Cultura

As a small festival reduced to just four artists, Primavera Sound opened its 24th edition with an impossible combination to fit into any musical box other than the one that brings together those who enjoy going to concerts, especially when it is free. And indeed, the traditional Wednesday session brought together at the Fòrum the 30,000 lucky ones who got their pass at no cost to see in one go the indie of Wet Leg and the airy pop of Guitarricadelafuente, backed by none other than Yard Act and Ouineta, British punk flashes and local electropop. Harder to mix more in less space.

A band of gremlins has ravaged Barcelona tonight. The Scots Mogwai, who decided to call themselves that after the mogwais or “evil spirits” from Joe Dante’s 1984 film, have performed at Razzmatazz on the tour celebrating their thirty years of existence.

By now, there will be few owners of a ticket for Primavera Sound who have not drawn their own route through the 18 stages that this 24th edition will have, six of them large-sized. Pop, rock, electronic, folk, as well as any of their derivatives, will have their reference from June 3 to 6, and the following are a reflection that serves as a starting point to get to know the rest or, simply, to whet the appetite of those who cannot attend the Parc del Fòrum during Barcelona’s big festival week.

September 12, 2024. Robert Smith is at the Abbey Road studios in London. Smith has spent time here recently listening to the atmospheric mix of ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, The Cure’s first new album in 16 years. Today, however, he can be found in Studio 3, where, in an interview as rare as it is revealing, he will delve not only into this new record but also into the past and future of one of the most enduring and fascinating musical institutions of British rock.

Encarnació Bosch is 91 years old and lucky to have kept the same friends since she was 12. Of this group of six women, she claims to be the most mentally agile and, aside from genetic factors, she is convinced it is because she is a very active woman. “I sign up for anything,” she tells La Vanguardia by phone, as she cannot meet in person because “soon I see a friend, and tomorrow we are also going out.” Neither her age nor having a disability prevents her from getting up at 7 to go to tai chi classes or carry out a whole series of activities, including going to a museum from time to time. The Picasso is one of her favorites, especially after having discovered it in depth thanks to ArtGran, a social program promoted by the Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona whose goal is to reduce unwanted loneliness and improve the well-being of older people through art and culture.

The concept of European digital sovereignty has become popular. It is the democratic alternative to the technooligarchy of the USA and the dizzying and unsettling advance of China. The expression is beginning to infiltrate political speeches – at least, those of the leaders…

Josefina Molina (Córdoba, 1936), director of works such as Función de noche, Esquilache, or the series Teresa de Jesús, dedicated a good part of her life to demonstrating that the female perspective was not an exception in the history of cinema, but an essential part of it. A pioneer of Spanish audiovisual, the first woman to graduate in Directing from the Official Film School and the first filmmaker to receive the Honorary Goya, she turned each project into a claim for female freedom to tell their own stories. “To see the world in relief you have to have two eyes and Humanity has been one-eyed for too long,” Molina stated. The sentence ended up becoming the best summary of a life dedicated to broadening the perspective of cinema. The director passed away this Saturday in Madrid at the age of 89. The wake will take place at the Boadilla del Monte funeral home starting at 16:00 hours.

“How strange it is to be young when one is old,” confesses Edgar Morin, and it is very relevant now that he is somewhere in Eternity. A couple of book fairs ago, in Frankfurt, we discovered Seeds of Sagacity, a title we published in March of this year in…

France and Europe have lost one of their most distinguished intellectuals, a witness and keen observer of the 20th and 21st centuries, who helped to decipher them. The sociologist and philosopher Edgar Morin, theorist of “complex thought,” a figure of the anti-Nazi resistance during World War II, died yesterday at the age of 104, his wife reported this Saturday. Morin remained active, publishing books, almost until the end.

An Extraordinary Plenary Session of the Algete City Council approved yesterday, Thursday, to remove the name of Joan Manuel Serrat from a municipal building, to rename it after a resident, who will be declared Favorite Son of the Town of Algete.