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The route aims to promote modernist art, and also includes international cities like Glasgow, Riga and Turin

23 workshops offered inspiration to the Sunday crowds in the international drawing festival

Jupiter’s Moon, a refugee-drama mixed with science fiction, took home the Best Picture award

The theater will open on October 19 to offer artists the opportunity to do the performances they’ve “always wanted to do”

Some 3,000 personalities urge people to take part in referendum "so that culture will be the flesh and blood of the Republic"

Barcelona will be celebrating all things literature once again this week, with the return of the annual Catalan Book Week on September 8.

Catalan culture council urges Madrid to improve working and fiscal conditions for professionals in the sector

Icelandic capital to be guest of honor at capital’s annual festival, with the 2017 poster created by Valencian illustrator Xavier Mariscal

Puig was previously the general director of the Popular Culture, Local Associations, and Cultural Action group

The 50th anniversary of Maria del Mar Bonet’s stage performances and the first international tour of the Barcelona Municipal Band are amongst the highlights

Ceret and Perpignan open exhibitions dedicated to the works of the two influential artists

The first digital platform to distribute European cinema and television series in Catalan was launched on Friday in Barcelona

Ireland’s ‘Houses of the Oireachtas’ will create a friendship group on Catalonia in order to get a deeper understanding of its political situation, as well as enhancing trade relationships and promoting cultural exchange. The initiative gathers together members of the Irish Assembly and the Senate representing Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, and Sinn Féin, the main parties in the bicameral parliament. Thus, Ireland is following the example of other countries such as the United Kingdom, Finland, Switzerland, and Estonia, who also have discussion groups on Catalonia. Catalan Minister for Foreign Affairs, Raül Romeva, will travel to Dublin on Wednesday to attend the presentation of the cross-party group and explain Catalonia’s referendum roadmap to the participants.

Global support in Catalonia to reduce VAT on cinema tickets from the current 21% to 10%. Compared to other EU countries, in which cultural activities including the movie sector benefit from reduced VAT, Spanish citizens have to live with high taxes on culture. Politicians and associations of the cinema sector in Catalonia consider the 21% VAT on cinema tickets “discriminatory” in comparison to other EU countries. In Germany, for example, there is reduced VAT (7%) on movies (not including damaging content for youth). In Belgium cultural events have a VAT of 6% and in neighboring France, VAT on cultural activities is 7%. That is why these cultural groups have lined up to urge the Spanish government to change it in the 2017 budget and set it at the same level as bullfighting, which is currently taxed at just 10%.

“Strength, balance, courage, and sanity” are the four key elements that guide the new Human Tower Museum of Catalonia in Valls, 100 km south of Barcelona. This ambitious project, aims to become a reference for the human tower world. All that is on show at the moment is indoor equipment with the most spectacular set ups: latest videos, support tools, and interactive games. The aim of its creator, Ignasi Cristià, who has designed the space for both experts from the ‘castells’ world and for the more inexpert public as well, is to create a new space for explaining human towers.