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Fiesta Mayor de La BarcelonetaThe Fiesta Mayor of the Barceloneta quarter is celebrated around the day of Sant Miguel (September 29). During the fiesta are organized Sardanas dances, singing of Habaneras on the beach, correfocs, parades with the giants Pep Barceló and María la Nieta, and parades of the cannon: on the Sunday of the Fiesta, a neighbor dresses like a Napoleonic General wearing a cannon and shooting sweets to the crowd, which is very popular among children. The cannon passes through the streets of the quarter and with every shot the people simulate that they fall down and collect the goodies.

Sitges International Film FestivalThe Sitges Film Festival was born in 1968 under the name of the 1st International Fantastic Film and Horror Week, and is considered to be the first fantastic film festival in the world. They are ten days of must visit, not only for film lovers, but for the public who wants to know the new trends and technologies applied to film, and the audiovisual world in general. For the Sitges Festival have passed performers, directors and producers of the highest level as Quentin Tarantino, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Paul Verhoeven, George A. Romero, John Landis, Dino de Laurentiis, Takashi Miike, Wim Wenders, Tony Curtis , David Cronenberg, Vanessa Redgrave, Sam Raimi, Roger Corman, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, Guillermo del Toro, Kim Ki Duk, Álex de la Iglesia, Guillermo del Toro or Susan Sarandon.

Swab BarcelonaSwab Barcelona, ​​founded in 2006 by the private collector Joaquín Díez-Cascón, is an international art fair that gathers galleries from different parts of the world, curated projects and collector's programs. Its objective since it was founded is to introduce young and emerging artists with talent from the current panorama of contemporary art. In the edition of this year, the eleventh, 60 galleries from 5 continents and a large number of curated programs participate.

Monumental ClubMonumental Club was born in 2017 with the idea of filling the Monumental bullring with activities for friends and family. In the two days of Monumental Club you can enjoy a succulent offer of food trucks; family activities such as the music workshops and self-portraits by Big Mini; a market to promote new projects and sustainable projects in fashion, accessories, design, decoration, gastronomy and culture, and in which you will also find second-hand and vintage objects and clothing; and all this "seasoned" with a musical program that combines live music with dj sessions.

Why deny it, although the batteries are recharged, the response time is still limited. The energy flows slowly. Postvacational syndrome? Maybe not and all are always prevacational syndromes: we count the months that are left for the next holidays or the days that are left for the next getaway. By adjusting the system a bit, redirecting the energy of the warp engine to the conventional engine, we have started up. The result, here you have it. In this new season that begins we hope to inform you as always of the events that help you complete your agenda, to discover exhibitions, concerts, film festivals and unforgettable experiences, many times without spending money.

The north of Europe has burned, as well the south. And beyond. The thermometer rises steadily and paddle surfers have moved to the lakes of Siberia. Meanwhile, a handful of scientists monitor the permafrost of the tundra. The signing of international treaties is no longer worth as much as before, and strike here, strike there. Nevertheless, with the appearance or the certainty that the world swings on a tightrope, we go on vacation.

Shomei TomatsuFirst exhibition in Barcelona of the Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu (Nagoya, Aichi, 1930-Naha, Okinawa, 2012), whose work shows the key events in the history of Japan after the Second World.

Gala Salvador Dalí. A Room of One’s Own in PúbolGala Salvador Dalí is the first international exhibition dedicated to Gala, muse and artist who lived and worked with Dalí. Elena Ivánovna Diákonova, Gala, is also considered a key figure of the avant-garde of the twentieth century. This exhibition, curated by Estrella de Diego, shows the changes in the image of Gala through its different performances, reflected by Salvador Dalí's brushes; and also allows to know the evolution of the painter thanks to an important set of paintings and drawings. In this exhibition you can see 315 works (paintings, drawings, photographs and documents related to Gala, including handwritten sheets of his autobiographical project), and an interesting set of letters, postcards and books that is exhibited for the first time, as well as dresses and personal objects of Gala.

Black Light, secret traditions in art since the 1950sThe black light is about the influence that different secret traditions have had on contemporary art since the fifties to the present. This exhibition brings together, more or less chronologically, 350 works (paintings, drawings, audiovisuals, sculptures, photographs, books, installations, music, prints and documents) by artists as different as Antoni Tàpies, Agnes Martin, Joseph Beuys, Henri Michaux , Ulla von Brandenburg, William S. Burroughs, Joan Jonas, Jordan Belson, Goshka Macuga, Kenneth Anger, Rudolf Steiner, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Francesco Clemente and Zush. The exhibition also explores the influence of esoteric ideas in areas of pop culture, such as comics, cinema, jazz and alternative rock.

Pharaoh. King of EgyptIn this exhibition about the figure of Pharaoh in ancient Egypt, more than one hundred and fifty pieces of the British Museum's collection are exhibited; among all the pieces stand otu some works of goldsmithing, monumental statues and beautiful reliefs of temples that help the visitor to understand the real life and power of Egypt during the time when the pharaohs reigned (approximately between 3100 and 30 BC).