
Oct 2020
Cinema, Culture
Raindance Film Festival 2020
Raindance Film Festival is happy to present a new online programme - and this time for free!
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In short Europe ESCAPE
Following January's success with this Short Film programme, In Short, Europe comes back for a new virtual edition - this time, with ESCAPE as a theme.
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Culture, Performance, Theatre
Atra Bilis: Online dramatised reading
The Cervantes Theatre invites you to an online dramatised reading of the play by the Spanish playwright, teacher and stage director Laila Ripoll. In Altra Bilis we meet four old women through their memories and secrets in a grotesque and supernatural environment.
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New Cinephilias
We invite you to New Cinephilias, an online series of short films focused on demolishing myths and prejudices and opening the eyes, organized by the Seville Film Festival and Instituto Cervantes.
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FameLab Festival 2020
Do you want to have fun learning science? Attend the FameLab international competition on scientific communication.
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Echoes Festival of Latin Classical Music
Don't miss the UK's first and only annual festival of latin classical music, organized by ILAMS in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes, with tributes to Pedro Guerrero and the presence of the young and great Spanish saxophonist Manu Brazo.
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Quiero Queeride
Welcome to Quiero Queeride: A virtual show of hot words and bilingual bodies, featuring a range of LGBTQ+ voices and artists.
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The Play to be Played: Online dramatised reading
The Cervantes Theatre invites you to an online dramatised reading of the play by the Spanish directors Miguel del Arco and Aitor Tejada. The Play to be Played is a reflection on the nature of fiction through characters that rebel against its author.
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Catalan Film Festival
Don't miss this extraordinary edition of Scotland’s Catalan Film Festival, organised by CinemaAttic and bringing a wave of Mediterranean heat to Scotland as we gather the most outstanding films made in Catalonia in the past year.
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2020 Cunninghame Graham Lecture, with Lucia Mbomio
Spanish writer and journalist Lucía Mbomío is the 2020 speaker of the Cunninghame Graham Lecture. Introduced by Dr. Iona Macintyre, Lucía Mbomío will be giving a talk in Spanish under the name "Racismos cotidianos: desde lo circumstantial a lo sistémico"
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Connecting Spain: A seminar on renewable energies
The University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs at the Embassy of Spain, will present a seminar on renewable energy.
Find out more »Dec 2020
Culture, Performance, Theatre
Childbirth-19
Childbirth-19 is a new digital theatre play specifically written to be performed online. The play depicts childbirth in times of Covid-19 and tackles how the experience of pregnancy and labour is shaped by systemic trauma, as due to coronavirus, childbirth interventions and mistreatments have increased, disregarding women’s needs and rights.
Find out more »The Great Conspiracy
The Great Conspiracy is a virtual exhibition that brings together works made specifically for the virtual medium by artists Agnès Pe, Clara Montoya, Francesc Ruiz, Marc Vives and Paco Chanivet.
Find out more »Jan 2021
Culture, Universities and Hispanists
Zurbaran Centre Seminar Series
Don't miss the series of fourteen online Seminars co-organised by ARTES: Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture Group, the Zurbarán Centre at Durham, and the Instituto Cervantes
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iSapiens: Short Films on Humans and Screens
CinemaAttic's Isapiens Short Film Series is a programme of movies that shows us how the presence of mobile phones, screens & applications have changed the way we look at the world around us, how we inhabit public space and the way we build our relationships with others.
Find out more »Feb 2021
Culture, Literature & Language, Universities and Hispanists
Black but Human: Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700
Don't miss the online presentation of the first book about the visual representations of African slaves and ex-slaves in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty: "Black but Human" by Carmen Fracchia.
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Menéndez Pelayo & Macaulay conference
Online conference by Pedro Calvo-Sotelo about the relationship in distance between Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo and Thomas Babington Macaulay, two great thinkers and essayists who participated in some of the most important historical vicissitudes of the 19th century, in Spain and the United Kingdom.
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Spanish spies in Elizabethan England by Historian Jonathan Roche
Conference hosted by the Instituto Cervantes London and the British Spanish Society and lectured by the British Society and lectured by the researcher Jonathan Roche about Spanish spies in Elizabethan England.
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In Conversation Series: Jesús Cimarro
Meeting between Jesús Cimarro, President of the Academy of Performing Arts of Spain, director of Pentación Espectáculos and the International Festival of Classical Theatre of Mérida, and President of the Association of Producers and Theatres of Madrid, in conversation with Paula Paz, Associated Artistic Director of the Cervantes Theatre in London.
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The Great British Art Tour: Murillos’ Marriage Fest at Cana
Today The Guardian dedicates The Great British Tour to Murillo's extraordinary painting 'Marriage Fest at Cana'.
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Surface and Depth: Zurbarán’s Saint Francis in Meditation
Do not miss Edward Payne's lecture on Zurbarán’s iconic painting, "Saint Francis in Meditation", organised by the Zurbarán Centre.
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Ángela Molina: Goya Award of Honour 2021 Film Series
Watch the film series that celebrates the carrier of Ángela Molina, one of the most outstanding actresses in Spanish cinematography.
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Another Love
We invite you to an alternative Valentine’s plan for those who believe in a wider idea of love, organised by CinemaAttic. A programme of films from Spain and Latin America celebrating a big love. Lovers, broken hearts, dramas, and comedies alike.
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Galician Mobilities: Revisiting Migration and “Morriña”
Don't miss the presentation of the special issue dedicated to Galician Mobilities published by the Institute of Modern Languages Research in association with Liverpool University Press.
Find out more »Architecture & Design, Culture, Universities and Hispanists
Cities and Surveillance in Spain and Beyond (1200–1500)
Don't miss the lecture by Tom Nickson, a Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art & Architecture at the Courtauld Institute in London and Vice-Chair of ARTES, where he considers the long history of surveillance and image making, focusing especially on the famous Giralda in Seville.
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