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14 Michelin Barcelona racks up 27 stars!

08 Feature 22 Around Town Everything you need to Green shoots in the Raval know about... calçots! 24 Arts 14 Food & Drink Contemporary artists in Michelin recognises BCN’s dialogue with El Prado culinary diversity 26 Nightlife 20 Shopping Mutis, Europe’s best bar Magnesia, an oasis of creativity in Gràcia 29 Listings

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February 2013 Time Out BCN Guide 3 Monthly planner Get out your diaries! We present just a handful of the cultural highlights of the month ahead.

Saturday 02 Wednesday 06 Tuesday 12

JAZZ AT JETHRO TULL FESTIVAL OF JAMBOREE The Millennium SANTA EULÀLIA Saturdays at Festival welcomes Barcelona’s winter Jamboree the sixties rock festival begins, mean the city’s legends, fronted by with activities for best live jazz. Ian Anderson. young and old alike. See p. 38 See p. 40 See p. 43

Saturday 16 Sunday 17

ANTONI TÀPIES. TALES OF COLLECTION #4 HOFFMANN A chronological The Liceu stages journey through the Jacques collection of the Offenbach’s Tàpies Foundation. masterpiece. See p. 31 See p. 45

Monday 18 Thursday 21 Wednesday 00

ESPANYOL VS. DE CAJÓN! BETIS FESTIVAL: High tension at LAS MIGAS Cornellà Stadium: One of the most this match pits innovative groups Espanyol against an in contemporary old rival. See p. 46 flamenco. See p. 47 JORDI CANÉ Saturday 23 Sunday 24

POLLOCK’S EL PARAL·LEL LEGACY Last chance to An explosion of trace the history of action painting at Barcelona’s the Joan Miró entertainment Foundation. district at the See p. 31 CCCB. See p. 30 JACKSON POLLOCK/VEGAP 2012 JACKSON

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The Hot Seat

Raffel Pagés ORIOL MALET Raffel Pagés wants to raise the profi le of hairdressing as a profession. By Ada Castells

You have two exhibitions on in lot of history behind the Barcelona, you’re opening a third profession, and I started to take it in Istanbul in March, a fourth in more seriously. Without setting out Atapuerca, Mexico, and you’re to, I’ve ended up with the best planning one for the Louvre. Has hairdressing museum in the world, the world gone hair crazy? and I’ve become a kind of My collection is gradually hairdressing historian, if you like. becoming better-known. My What are the strangest pieces in intention has always been to your collection? restore the prestige of I have some of Marie Antoinette’s hairdressing, not just in the salon hair. When she fell pregnant, she but in the world of culture – just like asked her hairdresser to cut her Ferran Adrià did with cookery. hair and share it out among the These exhibitions prove that ladies of the court. Her locks were hairdressing remains a great framed and used to make other unknown, when in fact it has objects. I was interested in always played a big role in history. acquiring some, but it never went How did your collection start? on auction for less than €40,000 – As a joke, really. I had just got back and I ended up paying €100,000 from Paris and my father was redecorating his salon. He gave me a 1930s hairdryer and various 7,000 other vintage pieces of equipment. pieces are in Pagés’s collection At the time I didn’t want to be a – a small selection is on show hairdresser. But as my collection at the Museu d’Arqueologia. grew I discovered that there was a

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Gathering to eat barbecued onions dipped in a hearty sauce is a highlight of the Catalan gastronomic calendar. Grab your bib and join the party. By Eulàlia Iglesias

Igualada The calçot capital of the world is Valls, in southern Catalonia, and the town’s mass calçotada in January leaves others in the shade. But even outside the areas in Tarragona where calçots are traditionally grown, big calçotadas are popular events. In Igualada, the Bon Rotllo (‘good times’) association has been organising their annual shindig since 1996, at the city’s Ateneu cultural centre. 11 March www.bonrotllo.cat Cal Ganxo The owners of this restaurant, to the eighteenth century. They located in a sprawling old offer the traditional calçotada farmhouse, are so convinced of the menu, which includes lamb and quality of their sauce, they sell it botifarra sausage with white to take away. The dining rooms beans, artichokes, wine and cava, occupy converted spaces within dessert and coffee. the building – the bedrooms or the C/ Església, 13 (Masmolets) Set cellars, which still contain an olive calçotada menu: €36 + VAT press and other tools dating back www.calganxo.com

8 Time Out BCN Guide February 2013 Vallvidrera, km 6 (Molins de Rei) Masia Bou Set calçotada menu: €36.95 Masia Bou claims to be the ‘ancestral www.lamasiacanportell.com home of the calçot’, because as far back as they 1940s they were serving the dish to travellers who stayed at Masia Can Cortès their hostel. Since then they’ve played Another calçot classic. Just before the a part in the calçot’s unstoppable rise abandoned Casino de l’Arrabasada, to popularity, strapping bibs on nestles this seventeenth-century everyone from local politicians to farmhouse, which offers dinners with celebrities – including Salvador Dalí. stunning views over the Collserola Ctra. de Lleida, km 21.5 (Valls) natural park. Their set calçotada menu Set calçotada menu: €36.50 offers the choice of fish rather than the www.masiabou.com traditional grilled meats. Perfect for families: children’s entertainment comes included in the price. Can Portell Ctra. de l’Arrabassada, km 6,5. Av. We have a weakness for Santa Creu Can Cortès, 3 (Sant Cugat del Vallès) d’Olorda, the Barcelonan enclave on Set calçotada menu: €37.50 the slopes of the Collserola that www.cancortes.com extends as far as Molins de Rei. Only 200 metres from the chapel that crowns the village stands Can Portell, AN ADDICTIVE ONION a farmhouse renovated to host weddings, conventions and – how The record for calçot eating could it be otherwise – calçotadas. It’s is held by Ramon Forès, from surrounded by nature, and only a Valls, who ate more than 3.75 short drive from the city centre. kilos in one sitting in 2009. Ctra. de Molins de Rei a

February 2013 Time Out BCN Guide 9 Urban calçotadas It’s not unusual to find calçotadas taking place on the streets of Barcelona. Poble Sec is gearing up for its seventh street calçotada, ‘A Taula!’, which includes a performance by the district’s castellers (human tower builders). The Eixample Nord youth assembly are organising their eighth annual calçotada, right in front of the Sagrada Familia, on the first Saturday in March. The squares of Gràcia also fill up with barbecues and tables crowded with locals ready to eat onions as if there were no tomorrow. And on 16 February, the Poble Espanyol hosts Cal Manel Gastropop, a food festival with tastings, workshops – and calçots. Always a sound choice for barbecued meats, and recently renovated, Can Gastropop: Calçotada in Manel offers calçots throughout the Barcelona’s Poble Espanyol. season. At the weekend they also serve 16 Feb 11am-6pm. roast suckling pig. The star attractions are artisan sausages from the village A Taula! The Poble Sec of Tèrmens, and excellent snails. street calçotada: Galileu, 85 (Barcelona). Price: €6 T. 93 409 00 59 (calçots, drinks, botifarra, chips, bread and sauce) www.bcn.cat/elsortidor Can Travi Nou Neoclassical airs and creative cuisine Eixample calçotada: 2 March in what brochures like to call ‘an www.joveseixample.com unrivalled setting’: a splendid early- COLECTIVO A COLECTIVO

10 Time Out BCN Guide February 2013 eighteenth-century farmhouse in the local restaurant, the kind that’s Vall d’Hebron district. They off er set getting harder and harder to find – menus for all appetites and pockets, a place to discover the real and their calçotadas are legendary. Barcelona. Jorge Manrique, s/n (Barcelona). Tordera, 28 (Barcelona). T. 93 428 03 01 T. 93 213 10 56 El Xalet de Montjuïc Restaurant Carmen If what you want are stunning views Recently renovated, this long- of Barcelona and authentic Catalan standing eating house has re- food, look no further. Their calçots emerged as a fully-fl edged contender are famous all over the city and on Barcelona’s restaurant scene. beyond. Impeccable Mediterranean Exquisite home cooking , expertly cuisine with prices per head ranging prepared by Carmen, owner and from €40 to €60. head chef, friendly service and a Avinguda de Miramar, 31 wide range of excellent dishes to (Barcelona). choose from. Its popularity means T. 93 324 92 70 reservations are essential, for lunchtimes and evening meals. Great meat, casseroles, as well as Resolís Catalan classics escudella and carn At the heart of Gràcia’s gypsy d’olla on Fridays. quarter, Resolís is famous for its Valladolid, 44 (Barcelona). salt cod dishes and barbecued T. 93 330 36 88 calçots. It’s an unreconstructed ROMESCO

Before its relationship with the calçot began, romesco sauce was first made in Tarragona’s fishing port.

February 2013 Time Out BCN Guide 11 STEPS TO PUTTING ON 4 YOUR OWN CALÇOTADA

WHERE TO BUY WHAT ABOUT THE SAUCE? YOUR CALÇOTS In terms of flavour, it’s the romesco dipping sauce that packs the When the season comes around, punch. It’s a combination of finely stacked bunches of calçots chopped toasted almonds, roast appear on sale in markets all tomatoes and garlic, dried nyora over Barcelona. You can also buy peppers and a hearty drizzle of them on the Internet. The genuine olive oil – preferably Arbequina, article can only be grown in four the quintessential Catalan variety, counties in the south of although every family has its own Catalonia, and the regulatory special recipe. Buying it ready- body’s website (www.igpcalcot made may be seen as heresy, devalls.cat) lists contact details but the Ferrer brand is reliable for all the producers that grow the and easy to find in Barcelona’s real deal. But if you really want supermarkets. Fruit SP’s version to compare and contrast, visit is also popular – they even sell it in the Onion and Calçot Fair, which 4kg buckets! is held on the last weekend of www.c-ferrer.com February in Vila-Sacra, a small www.fruitssp.com town in the Alt Empordà. As well as supplying the raw materials, there’s a food fair, a calçotada WHERE TO COOK THEM? and even a calçot-eating contest. Preparing and enjoying a calçotada 10th Vila-sacra Onion and Calçot takes time and space. The ideal Fair. 3 March. www.vila-sacra.com place is a little plot of land out of town, as many residents’ outdoor space is a balcony too cramped for THE EASY WAY a canary’s cage, let alone an onion- Some enterprising calçot fest. The solution is the city’s public producers offer a full calçotada barbecue areas, where €10 or so will package online. All you need to also buy you kindling and charcoal. supply is the barbecue. A family There’s one in the city itself, at the pack for eight people includes Parc del Trinitat (be prepared for long 200 IGP-guaranteed calçots, a queues). In the Collserola there are jar of sauce, ten bibs and a big barbecue areas at Torrent de Can bag of almonds, all for €49.30. Coll, near Cerdanyola, and at Santa The deluxe option (€79.50) even Creu d’Olorda. And there are always includes the curved ceramic roof the popular outdoor picnic areas at tiles on which calçots are served. Les Planes, close to the FGC line to Put on a classic Tarragonese Sant Cugat. calçotada in the comfort of your www.bcn.cat own back garden. fontlesplanes.com www.calsots.com www.parcnaturalcollserola.cat

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Star-spangled dinners Barcelona’s press is all smiles for a change, as the Michelin guide fi nally recognises Barcelona’s culinary diversity. By Ricard Martín

