21 OFFICIAL _N. 4 FREE BCN 201 R GUIDE! P A FREE ISSUE_ FREE BcnGuide ENGLISH IN TRAVEL1714 BACK TO THE BARCELONA OF THREE CENTURIES AGO, AND DISCOVER HOW PEOPLE LIVED IN A CITY UNDER SIEGE ENG_TOG_001.indd 1 19/3/14 19:05:07 ENG_TOG_002.indd 2 19/3/14 19:05:26 DOWNLOAD FREE TIME OUT BARCELONA APP! THE BEST OF BARCELONA Contents ON YOUR April 2014 IPHONE! f 24 Kaprow A pioneer of performance 08 Feature 22 Around town 1714-2014: the 300th Books and roses. anniversary of the siege of Barcelona. 24 Arts Tàpies Foundation: Allan 14 Food and drink Kaprow’s ‘Happenings’. Rice for all seasons. 26 Nightlife 20 Shopping Surprised! The Show. Treasures from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. 29 Listings TIME OUT BARCELONA TIME OUT BCN GUIDE ([email protected]), Via Laietana, 20 [email protected] Mercè Llubera 932955400 www.barcelonaturisme.com ([email protected]), Pere www.timeout.cat Editor Andreu Gomila Ribalta ([email protected]) Design Irisnegro Edited by 80 MES 4 Publicacions Publisher Eduard Voltas Producer Jan Fleischer & Turisme de Barcelona Finance Manager Judit Sans Designer Eduard Forroll Printed by Gràfica Impuls 45 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 Nick Chapman Maria José Gómez Advertising Ex. Nuria Gómez April 2014 Time Out BCN Guide 3 ENG_TOG_003.indd 3 19/3/14 19:05:41 Monthly planner Get out your diaries! We present just a handful of the cultural highlights of the month ahead. Tuesday 01 Friday 04 Thursday 10 THE STRANGLERS ALOUD MUSIC VIKINGS AL British punk FESTIVAL MUSEU MARÍTIM survivors play Rock out at Sala What do you really BARTS during the Apolo with the know about Guitar Festival, with headliners of the Vikings? This show supporting act The day, Vessels, from will make you an Tank. See p.38 the UK. See p. 40 expert. See p.34 Wednesday 16 Sunday 20 CIRCUS TODAY BRUNCH Acrobat, juggler, ELECTRONIK creator and A family day out at ‘manipulator of the CCCB: DJs, objects’ Johann Le food and children’s Guillerm presents workshops. See ‘Secret’. See p. 37 p.46 Wednesday 23 Friday 25 Wednesday 00 SANT JORDI DNIT AT Barcelona streets CAIXAFORUM come alive with Visionary books and roses in electronica from celebration of Alva Noto and Catalonia’s patron Byetone. saint. See p.48 See p. 48 Saturday 26 Wednesday 30 FESTIVAL ROMÀ SANT PAU, DE BADALONA MODERNISTA Badalona becomes MONUMENT Baetulo, and One of the largest revives the ‘Magna art nouveau Celebratio’. monuments in the See p. 48 world. See p.49 4 Time Out BCN Guide April 2014 April 2014 Time Out BCN Guide 5 ENG_TOG_004_005.indd 4 19/3/14 19:05:54 Monthly planner Get out your diaries! We present just a handful of the cultural highlights of the month ahead. Thursday 10 Sunday 20 Wednesday 00 Wednesday 30 4 Time Out BCN Guide April 2014 April 2014 Time Out BCN Guide 5 ENG_TOG_004_005.indd 5 19/3/14 19:05:54 The Hot Seat IVÁN MORENO IVÁN Claudia Llosa Film director Claudia Llosa has made her fi rst foray into Hollywood with Aloft. By Jordi Bianciotto How did you end up in Barcelona? made fi lms in the Andes and in It was fate. My father had talked to close contact with nature. me about the city when I was small Nostalgia for your roots? – ‘It’s the city of youth’. I came here I have had a strong relationship to do a master’s degree in with the Andes since I was small. screenwriting. Then I tried to make In my family, we thought it was fi lms in Peru, but it was like trying to important to know your own be an astronaut. country before going on to You must have had a romantic discover the rest. image of the city. Did the reality You’ve just released Aloft with match up to your expectations? Jennifer Connolly. How was your Yes: for me, since I was so young, it fi rst foray into the world of offered an explosive sense of Hollywood? freedom. It’s a city that has never It’s an independent fi lm, with told me ‘go away’. American actors and producers, Your uncle, Mario Vargas Llosa, but with Spanish money, made as lived here too. Do you share the a co-production with Canada and strong opinions he has expressed France. And it’s been wonderful. about Catalonia? Working on a project with such Well, everyone has their own generous actors is a life-changing opinions, and I respect them. But if experience. you live in Catalonia, you see things What was the biggest challenge? differently. I have the greatest At fi rst, funding, and once we’d got respect for what’s happening here, that, nature: fi lming in extreme the demand for the right to decide. situations, on ice…. But all in all, You’re an urbanite, but you’ve it was an absolute pleasure. 