The Museu Picasso is exhibiting works by Bartholomé, Carrière, Delacroix, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Capiello, Degas, Cézanne, Steinlen, Gauguin and others, all coming from the permanent collection at the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée Picasso Paris. This display in the rooms of the permanent collection is the result of the exchange of works on loan from the…

Saturday 13 October sees the return of the Post Industrial Fashion Show (PIFS) at the Nau Bostik, a free event open to the general public and promoted by the non-profit association Post Industrial Community, with the support of Barcelona City Council, Ecoembes, Humana and Cafès Novell, and showcasing an innovative and responsible means of fashion…

Isabella Rossellini is accompanied by her dog as she performs the animal-inspired monologue Link Link Circus. The play looks at the similarities and connections between human and animal minds. http://agenda500.barcelona.cat/en/detall/-link-link-circus-_99400608407.html

The ‘Open City’ Biennial for Thought offers seven intensive days of debate, thought and reflection on the role of cities in the 21s century, faced with the challenges of contemporary society. The event will take place around 88 venues around Barcelona which have offered to help the thought process reach the entire city. Community centres, schools, libraries, universities,…

Once again this year the Millenium Festival fills Barcelona with evening concerts by renowned national and international artists. The festival kicks off with José González and rounds off with a concert by Salvador Sobral. Artists performing over the coming months include Jarabe de Palo, UB40, Morgan, Adamo, Rosana, Miguel Ríos, Paco Ibáñez, Deacon Blue and…

Over the last fifty years this veteran festival has become a world-renowned jazz event, an unmissable musical occasion. The extensive programme features top jazz names as well as new acts for Barcelona audiences to discover. This year’s festival marks its 50th anniversary with a beefed up parallel programme including free concerts, masterclasses, conferences, exhibitions, encounters…

The Ús Barcelona festival promotes urban art and public participation as tools for regaining unused spaces and giving them new uses and a new life. This year, during the local festival in the Esquerra de l’Exiample neighbourhood, the Ús Barcelona is opening up the former Model prison to the public to use art, culture and…

A garden, an office, a terrace, a store room, a bar… These are the premises that local residents in the neighbourhood of El Raval have given over to be used by the characters in the production C/ Hospital amb St. Jeroni, the first show by the theatre project L’Arnau Itinerant. This play by the Blanco Roto…

Barceloneta’s local festival fills the maritime neighbourhood with festive fun from 28 September to 7 October. Various streets will be decorated, such as C/ Baluard, C/ Pescadors and C/ Atlàntida, with a string of activities including a communal botifarra sausage meal, karaoke, drinks and snacks, dances and concerts. Other eagerly awaited and traditional activities are also in…

The Esquerra de l’Eixample neighbourhood festival starts on Friday 28 September and brings the city ten days packed with activities. The exercise yard at the former Model prison is the new venue for the opening speech, to be given by Dory Sontheimer, author of the book Les set caixes, an account of how she discovered her…