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15 March 2019

During the second half of March we have a programme with some major projects outside Spain: Picasso in Toulouse, Sorolla in London or the Prado Museum in Córdoba (Argentina) while the VIII International Congress of the Spanish Language is being held, where we also support an exhibition of photography "Errancia y fotografía: El Mundo hispánico de Jesse A. Fernández" and a recital on the Romancero Gitano by Federico García Lorca performed with Nuria Espert on March 29 at the Teatro Real de Córdoba.

Picasso and the Exodus

15 March - 25 August 2019
Les Abattoirs. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Toulouse (Toulouse, France)

This exhibition will provide an occasion for the public to discover or rediscover, among other works, the exceptional stage curtain by Picasso, La Dépouille du Minotaure en costume d’Arlequin [The Corpse of the Minotaur in Harlequin Costume], created by the artist in 1936 and donated by him to the city of Toulouse in 1965. It is only presented once every two years for conservation purposes. In late April 1937, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), while working in his Parisian studio Grands-Augustins on a ...

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Bienal Ser flamenco 2019. Ciudad de Atenas
15 March - 31 March 2019 (Atenas, Greece)
Flamenco Biennial in which flamenco performances, flamenco training, exhibitions, business exchanges in the flamenco sector and Andalusian products will take place, together with the screening of documentaries and films in relation to flamenco and gypsy culture. AC/E supports the participation of Spanish creators in the cycle of documentaries and films of Spanish direction and production. It is a periodic event, which will be held every two years, and this is its first edition, and it has ...

The Prado Museum in ...

20 Mar - 19 May 2019
VIII Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española. Calles Obispo Trejo y Rivera Indarte (Córdoba, Argentina)

This exhibition brings together a collection of 54 photographs reproduced at original scale depicting some of the emblematic exhibits of the Prado National Museum which will be installed in the major plazas and pedestrian streets in Bogota and Medellin. The original idea for this project came about in 2011 as collaboration between the Prado National Museum and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID). After the first edition in Santo Domingo, the exhibition has now travelled to over 13 ...

The Dream (1518-2018)
15 Mar - 28 Abr 2019 Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea (San Sebastián, España)
"The Longest Journey" is an exhibition and documentary programme that reflects on the attitude of man before a long trip into the unknown. It connects the first circumnavigation of the Earth with the individual challenges of the present and the collective challenges of the future. The project begins in 2018 with the exhibition following the steps of Magallanes and the preparations of the first circumnavigation with the traveling exhibition "The Dream, 1518-2018", and will continue with the celebration, in 2019, ...

Malaga Film Festival 2019

15 March - 24 March 2019
Festival de Málaga Cine en Español (Málaga, Spain)

The 22th edition of Malaga Film Festival is geared to all audiences and, in accordance with its aim of presenting and encouraging a broad range of film culture, is ever attentive to training, creativity and innovation as part of an event that is notable for its dynamic and constantly developing nature. As in previous years,The support of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) through its Programme for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture (PICE) in the modality of Visitors makes it possible to support ...

FLIC Festival 2019
15 March - 16 March 2019 Museu del Disseny de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
The Flic is a festival of experiences and literary creation that invites all families to enjoy literature and the arts. It looks for a programme full of innovation and experimentation in all cultural formats. AC/E supports the participation in this edition of important international prescribers in the Professional Flic, an international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral meeting that is celebrated within the FLIC. This event reflects on the new paradigm of children's and youth literature as well as the possibilities offered by digital ...

Flores en la basura

15 March - 24 March 2019
Festival de Málaga Cine en Español (Málaga, Spain)

This documentary (Flowers in the garbage), filmed over the period from 2013 to 2018, paints a picture – in only 80 minutes – of the past five years in crisis-stricken Spain. It is a panoramic view that gives a voice to the people who have no say. The crisis began with the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis, extended to the finance sector – the collapse of Lehman Brothers – and soon became widespread in the real world: unemployment, wage drops, ...