The Michelin guides don’t follow Luerna in Santa Coloma de Gramanet) fashion or any criteria except their and Nectari, a fantastic, small-scale own. They’re not the voice of God, but family restaurant. they’re the only award chefs consider to be ‘offi cial’. And this year, at long Top table last, they’ve given Barcelona’s The big winner is Paco Pérez, as his diversity and culinary energy the Enoteca steps up to the podium of two- recognition it deserves, bringing its starred restaurants in Barcelona. Pérez total number of stars to 27, shared is one of the inheritors of Ferrán between 19 restaurants, well ahead of Adrià’s vision, a chef whose mission is Madrid’s 15 and San Sebastian’s 16. We to source the highest-quality seafood, use the words energy and diversity but who keeps a low profi le in the advisedly, because well as canonizing media. Pérez states that ‘Barcelona is a the city’s haute cuisine, they’ve signifi cant gastronomic centre, and rewarded its top Asian restaurants – we’re going to see several three-starred Koy Shunka and Dos Pallilos – the restaurants here very soon.’ city’s outlying areas (fi nally including This year’s other two-starred chef

14 Time Out BCN Guide February 2013 Food & Drink Food DOS PALILLOS MOMENTS LLUERNA FOTOS: PERE CORTACANS is Raüll Balam, at Moments restaurants, Nectari counts few restaurant. The son of Toni Balam and tourists among its client base. fi ve-starred chef Carme Ruscalleda, Raüll has picked up his second star in BCN’s fi rst starred Asian only three years. What does the star restaurants system mean to him? ‘Michelin stars The Michelin inspectors have also raise your profi le, but the real righted a fl agrant injustice: their own challenge is to please your customers. habit of rewarding the best Asian It’s customers who give you a word-of- restaurants in Madrid, but not in mouth reputation, not stars.’ Barcelona. This year Koy Shunka and Dos Pallilos join the elite. Extraordinary family cooking Two restaurants, Nectari and ENOTECA Lluerna, have been recognised for the Marina, 19-21. fi rst time. Lluerna, in Santa Coloma T. 93 221 10 00 de Gramanet, is the fi rst restaurant in MOMENTS Barcelona’s sprawling periphery to Passeig de Gràcia, 38. receive a star. Lluerna opened in 2001 T. 93 151 87 81 as ‘a local restaurant, which has LLUERNA gradually evolved’. And right now it Rafael Casanova, 31 (Santa Coloma must be the only Michelin-starred de Gramanet). T. 93 151 87 81 restaurant that off ers a €29 tasting NECTARI menu – and that includes VAT. València, 28. T. 93 226 36 29 Nectari is ‘a restaurant that started DOS PALILLOS out from nothing, just with our own Elisabets, 9. T. 93 304 05 13 resources,’ says chef Jordi Esteve. KOY SHUNKA Unlike most Michelin-starred Copons, 7. T. 93 412 79 39

February 2013 Time Out BCN Guide 15 Rincón de Aragón IIIII Carme, 28. T. 93 302 67 89 Around €25

Even during Barcelona’s mild

Food Drink & winters, the body demands extra fuel. In Carrer del Carme, the blackboard outside the Rincón de Aragón announces the perfect remedy: garlic soup. In this classic restaurant – ‘unmissable’ is the term used in some guides – they turn a humble dish into a banquet. It’s a pungent, spicy broth, drizzled with chorizo oil, with a slice of bread fried in garlic and a poached egg as required by tradition. After a dish of garlic soup, the next course can only be migas de pastor – ‘shepherd’s breadcrumbs’, toasted in olive oil with chorizo and bacon fat – a

characteristically strongly flavoured, MARIA DIAS rugged, Aragonese speciality. Most of the regulars are there for the Aragonese lamb chops, or ribs with THE BILL piquillo peppers. Highlights among the desserts include peaches in wine, RINCÓN DE ARAGÓN (FOR ONE) tostadas de Santa Teresa (the Spanish 1 Migas 5.50 version of cinnamon-dusted French 1 Garlic soup 9.95 toast), the almondy Pastel de Jaca, 1 Glass wine 2 and the sorbets. –Marcelo Aparicio TOTAL (inc VAT) €17.45

Mushroom soup with truffles

Chef Daviano Neri offers an authentic treat: a creamy soup of funghi porcini with a poached egg, finished au gratin with grated parmesan cheese and white truffle. THE DISH –M.A. I BUONI AMICI Casanova, 193, Tel. 93 439 68 16. Price: €30 IVAN GIMÉNEZ IVAN

16 Time Out BCN Guide February 2013 February 2013 Time Out BCN Guide 17 (L5). T. 93 322 46 51/ 93 439 68 16. €20-€30. Set lunch menu available. Il Giardinetto Hot Al fresco, inside Decorated to evoke dinner in the garden, this romantic classic serves an elegant take on tables! traditional Italian cookery. Dishes like Edited by Marcelo Aparicio their trio of pastas or the Sofia Loren spaghetti are established classics. –R.M. Our themed selection (Granada del Penedès, 22). M: Diagonal (L3-L5). T. 93 218 75 36 / 93 415 62 34. of Barcelona’s best €30-€40. Set lunch menu available. restaurants. By Marcelo Aparicio Il Mercante di Venezia Pasta al dente An Italian without design pretensions, but where they serve excellent pasta and of every Talking Italian imaginary variety, cooked al dente. Risotto, home-made gnocchi and pasta Da Greco … and stunning tiramisu. –R.M. Cinematic suppers As well as (Josep Anselm Clavé, 11). M: Drassanes enjoying the excellent selection of Italian (L3). T. 93 317 18 28. €20-€30. Set pastas and dishes, when you sit at one of lunch menu available. the tables at this cinematographic restaurant, run by the great Toni Greco, you feel transported to the world of Pastís Mandarrosso classic Italian cinema. Let the chef and Desserts all’italiana An offshoot of owner suggest which dishes to sample. the popular Le Cucine Mandarrosso, this –Marcelo Aparicio small bar is basically a dessert (Passeig de Gràcia, 116 bis). M: restaurant. Sample an extensive selection Diagonal (L3-L5). T. 93 218 65 50. of Sicilian desserts, including Godfather- €30-€40. style cannoli and Neapolitan babá. A great place for breakfast. – R.M. (General Álvarez de Castro, 5). M: Dai Mo Jaume I (L4) & Urquinaona (L1-L4). T. Modena Masters A chance to sample T. 687 20 80 59. €15-€20. the cuisine of Modena, one of the keystones of Italian regional cooking. Try their tortellini in brodo, stuffed with beef and Piazze d’Italia bobbing in a tasty broth. –M.A. Italian with a twist Chef Nicola (Urgell, 5). M: Sant Antoni (L2). T. 93 Marino revists the classic flavours of 539 20 02. €15-€20. the Italian repertoire with great fidelity, but always with a twist: see his ‘new carbonara’ spaghetti, or his ravioli I Buoni Amici stuffed with whole pieces of meat Undeniably Italian With his rather than mince. – R.M. encyclopaedic knowledge of Italian (Casanova, 94). M: Hospital Clínic (L5) & food, Daviano – originally from Friuli- Rocafort (L1). T. 93 323 59 77. €20-€30. Venecia in north-eastern Italy – doesn’t limit himself to the cuisine of his home region, but also serves Xemei authentic dishes from all over Italy. In The Colombo twins An easy-going truffle season his imagination runs ‘trattoria’ with a Bohemian vibe and a wild, and he guarantees the best warm, friendly atmosphere. The very available product. Other house best of Venetian cuisine, starting with specialities include polenta and meat their fegato alla veneta – Venetian- dishes. A comprehensive wine list is style liver – and followed by their nero complemented by excellent grappas – di sepia spaghetti. from Friuli of course. –M.A. (Pg. de l’Exposició, 85). M: Poble Sec (Casanova, 193). M: Hospital Clínic (L3). T. 93 553 51 40. €30-€40.

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Design delights Magnesia is a window onto artistic talent from all over the world. Step inside an oasis of creativity and fall in love. By Nick Chapman

With its reclaimed furniture, original colours and lines of the new wave of inlaid fl oor tiles and subtle decor, textile designers like Lotte Jansdotter walking into Magnesia is like and Cloud9. Crafters will fi nd fabrics stepping through the screen into available by the metre or as packs of your favourite design blog, right fat quarters. And whimsical black- down to that particular indefi nable and-white line illustrations pop up shade of blue-green of the entrance. again on original ceramics from But instead of tempting thumbnails Duermevela, Brooklyn Rehab and La of inaccessible objects of desire, Malcontentta, as well as on Shara here you’ll fi nd actual real-world Porter’s leather wallets. prints, fabrics, ceramics, jewellery Add to this the fact that many of the and more. designers work in more than one It sounds like a mishmash, but the medium – you can fi nd bags, brooches, unifying theme running through every prints and painted necklaces from item on display is the same eye for Depeapa, for example – and browsing contemporary design that informs the becomes a fascinating exercise in style- look of the shop itself. For example, the spotting. And when you’ve made your owners love drawing and illustration, pick, Lukumas, just across the road, is and are huge fans of the fi ne detail of the perfect place to unwrap your haul, letterpress printing. They stock over one of their oh-so-irresistible notebooks, prints and postcards from Greek doughnuts. printing houses that are keeping letterpress alive, such as Serrote in MAGNESIA Lisbon and Enormous Champions in Torrent de l’Olla, 192. Brooklyn. They also appreciate the T. 93 119 01 87

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Duermevela Around Town Edited by Eugènia Sendra [email protected]

Reclaiming the Raval Galleries, cultural associations and studios are bringing new life to the streets of the Raval. Eugènia Sendra talks to the district’s biggest fans.

It’s a self-sufficient neighbourhood, hand clothes market that has become brimming with opportunities, it still a meeting point for residents and has the vitality of its 1970s heyday – neighbourhood associations. Their as well as its shifty underside. These values are shared by the Despacho aren’t empty words or an official Cultural La Virgen, a long-standing statement, but the opinions of those cultural association in the Raval Nord who work (and live) in the Raval. area, which has turned the narrow ‘People shouldn’t shut themselves side street of Carrer de la Verge into a in their houses; they need to reclaim brightly lit hub for cultural activities, the streets and do interesting stuff out especially its monthly market. there – that’s how you discourage Around the MACBA and the CCCB, illegal activities,’ says Sergi Coloma, studio doors are left open to create a the owner of the Pódame hair salon more neighbourly feel. A perfect and president of Raval Verd, a local example is La Lleonera, a curio- association trying to create a positive crammed exhibition space that offers dynamic with the rest of the city. courses in screen printing and Coloma argues that the Raval is going furniture restoration. A world away is through ‘an unrepeatable moment, the busy Carrer Joaquin Costa, where like Cuba: one day it’s going to lose its you’ll find El Bigote de Sr. Smith, once magic, so it’s up to us to record it.’ a herbalist’s shop, now a gallery that Freedonia, on Carrer Lleialtat, is a hosts work by new artists. The Raval’s compulsory stop. Since September, magic moment doesn’t seem about to they’ve been organising a second- end any time soon.

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New perspectives The Francisco Godia Foundation creates a dialogue between contemporary Spanish art and masterpieces from Madrid’s Prado Museum. By Maria Junyent

The Francisco Godia Foundation more than fi fty works by twenty- plays host this month to the four artists from diff erent exhibition The Prado Museum and generations, and working in a wide Contemporary Artists, a selection array of styles and techniques. of works by prominent Spanish These include well-known names artists in dialogue with the Prado such as Andreu Alfaro, Miquel Museum. The exhibition, structured Barceló, Eduardo Chillida, Luis as an essay, will remain in Barcelona Gordillo, Cristina García Rodero until the end of May, and is designed and Ouka Leele. One of the aims of to share a vision of art history as the exhibition is to show how today’s experienced by present-day artists. artists participate in an ongoing Curated by art historian Francisco conversation with the art Calvo, the show brings together of the past.

