10 plans for this weekend in Barcelona

Culturópolis: street party for cultural rights.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
17 November 2022 Thursday 04:45
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10 plans for this weekend in Barcelona

Culturópolis: street party for cultural rights

From November 16 to 19, Culturópolis opens, a party and conferences demanding cultural rights, which for four days will offer activities to "reflect and debate on cultural rights, to think about how they are materialized and to imagine and find mechanisms that promote and guarantee them", as they explain on their website, where you can consult the complete program. Organized by Barcelona City Council and Culture Action Europe, it will be held between the Casa de la Música Paral·lel 62 and El Molino.

Premiere of the play Moriu-vos at the TNC

The new production at the Sala Petita of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya is a work that questions the relationship that society has with the elderly. In this way, Imma Colomer, Montse Colomé, Oriol Genís, Arthur Rosenfeld, Magda Puig, Erol Ileri, Piero Steiner / Enric Ases present a conflict from their age and their bodies. Thus, they vindicate the presence and capacities of the elderly. Moriu-vos is directed by Joan Arqué Solà and choreographed by Sol Picó. The work can be seen until December 11.

Premiere of the new version of Yerma, the classic by García Lorca

This Friday, November 18, Yerma, the drama about motherhood written by Federico García Lorca, premieres at the Sala Fabià Puigserver as an in-house production of the Teatre Lliure. The play, directed by Juan Carlos Martel Bayod and starring María Hervás, shows the internal conflict of a married woman, but unable to have children. The social pressure exerted on her strongly marks the drama of the Andalusian author. Yerma will be on the bill until December 16.

Premiere of La maternal by Pilar Palomero

This weekend the new film by Pilar Palomero, La maternal, arrives on the big screen. The filmmaker, author of Las niñas (2020), presents the story of a teenage mother who made a good impression at the San Sebastián film festival. As of Friday the 18th, the public will be able to reconnect with the female stories of Palomero in the country's movie theaters.

Sniper, the new movie by Zhang Yimou

Chinese film phenomenon Zhang Yimou premieres his new movie Sniper. The production centers on the story of a young Korean War sniper who killed and wounded a record 214 US soldiers in 32 days.

Premiere of the children's film Kings vs. Santa

On Friday, November 18, the Christmas movie Reyes contra Santa, directed by Paco Caballero, opens in movie theaters. This Spanish production brings to the screen the eternal battle between the Three Kings and Santa Claus for the attention of children. However, the two parties will discover that they have a common enemy, the Krampus.

Concert by Chucho Valdés and Paquito D'Rivera at the Palau de la Música

On Friday, November 18 at 8:30 p.m., the Palau de la Música will host, within the framework of the Barcelona Jazz Festival, a concert by the legendary Chucho Valdés and Paquito D'Rivera. These two exponents of Cuban music present their new joint work, I Missed You Too!, with which they compete at the Grammy Awards.

Zahara ends the tour of her album Puta en Razzmatazz

Within the framework of the Mil·lenni Festival, Zahara ends the tour of her emblematic album, Puta, at the Razzmatazz venue, this Friday, November 18. The tour, in homage to the artistic growth that this album has brought to the singer, is consolidated under the title "Thank you, Whore".

Viva Suecia concert at Cruïlla Tardor 2022

This Saturday, November 19, the Viva Suecia group arrives in the Razzmatazz 1 room, within the framework of the Cruïlla Tardor festival. The Spanish band, the new referent of the country's alternative scene, brings its fourth album to the festival under the title El amor de la clase que sea.

El Born CCM presents the exhibition Another End. THE REMAINING. Art and anti-Francoism:

Nineteen contemporary creators of different ages come together in the new exhibition at the Born cultural center to turn the memory of those silenced by the Franco regime into artistic material. The exhibition occupies the different spaces, archaeological sites, entrance hall and walkways of El Born CCM. It can be visited for free from November 18 to April 16, 2023.