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Today, when literary genres hybridize and fantasy and science fiction are present in criminal literature, we could ask the crime novel about the future. That is the leitmotif of this edition of BCNegra: the future. What will be here, tomorrow? The future is here. And now, what about the future?

The Chinese New Year is celebrated this year with a central and face-to-face act on the usual stage located next to the Arc de Triomf. Various performances will take place in the morning and in the afternoon. In addition, decentralized activities will be held throughout Barcelona. The great parade in the streets of the Eixample will not be held this year.

The main thematic axis of the 2022 edition of the BWW will be the autochthonous varieties (Spain has about 150 autochthonous varieties of grapes planted that constitute 25% of the total). The objective will be to give visibility and international projection to all historical varieties, majority or minority, for their contribution to creating a more sustainable wine-growing future and better adapted to climate change.

This year's edition begins on December 17 with Pitingo in the first of the Christmas concerts that are held in the Basilica of Santa María del Mar. In that same space they will also perform from December 18 to 22, Monica Green, Pastora Soler and Maria del Mar Bonet. The Christmas mini-cycle will close with Handel's Messiah on December 23. As of December 27, the Mil·leni Festival moves to the music halls.

Gaudí was not an isolated and misunderstood genius, and in this exhibition they try to demonstrate this by moving away from clichés and going through his entire career as a creator. In the exhibition you will see more than 650 elements from a hundred national and international collections.

BANKSY. The Art of Protest has received more than one million visitors on its world tour. Organized by Sold Out, it now arrives in Barcelona with more than seventy original works, some of them unpublished, exclusively donated by international private collections. The exhibition is presented as a multisensory immersion in the mysterious world of this influential and unknown artist.

Eigth edition of the Poblenou Open Night with a wide variety of free cultural proposals and special promotions organized by more than forty spaces. The exhibitions and art shows will be the main protagonists of the event, but you will also find immersive experiences, an animation festival, concerts in concert halls and unique spaces, theater and a gastronomic route.

The central towers of the Sagrada Familia will be six: four dedicated to the evangelists, one dedicated to the Virgin Mary and another to Jesus. The construction of the last towers began in 2016 and their height will exceed that of the towers of the Passion façade and the Nativity façade. The construction is well advanced, but in one case it is nearing completion: in December, the Tower of the Virgin Mary will reach its maximum height of 138 meters in height thanks to the star that will complete the work and the base that will support it. To celebrate the birth of a new tower and a new star in Barcelona, ​​the Sagrada Familia has organized various events, liturgical and popular, inside and outside the Basilica.

The exhibition considered worldwide as the most important in the field of photojournalism. The World Press Photo of the Year goes to “The First Embrace”, a photograph by Danish Mads Nissen for Politiken / Panos Pictures that shows the elderly Rosa Luzia Lunardi being hugged by nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza, in a nursing home in São Paulo.

MIRA, celebrated since 2011, is a digital arts festival that fuses music and visual arts live. It is an international reference festival in the field of digital arts that shows new creations and artistic trends. Program audiovisual concerts, fulldome audiovisual shows, installations, conferences, projections and workshops in unique spaces.