Fashion
The crisis is taking its toll. Ever day more “En Aliquer” sings are up. But finally someone is taking advantage of the free commercial space. Xavier Guell from the online shop Weyoose.com has organized a pop up shop that will only open for two days in Born this weekend. There will be some food and lots of marcas – 55DSL, Replay, Diesel, We are Replay, Lee, Gas, 7 for all mankind, Murphy & Nye, Pinko, Dimensione Danza, Munich, Coming Soon, Lord Richards, Japan Rags, Calvin Klein Jeans, Guess, Dolce & Gabbana, Bunker, Gola, Buygo – on sale.
Time: 11:00 h a 21:00 h
Place: Born en la Ribera @ Carrer de la Ribera, 6 baixos
Admission: Free
+ info: weyoose.com
Music
Lawrence Hayward has penned heaps of perfect pop songs, and yet none of his bands – Felt, Denim, and the latest, Go Kart Mozart – has ever delivered a massive crossover hit. According to Lawrence, this is due to two things: his unfailing ability to never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity and simple bad luck. This is his first concert in Barcelona EVER. Don’t miss it!
Time: 00:30h
Place: Sala 2 @ Nou de la Rambla, 111
Admission: 15€
+ info: sala-apolo.com
Art
 Cada día, miles de personas recorren la Rambla, personas que van y vienen, suben y bajan, personas que miran a los lados, que se detienen, que vuelven a mirar, que se cruzan… Hervidero artístico y fuente de inspiración con mucha historia, podríamos decir que la Rambla es, sobre todo, un espacio variopinto. Y como centro de gran parte de la vida de Barcelona, bien merece ser protagonista de un evento artístico.
Por eso, no es de extrañar que Virreina Centre de la Imatge haya organizado “Guía secreta de la Rambla”, un ciclo de exposiciones, proyecciones, debates y actividades que comienza el próximo 25 de marzo. Lo más destacado son 4 exposiciones fotográficas que ensalzan la riqueza de la popular calle de Barcelona. “Guía secreta de la Ramabla” es una de ellas y recorre diacrónicamente su historia a través de las obras de Gabriel Casas, Josep Maria Sagarra o Brassaï, entre otros. Por otro lado encontraremos “Ocaña 1973-1983: acciones, actuaciones, activismo”, una serie de fotografías dedicada al artista José Pérez Ocaña y a la gran importancia que tuvo la Rambla en su obra. Además, este ciclo también cuenta con exposiciones sobre la obra de Xavier Miserachs (concretamente, una revisión de su libro “Barcelona en blanc y negre”,1964) y con instantáneas de la Rambla que Frederic Ballell capturó a principios del siglo XX.
Time: Tuesday-Friday 11:00h-14:00h + 16:00-20:00h / Saturday-Sunday 11:00-20:00 h / Monday closed
Place: La Virreina @ La Rambla, 99
Admission: 4.10€
+ info: bcn.cat/lavirreina
Talk/Charla/Presentation
If you feel perky and pekish, here’s your Saturday afternoon plan: The organisers of the Mongol Rally invite to afternoon tea with Bernardo Rosendo Galván aka Cosi who sports a mightily impressive CV: At the age of 18, he rode his motorbike from Cadiz to London followed by rallies from Cadiz to Tokyo and across every country in the Americas. The icing on the cake was his 70 day circumnavigation of the world in 1996 – the fastest ever solo round the world trip by bike.
Time: Doors will open at 15:00h; the talk begins at 16:00h and will last for roughly an hour. Sated with tales of adventure the group will retire for tea, cakes, the odd drink and some excellent tunes. The venue closes at 20:30h.
Place: Tinta Roja @ Creu dels Molers, 17
Admission: Free (after online registration)
+ info: afternoontea.theadventurists.com
Art
 The photography exhibition “Poste Mon Amour” by Jean-Luc Cramatte is a solemn portrayal of the state of Swiss post offices, an endangered species! The thirty photographs on show immortalize their peculiar organization, order, strict procedures and administration standards that are infused by the personal objects of the clerks, marked by human presence. Images that join public and private spheres, and silent testimonies to an activity that is coming to an end in many areas of rural Switzerland. What rules today is the Internet and mail has come to signify e-mail, as opposed to “snail mail”.
The Private Space Gallery :: The Private Space Gallery (TPSG) is a new platform for the dissemination of art and contemporary design, focusing on works of authors that reflect private spheres, intimate and personal, but that also reflect the society that they comprise. TPSG is located at number 37, Roc Boronat, in a refurbished flour mill, a brick building built in 1900, in the industrial
district Pouble Nou.
