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15-19 Devereux Court, London WC2R 3JJ | T: 020 7201 0750 londres.cervantes.es Instituto Cervantes London Instituto Cervantes London Instituto Cervantes London @CervantesLondon institutocervanteslondon Instituto Cervantes London New Online Cultural Calendar CINEMA CINEMA #CinemaAtticCuarentena Spanish Cinema Snippets New programme: Mon 6, 13, 20 & 27 Vermut: Sun 5, 12, 19 & 26 To celebrate 10 years of CinemaAttic promoting Spanish independent cinema in the UK we are happy to announce CinemAttic Cuarentena: 90 Essential Spanish Short Films of the Last Decade, an online initiative organised by CinemaAttic in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes. A new programme of 7 new Short Films will be announced every Monday on CinemaAttic website and on a Facebook event where you can watch them, vote and comment for your favourites (both in Spanish or English). Every Sunday at 1:00pm, we wrap up the week together with #CinemaAtticVermouth / Un Vermut con CinemaAttic, a relaxed live conversation with some of the directors on CinemaAttic’s Facebook channel. In Spanish with English subtitles More info: https://bit.ly/CinemaAtticCuarentena https://www.facebook.com/pg/CinemaAttic/events/ Watch a series of short introductions and presentations to a wide array of subjects about Spanish cinema with Joana Granero, Director and Founder of the London Spanish Film Festival. Session 1: Celebrating José Luis Cuerda José Luis Cuerda was more than a filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. He was a poet of cinema. He left us last February but his legacy is wide and as relevant today in Spanish cinema as it was thirty years ago. Session 2: A case of success: ESCAC ESCAC stands for Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya. Attached to the University of Barcelona and with a important hand on approach, the School, where teamwork and crossing barriers are primary guidelines, has produced some of the most interesting and fresh productions in the last few years. In English and in Spanish More info: https://www.youtube.com/user/ICLondres LITERATURE The Eye of Hispanic American Culture: Luis García Montero and Mariana Enríquez Podcasts available Wed 8 & 22 The Eye of Hispanic American Culture is a multimedia, international and bilingual cultural project, based in London. Its objective is to make known, disseminate and connect among themselves the artists, writers, intellectuals and promoters of culture of Hispanic American origin residing in Europe and the world. Instituto Cervantes London collaborates with this programme in the production of podcasts that, biweekly, will be available on the websites of the two entities. The installments in April have as central figures the Spanish poet Luis García Montero and the Argentine novelist Mariana Enríquez, led by Enrique Záttara, responsible for the project. In Spanish More info: https://londres.cervantes.es VISUAL ARTS Video Presentation of the Amalgama 2020-2021 Programme New videos: Wed 8, 15, 22 & 29 Amalgama is the first cultural initiative dedicated to promote the work of Iberomerican female artists in the United Kingdom. This year’s programme will include two exhibitions, one group show and a solo one, that will display these artists’ research around the tension between nature and culture in the digital age. The group show will exhibit the work of 15 artists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Portugal and Venezuela: selected from 190 applicants in an open call. For the second show, Amalgama will bring the work of renowned Colombian artist Maria Elvira Escalón. Videos of selected artists in the current call for Amalgama: 1. Constanza Camila (Chile) 2. Sabina Simón (Spain) 3. Cristina Camacho (Colombia) In English and in Spanish More info: https://bit.ly/ArtAmalgamaCervantes MUSIC MUSIC AND POETRY Enrique Granados: An Exploration of the Composer’s Work in All Genres 10 Love Poems and a Confined Song, by Jorge de Juan and María de Juan Podcast available from Mon 27 Available from Thu 23 ILAMS and the Instituto Cervantes London present a podcasts series that, as an audition guide and monthly, bring together the life and work of some of the most representative Spanish and Ibero-American composers of the musical tradition of our countries. Ray Picot will highlight the key masterworks as well as revealing the lesser-known hidden gems in the repertoire. Discover the seminal interpretations alongside more recent release revelations, whilst learning about the music in context. Enrique Granados was one of a triumvirate of great Spanish composers, along with Isaac Albéniz and Manuel de Falla, to achieve international acclaim during the early years of the 20th century. His untimely death deprived Spanish music of one of its great composers, though his music flourished through a new generation of performers and latterly a rich legacy of recordings. In English More info: http://www.ilams.org.uk/ https://londres.cervantes.es Jorge de Juan and his daughter María de Juan, who has just published his album 24/7, join in the distance from London and Granada, respectively. They will read poems by Mario Benedetti, Gioconda Belli, Vicente Aleixandre, Pablo Neruda and Alfonsina Storni, among others poets, and launch a message of love in times of the virus. A soiree proposed by the Cervantes Theatre in London, in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes London. In Spanish More info: https://www.cervantestheatre.com/home https://londres.cervantes.es New videos: Fri 10 & 24 Image © Sofía Clausse, Years Years Years, 2019. Courtesy of the artists
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15-19 Devereux Court, London WC2R 3JJ | T: 020 7201 0750 londres.cervantes.esInstituto Cervantes London Instituto Cervantes London Instituto Cervantes London@CervantesLondon institutocervanteslondon
Instituto Cervantes LondonNew Online Cultural Calendar
CINEMA
CINEMA
#CinemaAtticCuarentena
Spanish Cinema Snippets
New programme: Mon 6, 13, 20 & 27 Vermut: Sun 5, 12, 19 & 26To celebrate 10 years of CinemaAttic promoting Spanish independent cinema in the UK we are happy to announce CinemAttic Cuarentena: 90 Essential Spanish Short Films of the Last Decade, an online initiative organised by CinemaAttic in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes. A new programme of 7 new Short Films will be announced every Monday on CinemaAttic website and on a Facebook event where you can watch them, vote and comment for your favourites (both in Spanish or English).Every Sunday at 1:00pm, we wrap up the week together with #CinemaAtticVermouth / Un Vermut con CinemaAttic, a relaxed live conversation with some of the directors on CinemaAttic’s Facebook channel.
