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ONLY BE BARCELONIAN
Only-Be Barcelonian
DJ Afrojack at Opium Mar in Barcelona
Barcelona can boast about having a great nightlife as one of its main charms, especially in the summer, with its war nights and its intense club programmes, thought out to keep everyone dancing until the sun rises. One of the most popular clubs, with a select clientele and a privileged location, is Opium Mar. Located on the seafront promenade in Barcelona, right in front of Barceloneta beach, it combines restaurant, bar and club with tremendous success and it has the biggest terrace facing the sea in the whole city. Its nightlife space is the one that´s the most successful, thanks to a carefully-selected programme that has brought the best international DJs to Barcelona´s nightlife, such as David Guetta, Avicii, Armin Van Buuren and the band Black Eyed Peas, amongst many others. With this record, it´s no surprise that on the 15th of August they will bring DJ Afrojack, one of the most popular DJs of today´s house music scene. Despite that he´s in the tabloids more often in recent times for his relationship with Paris Hilton than for his DJing, he has a prolific and intense career with only 24 years of age. However, who hides behind the name of Afrojack? His real name is Nick Van de Wall and he comes from the Netherlands. Since a young age he felt a special affinity with music and began to play the piano at the age of 5. He soon started creating his own music and at the age of 11 he began using the programme Fruity Loops (the current FL Studio), which he still uses todya. When he finished school, he began working in bars...
Barceloneta’s bars
In this article we’ll talk about one of the most popular districts in Barcelona, La Barceloneta. We will underline the best bars on its beaches, while describing the most special and interesting ones. A little history of Barceloneta It is worth noting, before starting, that this neighborhood has a very extensive history, since it was created back in 1753. In 1755 people started inhabiting the area, performing maritime and artisanal activities, while taking advantage of the port and sea around them. Another aspect that the neighborhood acquired over the years, was a striking touch by workers, especially for being extremely close to both the port and the railway, which led it to be considered, in its beginnings, as a key industrial area for Catalonia. From these historical touches, we know that La Barceloneta did not take long to begin incorporating leisure and dining options, which means, an great incentive, to other disciplines, as the practice of water sports and the birth of sports clubs: swimming, sailing, etc.. Barceloneta’s bars – El Sol This bar is very similar to Chiringuito del Mar, but El Sol, as the name implies, has a much more relaxed and mystical atmosphere, perhaps, is it because of its chill out music? Or is it perhaps the largest printed electronic rhythms on Barcelona’s nightlife? Like other bars in the area, it has a balanced menu of dining and cocktails, to combine vacation, sun, entertainment and nightlife. – Chiringuito del Mar One of the oldest in La Barceloneta, it attracts many tourists and visitors, for its enviable position of enjoyment. This is an essential beach...
August in Barcelona: the world is yours
August in Barcelona: Things to do
The Poble Espanyol for Kids, in Barcelona
During the Roaring Twenties, Barcelona displayed even greater splendor each morning. It made the city sparkle. It filled the suburbs with stately homes. Modernism decorated all the public places. Goods left the city’s ports en route to remote destinations. The suburbs were plagued with textile factories. Picasso and his friends discussed ideas at the tables of “Els quatre gats”, and the whole town was an ebb and flow of ideas and diverse artistic currents. Barcelona always wanted to be at the forefront. And the result of this strength and openness, magnified by the many other major international events that have come later, is the Poble Espanyol. It opened in the highlands of Montjuic in 1929 for the world exposition, and it may well be the world’s oldest theme park that is also used recreation and leisure. Today the Poble Espanyol is a place open to everyone, especially families with children, with activities of all kinds and for all tastes. But, let´s take a closer look. The Poble Espanyol features wonderful reproductions of the various architectural styles of the country. You can visit a recreation of a Castilian plaza and then see a Galician granary. In addition, you can organize and rent spaces for any event (end of the year holidays, weddings, family celebrations or business parties). In addition, the Poble Espanyol has a space reserved for concerts and their own programs, especially in the summer months when they offer a variety of events, as we make note of occasionally. What´s more, there offer workshops, craft and art exhibitions, and other entertainment. This creative agenda is what makes the Poble...
Girlie Circuit in Barcelona
The Girlie Circuit is a great festival dedicated to the lesbian community in Barcelona and around the world. With a variety of dj´s and events, this festival has proved a success, increasingly and internationally attracting the interest of the lez public . This great LGBT feast begins on August 7 with the exciting Water Park Day and Water Park Night starting at10 am. The rhythm and dancing in the water will be in the famous Illa Fantasia located in Vilassar de Mar. On Wednesday 8 of August, the Lezzgo! party awaits at Razzmatazz, a night of indie and exciting electro music. In addition, the band La Quiero Viva will perfom. On Thursday 9 you will have the night of Cabaret Party at the famous Berlin Cabaret in Barcelona. The famous singer Linda Sedio will be performing live and music will be provided by D´Light and Nuria Cuki Scarp. On Friday 10 of August, one of the most intense celebrations is back in Barcelona , nothing more and nothing less than legendary Milk party ! The shock and emotion point will be the famous Dboy room in the Plaza de Sant Pere. The party will not stop until six o´clock, with dj´s Cuki D´Light, Angela Elle, Lady Chus. The goddess Vanessa Klein will also be present. The main party will be on the 11 August at the The One disco , located near the Poble Espanyol and Mont Juic. This epic night of dancing and debauchery will feature reknown DJs such as Pher Agatha, Lady Croft and Sandra D starting at eleven at night. Besides all the futuristic dancers that will...
