OFFICIAL FREE BCN GUIDE! FREE ISSUE_JULFREE 2013_N. 12 BcnGuide IN ENGLISH THE BEST OF BARCELONA’S PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL DESCARREGA’TFREE DOWNLOAD GRATIS L’APPTIME DE OUT TIME BARCELONA OUT BARCELONA! APP! THEEL MILLOR BEST OF DEBARCELONA BCN AL TEU ONIPHONE! YOUR Contents IPHONE! July 2013 608 Three sisters Futurist Chekhov 08 Feature 23 Around town Our picks for the Grec A new home the Encants Festival. flea market. 14 Food & drink 24 Arts Mercat Princesa, the Open-air music festival. ultimate food bar. 26 Nightlife 20 Shopping House history. Animal prints for summer. 29 Listings TIME OUT BARCELONA TIME OUT BCN GUIDE Advertising Executives Nuria Via Laietana, 20 [email protected] Gómez ([email protected]), 932955400 www.barcelonaturisme.com Mercè Llubera www.timeout.cat Editor Andreu Gomila ([email protected]) Design Irisnegro Edited by 80 + 4 Publicacions Publisher Eduard Voltas Producer Jan Fleischer & Turisme de Barcelona Finance Manager Judit Sans Designer Eduard Forroll Printed by Bigsa Indústria Gràfica Editor-in-chief Andreu Gomila Writers Josep Lambies, DL B.21656-2012 Art director Diego Ricard Martín, Marta Salicrú, ISSN 2014-7546 Piccininno Eugènia Sendra Supported by Features and web editor Translations Maria José Gómez Nick Chapman July 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. Thursday 04 Saturday 06 Wednesday 10 SUMMER NIGHTS EARTH, WIND 6th PUIG VELA AT LA PEDRERA & FIRE CLASSICA Jazz on the roof Elemental funk and REGATTA terrace of Gaudí’s soul at the Jardins Classic yachts from most striking del Palau Reial all over Europe building. Barcelona Music gather in Barcelona. See p. 38 Festival. See p. 40 See p. 42 Monday 15 Thursday 18 SALA MONTJUÏC PRÒXIMS OPEN AIR CINEMA FESTIVAL ‘Take Shelter’ The independent (2011) on the big music scene takes screen, with live over the Poble Brazilian music in Espanyol. concert. See p. 43 See p. 44 Friday 19 Sunday 21 Wednesday 00 FINA WORLD TALES FOR BRAVE SWIMMING CHILDREN CHAMPIONSHIPS A show for the A major event on whole family to the international enjoy from the swimming calendar. Trotam theatre See p. 44 company. See p. 43 Wednesday 24 Tuesday 30 MUSIC IN THE POPCORN PARK MACHINE More than 40 free One of the best concerts of jazz, circus shows at classical and more this year’s Grec in 27 parks around Festival. the city. See p. 46 See p. 49 4 Time Out BCN Guide July 2013 The Hot Seat ORIOL MALET Mariano Bueno According to this organic farming expert, we’d all be better off planting our own food. By Ada Castells As we meet organic farmer I want to live?’ The economic crisis is Mariano Bueno in the middle of an opportunity to refl ect on that. And the Eixample, the plane trees are we’ll come out of this stronger, shedding pollen all around us. although it’s also true that we’re Plane trees are terrible for paying for other people’s mistakes. allergies, aren’t they? There has to be a shift in people’s Allergies aren’t caused by nature consciousness. but by industrialisation. They’ve We have to understand that surged in recent years because progress doesn’t mean pollen carries toxic particles. motorways, reservoirs, People who live in the country don’t skyscrapers, concrete and nuclear suffer from allergies or asthma. It’s power stations. The people in a city problem. charge now were brought up with So everyone should have a that idea of progress. So the ruling vegetable patch in the country? doctrine is all macroeconomics That would be expensive, but there and infrastructure projects. Our are other solutions, like collective lifestyles are not sustainable. urban allotments, or smallholders who rent out part of their land. But watering your garden takes 664 time, whereas you can pop out pages of ecological advice are and buy a bag of mixed leaves at contained in Mariano’s two gardening the supermarket in 10 minutes. guides, published by Integral. The question you have ask is ‘How do 6 Time Out BCN Guide July 2013 The city’s performing arts don’t rest in July. The 2013 Grec Festival features 20 shows – local to international, conventional to experimental, down-to-earth to provocative. By Andreu Gomila & Maria Junyent THREE SISTERS, ANDROID Theatre combines with the VERSION techniques of television to examine Oriza Hirata / Seinendan / Anton political power in the words of P. Chekov Shakespeare. Ivo van Hove, a cult Mercat de les Flors-Sala M. Aurèlia director who has revitalized the Capmany. 2-4 July, 10pm. €28 European scene, encourages How will Chekov be staged in the audiences to stand up and move future? Perhaps with actors and around the theatre. robots, as in this version by Oriza Hirata, one of the great innovators in RHINOCEROS contemporary Japanese theatre. A Eugène Ionesco Japanese provincial town, in a dark, Director: Emmanuel Demarcy- indeterminate future marked by Mota economic crisis, is the setting for a Teatre Lliure - Sala Fabià production that fuses theatre and Puigserver. 