The exceptional Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair will be offering one of the great violin concerts programmed by L’Auditori this season. Under the direction of Jan Willem de Vriend, the musician will be performing Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra    . The concert also includes Schubert’s Overture, D. 591, Op. 170, in C Major and the Cendrillon suite by Barcelona’s Ferran…

The artist William Morris (1834-1896) was the main ideologist behind the Arts and Crafts movement which emerged in Great Britain around 1880 and was linked to design and the decorative arts. The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) is offering 300 pieces from this art movement, with works from major British museums forming the exhibition…

Along with other entities from the Eixample district and organisations such as the Fundació Institut Confuci de Barcelona and the Casa Àsia, the Chinese community has been organising this event for many years now, keeping alive their traditions and giving others a chance to join in with their New Year celebrations. There will be a…

The Mobile World Congress 2018 (MWC) is back from 26 February to 1 March. The organisers are aiming to make this year’s event the best edition to date and beat last year’s record attendance figure of 108,000 visitors. The slogan this year is ‘Creating a better future’ and the majority of global mobile operators will…

Four Years From Now (4YFN) is an event for emerging digital companies and is held at the GSMA Mobile World Congress. This year brings the fifth edition and the aim is for the exponential growth in the number of visitors and exhibitors to continue, the target being to exceed 20,000 participants this time around. This…

A week before the Mobile World Congress starts, Mobile Week Barcelona turns the city into an open space for free activities where citizens take centre stage. From 15 to 24 February, art, science and technology will help us see how our life has changed thanks to advances in technology. The programme includes conferences and debates…

Once again this year, pupils in their third, fourth and fifth years of primary school get festivities under way with the children’s proclamation. This educational activity familiarises them with political institutions and public participation in Barcelona. This year’s celebrations mark the centenary of the birth of Maria Aurèlia Capmany, one of the figures behind the recovery…

Cheeky King Carnestoltes will be arriving in the city on 8 February this year, on Fat Thursday. His arrival signals the start of a week of revelry, where transgression, role reversal and the exaltation of individual and collective freedom is the order of the day. Up until Ash Wednesday, the city’s districts will fill with…

The month of January is associated with the festivities for Sant Antoni Abat (17 January), opening the festive cycle in Barcelona. The neighbourhood of Sant Antoni will be holding its local festival from 12 to 21 January, kicking off the city’s annual calendar of celebrations. Sant Andreu will be celebrating with the traditional Tres Tombs…

The Tres Tombs is back in Sant Andreu in January, with the traditional blessing of animals and the procession. Horses, jennets, riders and all sorts of carriages: barouches, Berlins, tartanas, phaetons and muleteers’ carts… One of the most distinctive and traditional features of the festivities for Sant Antoni is the Tres Tombs procession. The first one in…