Gandules. Open Air Cinema at the CCCB in Barcelona.
It´s been 10 years since the first edition of Gandules, the free independent film circuit of the Catalan capital. Like every year, it will be the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, better known as the CCCB, that will be responsible for organizing and holding the 10th edition of this interesting summer cinematographic alternative. From the 7th of August, Gandules will take us an interesting cinematographic voyage, proposing those films that, despite their great success among the public and the critics, have never reached the commercial film circuit, at least not yet. The latter have remained, unfortunately, as films destined for a niche market, and that´s exactly where the importance and the mission of Gandules lies: bringing ´cult´ films, if we want to call it as such, to all types of public, make it visible and show it to all those outside the limits designated for independent film. That´s why it would be a crying shame that films such as ´The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jane, ´Bullhead´ or ´Verano´, to name a few, would stay in the shadows. During the whole month of August, with some days break in between screenings, 9 films will be presented in original version, plus a tenth one that will be chosen by the public through a vote on the CCCB webpage. Because this year is the 10th anniversary of Gandules, they´ve decided to celebrate it giving internet users the chance to decide which film will close the 2012 festival. Users can vote for the film they like the most among a list that includes some of the most significative films of the past editions. For the time...
Microconcerts at the Palau: Palau 30 minutes
For some time to this part there seems to be increasingly unstoppable progress in the worlds of small, of tiny. Both in the world of cutting-edge science, dominated by quantum investigations around the invisible subatomic particles and the increasingly decisive advances in the fields of nanotechnology, as in the communications, note the unstoppable rise of messages text and its strong trend towards ever smaller forms, as in the artistic creation on the footsteps of writers such as Lichtenberg, Nietzsche, Monterroso or Robert Walser, author between 1924 and 1932 of several hundred of typed pages known as micrograms in which not necessarily the sentences are shortened but the font size, shrinks to a point where it becomes unreadable, it took the students of his work and Werner Morlang Bernhard Echte over 15 years to decipher him convincingly. Walser himself seems to have suggested in a letter that his decision to move to write ridiculously tiny had somewhat to do with a desire or willingness to surrender to the dissolution of the writing itself, through which is possible to see the opening of accessing anything that justifies it. The truth is that micrograms dealing with common issues by the Swiss writer reflects a taste for walking and rambling thst are clearly defined,a passion for detail and the ephemeral seems to jump and grab you by surprise. This is an aesthetic method that has characterized much of the artistic vanguard of the last hundred or a hundred and fifty years, a way of being in a world that resonates powerful as in the book of Vila-Matas Brief History of portable literature, a volume...
Grand Gala of Flamenco
On August 4, the Palacio de la Música de Cataluña will host the Gran Gala del Flamenco special event.
Grand Gala of Flamenco
Some say that flamenco was born as the artistic expression of the Moorish farmers after they were evicted from their land. Other claim extravagant origins and relate flamenco to the former Spanish colonies of Flanders (presently The Netherlands and Belgium). Outlandish theories aside, the fact is that flamenco has been documented as a cultural characteristic of the poor gypsies of Andalusia since the late eighteenth century. Distinguished historians such as Demófilo (father of the Machado), poets of the universality of Federico Garcia Lorca (who liked to listen to the café singers of Madrid in his student days) or musicians like Manuel de Falla tried to preserve the oldest Flamenco musical forms. These were also the most profound, melancholy and sad and those that were displaced by other more cheerful and boisterous ones. It is now the subject of research and being promoted through patronage in an effort to preserve the purity of a cultural manifestation that was threatened in the early 20th century. Thanks to specialized cafés and the expansion of this style of song and dance into all strata of Spanish society, and later into Europe, flamenco today has been on the UNESCO heritage list since 2010. Although it’s related to Andalusian folklore, it should not be confused with it. This art form has a clear element of entertainment (of people who sing, play and dance while others to watch) and is not intended for audience participation. Flamenco has spent years crossing all kinds of borders and it is very popular in places as far away as Japan. It has also crossed over from Andalusia to Catalonia, where...
Gay route around Barcelona
According to some of the studies that were stated in the latest Tourism Fair FITUR LGBT, the so-called gay tourism is considerably more profitable in business terms than heterosexual tourism, since the homosexual tourist tends to spend approximately 150 euros a day. This could undoubtedly be one of the factors that explain the accelerated exponential growth of a leisure industry aimed towards the gay population in the city of Barcelona, close to the beach town of Sitges, a place where one of the best Gay Pride festivals in the whole Mediterranean takes place, one of its most attractive places. Not without reason, this was the town chosen by Brian Epstein to unfold his seduction moves on John Lennon, with results that will forever be wrapped up in the darkest of mysteries. These are possibly the two most famous places to go to among those who are looking for a heated encounter with those of their same sex, with the exception of some areas of the district of Eixample and nearby, such as the Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, where cruising takes place with the excuse of taking the dog for a walk, the beach known by the name of Chernobyl and certain areas of the Parc de Montjuïc, such as around the Palau Sant Jordi and the Olympic Stadium. Regarding ´Chernobyl Beach´, it receives this name due to the old power plant next to it, whose three towering chimneys point the way from there to the metro station of Sant Roc, or to the trams to Sant Adrià del Besós. Unlike what happens in Montjuïc, where there´s sexual activity during day...Promotions