12-14 July, 8.30pm. technology. €30 One of the great contemporary ROMAN TRAGEDIES French directors of the moment Shakespeare / Toneelgroep stages a key work of the theatre of Amsterdam the absurd at its most politically Director: Ivo van Hove engaged: ‘Rhinoceros’. The work is an Teatre Lliure - Sala Fabià allegory of conformity and the Puigserver. 5-7 Jul, 6pm. €32 insidious creep of ideology. 8 Time Out BCN Guide July 2013 MAGALI HIRN MAGALI THE WIND IN A VIOLIN HATE RADIO 100 FEMMES International Institute of Collectif Lyon.05 Political Murder Director: Àngles Aymar Director: Milo Rau Teatre Grec. 19 July, 10pm. €18 Tetre Lliure - Sala Fabià Puigserver. Collectif Lyon.05 has invited 100 17-19 July, 8.30pm. €30 Barcelona women with different What are the origins of a genocidal backgrounds, ideas and ways of massacre like that witnessed in working to build a collective story Rwanda in 1994? The Swiss director based on real episodes from and playwright Milo Rau has created individual lives. a new form of political theatre that reconstructs important moments in THE WIND IN A VIOLIN our recent history with maximum Claudio Tolcachir / Timbre 4 fidelity. Director: Claudio Tolcachir Teatre Romea; 24-27 July, 9.30pm. WASTELAND €15-28 Lluís Danés One of the leading names in Director: Lluís Danés contemporary Argentinean theatre Mercat de les Flors - Sala M. dissects the world of human Aurèlia Capmany. 17-20 July, relationships. What are the limits of 10pm. €24 love? Are there any? Can a person’s With Manolo Alcàntara, the texts and love for their child or their mother voice of Eduardo Galeano ,and music justify absolutely anything – even by Lluís Llach. harming someone else? Questions Lluís Danés turns the stage into a without easy answers. dump inhabited by human beings and puppets made of recycled objects. FIRES Moving and poetic, the show Marguerite Yourcenar / Marc combines social critique with artistic Rosich / Josep M. Pou sensibility to highlight the unfair Teatre Grec; 26-28 July, 22 h. €16-28 relationship between the developed Director: Josep Maria Pou world and the developing. In ‘Fires’ Marguerite Yourcenar July 2013 Time Out BCN Guide 9 DIJAN VERSWEYVELD ROMAN TRAGEDIES pushed her own writing to the limit in CAPRICIS the aftermath of a failed love affair. Àngels Margarit / Cia. Mudances As performed by Carmen Machi, the Direction and choreography: text lays bare the author’s feelings, a Àngels Margarit prose poem that draws on the voices Mercat de les Flors - Sala M. Aurèlia of Classical heroines. Capmany. 11-13 July, 10pm. €22 Àngels Margarit, a creative force in LEBENSRAUM (HABITAT) Catalan contemporary dance, translates Jakop Ahlbom & Alamo Race the 24 Caprices of violinist and Track composer Niccolò Paganini into Director: Jakop Ahlbom movement. Mercat de les Flors - Sala M. Aurèlia Capmany; 26-28 July, 10pm. €28 PUZ/ZLE The magic of mime, silent cinema and Eastman / Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui slapstick brought to the stage in a show Teatre Grec. 15 & 16 July, 10pm. full of humour and extraordinary €16-28 technical virtuosity. A showcase for the A choreographer dear to the hearts of talent of Jakob Ahlbom, the creator or a Barcelona audiences returns to the city. surreal imaginary world with a logic Cherkaoui’s choreographic language all its own. synthesises different cultures to show that even the purest-seeming things are CAL·LIGRAMES EN MOVIMENT composed from elements of diverse A dance tour of Barcelona origins. The jigsaw puzzle is completed Organizers: La Caldera by live accompaniment from a band of Participating venues: La Caldera, musicians from Japan, the Lebanon and tragantDansa, Area Dansa, Antic the Middle East. Teatre, Espai Erre, Espai Sepúlveda & Teatre Grec PLEXUS Around Barcelona. 6, 13 & 20 July, Aurélien Bory / Kaori Ito 10am-9.45pm. €10 Teatre Ovidi Montllor. 19 & 20 July, Climb on board La Caldera’s bus and 9.30pm. €26 take a day-long trip to arts centres all Aurélien Bory, artist, director and stage over Barcelona, taking part in designer, conjures up the inner world of different activities at each one. an artist who has stepped outside their 10 Time Out BCN Guide July 2013 EMERGING CATALAN THEATRE JEAN LOUIS FERNANDEZ MONTALDO Ernesto Collado / Fundación Collado – Van Hoestenberghe Director and performer: Ernesto Collado CCCB; 11-14 July, 8.30pm. €18 A story of Indians, gas stations, utopias and autistic Catalans lost on the endless highways of a barely recognisable Texas. Montaldo is RHINOCEROS a new work from an arts collective that rejects conventions and uses humour to explore the world from a own world and been transformed by different viewpoint.