24 Time Out BCN Guide February 2013 The idea behind the origins of the project dates back more than twenty Dance years, to 1990, when the Prado Museum, in collaboration with the Friends of the Prado Museum Image, Dance Foundation, invited a group of contemporary artists to exhibit & New Media work that demonstrated their relationship with the museum’s historical collections. The success of the first exhibition, which was shown in 1991, led to the publication of a book. Then, in 2007, the Prado repeated the experiment with a significant difference: the second exhibition sought a female This month the Mercat de les Flors perspective, and the artists selected hosts the fourth IDN festival of were all women. Image, Dance and New Media, The Prado Museum and running from 14-24 February. IDN Contemporary Artists combines was launched in 2007 by Núria Font works from the two original and the NU2’S collective, an exhibitions that were show at the association formed to promote new Prado, and which are now presented work in dance, performance, video as a whole. The exhibition reveals and new media. the influence of the Prado as an The festival’s programme focuses institution, both in terms of its on the relationship between dance contents and of the space itself. The and cinema, the live manipulation of exhibiting artists have been inspired images and sounds onstage, as well as by the museum, its artworks, the works for exhibition that take different galleries within it, its movement and the body as their architecture and its essence, and subjects. Arts have tried to capture the various IDN 2013 explores different ways of ways in which the Prado has left its creating dialogue between dance, mark on their work. images in movement and digital tools. Francisco Calvo has curated the This year’s programme extends over project since the first exhibition two weeks, with a strong emphasis on back in 1991. As he explains it, one local productions, and two of this show’s most interesting internationally renowned groups: aspects its ability to make a direct Australian Dance Theatre, who will link between the art of the past and be presenting ‘Proximity’, and the the art of the present, eliminating Compagnie Darnière Minute/Pierre the artificial gulf that separates Rigal, with ‘Press’, a ‘choreographic historical art from contemporary tragedy,’ and a second solo piece, work. On the contrary, says Calvo, ‘Erection’. ‘The Prado Museum and The festival will also feature work Contemporary Artists emphasises from performance artist Nico Baixas, the unity that permeates the history whose ‘Hibrid Accions’ explores the of art, regardless of the period or expressive potential of human hands, the circumstances of a work’s and ‘Trinity’, from Óscar Sol and Iris production.’ Heitzinger, a body’s journey through different modes of perceiving space. THE PRADO MUSEUM AND CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS IDN Fundació Francisco Godia. Mercat de les Flors. From 2 February 14-23 February

February 2013 Time Out BCN Guide 25 Nightlife Edited by Ricard Martín [email protected]

That’s no bar... It was once a secret for those in the know, but word is definitely out: Mutis has been voted best bar in Europe. By Ricard Martín

As the Ryan Adams song goes, ‘the bar twist, which they really appreciated.’ is a beautiful place’. Another sublime Because Mutis is a bar that’s not musical poultice for broken hearts is exactly a bar. Cat Power’s ‘Lived in Bars’. Either Díaz is careful to avoid the idea that could be set in Mutis – a beautiful it’s a speakeasy – even though Mutis place, and an outstanding bar. So good, opened in 2009, just as the craze for in fact, that Drinks International hiding the entrance to your tapas bar magazine’s annual survey has named behind an ironing board took off. ‘I it best bar in Europe and sixteenth best don’t like the label, we’re working with in the world. ‘That’s the best cocktail a different concept. We’re more like a bar in continental Europe, because the private club than a speakeasy,’ he Brits don’t include themselves in it,’ explains. So as not to spoil the surprise, clarifies Kim Díaz, disdainfully. He’s we’ll just add that it’s very close to Bar the owner of both Bar Mut – home to Mut, and that to describe it, Drinks the finest tinned seafood and superb International evokes everyone’s secret vermouth – and its cocktail-serving dream of ‘heaving up a sledgehammer extension, Mutis. and pounding it through the walls of Díaz makes a second clarification, the kitchen to create an open plan this time with more pride: ‘This isn’t a space for our own bar’. technical prize for the quality of our cocktails, it’s for the bar itself, the MUTIS space. A cocktail bar is just a bar with Reservations, T. 93 217 43 38 a barman, but we’ve added an extra Thu–Sat 9pm–3am.

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Festival of De cajón! El Paral·lel, Santa Eulàlia Las Migas 1894-1939

TUESDAY 12 THURSDAY 21 SUNDAY 24 Barcelona’s winter Las Migas show Learn the secrets festival is here: you what they’re all of the Paral·lel from parades, street about in the De the end of the 19th parties and Cajón fl amenco to the start of the activities for all. festival. 20th centuries.

February 2013 Time Out BCN Guide 29 Agustí Centelles. A Photographic Chronicle – The Exhibitions Thirties. Until 10 Feb. Photographs by renowned Catalan photojournalist Information and sales: Agustí Centelles, documenting the last Tourist Information Points and years of the Spanish Republic, the Civil www.barcelonaturisme.cat War and his years in exile. Arxiu Històric de la Castell de Montjuïc Ciutat de Barcelona (Ctra. de Montjuïc, 66). M: Espanya (L1-L3-FGC). T. 93 256 44 45. Mon-Sat, (Santa Llúcia, 1). M: Jaume I (L4) & 10am-6.30pm. Urquinaona (L1-L4). T. 93 31 81 195. FREE Unearthing the silence. Until Mon-Fri, 9am-8.30pm. Sun, 9am-1pm. 22 Mar. Antoni Benaiges, a schoolteacher FREE Handy Barcelona. City under the Second Spanish Republic, was guidebooks, 1176-2004 Until April. shot by Franco’s forces in 1936. His body A selection of period travel guides to was exhumed from a secret mass grave in Barcelona from the archives. Burgos, Spain, in 2012. The exhibition uses his case as the starting point for an examination of the fate suffered by many CaixaForum other teachers of the period. (Av. Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 6-8). M: Espanya (L1-L3-FGC). T. 93 476 86 00. Mon-Fri, 10am-8pm. Wed, 10am- Centre de Cultura 11pm. Sat, Sun, 10am-9pm. Contemporània de FREE Before the flood. Mesopotamia 3500-2100 B.C. Barcelona Until 24 Feb. With over 400 archaeological finds on show, this (Montalegre, 5). M: Catalunya (L1-L3). exhibition explores our debt to this early T. 93 306 41 00. Tue-Sun & public hols, Near Eastern civilisation. 11am-8pm. Closed Mon. €5. Reductions FREE Windows on the world 24 for pensioners and students on Wed (excl Jan until 18 Aug. Short films about public hols): €3.40. Free under-16s & people surviving in difficult unemployed, Thu 8-10pm & Sun 3-8pm. circumstances, showing the reality of El Paral·lel, 1894-1939 Until 24 daily life in developing countries. Feb. The broad avenue of El Paral.lel FREE What to think. What to was created during Barcelona’s desire. What to do. The ‘la Caixa’ nineteenth-century expansion. This Foundation’s contemporary art exhibition describes the evolution of a collection. Until 8 Sept. Works from new entertainment district that was the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation’s unique in Europe. Contemporary Art collection that attempt to answer these questions. FREE Seduced by art. CosmoCaixa Photography past and present. (Isaac Newton, 26). M: Av. Tibidabo 22 Feb until 19 May. This innovative (FGC). T. 93 212 60 50. Tue-Sun, exhibition, which was created in 10am-8pm. €3 (permanent and collaboration with the London National temporary exhibitions). Reduced entry Gallery, explores on the relationship €2. First Sun of month free. between the great masters in the history Technorevolucion Until 6 May. of art, the photography of the mid- Interactive exhibition that allows visitors nineteenth century and the work of to experience the evolution of technology, contemporary photographers. with spaces dedicated to nanotechnology, biotechnology, IT and communications. Can Framis. Fundació Vila Casas DHUB. Museu de Ceràmica (Palau Reial (Roc Boronat, 116-126). M: Glòries (L1), Poblenou (L4) & Llacuna (L4). T. de Pedralbes) 93 320 87 36. Tue-Sat., 11am-6pm. Sun, 11am-2pm. €5 adults. €2 students (Avda Diagonal, 686). M: Palau Reial and pensioners. (L3). T. 93 256 34 65. Tue-Sun, 10am-

30 Time Out BCN Guide February 2013 6pm. Public hols, 10am- 3pm. Closed chronological journey through the Mon. €5. Reduced: €3. different phases of Tàpies’s career. Contemplation. Photographs Contra Tàpies From 28 Feb until 2 by Carlos Collado Until 3 Mar. Jun. Structured around works by Collado depicts the reactions of visitors Gerhard Richter, James Lee Byars, Joseph to objects in the collection. Beuys and others , this exhibition sets out A singular garden. Ceramics to shed new light on Tàpies’s work. from Iznik, in the sixteenth Re.act. Feminism #2 - A century. Until 3 March. A journey Performing Archive Until 17 Feb. A through the unique and beautiful temporary and living archive of ceramics of Iznik (Turkey), which are performance art travelling Europe and characterized by their ornate floral presenting feminist, gender-critical and decorations. queer performance art by over 120 artists and artist collectives from the 1960s to the beginning of the 1980s, as Espai Mercè Sala well as contemporary positions. (Diagonal Metro Station). M: Diagonal (L3-L5). Mon-Fri, 10am-8.30pm, Sat 11am-2pm & 3-7pm Fundació Francisco Godia FREE The Bus Turístic, FC (Diputació, 250). M: Passeig de Gràcia Barcelona and Barcelona: sharing (L2-L3-L4). T. 93 272 31 80. Mon-Sun, 25 years of success. Mon-Sat, 10am-8pm. Closed Tue. €7, reduced €4. 10am-8.30pm. Until 8 Feb. To celebrate The Francisco Godia Foundation the twenty-fifth anniversary of Collection. One of Spain’s most Barcelona’s Bus Turístic, this exhibition important private collections of artworks explores the history of FC Barcelona, from the twelfth century to the present day, the bus tours and the city itself over the with a special focus on medieval art. last twenty-five years. The Museo del Prado and contemporary artists Until 6 May. Fifty works by twenty-four artists from Espai VolART-Fundació different generations, using a diverse Vila Casas range of techniques, and in very different styles, they are part of an intimate and (Ausiàs March, 22). M: Urquinaona fruitful dialogue with the art of the past (L1-L4). T. 93 481 79 85. Tue-Fri, collected at Madrid’s Prado Museum. 5-8.30pm, Sat, 11am-2pm & 5-8.30pm. Sun, 11am-2pm. €1; Reduced: 50¢. Martín Carral / Carmen Anzano Fundació Joan Miró Until 26 May. Painter Martin Carral, (Parc de Montjuïc, s/n). M: Espanya whose work is part of the Foundation’s (L1-L3-FGC). T. 93 443 94 70. Tue-Sat, collection, and Carmen Anzano, an 10am-8pm. Thu, 10am-9.30pm, Sun & invited artist, exhibit work in dialogue. public holidays 10am-2.30pm. Closed Salvador Alibau Until 21 Apr. Mondays. €11. Espai 13, €2.50. Exhibition on Salvador Alibau, one of Explosion! The legacy of Jackson the most interesting names in Pollock Until 24 Feb. An investigation of contemporary Catalan art. the web of influences and connections that can be traced back to Action Painting, the radical style most associated with Jackson Filmoteca de Catalunya Pollock (1912-1956). (Plaça Salvador Seguí, 1). M: Liceu (L3). Espai 13 The Nipple Slip. T. 93 410 75 90. €4. Speech Performance / Gabriel Film and the needle: cinema Pericàs Until 10 Feb. In this collection and fashion Until 30 Mar. €4 of small sculptures, photographs and (reduced, €2). The influence of cinema video works, Gabriel Pericàs explores on the rise of new fashion trends. the themes of absent-mindedness and distraction. Espai 13 Julia Montilla. ‘El Fundació Antoni Tàpies cuadro’ de la Calleja From 22 Feb (Aragó, 255). M: Passeig de Gràcia (L2- until 21 April. From 1961 to 1965, four L3-L4). T. 93 487 03 15. Tue-Sun, 10am- young girls from San Sebastián de 7pm. €7. Students and pensioners, €5.60. Garabandal in Cantabria claimed to Antoni Tàpies. Collection, #4 have seen the Virgin Mary. Julia Montilla Until 17 Feb. A new selection of works examines the visual and written records from the collection, which presents a of these apparitions.

