It is an unavoidable responsibility, from a certain way of seeing the world, to look at cultural events not only with the eyes of a spectator. This week we bring you many cultural recommendations, but I also want to recommend these reports by Laura García Higueras about working conditions at the theme park. The unions denounce that the actors They are forced to clean their bathrooms and changing rooms and that is breached the labor obligation to keep a record of signings. And now, let’s go with some interesting cultural plans.
a concert
Nine Unknowns is the group of Ares Negrete, a star that we have seen explode before our eyes. Author of fantastic misty pop songs, in the vein of Depression Sonora but with more diverse influences, although the reminiscences of the darkest new wave of the 80s stand out. He will present new songs in his last concerts before the end of the year: November 15 in Madrid (El Sol), November 23 in Oviedo (La Salvaje), November 30 in Alicante (Stereo) and December 7 in Barcelona (within the Festival Beautiful).
Three recommended books
- ‘Dreams and vessels’ by June Fernández (Consonni). One of the most relevant feminist journalists, co-founder of the magazine Píkara, writes an essay that collects different feminist perspectives on surrogacy. Moving away from polarized positions, Fernández wants to address the debate without avoiding its edges in this essay, originally published in Basque. Already in bookstores.
- ‘Beasts’ by John Carlin and Oriol Malet (Astiberri). The British-Spanish journalist John Carlin teams up again with the cartoonist Oriol Malet (Mandela and the general) to make a comic album. On this occasion, they are inspired by Farm Animal by George Orwell to warn of the danger of totalitarianism. In bookstores on December 5.
- ‘Termite’ by Garazi Albizua (Gutenberg Galaxy). This comic scriptwriter has switched to novels for adult audiences for the first time with this story about a telemarketer who lives with her grandmother. According to Edurne Portela, the narrative voice is “rebellious and thuggish, ironic and unpredictable” and “does not meet any of the expectations that patriarchal society imposes on women.” In bookstores from November 13.
Three recommended films, by Javier Zurro
- ‘Dust they shall be.’ No, it is not recommended here Gladiator 2 (if you don’t know why we leave you here again the criticism). In return, we highly recommend one of the best Spanish films of the year. A risky, original and very exciting film. This is the latest film by Carlos Marqués-Marcet, a musical about euthanasia with songs by María Arnal, choreographies by La Veronal and a wonderful couple: Ángela Molina (don’t miss the interview with her in the newspaper office) and Alfredo Castro.
- ‘The last romantics’. David Pérez-Sañudo surprised everyone with Annethat film that in the midst of the pandemic discovered a different voice capable of capturing with subtlety and intelligence the industrial Euskadi that cinema does not usually tell. Here he adapts the novel by Txani Rodríguez to talk about loneliness, the wounds of his area, abandoned towns and women who escape by calling Renfe. A beautiful film.
- ‘In the sultan’s bedroom’. Here is a risky proposal, but those who like different cinema will find a unique proposal. The return of Javier Rebollo (and Pilar López de Ayala) is a tribute to the creators of cinema in the form of those camera operators who traveled around the world portraying countries that many would never have seen otherwise. It is a free, magical film without rules that one can only allow oneself to be surprised by.
Three plans for the weekend, by Laura G. Higueras
- Morricone, Zimmer and Williams (Salamanca). The Castilla y León Conference Center, located in Salamanca, offers this Saturday a tribute concert to these three great composers, responsible for many of the best soundtracks in the history of cinema – with the permission of Alan Menken, of course. It will be performed by the Royal Film Concert Orchestra, who will perform songs from Cinema Paradiso, Pearl Harbor, Harry Potter, ET, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and Star Wars, among others.
- LesGaiCineMad (Madrid). This week the 29th edition of this festival begins, in which a total of 110 films will be screened until November 24. This year it pays tribute to queer cinema from Taiwan and the honorary award has gone to the director of Go Fish, Rose Troche. The lesbian film, which turns 30, is also part of the programming. ponyboy by Esteban Arango, Close to you by Dominic Savage Where the silence passes by Sandra Romero and half by Ana de Marta Nieto are some of the selected feature films.
- DAU Barcelona. If board games are your thing, this weekend you have a date with this inclusive event designed from the youngest to the oldest and experts. With this they seek to become a meeting point for players of all levels, thanks to an offer that combines great classics with the latest developments on the market. The program includes concerts, conferences and even a Softcombat workshop, to learn combat techniques and participate in live role-playing games.
Three exhibitions, by Jordi Sabaté
Hello! I’m Jordi Sabaté and starting this week I will be in charge, from the Barcelona editorial office, of recommending interesting exhibitions in different cities. We start:
- ‘Gabriele Münter. The great expressionist painter’ (Madrid). This exhibition, which has just opened its doors at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museumreveals the figure and work of one of the members of the avant-garde expressionist group El Jinete Azul. Gabriele Münter, whose figure as Kandinsky’s lover has often been reduced, is largely unknown to the Spanish and part of the European public. Today, more than a century after the emergence in Munich of this key group in the history of informalism and abstraction, the Thyssen presents the German artist with her first retrospective in Spain and the most extensive outside her native country.
- ‘Daily shelters’ (Vitoria). The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country-Artium Museoa hosts the exhibition of the Gasteiztarra artist Joxerra Melguizo daily shelters, an exhibition that covers Melguizo’s work carried out in the last decade. The central core of the exhibition is a large wall piece, an installation nearly 30 meters long and 4 meters high that contains nearly a thousand drawings and paintings on panel in square format of different dimensions and that extends across the walls of the room using a pattern that organizes the different measurements.
- ‘Amazons. The ancestral future’ (Barcelona). It is always an event when the Center de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) releases a new exhibition, since they tend to be the most disruptive and complete, at least on the Catalan scene. In this case the topic is the region called Amazonia, a vast territory irrigated by the Amazon River and its tributaries about which we have a view full of misunderstandings and prejudices. The spirit of the exhibition is that let’s unlearn what we know and through an excellent display of indigenous art let us change our outlook not only on the region but also on the frenetic world in which we live.
Three readings
- María Hervás’ 24 hours on stage. A day and a night without interruption talking to a hundred men, interacting improvisedly, in a theater. And we have told you.
- The lie within the lie. We interview Eduard Fernández by Framea film about the Spaniard who deceived us by claiming that he was a victim of Nazism. “People just stick with the headline,” he says.
- Mud, such an enemy of paper. Bookstores, private libraries or publishing houses are great material losses due to DANA. We tell the story of the cartoonist Cristina Durán whose studio has been razed.
Librotea’s recommendations
In one of the most literary weeks of the year, we have found out who deserves the Cervantes Prize in Spain (the brilliant Alvaro Pombo) and what is the best novel of the year written in English, according to the Booker Prize jury: Orbital by Samantha Harvey. Librotea this week accompanies us to enter the readings of Pombo and other Cervantes awards, among other essential recommendations, such as those made by Jorge Volpi.
Every Friday morning Elena Cabrera works as a cultural prescriber in a bulletin that summarizes cultural news in a first part that highlights some of the stories published by the section that week. The newsletter has three fixed blocks: 3 section stories; 3 cultural plans chosen by Laura G. Higueras and 3 film recommendations chosen by Javier Zurro. In addition, the last newsletter of the month Gerardo Vilches chooses three comics.
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