SAVE THE DATE 54 THINGS TO DO IN BARCELONA IN 2015 Download an app for every occasion onto your Barcelona mobile: routes, restaurants, shopping, culture, tourism products and… much, much more. The Official Guide to Barcelona also includes geolocation maps so you can design your apps own tailor-made route. Barcelona in your pocket! WELCOME TO BCN! TIME OUT BARCELONA Digital business Mabel Mas SAVE THE DATE Via Laietana, 20 Editor-in-chief www.barcelonaturisme.com 932955400 Andreu Gomila Editor Andreu Gomila www.timeout.cat Art director Design Irisnegro redacció@timeout.cat Diego Piccininno Writers Hannah Pennell Publisher Eduard Voltas Features and web editor Edited by 80 + 4 Publicacions Finance Manager Judit Sans Maria José Gómez & Turisme de Barcelona apps.barcelonaturisme.com PLAN YOUR VISIT: WWW.VISITBARCELONA.COM apps bcnshop bcnshop.cat www.timeout.com/barcelona 3 03 080 BARCELONA FASHION FEBRUARY 2-6 Discover what you should be wearing, according to Catalan designers, this autumn and winter with the 15th edition of this bi- annual event to promote the local fashion industry. Expect pop-up stores, DJ sessions and catwalk presentations. It‘s not just about the clothes themselves, however, with talks discussing issues related to the sector, photo competitions and stands from 01 some of the local design schools, looking to discover the next SISTER ACT generation of 080 participants. JANUARY-MAY www.080barcelonafashion.cat From Maria von Trapp to Deborah Kerr’s turn in Black Narcissus via Elvis vehicle Change of Habit, it’s a well-known fact that nuns make for good entertainment fodder. The 04 costumes are straightforward, they have an excellent moral high MUSEU DE LES ground from which to fall or aspire to, and all that communal living CULTURES DEL MÓN lends itself perfectly to creating FEBRUARY tension, frustration and perfect hiding-places for people on the run. Opening this year, Barcelona’s Sister Act ticks all these boxes and newest museum, the Museum of the original 1992 film starring 02 World Cultures, promises to be Whoopi Goldberg has certainly brought up through the legendary exceptional, with exhibits proved to have a long shelf life, GUSTAVO DUDAMEL/ El Sistema in Venezuela, which has originating from Africa, Asia, South generating a rapid sequel and later given thousands of children a and Central America, and Oceania, a musical. Showing here until May ORQUESTRA musical education, he started to gathered since the late 19th is a Spanish-language version of study conducting when he was 14 century by both local authorities the latter, set in 70s Philadelphia SIMFÒNICA BOLÍVAR (although Dudamel himself says and private collectors. With close and telling the tale of singer Deloris that child conductors are the norm to 40,000 items in its archives– and her attempts to avoid the DE VENEZUELA in his home country) and became which include religious statues, mobsters chasing her by taking JANUARY 16-17 music director of the Bolívar clothing, artwork and books–there refuge in a convent disguised as a orchestra just four years later. is enough material here to keep nun. With Goldberg herself on Barcelona’s Palau de la Música Today, he also holds the same role curious minds distracted for board as producer for the stage this month welcomes Venezuelan at the LA Philharmonic and has hours. An added attraction is the version - she had it written into the conductor Gustavo Dudamel and scored a recently-released film location chosen for the museum: T&Cs that the lead role will always his established collaborators, the about South American liberator two adjoining houses in Montcada be played by a black actress - and Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra Simón Bolívar. His two concerts in street (just opposite the Picasso eight-time Oscar winner Alan of Venezuela. There is not nearly Barcelona are part of a wider Museum) built in medieval times Menken behind the original score, enough space here to introduce European tour; here he will conduct by wealthy families, which have this is musical theatre at its most you to Dudamel, if you’re not work by Beethoven and Wagner, been restored and merit a close uplifting, feel-good best. already familiar with his work. His Julián Orbón and Mahler. inspection in their own right. www.sisteractelmusical.com CV has not a note wrong on it: www.palaumusica.cat www.museuculturesmon.bcn.cat 4 www.timeout.com/barcelona www.timeout.com/barcelona 5 07 05 PIXAR, 25 YEARS OF ARTISTIC PRACTICE ANIMATION IN CATALONIA, FEBRUARY 6-MAY 1950-1975 In its three decades of creating FEBRUARY 24-MAY 24 feature-length films, computer animation company Pixar has won This show is being put on to 27 Oscars, 11 Grammies and 7 complement the latest section in Golden Globes, earned $8.5 the MNAC’s permanent collection, billion, and created numerous Modern Art up to 1950. Eventually, characters such as Woody, Nemo