oleiros, A Coruña, 1936) through a careful selection of his work. Moscoso was a key figure in the counterculture movement of the 1960s in the United States. Along with other names such as Wes Wilson, Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse or Alton Kelley, Moscoso marked, through its two main facets, the design of psychedelic rock posters and advertising, and through the production of underground comics, a turn in the visual language of the twentieth century. Moscoso has also designed logos, t-shirts, billboards and animations for radio stations, for which he received two Clio Awards. Additionally, he received an Inkpot award in 1979. He also received an AIGA medal in 2018. Some of his works are part of the permanent collections of the Louvre in Paris, MOMA in New York, the Library of Congress of the United States in Washington D.C. or the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

The 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water starts its in crescendo programme convening artists, activists, scientists, thinks, and citizens at large to sense, discuss, and reconstruct wet-togetherness.  Challenging the usual art biennale format, it will be the first stage of an eight-month extended programme that will allow the artists, thinkers and curators contributing to the Biennale to develop their work in close collaboration with the City of Shanghai, its people, networks of activism, organizations, and institutions. Bodies of Water will culminate with the opening of PHASE 03: AN EXHIBITION on April 10, 2021. The Biennale’s Chief Curator, architect and writer Andrés Jaque, and its curatorial team composed of You Mi, Marina Otero Verzier, Lucia Pietroiusti, and Filipa Ramos, are collaborating with the School of Philosophy of Fudan University, the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, and the multimedia network DOCU TV to run the five-day performed assembly, where lectures, debates, screenings, and workshops will turn the Power Station of Art into a space for bodily experimentation. AC/E supports the participation of chief curator Andrés Jaque, curator Marina Otero, designer Paula Vilaplana, and artists Debajo del Sombrero (Lola Barrera, José Manuel Egea, Andrés Fernández, Miguel García, María Lapastora, Belén Sánchez), Nerea Calvillo, Carlos Casas, Carlos Irijalba, Antoni Muntadas, Itziar Okariz, Daniel Fernández Pascual, Iván López Munuera as well as works by Pepe Espaliú.

The exhibition, organized by the National Archaeological Museum with the support of Acción Cultural Española, aims to be a commemoration of the centenary of the celebration in Spain of the exhibition "Spanish Prehistoric Art", a fundamental event in the study of prehistoric rock art, which is I celebrated in 1921 in the rooms of the old Museum of Modern Art, in the building that today is shared by the National Library and the National Archaeological Museum. The exhibition represented a qualitative leap in the assessment of the origins of Art and marked a way of telling it through which we have continued to travel to the present day. In this way, the current exhibition wants to reflect on how we can integrate art into the Museum's discourse and make its value and meaning understandable to new generations of visitors.  Prehistoric art has been recognized by UNESCO through the protection of a longstanding relationship of rock art sites around the world. Spain is one of the countries with the highest number of declared sites in this field. Since the pioneering declaration of the Altamira Cave (1985), later expanded to many of the caves with Palaeolithic art on the Cantabrian coast (2008), passing through the enormous list of sites in the Mediterranean arch with shelters of Levantine and schematic art (1998 ), completed with the cross-border declaration formed by the Côa Valley in Portugal (1998) and the Siega Verde area of ​​Salamanca (2010), until the very recent declaration of the Cultural Landscape of the Risco Caído and sacred mountains of Gran Canaria (2019).

The writings of Benito Pérez Galdós (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1843-Madrid, 1920) paint an extraordinary picture in words of Spanish nineteenth-century customs and history. This nineteenth-century novelist, a man imbued with the positivist philosophy, liberalism and anticlericalism of his time, depicted the world he saw and was interested in with a universally acclaimed art. The exhibition surveys the life of the Canary-born writer on the centenary of his death. It is organised chronologically and divided into the four essential periods in his life. The biographical and personal literary content is presented in the cultural, historical and political context of the period. All the components of the show are designed to be educational. Following the basic chronological arrangement of his life and work within the cultural context of the period, it explores several themes: the literary scene, the political environment, his travels around Europe, and the importance of music, the graphic arts and painting in his oeuvre.

