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The Damned
The British punk and gothic-rock band mark fifty years with a concert in Razzmatazz 2. The anniversary programme connects their early recordings with the more recent covers album Not Like Everybody Else.
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Leave the weekend open
Choose a museum, linger over tapas and see where the evening takes you. The best part might be the walk between them. The weekend runs from Friday evening through Sunday. Find dated events first, then places to visit, tables to book and rooms to explore after dark.
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La Mercè fireworks: Fire-Show
China’s Fire-Show presents the second night of Barcelona’s International Fireworks Festival. The waterfront around Espigó del Gas provides the setting for a separate programme from Friday’s display.
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Mid-Autumn Festival at La Mercè
Barcelona’s Chinese community brings moon-festival traditions to Plaça d’André Malraux. Expect cultural activities and stage performances, with opportunities to encounter tea, paper crafts and the stories behind the celebration.
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La Mercè: Historic Human Tower Performance
Castellers de Barcelona welcome Minyons de Terrassa and Colla Joves Xiquets de Valls to Sant Jaume. This gathering offers a close view of the teamwork and music surrounding Catalan human towers.
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La Mercè: Sardana Competition
Dance groups compete in front of the cathedral to music by Cobla La Principal del Llobregat. The programme also announces a participatory sardana after the competition, opening the tradition to the crowd.
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Rubió i Tudurí: Lessons in Landscape
Six themes introduce the ideas of architect and landscape designer Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí. The free exhibition links Barcelona’s gardens and public spaces to present-day questions about climate and city life.
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Tot fent La bella Helena
Young theatre-makers try to revive a 1979 Teatre Lliure production in Miquel Mas Fiol’s Catalan-language play. Collective ambition meets nostalgia in a story about making work together.
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Terra i Gust
Seasonal food, workshops, talks and music take over Passeig dels Til·lers for La Mercè. Entry and food purchases are different: the programme lists small dishes and drinks with their own prices.
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Jean-Luc Godard: La fraternitat de les metàfores
Film fragments, working notebooks and archival material trace Godard’s ways of thinking through images. La Virreina’s exhibition rewards a slower visit, allowing time for the audiovisual works as well as the documents.
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Espais esportius, memòria viva
Historic photographs reveal the sports facilities that helped shape Barcelona’s identity. The Olympic Museum exhibition looks beyond famous competitions to the spaces where the city’s sporting life developed.
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Leire Martínez at La Mercè
Leire Martínez presents her solo chapter on the outdoor Maria Cristina stage. The performance forms part of La Mercè’s music programme, making it an option for a festival evening without a club booking.
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Chinese games corner at La Mercè
The Institut Confuci invites families to discover Chinese language and traditions through games and workshops. The activities take place in Parc de l’Estació del Nord during the city’s festival.
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Una força del passat
Works from the Fundació La Caixa collection explore how contemporary artists revisit earlier images, myths and forms. The exhibition treats quotation and reinterpretation as ways to think about the present.
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Award-Winning Architecture
Photographs, documents and audiovisual material trace the FAD architecture awards and their predecessors. The Oliva Artés exhibition offers a free way to connect Barcelona’s built environment with changing ideas of architectural quality.
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Sakho Prod: White Party
Wally B. Seck and Ram Dan bring Senegalese mbalax to Paral·lel 62, with an opening appearance by Abba NoStress. The organiser requests white clothing for this concert’s White Party theme.
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International Brigades and multilingualism
How did volunteers speaking different languages live and work together during the Spanish Civil War? This Montjuïc exhibition examines language learning and literacy through archives, memoirs and contemporary newspapers.
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Saturday Classics at MEAM
MEAM combines a Saturday classical concert with museum admission. The recurring series lets visitors pair figurative art with live music; the performers and repertoire depend on the chosen date.
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Jardins de saló
Fifteen architects and landscape designers reinterpret miniature gardens as 3D-printed ceramic works and living planters. The installations create a route through the Botanic Garden where design and plant life meet.
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Lúa Coderch at Can Framis
Lúa Coderch uses sculpture, action and audiovisual work to examine imagination and the act of seeing. The Can Framis installation asks how new perspectives might emerge when familiar visions are exhausted.
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Edu Mutante: Saludos cordiales
Impressions and stand-up meet in Edu Mutante’s comedy show. Personal stories and recognisable public voices give the performer several ways to pull the audience into the conversation.
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Burundanga
Jordi Galceran’s farce follows a young woman whose attempt to discover her boyfriend’s secrets produces much larger complications. Eixample Teatre stages the chain of misunderstandings as an evening comedy.
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Bonobos
Three friends decide to conceal aspects of their lives at a speed-dating event. Laurent Baffie’s comedy builds its complications around their elaborate plan, in a Spanish-language production at Eixample Teatre.
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Out of Focus: Another Vision of Art
Blurred images and unfinished forms become tools for looking differently at modern and contemporary art. CaixaForum brings together painting, photography, video and installation around the expressive possibilities of uncertainty.
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Barcelona 2035: A city to live in
Housing, mobility and neighbourhood life shape this exhibition on Barcelona’s next decade. The Casa de l’Arquitectura presents urban projects through practical questions about how the city may change.