February 2013 Time Out BCN Guide 31 stereotypes, the exploitation of the working Fundació Suñol class, and the mechanisms of repression (Passeig de Gràcia, 98). M: Diagonal are some of the subjects she addresses. (L3-L5). T. 93 496 10 32 . Mon-Fri, Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak 11am-2pm & 4-8pm. Sat 4-8pm. Afrassiabi. ‘Seep’ Until 17 Feb. First The fifth anniversary of the Josep Spanish exhibition by this Iranian Suñol collection Until 29 Mar. artistic partnership. Exhibition to mark the Suñol Foundation’s fifth anniversary, with works by more than seventy artists including Picasso, Dalí, MEAM: Museu Europeu Tàpies, Warhol, Boetti and Man Ray. d’Art Modern (Barra de Ferro, 5). M: Jaume I (L4). T. Jardí Botànic 93 319 56 93. Tue-Sun, 10am-8pm. €7. (Doctor Font i Quer, n/a). M: Espanya Reduced €5. (L1-L3-FGC). T. 93 256 41 60. Oct-Mar: Twenty-first century daily 10am-6pm. April, May, Sept: daily contemporary art Almost two 1-7pm. hundred paintings and thirty sculptures Jardí Botànic (MCNB - Museu de featuring works by figurative, realist or Ciències Naturals de Barcelona) hyperrealist artists from all over the world. Permanent collection of plants from Mediterranean climate zones all over the world. MIBA. Museu d’Idees i Invents de Barcelona La Pedrera (Ciutat, 7). M: Jaume I (L4). T. (Provença, 261-265). M: 93 332 79 30. Tue-Fri., Provença (FGC) & Diagonal Palestinian 10am-2pm & 4-7pm. Sat, photographer (L3-L5). T. 902 400 973. Ahlam Shibli 11am-8pm. Sun & public www.lapedrera.com. Mon - holidays, 10am-2pm. €7. Sun, 9am-6.30pm (last displays her work at The Barcelona the MACBA in an - admission: 6pm) €16.50. exhibition coprodu Museum of Ideas and Reduced €14.85. ced by museums in Inventions: Exhibition Hall The Barcelona, Paris Permanent exhibition other Pedreras. and Porto. Steampunk, the Architecture and future that never was furniture of the twentieth Tues-Fri, 10am-7pm, Sat, century Until 24 Feb. €3. Major 10am-8pm, Sun and public holidays, exhibition that looks at buildings dating 10am-2pm. Until 9 April. Inventions, from the same period as la Pedrera, illustrations, models and photographs including works by Horta, Guimard, that bring the fantasy genre of Mackintosh, Hoffman, Loos and Frank Steampunk to life. Lloyd Wright. Monestir de Pedralbes MACBA. Museu d’Art (Baixada del Monestir, 9). M: Reina Contemporani Elisenda (FGC). T. 93 256 34 34 . Tues- Fri10am-5pm. Sun 10am-7pm. Sun (Plaça dels Àngels, 1). M: Universitat (L1- 10am-8pm. Sun, Mon before public hols, L2) & Sant Antoni (L2). T. 93 412 08 10. 10am-2pm. Closed Mon. €7. €4 groups Mon- Fri, 11am-8pm. Sat 10am-8pm. Sun (+10). Reduced: €5. Sun free after 3pm. & public holidays, 10am-3pm. Tues. closed, Murals under the magnifying except public holidays. Whole museum glass. Paintings from the Sant ticket, €8 (reduced €6.50). Single exhibition Miquel Chapel. Permanent exhbition. ticket, €6 (reduced, €4.50). Paintings from the chapel of Sant Miquel, Ahlam Shibli. Phantom home. a fourteenth-century Gothic masterpiece. Until 28 April. Major works by Palestinian Bedouin artist Ahlam Shibli, with a new photographic series, ‘Death’ MUHBA El Call (2011-2012), created for this exhibition (Placeta de Manuel Ribé). M: Liceu (L3) Eulàlia Grau. I have never painted & Jaume I (L4). T. 93 256 21 22. Tue- golden angels From 8 Feb until 26 May. Fri 11am-2pm. Sat, Sun 11am-7pm. Works from the 1970s and early 1980s by Sun, Mon before public hols, 10am-2pm. Catalan artist Eulàlia Grau. Gender Closed Mon. €2.

32 Time Out BCN Guide February 2013 Salomó ben Adret (1235-1310). Permanent collection. Inside The Triumph of an Orthodoxy. Santa Caterina Market, this exhibition Permanent exhbition. Salomó ben revisits the most significant events in Adret, also known as the Rashba, was a Barcelona’s history. Catalan Jewish leader and rabbi at the main synagogue of Barcelona during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth MUHBA Vil·la Joana. centuries. Casa Verdaguer (Ctra de l’Església, 104. Vallvidrera). T. 93 MUHBA Fabra i Coats. 204 78 05. Sat, Sun 10am-2pm. Tue, Wed Espai Joan Bota groups (by appt) only. Closed Mon. Permanent exhibition The poet (Sant Adrià, 20). M: Sant Andreu (L1). Jacint Verdaguer, one of the key figures Tue-Fri 5-8pm. Sat, Sun 10am-2pm, in the revival of Catalan as a literary 4.30-7.30pm language, spent the last years of his life Postwar ingenuity. Barcelona’s in this nineteenth-century villa. Microcars Until15 Mar. Microcars of all descriptions from Claudi Roca’s private collection, one of the largest in Spain. Museu Blau (Pl. de Leonardo da Vinci, 4-5, Parc del Fòrum). M: El Maresme/Fòrum (L4). T. MUHBA Museu 93 256 60 02. Tue-Fri, 10am-7pm. Sat, d’Història de Barcelona Sun 10am-8pm. Closed Mon. €6. Reduced €2.70. Museum & Botanical (Pl. del Rei). M: Jaume I (L4). T. 93 256 Gardens €7. Reduced €5. 21 22. Tue-Sat, 10am-7pm. Sun 10am- Entrance hall Animalarium Feb-Sep. 8pm. Sun, Mon before public hols, 10am- Animal sculptures by Miquel Aparici, 2pm. Closed Mon. €7. Under-16s free. made with carefully chosen waste Sunday after 3pm free. materials. Saló del Tinell Indianes. The Planeta Vida. Permanent exhibition. origins of industrial Barcelona, History of life and its evolution on Earth. 1736-1847 Until 3 Mar. The mass- production of calico prints or ‘indianes’ galvanised the economic life of Museu de Badalona Barcelona. (Pl. Assemblea de Catalunya, 1). Badalona. M: Pep Ventura (L2). T. 93 384 17 50. Tue-Sat 10am-2pm, 5-8pm. MUHBA Park Güell Sun, public holidays 10am-2pm. €6. (Olot, n/a. Casa de la Guarda). T. 93 256 FREE Baetulo, Roman City Until 31 21 22. From 1 Apr until 30 Sep: Mon- Dec. Tue-Fri 5-8pm. Sat, Sun 10am-2pm. Sun 10am-8pm. From 1 Oct until 31 Objects that were in daily use in Badalona Mar: Mon-Sun, 10am-6pm. €2. more than two thousand years ago. Permanent exhibition FREE Stereoscopic From 14 Feb until 24 Mar. Tue-Sat 5-8pm. Sun 10am-2pm. Stereoscopic photographs MUHBA Refugi 307 of Badalona from the end of the (Nou de la Rambla, 169). M: Jaume I nineteenth century. (L1-L4). T. 93 256 21 00. Sat, Sun 10am-2pm, by appointment. Public holidays, closed. €3. Museu de l’Eròtica Permanent exhibition. In 400 (La Rambla, 96, bis). M: Catalunya (L1- metres of underground passageways, L3). T. 93 318 98 65. www.erotica- visitors can relive the uncertainty of a museum.com. Daily 10am-8pm. €9. city which, during the Civil War, was Reduced €8. subject to a new form of warfare: Permanent exhibition. Weird and indiscriminate bombing of the civilian way-out secrets of human sexuality. population. Museu de la Moto de MUHBA Santa Caterina Barcelona (Pl. de Joan Capri). M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). T. 93 256 21 22. Mon-Sat 10am-2pm. (Carrer de la Palla, 10). T. 933 186 584. Sun, public holidays closed. www.museumoto.com. Tue-Sat 10am-

February 2013 Time Out BCN Guide 33 2pm, 4.30-8.30pm. Sun 10am-2pm. the most important and influential Closed Mon. €6. Reduced €4. artists of the Catalan Modernisme The Montjuïc International 24- movement. hour race Until 30 June. An homage to the popular race that was held from 1955 to 1986. Museu Egipci (València, 284). M: Passeig de Gràcia (L2- L3-L4). T. 93 488 01 88. www.museuegipci. Museu de la Música com. Mon-Sat 10am-8pm. Sun 10am-2pm. (L’Auditori. Lepant, 150). M: Glòries Adults €11. Reduced €8. (L1) & Marina (L1). T. 93 256 36 50. Tutankhamen: The history of a Mon-Sat 10am-6pm. Sun 10am-8pm. great discovery Until 31 May. Closed Tue. €4. Reduced €3. Sun Marking the ninetieth anniversary of afternoon free the great archaeological find, this The sound of light. Mompou & exhibition describes the discovery of Gaudí Until 3 Jun. The parallels Tutankhamen’s tomb. between the music of Frederic Mompou (1893-1987) and the architecture of Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926). Museu Frederic Marès (Plaça de Sant Iu, 5). M: Liceu (L3) & Jaume I (L4). T. 93 256 35 00. Tue-Sat Museu de Montserrat 10am-7pm. Sun, public hols, 11am- (Abadia de Montserrat. 08199 8pm. Closed Mon except public hols. Montserrat). Monistrol de Montserrat. €4.20. T. 93 877 77 45. Daily 10am-5.45pm. Irreverent Barcelona. Until 26 €7. Reduced €4. May. This exhibition offers a reflection Javier Pérez. Lamentations on public festivities in nineteenth- Until 11 Feb. An exhibition conceived century Barcelona. by Javier Pérez (Bilbao, 1968) centred on a collection of seventeen black glass bells. MNAC: Museu Nacional Permanent Exhibition. Paintings d’Art de Catalunya by El Greco, Caravaggio, Tiepolo, Monet, Sisley, Degas, Pissarro, Miró, (Parc de Montjuïc). M: Espanya Dalí, Picasso, Le Corbusier, Chagall and (L1-L3-FGC). T. 93 622 03 60. Tue-Sat Braque. 10am-7pm. Sun, public holidays, 10am- 2.30pm. €10. Temporary exhibitions: consult museum website. Museu del Futbol Club Permanent collection. The Barcelona largest collection of Catalan art from the Romanesque period to the mid- (Aristides Maillol, n/a. FCB stadium. nineteenth century. Access gates 7 or 9). M: Les Corts (L3). FREE The museum T. 902 18 99 00. 2 Apr-7 Oct: Mon-Sat investigates. Works of art under 10am-8pm. Sun, public hols 10am- scrutiny Until 17 Feb. Showing the 2.30pm. 8 Oct-1 Apr: Mon-Sat 10am- transformations undergone by some of 6.30pm. Sun, public hols 10am-2.30pm. the museum’s artworks, and the ways Camp Nou tour available until one hour experts distinguish between an before museum closing time. €23. original, a copy, a forgery and a Children €17. Under-6s and FCB restoration. members free. Camp Nou Experience. Discover 100 years of the club’s history. Museu Olímpic i de l’Esport Joan Antoni Samaranch Museu del Modernisme (Av. de líEstadi Olímpic, 60). M: Català Espanya (L1-L3-FGC). T. 93 292 53 79. Tue-Sat 10am-8pm. Sun, public hols, (Balmes, 48). M: Passeig de Gràcia (L2- 10am-2.30pm. €4.50. Students €2.60. L3-L4). T. 93 272 28 96. Mon-Sat., Under-14s free. Over-65s free. 10am . 8pm Sun & public holidays, 100 years of basketball in 10am-2pm. 10 €. Catalonia Until Mar. This exhibition Permant exhibition. Three takes a look back at the history of hundred and fifty works by forty-two of basketball in Catalonia.