6 Time Out BCN Guide April 2014 ENG_TOG_006_007.indd 6 19/3/14 19:06:13 IVÁN MORENO IVÁN Claudia Llosa Film director Claudia Llosa has made her fi rst foray into Hollywood with Aloft. By Jordi Bianciotto made fi lms in the Andes and in close contact with nature. Nostalgia for your roots? I have had a strong relationship with the Andes since I was small. In my family, we thought it was important to know your own country before going on to discover the rest. You’ve just released Aloft with Jennifer Connolly. How was your fi rst foray into the world of Hollywood? It’s an independent fi lm, with American actors and producers, but with Spanish money, made as a co-production with Canada and France. And it’s been wonderful. Working on a project with such generous actors is a life-changing experience. What was the biggest challenge? At fi rst, funding, and once we’d got that, nature: fi lming in extreme situations, on ice…. But all in all, it was an absolute pleasure. 6 Time Out BCN Guide April 2014 ENG_TOG_006_007.indd 7 19/3/14 19:06:14 ON THE 11TH OF SEPTEMBER 1714, AFTER THIRTEEN MONTHS OF SIEGE, BARCELONA FELL TO A COMBINED FORCE OF SPANISH AND FRENCH TROOPS IN WHAT WAS TO BE THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCEssION. THE CITY IS COMMEMORATING ITS HISTORY WITH A YEAR OF ACTIVITIES, EXHIBITIONS AND CONFERENCES. BY XAVIER GONZÁLEZ TORAN 1714. 300 YEARS LATER: and talks with top sportspeople. that ended the War of the Spanish COMMEMORATING THE PAST, Various venues Succession. RETHINKING THE FUTURE Until 31 Dec Barcelona & Cardona Itinerant exhibition in squares and www.tricentenari.gencat.cat 9-12 April public spaces across the region, www.mhcat.cat designed to publicise the main VERSAILLES IN BARCELONA activities around the tricentennial. Harpsichord concerts at the Auditori EASTER FESTIVAL Towns and cities of Catalunya to commemorate the 250th Catalan classical music festival Throughout 2014 anniversary of the death of Jean- focusing on works with a relationship www.tricentenari.gencat.cat Philippe Rameau, the influential to the War of the Spanish Baroque composer. Succession. #SOMRECERCA L’Auditori Cervera Workshops promoting science Until 5 April 14-21 April research carried out in Catalonia. www.auditori.cat www.festivaldepasqua.cat Various venues Throughout 2014 NOBLES AND KNIGHTS, DIADA DE SANT JORDI www.tricentenari.gencat.cat BETWEEN TWO MONARCHIES A reconstruction of Saint George’s Exhibition on the War of the Day celebrations in 1714. 300 11THS OF SEPTEMBER Spanish Succession, drawing on the Various venues Exhibition that focuses on the National Archive. consolidation of 11th September as Palau Moja Catalan National Day. 10 Apr – 10 Jun MUHBA Museu d’Història www.mhcat.cat Until 28 Dec www.mhcat.cat/exposicions THE TREATIES OF UTRECHT: pros AND CONS... TRICENTENNIAL SPORTS International conference, organised campus by the Museu d’Història de Catalunya Clubs and sport organisations in and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Catalonia organise sporting events analysing the legacy of the treaties 8 Time Out BCN Guide April 2014 April 2014 Time Out BCN Guide 9 ENG_TOG_008_013.indd 8 19/3/14 19:06:26 and talks with top sportspeople. that ended the War of the Spanish 23 April Various venues Succession. www.gencat.cat Until 31 Dec Barcelona & Cardona www.tricentenari.gencat.cat 9-12 April BARCELONA OF 1700. from www.mhcat.cat STONES TO PEOPLE VERSAILLES IN BARCELONA The society of 18th-century Barcelona Harpsichord concerts at the Auditori EASTER FESTIVAL was dynamic and forward-looking, to commemorate the 250th Catalan classical music festival but also scarred by the experience of anniversary of the death of Jean- focusing on works with a relationship war and siege in 1691, 1697 and 1714. Philippe Rameau, the influential to the War of the Spanish El Born Centre Cultural Baroque composer. Succession. Permanent exhibition L’Auditori Cervera www.elborncentrecultural.cat Until 5 April 14-21 April www.auditori.cat www.festivaldepasqua.cat UNTIL IT was achieved! Exhibition on the Catalan War of NOBLES AND KNIGHTS, DIADA DE SANT JORDI 1713-1714, the epilogue to the War of BETWEEN TWO MONARCHIES A reconstruction of Saint George’s Succession, with a re-creation of the Exhibition on the War of the Day celebrations in 1714. final battle of 11 September 1714. Spanish Succession, drawing on the Various venues El Born Centre Cultural National Archive. Permanent exhibition Palau Moja APP BARCELONA 1714 www.elborncentrecultural.cat 10 Apr – 10 Jun An audio-guided stroll through the www.mhcat.cat Barcelona of 1714, presented by THE WORLD OF 1714 Toni Soler (in Catalan), Santi The world at the beginning of the 18th THE TREATIES OF UTRECHT: Millán (Spanish), Sergi López century, and Barcelona’s and pros AND CONS..