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Grec Festival of BarcelonaIn this year's edition of the Grec Festival, half of the events will take place outside the usual festival spaces on Montjuïc. It will therefore be a decentralized Grec that will reach cultural centers and public facilities such as the CCCB, the Macba, the Ethnological and World Cultures Museum, the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, L'Auditori, the Palau de la Música, the Ateneu Popular 9 Barris, the Mercat de les Flors, La Badabadoc, the Sala Apolo, the Sala Becket, the Sala Hiroshima or the Borràs theater. This year 2021 the festival focuses its gaze on the creators of African descendants who live in Barcelona, ​​but it is an approach that avoids exotic portraits.Thus, for example, the opening show of the festival will be the theatrical adaptation of the novel Carrer Robadors, by Mathias Enard. Directed by Julio Manrique, the play tells us about the adventure and learning journey of a young man from the Maghreb of the Arab springs to the convulsed Barcelona of the days of 15M.

The Night of the Museums in BarcelonaThe Night of the Museums is an initiative of the Council of Europe that this year reaches its fourteenth edition. Thousands of museums in more than forty countries open their doors to citizens. In Barcelona and its metropolitan area (L’Hospitalet, Badalona, ​​Cornellà, Esplugues, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Sant Adrià and Sant Joan Despí), there will be 75 cultural centers that will open free of charge from mid-afternoon on May 15 until dusk. But on the Night of the Museums, in addition to visiting them, you can also participate in numerous activities for all ages. To make the cultural experience complete, temporary exhibitions, concerts, dance, poetry, performances, guided and dramatized tours, clue games and workshops await you.

The International Museum DayThe International Museum Day (IMD) is celebrated every year on May 18; It is organized since 1977 by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and aims to raise public awareness about the important role of museums and in the development of society. The most attractive events of IMD are the open days with free admission to the museums and the celebration of The Night of the Museums. On this day most of Barcelona's museums can be visited for free, among them, the most important ones like MNAC, Picasso Museum, Miró Foundation, MACBA and Tàpies Foundation. You can also access free temporary exhibition rooms such as the CaixaForum and CCCB,

Casa Batlló: 10D ExperienceThe wait was worth it. Casa Batlló has dedicated 6 years to designing this experience, a fascinating journey into the mind of Antonio Gaudí. "Casa Batlló: 10D Experience" is the first 10D work to be presented in the world. Thanks to the most advanced technology, you can enjoy the most fascinating immersive experience ever imagined. Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality or Machine Learning are some of the ingredients of this creative cultural proposal. The end result: impossible volumetric projections, motion sensors, binaural sound, immersive spaces never seen before and delicate proposals that involve the five senses.

Día de Sant Jordi - Saint George's DayIn 2020, the Sant Jordi celebrations on April 23 were canceled. A substitute for Sant Jordi was organized on July 23, which served to maintain the spirit of the day, but nothing else. 2021 will not be a normal Sant Jordi, like the ones before the pandemic, but not like the one on July 23. In 2021, bookstores and florists (490 distributed in the districts of Barcelona) will be able to sell their books and roses in the street between April 21 and 23, and on Sant Jordi Day ten open-air fairgrounds will be set up with controlled access throughout the city. These spaces, delimited and open until two hours before curfew, will be managed by the guilds of booksellers and florists, and will have a total of 180 stalls and 31 book signing points.

Klimt: The Immersive Experience at IDEAL Centre d'Arts DigitalsThird large format immersive production at the IDEAL Digital Arts Center, this time dedicated to the work of the Austrian painter Gustvav KLIMT. This exhibition, which is a world premiere, is an invitation to the viewer to immerse themselves in the vibrant Vienna of the turn of the century. You will live intensely the evolution of KLIMT's work and his world, guided by more than 1000 square meters of screen, virtual reality glasses and various interactive tools that shape an ambitious and spectacular cultural proposal for all audiences.

D’A – Film Festival BarcelonaD'A 2021 opens on April 29 with the French film Goodbye, idiots by Albert Dupontel, a crazy road trip that has become the great winner of this year's César Awards. You will also be able to see films by great cinema masters such as The phone of the wind, Nobuhiro Suwa's return to Japan to portray the fragile emotional recovery ten years after the tsunami; Abel Ferrara's Siberia, the sixth film by the New Yorker starring Williem Dafoe, practically turned into the director's alter ego in his eternal drive between sex and death; or Rizi / Days by the great Asian director Tsai Ming-liang, a marvel that won the Teddy award at the last Berlinale.

BCN Film FestThe BCN Film Fest focuses on popular films for the general public with special attention to those related to the world of literature and history. This event aims to establish a close relationship with the cultural and popular character of the Diada de Sant Jordi, the most emblematic day of Barcelona. The festival opens with "Promising young woman" by Emerald Fennell that garnered 5 Oscar nominations (including best film and best director), and closes with "Entre rosas" by Pierre Pinaud, a French comedy that explains how a Crazy but brilliant idea can change the fate of a declining business.

Mecal (Barcelona International Short and Animation Film Festival)Mecal, the Barcelona International Short Film and Animation Festival will reach its 23rd edition in 2021. 322 high-quality short films from many countries will be screened at Mecal Pro. This year's edition is organized into several sections: the competition, the parallel sessions (shorts out of competition) and the parallel activities. The official competition section is divided, in turn, into five official sections: Animation (6 sessions), Oblique Animation (2 sessions), International (7 sessions), Oblique (3 sessions) and Documentary (5 sessions). This edition, which was to be a hybrid edition between online and witnessed, will be exclusively online. The shorts can be seen on the FILMIN and FesthomeTV platforms.

Brain Film Fest | International film festival about the brainThe last few months have taken their toll on our mental health, both individually and collectively. As the symptoms of the virus subside, we will still face the psychic consequences of the trauma, a Brain Crash. Through films, round tables and colloquia, the Brain Film Fest 2021 opens a reflection on mental health, its fragility and its challenges. A multidimensional look at a Brain Crash understood as a crack from which something new can sprout, and not as an irreparable earthquake.