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Sé infiel y no mires con quién Museu Picasso (Not Now, Darling)With Jesús (Montcada, 15-23). M: Jaume I (L4). T. 93 Cisneros, Antonio Vico, Darío Paso, 256 30 00. Tue-Sun 10am-8pm. Closed Aitor Legairdón, Yolanda Arestegui, Mon (except public hols). €11 (combined Isabel Gaudí, Encarna Gómez, Marta ticket for museum + temporary exhibition). Flich & Cristina Peña. Tue, Wed Temporary exhibition only: €6. 8.30pm. Fri 10pm. Sat 7pm, 10pm. Sun Picasso’s ceramics: a gift from 7 pm. (Sun 10 Feb 7.30pm) From 2 until Jacqueline to Barcelona Until 1 Apr. 10 Feb. Exhibition featuring forty-one original In Spanish. John Chapman and Ray ceramic works by Picasso, to celebrate the Cooney’s classic comedy Not Now, thirtieth anniversary of their donation to Darling, originally staged in 1967 - and the city by his daughter Jacqueline Picasso. made into a film in 1973 - in a Spanish adaptation that proves that a good farce Palau Robert never goes out of fashion. (Pg. de Gràcia, 107). M: Diagonal (L3- L5). T. 93 238 80 91. Mon-Sat 10am- El Molino 7pm. Sun, public hols 10am-2.30pm. (Vilà i Vilà, 99). www.elmolinobcn.com. FREE Sala 1 Twenty years of Lux M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). Until 30 Apr. Selection of winning El Molino lifts your spirits Thu- photographs from twenty years of the Lux Sun, 6.30pm. €33. Prizes, showcasing the best professional Risqué show that looks back over the photography in Spain. history of the legendary El Molino FREE Sala 2 Joan Fuster. We the theatre, with feathers and sequins, Valencians Until 17 Feb Marking the vintage entertainment. fiftieth anniversary of the publication of El Molino Burlesque Fever Thu- writer Joan Fuster’s ‘We the Catalans’, a Sun 9.30pm. €33. historical, political, social and cultural Burlesque returns to El Molino, with a essay that was one of the author’s most show that celebrates corsets and important works. garters, scarlet and black, sensuality FREE Sala 3 Jaume de Laiguana. and drag. Photographs. Retrospective 1997- El Molino ‘Flamenco y copla’ 2012 From 28 Feb until 26 May. One Tue 7pm, 9pm. With drink: €39. With hundred and fifty large-format works by tapas: €66. Jaume de Laiguna, an art director, producer A journey from the best-known coplas and photographer who has worked in design - the popular Spanish song form - to and advertising for twenty-five years. Flamenco. FREE Salas 4 Reading to live. Until 18 Apr. An homage to Joan Triadú: teacher, literary critic and cultural activisit. Teatre Gaudí Barcelona FREE Cotxeres Unseen Lithuania (Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 120). T. 93 Until 15 Feb. Photographic exhibition on 603 51 52. www.teatregaudibarcelona. Lithuania. com. M: Sagrada Família (L2-L5). John and the music box Dir: Xavier Pàmies & Carla Ricart. Sat Virreina Centre de la Imatge noon. Sun 10 and 17 Feb 6pm. €9. Until (La Rambla, 99). M: Liceu (L3). T. 93 March 16. 316 10 00. Tue-Sun noon-8pm. In Catalan. Theatre and shadow La Virreina Lab Arnau Puig. puppetry for the whole family. Thinking the image Until 10 Feb. Tell her you love her by Ivan Exhibition on the philosopher, Campillo. Thu-Sat 8.30pm. Sun 6pm. sociologist and art critic Arnau Puig €18. (Barcelona, 1926). In Catalan. Comedy about life as a couple. Theatre Teatre Lliure: Gràcia (Montseny, 47). T. 93 238 76 25. www. teatrelliure.com. M: Fontana (L3) . Centre Comercial Las Arenas Büchner Bicentenary. The (Gran Vía, 373-385). www. Hessen Courier/ Danton’s Death / arenasdebarcelona.com. M: Espanya Woyzeck by Georg Büchner. Dir: David (L1-L3-FGC). Selvas. 8.30pm. €13.45. 19, 20 Feb.

36 Time Out BCN Guide February 2013 In Catalan. The works of German playwright Georg Büchner on the Teatre Nacional de occasion of the bicentenary of his Catalunya birth. Blackbird by David Harrower. Dir: (Pl. de les Arts, 1). T. 93 306 57 00. Lluís Pasqual. Tue-Fri 8.30pm. Sat www.tnc.cat. M: Glòries (L1). 9pm. Sun 6 pm. From 16 Jan until 10 Greenland by Jordi Faura. Dir: Jordi Feb. €21.30-€30.25. Faura. Wed-Fri 8pm. Sat 9.30pm. Sun In Catalan. A man receives an 6pm. From 13 Feb until 3 Mar. €11.20- unexpected visit from a young woman, €22.41. which shakes his life to its In Catalan. Some time in the twenty- foundations. first century, the last oil reserves have August Strindberg Centenary. run out... The Ghost Sonata / the Pelican When we dead awaken by Henrik by August Strindberg. Dir: Pau Carrió Ibsen. Dir: Ferran Madico. Wed-Fri & Pau Miró. 9pm. 16 Feb. €13.45. 8pm. Sat 9.30pm. Sun 6pm. From 7 Feb In Catalan. Homage to Strindberg. until 17 Mar. €15.69-€31.37. August Strindberg Centenary. In Catalan. A marriage, stricken by The Storm / The Burned House ennui, begins to fall apart. by August Strindberg. Dir: Juan Carlos Martel & Lluís Pasqual. 8.30pm. 13 Feb. €13.45. In Catalan. Homage to Strindberg. Dance The Second World War. The Investigation (an oratorio in eleven cantos) by Peter Weiss. Dir: Mercat de les Flors Carme Portaceli. 9pm (Sun 6pm). 23, (Lleida, 59). T. 93 426 18 75. www. 24 Feb. €13.45. mercatflors.cat. M: Espanya (L1-L3- In Catalan. A reconstruction of the FGC) . Frankfurt Trials (1963-1965), the trials Uprising / The art of not set up by the German government to looking back by The Hofesh establish responsibility for the Shechter Company. Fri, Sat 8.30pm. atrocities of Nazism. Sun 8pm. From 1 until 3 Feb. €10- Ivan and the dogs by Hattie €28. Naylor. Dir: Pau Carrió. Fri 11pm. The hottest British dance company Until 8 Feb. €22.50-€28. of the moment. In Catalan. A monologue based on Capas by Companyia de Circ Eia. the true story of a wild boy on the Thu-Sat 8.30pm. Sun 6pm. From 7 streets of Moscow, by British until 11 Feb. €14-€16.50. playwright Hattie Naylor. Poetry and humour in a show that mixes circus perfomance with music Teatre Lliure: Montjuïc and dance. (Pg. Santa Madrona, 40-46). T. 93 289 27 70 www.teatrelliure.com. M: Teatre Gaudí Barcelona Espanya (L1-L3-FGC). (Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 120). T. 93 Dispara, agafa tresor, 603 51 52. www.teatregaudibarcelona. repeteix (Shoot/Get Treasure/ com. M: Sagrada Família (L2-L5) & Repeat) by Mark Ravenhill. Tue-Fri Sant Pau/Dos de Maig (L5). 8.30pm. Sat 9pm. Sun 6pm. Until 3 Happy Ha Ha Dir: Mercedes Mar. €21.30-€30.25. Boronat. Sat 6pm. Sun noon. €9. In Catalan. Seventeen short plays A dance performance for the whole exploring the personal and political family to enjoy. effects of war. The Queen of Colours by Jutta Bauer. Dir: Eva Noell and Paul Olbrich. Sat 6pm. Sun noon. From 25 Jan until INFORMATION 10 Feb.€9. Children’s theatre. In Catalan. A AND SALES little queen lives alone in a castle where everything is white. Her life would be very boring indeed if there Tourist Information Points and wasn’t someone who added some www.barcelonaturisme.cat colour to it.

February 2013 Time Out BCN Guide 37 concerts with an early supper included Day by day in the price. Gabriela Montero: Beethoven’s Information and sales: Emperor Concerto Palau de la Tourist Information Points and Música Catalana (Palau de la Música, www.barcelonaturisme.cat 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1-L4). 7pm From 16 to 65 €.

Sona Bach L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L1), Monumental (L2) & Friday 1 Marina (L1). Sat & Sun, 11 & 12.30am. From 9 to 11 €. Music for the Blues whole family. Five musicians perform a Blues at the Palau Gomis MEAM: selection of Bach’s works arranged Museu Europeu d’Art Modern (Barra especially for the occasion. de Ferro, 5). M: Jaume I (L4). 6pm. 11 €. Reduced 9 €. Jazz and blues concerts in a striking 18th century palace in the Jazz Born district. Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See website for full programme and times. Classical music The legendary Jamboree club has a full L’OBC with l’Esmuc L’Auditori programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L1), hop. More information at: www. Monumental (L2) & Marina (L1). Fri, masimas.com/jamboree. 9pm. Sat, 7pm Sun, 11am. From 23 to 51 €. The Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra plays Rock works by Fauré, Ravel, Serra and Pep Sala: 25 years of Sau Sant Poulenc. Jordi Club (Passeig Olimpic, 5-7). M: Espanya (L1-L3-FGC). 10pm. From 16 Flamenco to 61 €. Pep Sala, guitarist & songwriter Arenas Festival: Pitingo Centre behind Catalan band Sau, marks the 25th Comercial Las Arenas (Gran Vía, 373- anniversary of its formation. 385). M: Espanya (L1-L3-FGC). 9pm. From 12 to 22 €. The young ‘cantaor’ from Huelva arrives in Barcelona to Traditions present Malecón Street, modern Nativity scenes of the world. flamenco interpretations of Cuban Culture, art & tradition La Seca classics. (Flassaders, 40). M: Arc de Triomf (L1) & Jaume I (L4). 10am-8pm. 1 €. De Cajón! Festival: Llorona y Until 3 Feb. This exhibition brings Cantares Harlem Jazz Club (Comtessa together nativity scenes from all over the de Sobradiel, 8). M: Drassanes (L3) & world. Jaume I (L4). 9pm. 13 €. The Cordovan “cantaora” resident in Barcelona, Mariola Membrives, better known as “La Sunday 3 Llorona”, reveals the flamenco side of her exceptional voice and stage presence. Classical music Cobla 2.0 with the Cobla Sant Jordi Palau de la Música Catalana Saturday 2 (Palau de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1-L4). 12pm 11 €. Classical music Family concert at the Palau de la Música Saturday suppers with Catalana. classical music at Palau Gomis MEAM: Museu Europeu d’Art Modern The Orfeó Català Youth Choir & (Barra de Ferro, 5). M: Jaume I (L4). The Youth Choir of the Catalan- Sat, 6pm. 16 €. Reduced: 13 € (Includes: speaking Countries Palau de la museum entrance concert & supper). Música Catalana (Palau de la Música, The Museu Europeu d’Art Modern, 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1-L4). 6pm. 10 housed in a striking 18th century palace & 12 €. Works by Borodin, Guinjoan & in the Born district, offers classical music Tchaikovsky.

