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Instituto Cervantes LondonNew Online Cultural Calendar 3-15 May 2020

CINEMA

CINEMA FILM SERIES

#CinemaAtticCuarentena

Classics With You

New programmes: Mon 4, 11 Vermut: Sun 3, 10To celebrate 10 years of CinemaAttic promoting Spanish independent cinema in the UK we are happy to announce CinemAtticCuarentena: 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 1pm, 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/

Approaching the canon - always questionable - that make up the classics of Spanish cinema is a good opportunity to recognize the cinema that connected with the public of its time; a cinema that made a bet to understand the context and do it through films that soon became emblematic. Instituto Cervantes is pleased to present this new online programming. The titles of the program will feature a short presentation by Mariano Barroso, President of the Academy of Cinema and Cinematographic Arts of Spain, co-organizing entity of the activity. The selected films belong to the AECID Film Library (Spanish Agency for Cooperation and Development) catalogue.

Programme: Death of a Cyclist (1955), by Juan Antonio Bardem.Welcome Mr. Marshall! (1953), by Luis García Berlanga.

In Spanish with English subtitlesMore info: https://bit.ly/ClasicosContigo

LITERATURE

Stories in Spanish Series 3: Luis Rebaza Soraluz (Peru)Podcasts available Wed 6In conversation with Enrique Záttara, chair of the programme El Ojo de la Cultura Hispanoamericana.

Luis Rebaza Soraluz (Lima, Peru, 1958) is the author of four poetry collections, Población activa (1978), Hipervivientes (1980), Del reino y la frontera (1985, 1992), Señor cónsul y otras omnipotencias de facto (2002), and the short storis Soñó que en una plaza (1989) and Dos solitudes (1990). His book La construcción de un poeta peruano contemporáneo: poética e identidad nacional en la obra de José María Arguedas, Emilio Adolfo Westphalen, Javier Sologuren, Jorge Eduardo Eielson, Sebastián Salazar Bondy, Fernando de Szyszlo y Blanca Varela has published in 2000. Since 1994 he teaches Latin American literature, culture and art at the Institute for the Study of the Americas and King’s College, University of London.

In SpanishMore info: https://bit.ly/RebazaSoraluz

THEATRE & POETRY

We Have the Word. 48 PoemsVideo available from Wed 6Under the direction of Jorge de Juan, director of the Cervantes Theatre in London, 48 professionals from different sectors with a common language and the same passion that moves them to study theatre every week in this space. Engineers, graduates, nurses, doctors, architects, accountants, lawyers, designers, therapists, scientists ... They all take the floor and share a poem with you from their homes. Among the poets included in this initiative, they are included some of the most relevant ones, such as Pedro Salinas, Julio Cortázar, Alfonsina Storni, Luis Cernuda, Rosalía de Castro, Federico García Lorca, Antonio Machado, Rosario de Acuña, Mario Benedetti, Ángel González, Luis García Montero, Antonio Gamoneda, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Miguel Hernández and Juana de Ibarbourou in what constitutes a map of poetic creation in Spanish. In SpanishMore info:https://www.cervantestheatre.com/home/tenemos-la-palabra/

VISUAL ARTS

Amalgama Programme 2020-2021. Video presentation of the artists #2New videos: Wed 13, 20 & 27Amalgama is the first cultural initiative dedicated to promoting the work of Iberomerican female artists in the United Kingdom.Video 4: Marina Latucca (Brazil) Human Mills is a study about the quantity of bodies that can be contained in just one. Modernity worries are always related to accumulation and storage, no wonder our conception of advance is processing speed.Vídeo 5: Sofia Clausse (Argentina) Just as language is a tool for communication, creating new tools is like creating new dialects or voices. The questions that I explore have mainly revolved around ideas of time, repetition, cycles, and translation.Video 6: Gabriela Sánchez (Colombia) The Stillness of Resilience, a work is inspired by a recent trip I made to Kakuma, the refugee camp in Kenya. The image I submit recreates the feeling I had inside the camp, an image of loneliness, stillness and nature.

In English and in SpanishMore info: https://bit.ly/AmalgamaCervantes

Available from Fri 8 at 7:00 pm to Sun 10 at 7:00 pm, the first movie; from Fri 15 at 7:00 pm to Sun 17 at 7:00 pm, the second one

Image © Marina Lattuca. Courtesy of the artists

VISUAL ARTS, VIDEO

And The World Was CalmAvailable from Thu 7A visual poem by Daniel Solomons, in collaboration with Gracia Ramírez, which starts from images recorded in March 2019, in various locations in London, reflecting the automatisms we adopt during our daily trips, the frenetic movement of the masses, speed and inertia of life in large cities.From the confining distance, these images have taken on a different dimension; We are questioning these patterns of social behaviour and, with it, the identity of the city. Will those patterns be restored to the new normal?Daniel Solomons studied Graphic Arts at the East London Advanced Technology College and he carried his studies in Research and Artistic Production in Málaga where he was Founding Director of a Contemporary Culture Space. Gracia Ramírez is Doctor in Film Studies and Lecturer in Media at the University of Arts London.