Neo Gods & Hyper Myths. By Ira Lombardía
17 March - 11 April 2019 SCAN Spanish Contemporary Art Network Foundation (Londres, United Kingdom)
"Neo Gods & Hyper Myths" is a research-based art project by Ira Lombardia that looks to shorten the gap between Post-Modern art and theory and the practice of post-internet photography on social networks. The research juxtaposes internet memes to 1970’s Conceptual performance art that seem to anticipate the specific meme(s) in various specific ways.This practice-based research began in Madrid and New York and continued in London, when Lombardía was the recipient of the 2018 SCAN-AR#2 Summer Residency and is now display in an exhibition at SCAN ( Spanish Contemporary ...

Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light

18 March - 07 June 2019
The National Gallery (Londres, United Kingdom)

#Sorolla | The first UK exhibition of Spain's Impressionist, Sorolla, in over a century. Known as the 'master of light' for his iridescent canvases, this is a rare opportunity to see the most complete exhibition of Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida's (1863–1923) paintings outside Spain. From the vivid seascapes, garden views, and bather scenes for which he is most renowned, to portraits, landscapes and genre scenes of Spanish life, the exhibition features more than 60 works spanning Sorolla's career – many of ...

50 Photographs with a Story | José Manuel Navia, 'Escuela de Caconda' (1996)

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José Manuel Navia tells the story behind the photograph 'Escuela de Caconda' (1996), which is part of the exhibition "50 photographs with a Story." A project organized by AC/E based on the publication published by Signo Editores....

¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Festival 2019
22 March - 13 April 2019 HOME Manchester (Manchester, United Kingdom)
¡Viva! Festival is a venue-wide celebration of Spanish and Latin American culture at HOME, Manchester. They bring a specially selected programme of film, theatre and visual art from across the Spanish-speaking world. AC/E is covering the travel expenses, through the PICE Mobility grants, of the Spanish guests invited to take part Agrupación Señor Serrano who will be the central part of the ¡Viva! 2019 programme, following their hugely successful appearance in ¡Viva! 2017 with "Birdie" to showcase their new work "Kingdom".This support ...

Belgrade Dance Festival 2019

22 March - 12 April 2019
Belgrade Dance Festival (Belgrado, Serbia)

Its sixteen edition, Belgrade Dance Festival, will have slogan „Emotions“ and AC/E is covering the travel expenses, through the PICE Mobility grants, of the Spanish artists invited to take part Agrupación Señor Serrano. This support is aimed at internationalising the performing arts sector by encouraging Spanish companies to take part in fairs and other international sector events. In the period 22. March to 12. April 2019, public will have opportunity to see 16 ballet companies from 11 countries with total of 19 choreographic works, as well as 25 solos and ...

Camilo José Cela: Literature and Art
20 March - 30 May 2019 Centro Cultural del Ayuntamiento de Almonacid de Zorita (Almonacid de Zorita, Spain)
The exhibition, curated by María Toral in collaboration with the writer’s son, Camilo Cela Conde, has been organised by the Fundación Charo y Camilo and was initially shown at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid (23 March‒21 May 2017) and at Las Francesas in Valladolid (29 May‒9 July 2017). Since then, Acción Cultural Española has been collaborating on its tour of other Spanish venues. Camilo José Cela was the founder and chief editor of Papeles de Son Armadans. The establishment and development of ...

The face of literature. Writers and photographers from Romanticism to the Generation of ’14

22 March - 02 June 2019
Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio Caraffa (Córdoba, Argentina)

‘El rostro de las letras’ (The face of literature) makes an exhaustive survey of Spanish photographic portraits throughout a century and how they are reflected in the field of literature. It is the first of its kind to be undertaken in Spain and the countries belonging to its cultural environment. The exhibition is aimed not only at lovers of photography and literature, but also at the public in general, as it takes an entertaining and educational approach to one of the ...

Errancia y fotografía, Romancero Gitano. 8th International Congress on the Spanish Language 2019
22 March - 02 June 2019 Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio Caraffa (Córdoba, Argentina)
The 8th International Congress on the Spanish Language, which will take place in Córdoba (Argentina) from 27 to 30 March 2019, brings together more than 200 writers, academics, experts and professionals from all over the world to debate on the theme of ‘the Americas and the future of Spanish. Culture and education, technology and entrepreneurship’. Experts and creators from all over Spanish America and other countries will take part: writers; members of the Spanish language academies; university rectors, professors and lecturers; ...