38 Time Out BCN Guide February 2013 Prague String Sextet L’Auditori Bou’s soap bubble spectacle uses (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L1), water, soap, hoops, tubes and smoke Monumental (L2) & Marina (L1). 7pm machines to entertain and amaze kids 23.50 €. Works by Dvořák & Schubert. of all ages. Football Guided visits League Fixture: RCD FREE Guided tour of Poble Nou Espanyol vs. Llevant Estadi cemetery Cementiri de Poblenou (Av. Cornellà-El Prat (Av. del Baix Icària, s/n). M: Llacuna (L4). 10.30am Llobregat, 100). Cornellà de Llobregat. (in Catalan) & 12.30pm (in Spanish). A Times tbc. guided tour of 19th-century Barcelona, as reflected in the tombs and gravestones Jazz of the city’s great and good. Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See Monday 4 website for full programme and times. The legendary Jamboree club has a full Classical music programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- Tales of Hoffman Gran Teatre del hop. More information at: www. Liceu (La Rambla, 51-59). M: Liceu masimas.com/jamboree. (L3). 8pm (except 17 Feb: performance at 5pm). From 11.75 to 233 €. Reduced-price performances (5, 12, 16 Kids & 19 Feb): from 10.75 to 103 €. Jacques Clinc! Poble Espanyol (Av. de Offenbach’s posthumous masterpiece. Francesc Ferrer & Guàrdia, 13). M: Famous for his operettas. “The Tales of Espanya (L1-L3-FGC). T. 93 508 63 Hoffmann” represents the composer’s 00. Sun, 12.30pm. Ticket price final attempt to break into the world of includes entry to Poble Espanyol. Pep great opera.

February 2013 Time Out BCN Guide 39 sure to be a highlight of the Millennium Tuesday 5 Festival. Musical theatre Arenas Festival: Evil Dead, The Thursday 7 Musical Centre Comercial Las Arenas (Gran Vía, 373-385). M: Espanya (L1- Musical theatre L3-FGC). 12 performances. Consult Arenas Festival: Evil Dead, The programme at www.arenasfestival.com. Musical Centre Comercial Las Arenas From 15 to 38 €. Musical based on the (Gran Vía, 373-385). M: Espanya (L1- theatrical adaptation of Sam Raimi’s cult L3-FGC). 12 performances. Consult eighties horror films. programme at www.arenasfestival.com. From 15 to 38 €. Musical based on the theatrical adaptation of Sam Raimi’s cult Jazz eighties horror film series. Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See website for full programme and times. Jazz The legendary Jamboree club has a full Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree (Pl. programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See website hop. More information at: www. for full programme and times. The masimas.com/jamboree. legendary Jamboree club has a full programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- hop. More information at: www. Wednesday, 6 masimas.com/jamboree. Singer-songwriter Guitar Festival: Vinicio Friday 8 Capossela Luz de Gas (Muntaner, 246). M: Diagonal (L3-L5). 9pm. 31 €. Classical music The Italian singer, strongly influenced Concert cycle: “Remembering by Tom Waits, presents his new album Carmen Amaya.” Tablao Flamencoo “Rebetikos Gymnastas” at Luz de Gas. Cordobés (La Rambla, 35). M: Drassanes (L3) & Liceu (L3). 8.15 & 10pm. To mark the centenary of the Musical theatre birth of Carmen Amaya, El Cordobés Arenas Festival: Evil Dead, The offers a concert cycle dedicated to Musical Centre Comercial Las Arenas Barcelona’s great flamenco “bailaora,” (Gran Vía, 373-385). M: Espanya (L1- with artists of the standing of Pastora L3-FGC). 12 performances. Consult Galván, Junco & Jesús Carmona. programme at www.arenasfestival.com. From 15 to 38 €. Musical based on the The OBC & Debussy L’Auditori theatrical adaptation of Sam Raimi’s cult (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L1), eighties horror film series. Monumental (L2) & Marina (L1). Fri, 9pm. Sat, 7pm Sun, 11am. From 23 to 51 €. The Barcelona Symphony and Jazz Catalonia National Orchestra performs Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree works by Brahms, Bartók & Debussy. (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See website for full programme and times. The legendary Jamboree club has a full Blues programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- Friday blues at the Palau Gomis hop. More information at: www. MEAM: Museu Europeu d’Art Modern masimas.com/jamboree. (Barra de Ferro, 5). M: Jaume I (L4). 6pm. 11 €. Reduced 9 €. Jazz and blues concerts in a striking 18th century Rock palace in the Born district. Millennium Festival Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau de la Música, 4-6). M: Flamenco Urquinaona (L1-L4). 9pm. De Cajón! Festival: Juan de Gloria Instrumentalist and singer Ian Harlem Jazz Club (Comtessa de Anderson, leader of the legendary Sobradiel, 8). M: Drassanes (L3) & British rock band Jethro Tull, in what is Jaume I (L4). 9pm. 13 €. The Sevillian

40 Time Out BCN Guide February 2013 dancer Juan Mateo, who has performed 12.30am. From 9 to 11 €. Music for the in tablaos all over Spain, returns with a whole family. Five musicians offer a string of special guests to present his selection of Bach’s works arranged spectacular interpretation of the art of especially for the occasion. flamenco. Electronic music Musical theatre Jeff Mills Sala Apolo (Nou de la Arenas Festival: Evil Dead, The Rambla, 113). M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). Musical Centre Comercial Las Arenas 12.30am. Techno originator, DJ and (Gran Vía, 373-385). M: Espanya (L1- producer Jeff Mills returns to Barcelona L3-FGC). 12 performances. Consult to present his new work, ‘Jungle Planet’. programme at www.arenasfestival.com. From 15 to 38 €. Musical based on the theatrical adaptation of Sam Raimi’s cult Flamenco eighties horror film series. Millennium Festival Dorantes Artèria Paral·lel (Av. Paral·lel, 62). M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). 9pm. Pianist David Jazz Peña Dorantes presents “Sin Muros!”, his Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree most personal work. The Sevillian (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See pianist is one of the popular website for full programme and times. ambassadors of Andalusian music. The legendary Jamboree club has a full programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- hop. More information at: www. Musical theatre masimas.com/jamboree. Arenas Festival: Evil Dead, The Musical Centre Comercial Las Arenas (Gran Vía, 373-385). M: Espanya (L1- Saturday 9 L3-FGC). 12 performances. Consult programme at www.arenasfestival.com. Classical music From 15 to 38 €. Musical based on the 30 minutes at the Museu MUHBA: theatrical adaptation of Sam Raimi’s cult Opening concert MUHBA Museu eighties horror film series. d’Història de Barcelona (Pl. del Rei). M: Jaume I (L4). 8pm. 12 € (10 € in advance).Opening concert in a cycle of Jazz 30-minute recitals at the city’s history Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree (Pl. museum, with a concert of French music Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See website featuring works by Satie, Debussy, for full programme and times. The Ravel, Bizet & Poulenc. legendary Jamboree club has a full programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- Saturday suppers with hop. More information at: www. classical music at Palau Gomis masimas.com/jamboree. MEAM: Museu Europeu d’Art Modern (Barra de Ferro, 5). M: Jaume I (L4). Sat, 6pm. 16 €. Reduced: 13 € (Includes: Sunday 10 museum entrance concert & supper). The Museu Europeu d’Art Modern, Classical music housed in a striking 18th century palace Cobla Simfònica Catalana Palau in the Born district, offers classical music de la Música Catalana (Palau de la concerts with an early supper included Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1-L4). in the price. 6pm. 15 & 21 €. Works by Montsalvatge, Cassú, Serra & others. The OBC & Debussy L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L1), L’OBC & Debussy L’Auditori Monumental (L2) & Marina (L1). Fri, (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L1), 9pm. Sat, 7pm Sun, 11 h. From 23 to Monumental (L2) & Marina (L1). Fri, 51 €. The Barcelona Symphony and 9pm. Sat, 7pm Sun, 11 h. From 23 to Catalonia National Orchestra performs 51 €. The Barcelona Symphony and works by Brahms, Bartók & Debussy. Catalonia National Orchestra performs works by Brahms, Bartók & Debussy. Bach L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L1), Monumental (L2) & Barcelona Municipal Band: The Marina (L1). Sat & Sun, 11 & Divine Comedy L’Auditori (Lepant,

February 2013 Time Out BCN Guide 41 150). M: Glòries (L1), Monumental adaptation of Sam Raimi’s cult (L2) & Marina (L1). 6pm. 14 €. eighties horror film series. Barcelona’s Municipal Band performs great works from the twentieth century repertoire, including Rodrigo, Poelman, Jazz Melillo & Smith, and the “Divine Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree Comedy” Symphony. (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See website for full programme and times. The legendary Jamboree club has a full Sports programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- 36th Barcelona Indoor & 14th hop. More information at: www. Barcelona International Indoor masimas.com/jamboree. Enduro Trial – FIM Super Enduro World Championship Palau Sant Jordi (Pg. Olímpic, 5-7). M: Espanya Tuesday 12 (L1-L3-FGC). 5.30pm. More information: www. Musical theatre trialindoorbarcelona.com. Arenas Festival: Evil Dead, The Musical Centre Comercial Las Arenas (Gran Vía, 373-385). M: Espanya (L1- Football L3-FGC). 12 performances. Consult League fixture: FC Barcelona programme at www.arenasfestival.com. versus Getafe Camp Nou (Aristides From 15 to 38 €. Musical based on the Maillol, s/n). Times tbc. theatrical adaptation of Sam Raimi’s cult eighties horror film series. Rock Caprichos de Apolo: Gravenhurst Craft fair + Simone White La [2] de FREE Santa Eulàlia Festival 2013: l’Apolo(Nou de la Rambla, 113). M: Santa Eulàlia craft fair, Avinguda Paral·lel (L2-L3). 12.30am. British de la Catedral M: Jaume I (L4). 10am - singer-songwriter Nick Talbot’s project 9pm. Gravenhurst, supported by American singer-songwriter Simone White. Jazz Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree Monday 11 (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See website for full programme and times. Classical music The legendary Jamboree club has a full Chamber musicians from the programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- OBC L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). M: hop. More information at: www. Glòries (L1), Monumental (L2) & masimas.com/jamboree. Marina (L1). 8.30pm. 17 €. Works by Berg, Stravinsky & Bartók. Tradicions FREE Santa Eulàlia Festival 2013 Folk Barcelona-City 12, 16 & 17 Feb. Paul Fuster Palau de la Música Barcelona’s biggest winter festival has a Catalana Sala d’Assaig de l’Orfeó special focus on family activities. Giants, Català (Palau de la Música, 4-6). M: parades, fire-running, human towers, Urquinaona (L1-L4). 7.30pm. 11 €. folk dancing, lace-makers and music, as Performance by Paul Fuster, a North well as other activities for old and young. American singer with a close More information: www.bcn.cat/ relationship to Catalonia. barcelonacultura. Musical theatre Arenas Festival: Evil Dead, The FREE! Musical Centre Comercial Las DOWNLOAD Arenas (Gran Vía, 373-385). M: Espanya (L1-L3-FGC). 12 TIME OUT BCN performances. Consult programme at GUIDE www.arenasfestival.com. From 15 to 38 €. Musical based on the theatrical

42 Time Out BCN Guide February 2013 FREE Santa Eulàlia Festival 2013: Sardanas Plaça Sant Jaume (Plaça de Musical theatre Sant Jaume). M: Jaume I (L4). 6.30pm. Arenas Festival: Evil Dead, The 12 Feb. Musical Centre Comercial Las Arenas (Gran Vía, 373-385). M: Espanya (L1- FREE Santa Eulàlia Festival 2013: L3-FGC). 12 performances. Consult Procession of the city’s programme at www.arenasfestival.com. giants Plaça de Sant Josep Oriol From 15 to 38 €. Musical based on the (Plaça de Sant Josep Oriol). 7.30pm. 12 theatrical adaptation of Sam Raimi’s cult Feb. eighties horror film series.