#50FotosConHistoriaExpo |  is an exhibition that surveys the history of photography in Spain over the past eight years. It shows the history behind fifty or so pictures to provide viewers with a better grasp of the essence of the work and the photographer, as well as their importance in the evolution of this discipline. They represent fifty different gazes full of nuances: documentary photographs, portraits, photojournalism, street photography and artistic photographs come together in ‘50 Photographs with a Story’.  The writer Eduardo Galeano stated that human beings are not made up of atoms but of stories. And if storytelling is the basis of our memory and all our desires, it is also, by extension, the basis of photographic language. Photography is therefore not a universal language: photographers each use a tool – the camera – to shape their own voice, their own search, their own dialogue with the observer. And at the centre of this dialogue there is always an underlying story, which can be related to the historical context, to the technique or to the people in the photograph, but always to the photographer’s gaze. 

Co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art, this is the first U.S. exhibition in over 35 years dedicated to the Spanish artist Juan Gris. Cubism in Color: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris highlights the artist’s pioneering and revolutionary contributions to the Cubist movement by focusing on his fascination with subjects drawn from everyday life. Through more than 40 paintings and collages that span all major periods of the artist’s evolving practice, the exhibition reveals the transformation of Gris’s innovative style and principal motifs from 1911 until 1926, one year before his tragically early death at age 40. His exquisite compositions explored the boundary between abstraction and representation, tension and stasis, color and form. As a thorough examination of Gris’s still lifes, Cubism in Color provides an opportunity to reconsider the legacy of this important yet underappreciated modernist master. See the full press release. Cubism in Color: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris is co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and The Baltimore Museum of Art. Additional support is provided by the Robert Lehman Foundation. and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E). The Dallas Museum of Art is supported, in part, by the generosity of DMA Members and donors, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture. Dallas Museum of Art · Curator Commentary: “Cubism in Color” Caption: Juan Gris: ´Newspaper and Fruit Dish´, 1916, oil on canvas, Yale University Art Gallery; ´The Painter’s Window´, 1925, oil on canvas, Baltimore Museum of Art.

Alejandro Galindo is the illustrator selected by the jury for this residency with the project "The time of the plants." Organized by Acción Cultural Española (AC / E) and the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image, with the collaboration of the French Embassy in Spain, the residency can take place at La Maison des Auteurs de Angoulême (France) between January and June 2021. Alejandro Galindo has illustrated children's and youth books with publishers such as Galimatazo, OQO, Thierry Magnier, Ocean Editions, Edebé, Oxford University Press and Arte Público Press, among others. Occasionally he gives illustration workshops for children together with the writer Emmanuel Bourdier. (European School of Brussels, 2020) He has won the Murcia-Joven Award for the best comic strip (1991), the Apel-les Mestres Award together with the writer Marisa López Soria (2014), the Illustration Award from the Sharjah International Book Fair, UEA (2017) and the Astiberri Comic Prize - Cabildo Gran Canaria, Spain (2018).   This was the ANNOUNCEMENT Submission of applications: until September 7, 2020. Results: 19  November 2020 Conditions to be eligible for residence: All those individuals with the ability to act, over 18 years of age and with Spanish nationality or in possession of the N.I.E. (Foreign Identity Number, granted by the Ministry of the Interior of Spain). The candidate must have an accredited career as a graphic creator and may not have already been the beneficiary of a residence at the Maison des Auteurs de Angoulême. Endowment. The selected resident will have: Travel from the city of residence in Spain to Angoulême and return (train tickets or economy class plane). Accommodation in the center of Angoulême (electricity, gas and water expenses on behalf of the residents) Availability of a workshop (personal or collective) equipped with graphic creation material at the Maison des Auteurs (The House of Authors) in Angoulême. An amount of 1,000 euros per month destined to cover their living expenses, local transportation, water, gas and electricity consumption. The eventual expenses of material or transport of works will be borne by those selected. Residence dates: January - June 2021. Requirements: To assess the awarding of aid, candidates must submit: - Request form> - A graphic novel book project, narrative in nature with an approximate timeline for completion. - Description of the project to be worked on in the residence, with a maximum length of 10,000 characters, accompanied by drawings, sketches, designs. - Three consecutive and complete pages of the project (presentation of the dossier on computer support). - Curriculum vitae, attaching some of his most representative works. - A letter of motivation. - Affidavit that the candidate is the sole author of the works presented. - Interested persons should send their application to the following email address: residenciasliteratura@accioncultural.es including in the subject: Graphic Novel Residence. In the case of heavy files (greater than 3 MB), they must be sent through the Wetransfer.com platform or similar. All applications that exceed 3MB and are not received through one of these platforms, will be rejected and will not be taken into account for the selection that is the subject of this call. Selection: A jury called by AC/E will pre-select among all the applications received. Subsequently, the jury of La Maison des Auteurs de Angoulême will select the final candidate from this shortlist and will formalize the residence conditions directly with the chosen one. The jury's decision will be final.