In EnglishMore info: https://bit.ly/AndTheWorldWasCalm

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Instituto Cervantes LondonNew Online Cultural Calendar 15-31 May 2020

CINEMA

MUSIC

#CinemaAtticCuarentena

Spanish Music from the time of Manuel de Falla.

A new programme: Mon 18 & 25 Vermut: Sun 17 & 24To 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 1pm, 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/

LITERATURE

Stories in Spanish Series 4: Carlos Fonseca (Costa Rica)Podcasts available Wed 20 Podcast available from Mon 25In conversation with Enrique Záttara, chair of the programme El Ojo de la Cultura Hispanoamericana.

Carlos Fonseca (San José, Costa Rica, 1987) is a novelist and doctor of Latin American literature from Princeton University. He has collaborated in literary magazines such as Literary Hub, The Guardian, LetrasLibres, BOMB Magazine, and Otra Parte, among others, and has been selected by the Hay Festival as part of the group Bogotá 39-2017 (which brings together 39 Latin American authors under the age of 40 outstanding years of the moment).He is the author of Coronel Lágrimas (Anagrama, 2015, and published in English by Restless Books, in 2017) and Animal Museum (Anagrama, 2017, and forthcoming in English in Restless Books).

In SpanishMore info: https://londres.cervantes.es

ILAMS and Instituto Cervantes London present a series of podcasts that bring the life and work of some of the most representative Spanish and Ibero-American composers of the musical tradition of our countries. Ray Picot, chief CD and concert reviewer at the Iberian & Latin American Music Society since 2001. On this occasion, discover Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer, representative of musical nationalism. Manuel de Falla is one of the most relevant Spanish composers of the first half of the 20th century, both for the importance of his works and their influx in subsequent generations of musicians.

In EnglishMore info: http://www.ilams.org.uk/https://londres.cervantes.es

CINEMA

VISUAL ARTS, BOOK LAUNCH

Spanish Cinema Snippets

How to lose fear inside a museum. A chronicle of a decade in New York, by Gema Álava.

New videos: Fri 15 & 29

Podcasts available Wed 27

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 3: Jaime Rosales A singular case in Spanish cinema, a look at his filmography, his training and two of his films: the first one, The Hours of the Day, and the last, Petra. Session 4: Fernando Fernán Gómez An approach to the work of one of the most prominent figures in Spanish cinema, both in front of and behind the camera. Presentation of The Strange Journey and Belle Epoque. A mention of Fernando Trueba documentary /conversation with him, Fernando’s chair.

In English and in SpanishMore info: https://www.youtube.com/user/ICLondres

Ediciones El Ojo de la Cultura, Hispanoamericana in association with the Instituto Cervantes Londres, presents the compilation of ten articles published during a decade in the Spanish magazine FronteraD, written by the artist and curator Gema Álava. Gema Álava is a multidisciplinary artist and Culture Advisor of the WCP of United Nations. She has worked for fifteen years in the Education departments of the Guggenheim, MOMA, Whitney and Metropolitan museums in New York, where she lives since 2000. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, London Institute and Universidad Complutense of Madrid obtaining Masters in New Genre, Painting and Education. She has been Jury of the La Caixa Foundation Graduate Scholarships for North America, Europe and Asia. In 2018 she founded Hexagons artistic platform.

In SpanishMore info: https://londres.cervantes.es

CINEMA FILM SERIES

Classics With You

Approaching the canon - always questionable - that make up the classics of Spanish cinema is a good opportunity to recognize the cinema that connected with the public of its time; a cinema that made a bet to understand the context and do it through films that soon became emblematic. Instituto Cervantes is pleased to present this new online programming. The titles of the program will feature a short presentation by Mariano Barroso, President of the Academy of Cinema and Cinematographic Arts of Spain, co-organizing entity of the activity. The selected films belong to the AECID Film Library (Spanish Agency for Cooperation and Development) catalogue.

Programme: Viridiana (1961) by Luis Buñuel.El verdugo (1963) by Luis García Berlanga

In Spanish with English subtitlesMore info: https://vimeo.com/showcase/clasicoscontigo

Available from Fri 22 at 7:00 pm to Sun 24 at 7:00 pm, the first movie; from Fri 29 at 7:00 pm to Sun 31 at 7:00 pm, the second one