FREE! 2016/2017 EDITION VERMOUTH TIME YOUNG DESIGNERS BEST CLUBS THE INSIDER’S GUIDE TO STUDENT EXPERIENCING BARCELONA GUIDE! PLUS! Film & SECRET music festivals. Gaudí. Coolest CITY hairdressers. Food dictionary 2 www.timeout.com/barcelona Time Out Barcelona Student Guide 2016/2017 Time Out Barcelona Student Guide Contents 2016/2017 Catalan cuisine is delicious, but it’s not The best of always obvious what’s on your plate. See our food Barcelona dictionary for help p. 34 Features 12. The secret city BCN’s hidden bars, galleries and more. 20. Twenty great things to do Check our list of the city’s must-sees. 22. Living science Local people and places creating the future. 26. Premium space How some universities rent out their facilities. 28. Love thy neighbour We explore L’Hospitalet, the city next door. MARIA DIAS 32. Hairdressers 34. Food dictionary Regulars 36. Shopping & Style 43. BCU University info 59. Things to Do 64. Cinema 66. Theatre & Dance 68. Music MARIA DIAS CRISTINA RECHE MARIA DIAS 72. Clubs Need a trim? Want Innovative fashion Barcelona’s reputation As well as beer, wine 76. LGBT to try babylights? designers are found as a world-class venue and cocktails, one Desperate for a across the city, and for music festivals has of the most popular 78. Art complete change of there are always new been sealed in the past tipples among 80. Books look? Barcelona is full names worth seeking decade. The big guns Barcelona locals is of hair salons and out. We showcase are Primavera Sound vermouth – not 84. Food & Drink barbershops, and we four up-and-comers and Sónar, and we least due to the 96. Getaways show you the best whose work stands compare and contrast accompanying ritual places for a cut, colour out for its quality and them to see how they of tapas, chat and 98. 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OCT 20 Barcelona as part of a major world tour. NOV 26 DECEMBER JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH 31 07 23 13 New Year’s Eve Winter sales start Carnival Zurich BCN Marathon Party Shopping Tradition Sport *CUPoVVKOGƂQYP!5C[ If you’re a bargain-hunter, Time to party before the Trainers at the ready! ‘hola’ to 2017. prepare for action. lean weeks of Lent. Get set to run 42km. APRIL MAY MAY JUNE 23 25 31 15 Sant Jordi Loop Festival Primavera Sound Sónar Tradition Video art Music festival Music festival Catalonia’s most A feast of contemporary Three days of great BCN’s epic electronic romantic day of the year. art on screen. music at Parc del Fòrum. event returns once more. 4 www.timeout.com/barcelona Time Out Barcelona Student Guide 2016/2017 Time Out Barcelona Student Guide 2016/2017 www.timeout.com/barcelona 5 People of Barcelona Aziza Brahim How did I Singer 39 years old end up here? Hannah Pennell Is music your reponse to a TOB English editor mission? When I was small it helped me escape the reality of the refugee Take it camps, and later I realised that it could be a tool to explain the from me ƁIJVQHO[RGQRNG+YCUJGNRGF by my grandmother, Ljadra Mink I arrived in Barcelona in 1999 and /CDTWMnVJGRQGVQHVJGTKƂGo things were very different back then, in some respects at least. Easyjet You took up her cause. was but four years old and had a Completely. When she lived in fraction of the schedules and the Western Sahara, she wrote destinations it now boasts. There poems about the nomadic was no Facebook. Or euro legal lifestyle, love and daily life, but tender. I came to live here having the exodus meant she focused only visited once before – a long all her energy on the Sahrawi weekend the previous Easter which ƁIJV+NKMGVJGHCEVVJCVO[OWUKE had started inauspiciously with a is drawn from that. I was born as two-hour wait in the wrong terminal a refugee and that marks me. for my Catalan boyfriend. Taking up I’ve never known my country. residence was in many ways straightforward enough, but still, And if you wanted to visit it? there are certain features of I run the risk of being arrested or MARIA DIAS Barcelona life that newcomers will even tortured by the Moroccans, always be better off learning sooner FGURKVGVJGHCEVVJCVQWTƁIJV Aren’t women the most visible rather than later. First, shop at the and right to self-determination face of Sahrawi music? market. You’re in the European city are protected by the Women have been very involved with the most fresh-food markets, international community. in Sahrawi culture and and not only do they stock myriad resistance. It’s no surprise products, they also constantly You lived in Cuba, didn’t you? that we’re the guardians of our provide sensorial ecstasy. And their Yes, from when I was 11 until I people’s values. DCTUCPFECHÅUCTGUQOGQHVJGDGUV was 19. I went there with a [QWoNNƁPF5RGCMKPIQHYJKEJQPGQH scholarship, like a lot of Sahrawi What place are you referring to the great pleasures here is also one children – it helped me get away in the title of your latest record, of the simplest: going out for mid- HTQOVJGFKHƁEWNVUKVWCVKQPKPVJG An object: the Miró Abbar el Hamada (Across the morning coffee. But please don’t go TGHWIGGECORU6JGKPƂWGPEGQH mosaic on La Rambla Hamada)? to Starbucks or Costa or anywhere Cuban music is noticeable in The piece reminds Brahim of her The Hamada is the desert where else that’s ‘easy’. There’s time what I do. I absorbed its joy. debut in Barcelona, in the CSIC we’ve been for the last 40 years. enough for that when you go home. auditorium in C/Hospital. It’s a hard, rocky desert where One of my most favourite places is How did you end up here? nothing grows – one of the most not the cheapest, and its decor is +ƁTUVYGPVVQ/CFTKFYKVJC inhospitable in the world. anything but Scandi-inspired – but record deal that saw me go on the coffee is always spot on, the tour with the group Leyoad, with Do you think we have a frivolous pastries irresistible and the couple Mariem Hassan. Later, for love, I relationship with music here? who run it welcoming. Finally, came to Barcelona, a city that Music is a type of free however good your Spanish (or had always been a goal for me. expression. For me it has to Catalan) may be, there’s no shame convey concern, commitment in going to a hairdresser who Why’s that? and political attitudes, but I can’t speaks your own language. I learnt I saw it as a cosmopolitan city, Place of origin: criticise what my colleagues do that the hard way. and I thought that my music El-Aaiun refugee camp because everybody has their could improve if I lived here. And It’s located in Tindouf, in south- own motivations. Hannah keeps discovering that’s how it’s been – musically west Algeria; her family settled new things about the city it’s given me stability. there in 1975. –Jordi Bianciotto 6 www.timeout.com/barcelona Time Out Barcelona Student Guide 2016/2017 I love BCN Barceloneta beach Passeig Marítim This seafront stretch is spectacular BCN: by night, especially during the September Mercè festival. TOP SECRET B.