COMPETITIONS GROUPS AND CLASSIFICATIONS IN CHESS24. FINAL CLASSIFICATIONS  ⇒ See the Final Classifications (5 groups) (new: 17 June 2021). Includes teams that will go to the final at Expo Dubai 2020. PRELIMINARY PHASES (10 Dic -15 Mar)​ Competitions starts from 10 December 2020 at the Chess24 PLATFORM ⇒ See Registered TEAMS ⇒ See Registered Countries ⇒ See General information Groups 1 to 26: ⇒ See calendar and pairings of the preliminary phase. Groups 27 a 37: ⇒ Group Composition ⇒ See calendar and pairings of the preliminary phase (If any team, which had to play in February, is not in those groups, contact us at infochess@expospain2020.es)​ ⇒ See classifications of the three  preliminary phases ► Registration period finished 12 November 2020. ► For more information about rules and entry forms: → Download dossier ► More info: infochess@expospain2020.es | expo@chess24.com​ Chess is a universal game (191 countries in the International Chess Federation) that goes back over a thousand years. It came to Europe through the Arabs, who in the 8th century brought it to the Iberian Peninsula. The chess that is played throughout the world today was created in Spain at the end of the 15th century, when the queen became the most powerful piece. From there it spread to western Europe and the Americas. Its common language allows people to communicate regardless of race, language, religion, age or gender. The Spain Pavilion in Expo Dubai 2020, in line with the theme of this universal exposition of "Connecting Minds, Creating the Future" invites all member countries to participate in an event that aims to "increase intelligence for life" and expand awareness of the potential of chess as a key educational tool, as supported by sound scientific studies. Given the unanimous opinion that education is the best tool for ensuring an intelligent future, what better than a game that consists of thinking and developing many different values? Moreover, there are also very reliable studies that consider chess the best mental gymnastics for delaying or preventing the ageing of the brain and Alzheimer's. Event organization and schedule The event we propose is unprecedented in the world of chess in terms of the potential participants involved, as it is open to all the countries (almost 200) that will participate in Expo Dubai 2020. Combined with its duration, this scope will make the competition a global model for interconnected chess via the Internet. 2.1. Age range of the school participants Any player born after  31 December 2003 can participate (any category up to Sub16 inclusive). 2.2. Participation in the Tournament All interested schools may enter, provided that they have the minimum technological requirements for participating in the competition (details below). Countries participating in Expo 2020 are asked for their support in publicizing the event; and the countries that have a team classified for the finals are asked to help by paying their teams' travel costs to Dubai and giving visibility to the presence of their teams in the Expo. 2.3. Registration and selection of the teams Each educational centre interested in participating must register by a computer application installed on the official Tournament portal. It will have to provide details on its activities related to chess. This system provides the opportunity for all the schools to take part, while also stimulating those who have incorporated chess into their activities, or want to increase its importance. When a team classifies classifies for the on-site final, the country will pay the costs of the trip and stay for its teams in Dubai, as well as ensuring the visibility of their presence in the Expo. 2.4. Participants per team Each team will be composed of: 7 first-team players 2 reserves There will also be: one captain; and an adult delegate responsible for the team during the whole competition. Section 3, the Tournament Rules, explains these requirements in more detail. Schools are urged to make their balance between male and female players as equal as possible. 2.5. Speed of the games The games will be played over 20 minutes, with 10 more seconds per move for each of the two players. The time will be controlled by an online chess clock for each game. The average duration of a game will be around 60 minutes. 2.6. Schedule and competition phases The competition will consist of three phases: • A registration period for the countries that are interested: until 12 November 2020. • Online classification phase: from 16 November 2020. • Knock-out rounds in 2020, taking into account the school calendar. The finalists will be decided in 2021. • The on-site final phase will take place in Dubai. 2.7. Number of teams in the on-site final phase in Dubai The number of teams that will reach the final phase in Dubai will be a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 12. They will have passed the elimination phases, with a total of 90-108 young people, depending on the number of teams that reach the final. 2.8. Technological requirements for entry To ensure the competition operates correctly, the participating schools will have to guarantee that the teams entered have access to certain minimum technological resources, as follows: > Fast fibre-optic or ADSL connection. > Computers with one of the latest Windows operating systems (Windows 8 or 10) >Ability to communicate with those responsible in the competition administration via email/ Skype/WhatsApp on the days when each team is playing.