the pieces included in this three- and Remy who have kept both month exhibition will have their children and parents entertained. own permanent space, highlighting CaixaForum pays tribute to these this crucial period in Catalonia’s accomplishments by bringing this artistic history, covering as it does exhibition, created by New York’s the majority of the Franco MoMA, to Barcelona for a four- dictatorship. Despite the evident month run. You’ll see storyboards, limitations put in place by the models and explanations about fascist regime, many Catalan the technology used to create the artists and intellectuals thrived universally-loved Pixar family. during this time, as the displays of www.obrasocial.lacaixa.es paintings, sculptures, films and documents attest. See the significance of works by people such as Miró, Tàpies and Montserrat Roig in the eventual 08 transition to democracy in Spain. www.museunacional.cat TRIAL I ENDURO INDOOR INTERNACIONAL DE BARCELONA FEBRUARY 8 life, is the first in a planned series Your jaw will drop as you see what 09 06 to take a critical look at the current some motorcyclists can achieve at also to build on and innovate from role of design around the world. It this year’s indoor trial and enduro MOBILE WORLD it. The congress brings together DESIGN FOR LIFE will be divided up into three show at Palau Sant Jordi. While mobile operators, device FEBRUARY sections - the human body, such time trial events are usually CONGRESS manufacturers and geographical surroundings and staged outdoors, bringing them to MARCH 2-5 representatives of related Barcelona’s new Design Museum communication - and the 100 or so an interior setting means you can industries from around the world - opened its doors in mid-December objects on display will include both enjoy the full spectrum of off- Barcelona has established itself last year more than 85,000 2014, bringing together the Catalan and international products roading skill from the comfort of as the global ‘capital’ of the mobile professionals from 200 countries collections of the city’s former and projects. The aim Is to reflect your seat and with no risk of mud phone industry, having came to network, launch new Ceramics,Textiles, and Visual and on the difference that can be made flying in your face. Competitors will successively hosted this congress, products and discuss the next Decorative Arts museums, some to a design concept depending on face challenges such as bouncing which is the biggest gathering for steps for mobile communications. 70,000 items in total. It is located the society it is aimed at. The their bikes off barrels and loop-the- the sector, ever since its One feature from the 2014 edition in the Disseny Hub, a building innovation and creativity of the looping them over water. No inauguration in 2009. With the likely to return is its environmental designed by some of Barcelona’s products will be analysed to wonder the Barcelona stage of the creation of the Mobile World initiatives, which saw the congress foremost architects, including Oriol understand how they serve their FIM X-Trial World Championship is Capital Foundation three years declared the largest event of its Bohigas, and surrounded by a intended audience. considered the most difficult of all. ago, Barcelona signalled its desire kind to be certified carbon neutral. moat. This exhibition, Design for www.museudeldisseny.cat www.trialindoorbarcelona.com not only to continue this role but www.mobileworldcongress.com 6 www.timeout.com/barcelona www.timeout.com/barcelona 7 11 BARCELONA BEER 13 FESTIVAL KOSMOPOLIS MARCH 13-15 MARCH 17-22 Started in 2012, this event This biennial literary festival showcases craft beers from returns to Barcelona’s CCCB, still near and far. The festival looking to expand the concept of organisers want to promote the what literature is and put it into the bubbly beverage as a high- context of contemporary times. quality gastronomic product Past editions have explored themes and sourced over 300 different such as the relationship between types last year, including black science and science-fiction, how lager, smoked stout and new technologies can advance summer ale. Food selected to literature, and the importance of bring out the flavours of the humour for questioning and brews is served, there is the revealing reality. In line with its chance to meet some of the belief in ‘amplified’ literature, beer creators, and events for Kosmopolis schedules video shorts industry insiders are staged. and app workshops alongside www.barcelonabeerfestival.com readings and round tables. www.cccb.org 12 ORQUESTRA 2013 , SIMFÒNICA DE BERLÍN averna T MARCH 2 EL QU I Berlin’s Symphony Orchestra, featuring the young Armenian 10 violinst Sergey Khatxatryan, CCCB © M about trying to break their PB time, visits the Auditori with a ZURICH MARATÓ DE offers a checklist of some of the challenging programme.