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![Retrat de Julio Manrique. © Clara Soler Chopo](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/entrevista_julio_1100.jpg?itok=Ij8id13s)
Julio Manrique
He is the most decorated theatre director in Catalonia today and the one capable of bringing together the most people in a room. The secret to his appeal lies in his enthusiastic,...
![Retrat d'Alba Sotorra. © Laura Guerrero](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/entrevista_sotorra_portada_1100x548.jpg?itok=9Y-kcmpK)
Alba Sotorra
Alba Sotorra Clua (Reus, 1980) makes documentary films out of a desire to become acquainted with realities and provide a different perspective to the one conveyed by the Western media...
![Llibre: Joan Perucho i les edicions pop. L’aventura de Tàber, Julià Guillamon. Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2020](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/perucho_portada_1100.jpg?itok=1mRPUaCk)
Perucho the pop editor is who is described in Joan Perucho i les edicions pop. L’aventura de Tàber [Joan Perucho and Pop Editions. Tàber’s Adventure]. This book, published by...
![Llibre: Claudi Montañá. Estoy hablando de mi generación (Artículos 1972-1977), antologia i pròleg de Josep Maria Ripoll. Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2020](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/claudimontana_portada_1100.jpg?itok=D5UZk-J0)
Claudi Montañá was the most unique voice in music criticism in the seventies. Nobody could combine popular journalism with creative literature in their texts like he could. Josep María...
![El sostre de miralls de la nova estructura que acull i reflecteix les parades dels Encants Vells, ara ubicats a l’Avinguda Meridiana i tocant a la plaça de les Glòries. © Rafael Vargas](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/encants_foto01_1100.jpg?itok=xus56JeC)
Encants i miralls de Barcelona is a dream come true for its authors, the photographer Rafael Vargas and the writer Victoria Bermejo. Rarely, and without planning, can a project...
![Una exposició a La Virreina. © Vicente Zambrano](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/debat_expo_1100x548.jpg?itok=2_5EZijs)
Barcelona’s cultural scene cannot be understood without photography. The link stretches way back and has reached the 21st century with renewed vigour. The city can boast of...
![Cámeres de fotografia antigues. Objectes a la venda als Encants de Barcelona. © Rafael Vargas](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/encants_interior_cameres.jpg?itok=kNHchE8X)
The collective memory of this city is permeated with thousands of images that reveal the fascination that photography has historically held. But has the love been reciprocated here? In...
![Espectacle inaugural del Festival Grec 2020. © Edu Bayer / Ajuntament de Barcelona](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/cultura_debat_grec.jpg?itok=oIseCSyn)
Cancelling, postponing or rethinking. These are the options Barcelona’s cultural initiatives have had to decide between during the Covid-19 lockdown. Each project has chosen its own path...
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