On October 13, 2020, the centenary of the first concert of the Pau Casals Orchestra at the Palau de la Música Catalana is commemorated, a project that Pablo Casals promoted and created in 1919 and that, as the musician himself recognized, was one of the most challenging fruitful of his artistic and professional life. The Pau Casals Foundation in collaboration with the Museu de la Música de Barcelona and Acción Cultural Española celebrates this centenary with an exhibition dedicated to the history of the Pau Casals Orchestra that will take place simultaneously at the Museu de la Música (Barcelona) and in the Museu Pau Casals (El Vendrell), setting up two complementary exhibitions that will give a global vision of Pau Casals as a musician and conductor.

The second edition of the Actions for New Musicians project aims to promote the professional career of new talents emerging from the classrooms of Taller de Músics ESEM and is organized by Taller de Músics and Acción Cultural Española. For this, five specific actions have been designed through which the selected students will have the opportunity to enrich their training: they will work in artistic residency and share the stage with musicians of the stature of Chano Domínguez and Perico Sambeat; they will participate in seminars and festivals such as Fara Music (Italy) and Sedajazz (Valencia); one of the musical projects that were part of the 2020 Talent Festival will be selected for a tour in Spanish territory; lastly, students will explore the field of electronic music. The different actions that the project proposes want to influence the contemporary music scene, where new artists can be recognized by the public in a professional music circuit at national and international level. CREATION AND EXCHANGE ACTION: JAZZ WITH PERICO SAMBEAT The project started in September with Perico Sambeat, one of the most important Spanish jazz saxophonists in Spain. With more than 30 years of professional experience and more than twenty-five albums as a leader. Perico Sambeat gave a workshop in September with students from Taller de Músics ESEM and then the students Alba Morena, Marta Duran, Héctor Tejedo, Álvaro Imperial, Pol Leiva, Pere Alcon, Llorenç Colomar and Armand Noguera worked with him the different compositions of his repertoire . Finally, there is an exchange with Creative Music of Madrid in May 2021 and the project is presented in a room in the capital. Perico works with selected students once a month. CREATION AND PROMOTION ACTION: FLAMENCO-JAZZ WITH CHANO DOMÍNGUEZ From November 18 to 30, the call was opened for students who wanted to work in residence with Chano Domínguez. The residency takes place on February 15, 16 and 17 + March 1,2 and 3. CREATION AND PROMOTION ACTION: ELECTRONIC MUSIC WITH CORA NOVOA Call for the exploration of electronic music, which opened on December 4 and won the artist Cora Novoa. The Sónar festival will be one of the stages of the electronic music show of this artist with artificial intelligence. if it finally takes place in July 2021. Between February 18 - 26, the call for students will open again. Mid-March: the artist, the collaboration with Sónar, and the involvement of artificial intelligence in the project are publicly announced. PROMOTIONAL ACTION: TALENT AWARD Saxophonist Pablo Martín was the winner of the first Talent Award and will have the opportunity to present his project State of the trio, on a tour of different national venues during the spring-summer of 2021, together with Kike Pérez on drums and Héctor Tejedo on the double bass. The Circuit of theaters will be developed between January and February 2021. https://tallerdemusics.com/pablo-martin-es-el-ganador-del-premio-talent-2020 TRAINING ACTIONS: MOBILITY It is planned to develop, whenever the pandemic allows it, three training actions with national and international projection. Participants will attend three seminars in July 2021: Fara Music (Italy), Sedajazz (Valencia), among others. These calls will open in May 2021. There is also an exchange action with the Creative Music school of Madrid led by the saxophonist Perico Sambeat.