FREE Santa Eulàlia Festival 2013: Open doors at the City Hall Jazz Ajuntament de Barcelona (Pl. Sant Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree Jaume, 1). M: Jaume I (L4). 10am - (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See 8pm. 12 Feb website for full programme and times. The legendary Jamboree club has a full FREE Santa Eulàlia Festival 2013: programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- Giants exhibition Pati Manning hop. More information at: www. (Montalegre, 7). M: Catalunya (L1-L3) masimas.com/jamboree. & Universitat (L1-L2). From 10 to 16 Feb. Giants made at schools all over Barcelona. Friday 15 Blues Wednesday, 13 Blues at the Palau Gomis MEAM: Museu Europeu d’Art Modern Rock (Barra de Ferro, 5). M: Jaume I (L4). Caprichos de Apolo: The Soft 6pm. 11 €. Reduced 9 €. Blues concerts Pack La [2] de l’Apolo(Nou de la in a striking 18th century palace in the Rambla, 113). M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). Born district. 12.30am. The LA band performs their new album, ‘Strapped’. Classical music Jordi Savall in Concert Gran Teatre Musical theatre del Liceu (La Rambla, 51-59). M: Liceu Arenas Festival: Evil Dead, The (L3). 8pm. From 9 to 122 €. Jordi Savall Musical Centre Comercial Las takes us on a musical tour of the works Arenas (Gran Vía, 373-385). M: of Lully, Marais and Rameau, three Espanya (L1-L3-FGC). 12 composers who marked the operatic performances. Consult programme at tastes of the court at Versailles for a www.arenasfestival.com. From 15 to hundred years. 38 €. Musical based on the theatrical adaptation of Sam Raimi’s cult Maria Nacy, organ Palau de la eighties horror film series. Música Catalana (Palau de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1-L4). 7pm 6 €. Works by Bach, Hindemith, Reger & Thursday 14 Krebs. Classical music Elias String Quartet & Enrique Singer-songwriter Bagaría Palau de la Música Catalana Millennium Festival Glen (Palau de la Música, 4-6). M: Hansard L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). M: Urquinaona (L1-L4). 8.30pm. 19 & Glòries (L1), Monumental (L2) & 29 €. Works by Haydn, Janacek & Marina (L1). 9.30pm Irish singer and Dvorak. guitarist Glen Hansard presents “Rhythm and Repose”, his first solo Mireia Pintó & Vladislav album. Hansard will be backed onstage Bronevetzky L’Auditori (Lepant, by members of his former band The 150). M: Glòries (L1), Monumental Frames. (L2) & Marina (L1). 8.30pm. 17 €. Mezzosoprano Mireia Pintó & Bronevetzky perform Russian Flamenco romances. De Cajón! Festival: Borbones

February 2013 Time Out BCN Guide 43 femeninos Harlem Jazz Club Enrique Morente, is unique. She presents (Comtessa de Sobradiel, 8). M: her eagerly-anticipated album Drassanes (L3) & Jaume I (L4). 9pm. “Autorretrato”. 13 €. “Borbones Femeninos” is a tribute to women in flamenco. Singer Nane Ramos is accompanied by dancer Afra Food Rubino. Gastropop: Calçotada Poble Espanyol (Av. de Francesc Ferrer & Remedios Amaya Sala Apolo (Nou Guàrdia, 13). M: Espanya (L1-L3- de la Rambla, 113). M: Paral·lel (L2- FGC). 11am - 6pm. Food festival with L3). 8.30pm. Singer Remedios Amaya tastings, workshops and traditional performs at Apolo. specialities, including calçots. Musical theatre Jazz Arenas Festival: Evil Dead, The Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree Musical Centre Comercial Las Arenas (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See (Gran Vía, 373-385). M: Espanya (L1- website for full programme and times. L3-FGC). 12 performances. Consult The legendary Jamboree club has a full programme at www.arenasfestival.com. programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- From 15 to 38 €. Musical based on the hop. theatrical adaptation of Sam Raimi’s cult eighties horror film series. Kids The colours of brass L’Auditori Jazz (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L1), Jazz at Sala Jamboree Enjoy Monumental (L2) & Marina Jamboree (Pl. Reial, 17). the seaso- (L1). T. 93 247 93 00. Sat M: Liceu (L3). See nal catalan food & Sun., 11am & website for full at Poble Espanyol. 12.30pm. From 9 to 11 €. programme and times. On Saturday 16th, Brass instruments shake you can eat as many The legendary Jamboree ’ as you can. up the stage. club has a full ‘calçots programme of jazz, You just have to dip and swallow. And Pop blues, funk and hip-hop. get fun! More information at: www. Emergency 2013! masimas.com/jamboree. Independent Music Festival Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Saturday 16 (Montalegre, 5). M: Catalunya (L1-L3). T. 93 306 41 00. 6pm-12am. 7 € Classical music (Reduced: 5 €). The fifth Emergency! 30 minutes at the Museu MUHBA: Festival presents new arrivals on the Hugo Schuler MUHBA Museu local, national and international scenes, d’Història de Barcelona (Pl. del Rei). M: including Tashaki Miyaki (US), VIVA, Jaume I (L4). Sat & Sun, 6, 7 & 8pm. 9 Pájaro, Tiger Menja Zebra, Diego Hdez, € (7 € in advance). Argentinean pianist Ocellot & Villarroel. Hugo Schuler plays works by Bach .

The OBC & Tchaikovsky’s fifth World music L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries New Roots Music L’Auditori Sala 2 (L1), Monumental (L2) & Marina (L1). Oriol Martorell (Lepant, 150). M: Fri, 9pm. Sat, 7pm Sun, 11am. From Glòries (L1), Monumental (L2) & 23 to 51 €. Works by Albéniz, Turina & Marina (L1). 9pm. 15 €. Tchaikovsky. Sunday 17 Flamenco De Cajón! Festival: Estrella Classical music Morente Palau de la Música Catalana Chamber Music in the “Musical (Palau de la Música, 4-6). M: Residences” Cycle La Pedrera Urquinaona (L1-L4). 9pm. From 23 to (Provença, 261-265). M: Provença 59.50 €. Every performance by this (FGC) & Diagonal (L3-L5). 6pm. 12 €. flamenco “cantaora,” the daughter of Anna Alàs, mezzo- soprano & Alfonso

44 Time Out BCN Guide February 2013 Gómez, piano, perform work by folk dancing, lace-makers and music, as Schumann, Shubert & Mahler. well as other activities for old and young. More information: www.bcn.cat/ Tales of Hoffman Gran Teatre del barcelonacultura. Liceu (La Rambla, 51-59). M: Liceu (L3). 8pm (except 17 Feb: performance FREE Santa Eulàlia Festival 2013: at 5pm). From 11.75 to 233 €. Esbart Ciutat Comtal Show Reduced-price performances (5, 12, 16 Avinguda de la Catedral M: Jaume I & 19 Feb): from 10.75 to 103 €. Jacques (L4). 8pm Offenbach’s posthumous masterpiece. Famous for his operettas. “The Tales of FREE Santa Eulàlia Festival 2013: Hoffmann” represents the composer’s Giants Plaça Sant Jaume (Plaça de Sant final attempt to break into the world of Jaume). M: Jaume I (L4). 12am. great opera. FREE Santa Eulàlia Festival 2013: Matinees at the Palau. Catalan sardanes Avinguda de la Catedral M: and Spanish music Palau de la Jaume I (L4). 11.15am. Música Catalana (Palau de la Música, FREE Santa Eulàlia Festival 2013: 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1-L4). 12pm 25 Correfoc dels petits diables Plaça €. Enjoy the subtlety and vitality of the Sant Jaume (Plaça de Sant Jaume). M: music of Falla, Albéniz, Granados & Jaume I (L4). 7pm Mompou. FREE Santa Eulàlia Festival 2013: Human towers Plaça Sant Jaume Tradicions (Plaça de Sant Jaume). M: Jaume I (L4). FREE Santa Eulàlia Festival 2013 1pm. Barcelona-City 12, 16 & 17 Feb. Barcelona’s biggest winter festival has a special focus on family activities. Giants, Sport parades, fire-running, human towers, Barcelona Half Marathon Passeig

February 2013 Time Out BCN Guide 45 Lluís Companys. M: Arc de Triomf programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- (L1). 8.45am Barcelona’s half marathon hop. is back. A 21.097 km race that takes in the whole city. Wednesday, 20 Football Classical music League Fixture: RCD Espanyol Concert cycle: “Remembering vs. Real Betis Estadi Cornellà-El Carmen Amaya.” Tablao Flamencoo Prat (Av. del Baix Llobregat, 100). Cordobés (La Rambla, 35). M: Cornellà de Llobregat. Times tbc. Drassanes (L3) & Liceu (L3). 8.15 & 10pm. To mark the centenary of the birth of Carmen Amaya, El Cordobés Jazz offers a concert cycle dedicated to Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree Barcelona’s great flamenco (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See “bailaora,” with artists of the website for full programme and times. standing of Pastora Galván, Junco & The legendary Jamboree club has a full Jesús Carmona. programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- hop. More information at: www. Isabel Druet, mezzosoprano masimas.com/jamboree. Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1-L4). 8.30pm. 11 €. Works Monday 18 The by Berlioz, Brahms, Rossini, founder Schubert, Shumann, Classical music of the afro- among others. Nina & Port Bo Palau pop sound hits de la Música Catalana Barcelona on Monday plays (Palau de la Música, 18th: Salif Keita Fado 4-6). M: Urquinaona at Sala Apolo to Ana Moura Sala (L1-L4). 7pm 20 & 25 €. let us know his Apolo (Nou de la lastest album, Traditional Catalan ‘Talé’ Rambla, 113). M: maritime songs. Paral·lel (L2-L3). The internationally famous Fado singer presents her latest album, World Music ‘Desfado’. Millennium Festival Salif Keita Sala Apolo (Nou de la Rambla, 113). M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). 9pm. The master Jazz of West African music and one of the Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree founding fathers of Afro-pop, Salif (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See Keita returns to Barcelona in fine website for full programme and times. form with “Talé”, his latest album, The legendary Jamboree club has a full with collaborations from special programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- guests including UK rapper Roots hop. Manuva, bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding and perfomer Bobby McFerrin. Pop Guitar Festival: Antònia Font Artèria Paral·lel (Av. Paral·lel, 62). M: Tuesday 19 Paral·lel (L2-L3). 9pm. From 21 to 28 €. The Mallorcan group present their latest Sports album of experimental pop ‘Vostè és Formula One Test Days. Circuit de aquí’ (2012). Catalunya Ctra. de Granollers -Parets km. 2). From 19 to 22 Feb. More information at www.circuitcat.com Thursday 21 Classical music Jazz Dahlkvist Quartet L’Auditori Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L1), (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See Monumental (L2) & Marina (L1). website for full programme and times. 8.30pm. 17 €. Works by Beethoven, The legendary Jamboree club has a full Grieg & Sallinen.

