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FIRE!! Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

From the 5th to the 15th of July, Casal Lambda is carrying out FIRE!!, the 17th International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in Barcelona. The main headquarters of the exhibition will be the French Institute of Barcelona. Casa Asia will be showing the Asian film screenings and FNAC Triangle will be the home of the lectures, discussion tables and open projections. This year the festival is packed with material, ready to mark its territory at a time in which its organizers define it as ´combative´ and in which nobody should stay quiet. It´s all pointing towards the fact that these film and documentary screenings will be a space to raise critical awareness that leads towards a change of an unequal and discriminatory system. Despite these politico-philosophical proposals, the organization points out that the festival is driven by the passion of good films, a discourse which has stood since its first edition. This year, for the first time, a competition for short film creators will take place, ´Filming against violence´, which is related with the promotion of human rights and is taking place with the collaboration of Amnesty International and the Bande à Part film school. Among the films that will be screened is the Teddy Award winning as the best film at the 2012 Berlinale Keep The Lights On, directed by Ira Sachs. It´s a great film that portrays relations of love, sex and friendship between two men of our time. Gun Hill Road, directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green, tells us the story of a prisoner who goes back to his home in the Bronx and finds that he´s lost his... read more

Burhan Dogançay in Istanbul

Mónica Boixeda Istanbulite, Only-Be

In the westernized and lively Beyoglu district, known for its famous nightlife, art galleries and seductive combination of neoclassical and art nouveau buildings, there is a splendid five-storey building from the middle of the second half of the nineteenth century, which most rooms, are dedicated to the work of Burthan Dogançay, one of the most important Turkish artists from the twentieth-century whose work revolves around the observation of the walls of hundred large cities around the world, which he has visited during his life. The impression left on him from these walls at the time he looked at them, was later materialized in the form of paintings, prints, photographs, tapestries and sculptures. Until the 23rd of September, Istanbul Modern, the Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul, also located in Beyoglu, opens a major retrospective of Burthan Dogançay curated by Levent Çal?ko?lu coinciding with the first 50 years since he began to develop his fascinating work Indeed, Burhan Dogançay began his particular and captivating exploration of contemporary urban culture, through the walls of the cities he visited during the early sixties. His attitude is similar to the one that an anthropologist that studies in detail the insight, without giving signs of a remote culture, only makes him look carefully to examine the present on the vertical surfaces of contemporary cities: from Posters or tatters once abused by the rustling and time to political slogans, declarations of love spontaneous, lyrical, bawdy sexual references, newspaper clippings glued to the walls, graffiti or various slogans. These are all items that he later organized through different techniques and styles that reproduce in any way... read more

The Habaneras of Calella de Palafrugell

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

Some traditions never day if one wants to get to know the place that he´s visiting and integrate himself to its lifestyle with ease in order to make his holiday a success and the habaneras concert at Calella de Palafrugell is one of those traditions. It´s a wonderful summer event that will allow the visitor to integrate to the local Catalan culture, listening to the habanera songs on the 7th of July. The habaneras concert in Calella de Palafrugell began in 1966 but it wasn´t until 1969 that it acquired the status that it has today, transforming itself into one of the most highly-awaited parties in the Costa Brava summer. It takes place on the first Saturday of July at Cala de Port Bo, lasts two hours and costs 25€. Calella de Palafrugell is a small fisherman´s bay that has maintained the aesthetic of yesteryear and preserved itself like it was before the arrive en masse of tourism, which is the reason why it´s so attractive. That´s where the Catalan singer/songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat got the inspiration to write the song ´Mediterréaneo´, based on the beauty of the towns on the Costa Brava. Habaneras are fisherman´s tavern songs that were part of their refuge during merciless days, when bad weather, rain and cold stopped them from doing their work. This music maintains a culture and is part of the nostalgia that united the Mediterranean coast with Cuba, a link which was interrupted but not broken during the Cuban War and the ending of the Spanish colonies in America in the late 19th century. There´s a popular saying that summarises... read more