On October 13, 2020, the centenary of the first concert of the Pau Casals Orchestra at the Palau de la Música Catalana is commemorated, a project that Pablo Casals promoted and created in 1919 and that, as the musician himself recognized, was one of the most challenging fruitful of his artistic and professional life. The Pau Casals Foundation in collaboration with the Museu de la Música de Barcelona and Acción Cultural Española celebrates this centenary with an exhibition dedicated to the history of the Pau Casals Orchestra that will take place simultaneously at the Museu de la Música (Barcelona) and in the Museu Pau Casals (El Vendrell), setting up two complementary exhibitions that will give a global vision of Pau Casals as a musician and conductor.

Curated by Mariana Pestana and organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial opens on 15 October 2020. With a new structure that brings together different formats of display, the biennial is held under the title 'Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one' with participants from various countries and disciplines intervening in exhibition venues, outdoor spaces and digital platforms. AC/E supports the participation of Spanish artists invited by the Biennial. The Biennial reappraises its format to foreground practices of care, localism and new models of co-existence. It presents a generative programme comprising three main axes: an online series titled Critical Cooking Show, a set of research projects on the Mediterranean basin to be archived at the Library of Land and Sea and displayed at ARK Kültür, and a series of interventions in the city of Istanbul and Pera Museum titled New Civic Rituals. The projects displayed at Pera Museum and ARK Kültür will be open to visit until 15 November 2020, whereas the interventions in the city, research projects and video series will continue to evolve through 2021. This format proposes new modes of engaging with design in line with the current restrictions around social distancing articulating mostly outdoor activities directed at local audiences, while also providing content for a global spectatorship.           View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by İstanbul Tasarım Bienali (@tasarimbienali) For more information: https://tasarimbienali.iksv.org/en For media inquiries: media@iksv.org  #istanbuldesignbiennial #empathyrevisited

#InsurrectaBorondoSG | This project by the artist Gonzalo Borondo, organized by the Segovia City Council in collaboration with Acción Cultural Española, is part of the activities that the City Council carries out in commemoration of the V centenary of the Comuneros revolt. Insurrecta aims to generate a freely accessible urban route, using the billboards of the entire city of Segovia as a support, which turn the city into an open-air museum. Borondo conceives the project as a cultural initiative available to citizens, extolling the value of the natural landscape and placing the "NoLugares" on the tourist plane. The 32 works, spread over 17 locations, are divided into 5 chapters, suggestively spinning historical events with a personal and critical reading of the artist towards contemporary times. Gonzalo Borondo (1989) Borondo returns to Segovia, the city that saw him grow, at the end of 2019, after a fruitful professional career developed outside of Spain, which has led him to exhibit in museums, festivals and other institutions around the world. His projection of contemporary art in public spaces tries to break down the barriers between art and life, questioning the limits of the cultural heritage of the context, while paying him a respectful tribute. Borondo's work is the result of a powerful dialogue between his art and the spaces in which it is located. His most recent projects include the intervention in the Temple of Chartrons, in Bordeaux, within the framework of the Liberté! 2019, his interventions at the Contemporary Museum of Rome (2018-2019), at the Musiques Interdites Festival in Marseille, in Berlin (Urban Nation Contemporary Art Museum), and at the Altrove Festival (Italy), among many others. He has starred in solo exhibitions in Madrid, Paris and London and has murals in Kiev, London or Las Vegas.