Conference: 16:00-19:00 h
Opening: 19:30 pm
Place: The Private Space Gallery @ Roc Boronat, 37
Admission: Free
+ info: theprivatespacebcn.com
Misc
The February/March edition as arrived, ladies and gents. Check out the Top 10 and the day-by-day Agenda for lots of great exhibitions, fiestas, concerts and plays you don’t want to miss.
Theater
 Julio Wallovits llega al Teatre Poliorama a partir del 10 de febrero con Las Listas. Un espectáculo donde debuta como director teatral y del que también es el autor y nos transporta a un mundo en el que todos los seres humanos son artistas y se desentienden las grandes necesidades del hombre. Wallovits es conocido por su creación Smoking Room, junto a Roger Gual, película premiada en los Goya en la categoría de mejor dirección novel, entre otros galardones. El joven director formado en el mundo de la publicidad, ya presentó Las Listas y su compañía La Doma en el ciclo Inmotion en el marco del Festival Grec’09, donde fue una de las piezas más aplaudidas. Actualmente prepara un nuevo largometraje para julio de 2010 titulado Los Animales.
Time: 21:00h
Place: Teatre Poliorama @ Rambla dels Estudis, 115
Admission: 19€ – 25€
+ info: 3xtr3s.com/polio
Art
 Communication guerrilla / Culture jamming / Radical entertainment
The Influencers is an ongoing investigation about the transformation of ideas, focusing on creative practices that develop unconventional weapons of mass communication. Since 2004 The Influencers festival has been showcasing grassroots projects devoted to guerrilla communication, “myth-making” and alternative memes, new counter-information tactics, plagiarism and radical sampling, modification of popular or not-so-popular technologies, daring interventions in the public sphere. There is an invisible thread that links all these projects: the transformation of what was once called the “underground”, which the challenging contamination with mainstream commercial cultures is mutating into some new (and still in-progress) types of popular culture. The Influencers project explores its most unexpected, disturbing, unbelievable and ambiguously playful sides, injecting visionary alternatives into the routine functioning of the global mind.
Time: 19:00h
Place: CCCB Hall @ Montalegre, 5
Admission: Free
+ info: theinfluencers.org
Music
Seward’s concert on Sunday at Heliogàbal was a beautiful surprise. Surreal to experimental but of the joyous, overflowing type. The six sonic pataphysicists repeat at Bar Elèctric tonight. Don’t be a putzhead and miss your second chance.
Time: Around 22:00h
Place: Bar Elèctric @ Travesera de Gràcia, 233
Admission: 5€
+ info: Since they’ve decided to ditch MurdochSpace no online sneak preview possible.
Literature
 ESCÒCIA // ENTRE EDIMBURG I GLASGOW
Conversa amb Ian Rankin: La nòmina d’autors escocesos que envaeix les prestatgeries de les bones llibreries és sorprenent. Divendres Fermín Goñi i Jokin Ibáñez conversen amb un dels seus creadors clau, Ian Rankin, guanyador del premi Pepe Carvalho del 2010 i pare de l’inspector John Rebus, que ja forma part de la mitologia dels grans investigadors i dels grans personatges del gènere negrecriminal. // TRADUCCIÓ SIMULTÀNIA
Time: 17:30
Place: La Capella @ Carrer de l’Hospital, 56
Admission: Free
+ info: negraycriminal.blogcindario.com
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Este mes de Febrero, no nos engañemos, uno de los más feos y fríos en años, no pinta tan mal para nuestras frágiles orejas, ¡¡aún queda vida musical en Barcelona!! más// Film by Joan López Lloret 
Aquest món és contradictori, políticament incorrecte, discutible i a vegades desagradable, amb moments genials i altres d’avorrits. Així és el cinema de Werner Herzog, personatge polèmic des que va començar a fer cinema als anys seixanta. más// Art by Alma Hipp 
Since hearing James Acord at The Influencers festival at the beginning of February, even the work of John Baldessari, pioneer of conceptual art in the 1960s (on show at the MACBA starting on February 11th), seems awkwardly tame. más// Theater by Rafa Riva 
Para empezar propongo una vueltecita por el Pati Llimona, porque dos jueves al mes (el primero y el último) a las 20.45h se abre un espacio para la narración oral: Dijous Llimones. más |
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