In Spanish with English subtitlesMore info: https://bit.ly/CinemaAtticCuarentena https://www.facebook.com/pg/CinemaAttic/events/
Watch a series of short introductions and presentations to a wide array of subjects about Spanish cinema with Joana Granero, Director and Founder of the London Spanish Film Festival. Session 1: Celebrating José Luis CuerdaJosé Luis Cuerda was more than a filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. He was a poet of cinema. He left us last February but his legacy is wide and as relevant today in Spanish cinema as it was thirty years ago.Session 2: A case of success: ESCACESCAC stands for Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya. Attached to the University of Barcelona and with a important hand on approach, the School, where teamwork and crossing barriers are primary guidelines, has produced some of the most interesting and fresh productions in the last few years.
In English and in Spanish More info: https://www.youtube.com/user/ICLondres
LITERATURE
The Eye of Hispanic American Culture: Luis García Montero and Mariana EnríquezPodcasts available Wed 8 & 22The Eye of Hispanic American Culture is a multimedia, international and bilingual cultural project, based in London. Its objective is to make known, disseminate and connect among themselves the artists, writers, intellectuals and promoters of culture of Hispanic American origin residing in Europe and the world.Instituto Cervantes London collaborates with this programme in the production of podcasts that, biweekly, will be available on the websites of the two entities.The installments in April have as central figures the Spanish poet Luis García Montero and the Argentine novelist Mariana Enríquez, led by Enrique Záttara, responsible for the project.
In SpanishMore info: https://londres.cervantes.es
VISUAL ARTS
Video Presentation of the Amalgama 2020-2021 ProgrammeNew videos: Wed 8, 15, 22 & 29Amalgama is the first cultural initiative dedicated to promote the work of Iberomerican female artists in the United Kingdom. This year’s programme will include two exhibitions, one group show and a solo one, that will display these artists’ research around the tension between nature and culture in the digital age. The group show will exhibit the work of 15 artists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Portugal and Venezuela: selected from 190 applicants in an open call. For the second show, Amalgama will bring the work of renowned Colombian artist Maria Elvira Escalón.Videos of selected artists in the current call for Amalgama:1. Constanza Camila (Chile)2. Sabina Simón (Spain)3. Cristina Camacho (Colombia) In English and in SpanishMore info: https://bit.ly/ArtAmalgamaCervantes
MUSICMUSIC AND POETRY
Enrique Granados: An Exploration of the Composer’s Work in All Genres
10 Love Poems and a Confined Song, by Jorge de Juan and María de Juan
Podcast available from Mon 27Available from Thu 23ILAMS and the Instituto Cervantes London present a podcasts series that, as an audition guide and monthly, bring together the life and work of some of the most representative Spanish and Ibero-American composers of the musical tradition of our countries.Ray Picot will highlight the key masterworks as well as revealing the lesser-known hidden gems in the repertoire. Discover the seminal interpretations alongside more recent release revelations, whilst learning about the music in context. Enrique Granados was one of a triumvirate of great Spanish composers, along with Isaac Albéniz and Manuel de Falla, to achieve international acclaim during the early years of the 20th century. His untimely death deprived Spanish music of one of its great composers, though his music flourished through a new generation of performers and latterly a rich legacy of recordings.
In English More info: http://www.ilams.org.uk/https://londres.cervantes.es
Jorge de Juan and his daughter María de Juan, who has just published his album 24/7, join in the distance from London and Granada, respectively. They will read poems by Mario Benedetti, Gioconda Belli, Vicente Aleixandre, Pablo Neruda and Alfonsina Storni, among others poets, and launch a message of love in times of the virus.A soiree proposed by the Cervantes Theatre in London, in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes London.
In Spanish More info: https://www.cervantestheatre.com/homehttps://londres.cervantes.es
New videos: Fri 10 & 24
Image © Sofía Clausse, Years Years Years, 2019. Courtesy of the artists