LPA Film Festival 2019

22 March - 31 March 2019
Festival de cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Las Palmas, Spain)

This International film competition includes an official section and panorama information sections, panorama Spain, retrospectives, competitive section Canarias Cinema, the most freak night, author cycle (Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani) and Monopol Music Festival. AC/E facilitates, through the PICE grants, the participation of Ela Bittencourt of É Tudo Verdade Int'l Documentary Film Festival so you can get to know the Spanish film scene first-hand. With the section «Déjà vu: siete mujeres» the festival recovers a series of films by authors who ...

MECAS, Mercado Internacional del Cine Casi Hecho e ISLA MECAS 2019
24 March - 26 March 2019 Festival de cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Las Palmas, Spain)
MECAS, three-day meeting. Two dedicated to fiction, nonfiction and / or experimental feature film projects that are in one of their final stages of completion. One day, ISLA MECAS, in which regional projects in various stages of development or production are advised by international experts. ...

Programa de Flamenco El Dorado 2019

21 March 2019
Centre Cívic Parc Sandaru (Barcelona, Spain)

AC/E supports the El Dorado SFB programme during 2019 that aims to deepen and disseminate flamenco culture, consolidate a stable space for the study and dissemination of flamenco in Barcelona and promote musicians and other local and national flamenco artists . Flamenco is looking at the 21st century with its own baggage that is not negligible. ...

'Persiles y Sigismunda' una historia septentrional

27 March 2019
Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid, Spain)

El instante Fundación, with the collaboration of Acción Cultural Española and the Museo del Prado, has organised an activity lasting 15-20 minutes and featuring a number of characters from this novel (translated into English as The Wanderings of Persiles and Sigismunda). It will take place at the museum from 10.30 am to 1 pm on Wednesday 27 March. During the performance Persiles discovers games of identities, the cross-dressing of the characters, changing appearances… the vicissitudes of a couple who emerge ...

Festival Cine por Mujeres. 2ª edición. ::: Origen WS PICE
25 March - 31 March 2019 Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
Un festival internacional de cine hecho por mujeres. Se programarán largometrajes de ficción o documentales en diferentes secciones: competitivaen el Cine Estudio Círculo de Bellas Artes, sección informativalatinoamericana en Casa de América, un panorama de Suiza como país invitado, un panorama de películas españolascon la Fundación SGAE, un ciclo en el Institut Français y otro en Casa Árabe, además de actividades paralelas: mesas redondas, etc.Se solicita la ayuda para la segunda edición del festival en un contexto cultural, social y ...

Festival du Cinéma Espagnol Nantes 2019

28 March - 07 April 2019
Festival du Cinema Espagnol de Nantes (Nantes, France)

Every year, more than 25,000 French people attend the Nantes Spanish Film Festival, first held in 1990, during the second half of March. With more than two hundred screenings of nearly sixty feature-length films and some twenty shorts in their original language with subtitles and the presence of more than fifty filmmakers, the city of Jules Verne has become a showcase for Spanish films in France with cycles, competitions, special nights, exhibitions, meetings and concerts. For the 29th Nantes Spanish Film ...

Belgrade Photo Month 2019
28 March - 25 April 2019 BGD Photo Month (Belgrado, Serbia)
The BPM is an international festival dedicated to the popularization of photography through educational and artistic programs. The festival program includes exhibitions, stands, workshops, portfolios, interviews with artists and critics. AC/E, through the PICE grants, is covering the travel expenses of the Spanish guests invited to take part García de Marina with the exhibition “La palabra inacabada” and Joan Alvado with the project “Cuban Muslims, ...

Dora Garcia's Second Time Around

30 March - 31 March 2019
ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts (Londres, United Kingdom)

In collaboration with the Essay Film Festival, LUX organises the presentation of Spanish artist Dora García's film 'Segunda Vez' in London and to expand upon it with a workshop and a performative lecture. Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) through its Programme for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture (PICE) in the modality of Mobility makes it possible to support her traveling expenses. 'Segunda Vez' is a film and analysis project using the figure of author, critic, artist and psychoanalyst Oscar Masotta (1930-1979) as ...

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