46 Time Out BCN Guide February 2013 The Beatles go Baroque. Andorran National Orchestra Sports Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau de Formula One Test Days Circuit de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1- Catalunya (Crta.de Granollers a L4). 8.30pm. 13 €. Peter Breiner Parets Km 2). Montmeló. From 19 to presents baroque versions of Beatles 22 Feb. More information: www. melodies. circuitcat.com. Flamenco Flamenco De Cajón! Festival: Las Migas De Cajón! Festival: Juan Artèria Paral·lel (Av. Paral·lel, 62). M: Valderrama Artèria Paral·lel (Av. Paral·lel (L2-L3). 9pm. From 18 to 28 Paral·lel, 62). M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). €. Female quartet Las Migas, one of 9pm. From 21 to 33 €. Juan the most innovative groups in Catalan Valderrama, flamenco singer and flamenco, perform their second album singer-songwriter, performs the best ‘Nosotras somos’ (2012). The women of his repertoire, as well as covers of the moment. of some of his favourite artists: Serrat, Perales, Gardel and, of course, his own father, Juanito Friday 22 Valderrama. Blues Blues at the Palau Gomis Jazz MEAM: Museu Europeu d’Art Modern Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree (Barra de Ferro, 5). M: Jaume I (L4). (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See 6pm. 11 €. Reduced 9 €. Blues concerts website for full programme and times. in a striking 18th century palace in the The legendary Jamboree club has a full Born district. programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- hop.

February 2013 Time Out BCN Guide 47 Canadian singer Ron Sexsmith, admired Rock by artists like Paul McCartney and Elvis Art nights. Rafa Pons Palau de la Costello, presents his latest album Música Catalana (Palau de la Música, “Forever Endeavour” in Barcelona. 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1-L4). 9pm. From 18 to 32 €. Barcelona’s own Rafa Millennium Festival. The New Pons, rock singer-songwriter. Raemon Palau de la Música Catalana (Palau de la Música, 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1-L4). 9pm. The New Saturday 23 Raemon performs his latest album, Classical music ‘Tinieblas, por fin’ (2012). Saturday suppers with classical music at Palau Gomis Sunday 24 MEAM: Museu Europeu d’Art Modern (Barra de Ferro, 5). M: Jaume I (L4). Classical music Sat, 6pm. 16 €. Reduced: 13 € (Includes: Matinees at the Palau. Catalan museum entrance concert & supper). and Spanish music Palau de la The Museu Europeu d’Art Modern, Música Catalana (Palau de la Música, housed in a striking 18th century palace 4-6). M: Urquinaona (L1-L4). 12pm 25 in the Born district, offers classical music €. Enjoy the subtlety and vitality of the concerts with an early supper included in music of Falla, Albéniz, Granados & the price. Mompou. If Tales of Hoffman Gran you want Verdi & Mascagni Teatre del Liceu (La to know how is L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). Rambla, 51-59). M: Liceu Barcelona’s pop M: Glòries (L1), (L3). 8pm (except 17 Feb: Monumental (L2) & scene, just go to see performance at 5pm). The New Raemon Marina (L1). 6pm. 14 €. From 11.75 to 233 €. on Saturday 23rd at Barcelona’s Municipal Reduced-price Palau de la Música. Band play works from performances (5, 12, 16 & You’ll never for- the world’s most popular 19 Feb): from 10.75 to 103 get it. operas, with tunes from €. Jacques Offenbach’s Aïda, Nabucco and posthumous masterpiece. Cavalleria Rusticana. Famous for his operettas, “The Tales of Hoffmann” represents the composer’s final attempt to break into the world of Football great opera. League Fixture: FC Barcelona vs. Sevilla Camp Nou Flamenco (Aristides Maillol, s/n). Times tbc. Ecos del Rocio L’Auditori Sala 1 Pau Casals (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L1), Jazz Monumental (L2) & Marina (L1). 7pm Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree From 25 to 40 €. Traditional Spanish (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See music as Ecos del Rocio return to website for full programme and times. L’Auditori to perform their repertory of The legendary Jamboree club has a full sevillanas, saetas and fandangos. programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- hop. Jazz Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree Kids (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See Clinc! Poble Espanyol (Av. de Francesc website for full programme and times. Ferrer & Guàrdia, 13). M: Espanya The legendary Jamboree club has a full (L1-L3-FGC). T. 93 508 63 00. Sun, programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- 12.30pm. Ticket price includes entry to hop. Poble Espanyol.

The colours of brass L’Auditori Pop (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L1), Guitar Festival: Ron Sexsmith La Monumental (L2) & Marina (L1). T. [2] de l’Apolo (Nou de la Rambla, 111). 93 247 93 00. Sat & Sun., 11am & M: Paral·lel (L2-L3). 9pm. 21 €. 12.30pm. From 9 to 11 €. Brass

48 Time Out BCN Guide February 2013 instruments shake up the stage and young listeners can discover the Wednesday, 27 amazing range of sounds brass instruments can make – lighting, Jazz thunder and wind. Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See The music of trees L’Auditori website for full programme and times. (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L1), The legendary Jamboree club has a full Monumental (L2) & Marina (L1). T. 93 programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- 247 93 00. 11 h. From 9 to 11 €. hop. Traditional Catalan music for the whole family, based around folk songs that reflect the yearly life cycle of a tree. From Thursday 28 5 yrs old. Classical music Concert cycle: “Remembering Monday 25 Carmen Amaya.” Tablao Flamencoo Cordobés (La Rambla, 35). M: Classical music Drassanes (L3) & Liceu (L3). 8.15 & The Liceu Orchestra & Lars 10pm. To mark the centenary of the Vogt, piano Palau de la Música birth of Carmen Amaya, El Cordobés Catalana (Palau de la Música, 4-6). M: offers a concert cycle dedicated to Urquinaona (L1-L4). 8.30pm. From Barcelona’s great flamenco “bailaora,” 18 to 63 €. The Liceu Orchestra with artists of the standing of Pastora accompany pianist Lars Vogt in Galván, Junco & Jesús Carmona. works by Brahms, Beethoven & Grignon. Lisboa Zentral Cafè: Cartes meridionals L’Auditori (Lepant, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra 150). M: Glòries (L1), Monumental L’Auditori (Lepant, 150). M: Glòries (L2) & Marina (L1). 8.30pm. 17 €. (L1), Monumental (L2) & Marina (L1). Instrumental quintet Lisboa Zentral 8.30pm. From 17 to 112 €. Works by Café perform a homage to the works of Mozart & Mahler. Catalan writer Josep Pla, mixing three languages: musical, dramatic & visual. Singer-songwriter Renaldo & Clara Palau de la Música Sports Catalana Sala d’Assaig de l’Orfeó Formula One Test Days. Circuit de Català (Palau de la Música, 4-6). M: Catalunya Ctra. de Granollers -Parets Urquinaona (L1-L4). 7.30pm. 11 €. km. 2). From 28 Feb to 3 Mar. More One of the best new Catalan bands: folk information at www.circuitcat.com songs, white guitar, charming voice. Clara Vinyals, the singer, is just wonderful. Jazz Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See Jazz website for full programme and times. Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree The legendary Jamboree club has a full (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- website for full programme and times. hop. More information at: www. The legendary Jamboree club has a full masimas.com/jamboree. programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- hop. Tuesday 26 Jazz INFORMATION Jazz at Sala Jamboree Jamboree AND SALES (Pl. Reial, 17). M: Liceu (L3). See website for full programme and times. The legendary Jamboree club has a full Tourist Information Points and programme of jazz, blues, funk and hip- www.barcelonaturisme.cat hop.

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Imax Port Vell Architecture (Moll d’Espanya). M: Drassanes (L3) Basílica de la Sagrada Família & Barceloneta (L4). 93 225 11 11. (Mallorca, 401). M: Sagrada Família Check times and programme at www. (L2-L5). 93 20 804 14 9am-6pm. imaxportvell.com. 9.75 €. Put on your 13,50 €. Barcelona’s most iconic glasses, and take a seat for the most building, begun by Antoni Gaudí in exciting virtual reality experience that 1891 and which remains unfinished to the latest 3-D technology can provide, this day. Ticket sales help fund the in Barcelona’s best-equipped large- ongoing construction works. The most format cinema. visited tourist attraction in Spain. G Experiència Casa Batlló (Larrard, 41). M: Lesseps (L3). 93 285 (Pg. de Gràcia, 43). M: Passeig de 44 40. 10am-6pm. 9 €. Reduced: 7.5 €. Gràcia (L3-L4). 93 216 03 06. 9am- Only 150 yards from the steps of Park 9pm. 18.15 €. Another of Gaudì’s Güell, you’ll find a doorway that takes most emblematic works. Spaces you inside the mind of Antoni Gaudí. include the former residence of the A fascinating interactive exhibition Batlló family, the roof terrace with its designed to help you understand the decorated chimneys, (and the scaly creative genius of Barcelona’s most spine of the dragon defeated by Saint famous architect. George,) and the marine-themed light well. The tour ends with the stunning Tibidabo Funfair entrance hall and main staircase. (Plaça del Tibidabo, 3-4). T. 93 211 79 42. Wed-Sun, 12am-11pm. 25,20 € La Pedrera (Those under 120cm, 9 €). With over a (Provença, 261-265). M: Diagonal hundred years of history, Tibidabo is (L3-L5). 902 400 973. 9am-6.30pm. one of the oldest funfairs in the world, 16.50 €. Reduced entrance, 14.85 featuring classic rides, old favourites €. The building many Barcelona and brand new attractions to residents consider to be Gaudí’s guarantee an exciting day out. masterpiece – the roof terrace is one of the joys of Modernisme. Some of Palau de la Música Catalana its apartments are still private (Palau de la Música, 4-6). M: homes. Urquinaona (L1-L4). T. 902 475 485. 10 am-3.30pm. Guide tours every 30 Palau Güell minutes. 17 €. More information: www. (Nou de la Rambla, 3-5). M: Drassanes palaumusica.cat Built between the (L3) & Barceloneta (L4). 93 472 57 75. years 1905 and 1908 by architect Lluís Tue-Thur, 10am-5.30pm. 12 €. Domènech i Montaner, the Palau de la Reduced: 8 € Built by Gaudí in the late Música Catalana –which is part of 19th century, this mansion belonged to UNESCO’s cultural heritage of his main patron. The roof terrace is humanity– is one of the most unique the highlight, but the whole house is a concert halls in the world, and also one fascinating introduction to Gaudí’s of the most outstanding monuments of revolutionary use of materials and space. Catalan Modernism.

Zoo de Barcelona Leisure (Parc de la Ciutadella, s/n). M: Arc de Aire de Barcelona, Arab Baths Triomf (L1) i Ciutadella/Vila Olímpica (Pg. de Picasso, 22). M: Barceloneta (L4). T. 93 225 67 80. Mon-Sun, 10am- (L4) & Jaume I (L4). Mon-Thur: first 5pm. 19,60 €. Kids (3-12 years): 11,80 session: 10am. Fri, Sat & Sun: first €. Located in Parc de la Ciutadella, this is session, 8am. Wed, Thu, Fri. & Sat: a centenary institution which is part of last session, midnight-2am.Aire de the city’s cultural and sentimenal Barcelona is in the Born, and recreates heritage. Nowadays it takes care of 2000 a traditional hammam. animals from 315 different species.

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