SubjectCulture and leisure
![Retrat de Clara Peya © Dani Codina](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/cultura_17.jpg?itok=6Fn5P8OZ)
Clara Peya
Seeing Clara Peya (1983) on stage, sitting in front of the piano, is an unforgettable experience. She approaches it, surrendering her body and her soul to a new conquest that will...
![Llibre: Barcelona pròxima, Andreu Ulied](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/cultura_16.jpg?itok=UaPsijs8)
Barcelona pròxima, besides bestowing high praise on technocracy, is an urban planning manual, an intellectual biography, a compendium of urban history, a philosophical essay and a...
![Llibre: La ciutat interrompuda, Julia Guillamon](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/cultura_15.jpg?itok=LIwtJlle)
La ciutat interrompuda made its appearance in 2001 with this summary: “From the tortured city of the 1970s to the fun city of postmodernity, to the tourist city. A chronicle of...
![Exposició: Víctor Papanek. La política del disseny, DHUB](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/cultura_14.jpg?itok=wgHye2u6)
Viennese designer and activist Victor Papanek was one of the twentieth century’s most influential harbingers of social activism and sustainability in design. The exhibition Victor...
![Llibre: La ciutat interrompuda, Julia Guillamon](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/cultura_13_0.jpg?itok=YpTJxB7h)
The FEMINISMS! exhibition at the CCCB [Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona], curated by Gabriele Schor and Marta Segarra, is a show not to be missed, either by Catalan...
![Illustration © Eva Vázquez. A fish looks at its reflection in a fish tank from the outside. The inside the fish bowl features a cityscape and a boy on a bicycle.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/relat_1.jpg?itok=SqFi5v-H)
Debbie and Humbert got married on the same day that Ibiza died. Carla found the turtle with her head inside her shell and her legs stretched out. Her friends from handball had...
![Book: Novel·la, Pol Beckmann](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/llibre-novelabeckmann.jpg?itok=RWNIMvWu)
The debut novel by young Pol Beckmann (Barcelona, 1991), that has received the Llibreter 2019 award in the category of other literatures, is a multi-faceted literary game.
![Book: Variacions profanes, Marta Pessarrodona](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/llibre-visionsprofanes.jpg?itok=RVuH6UAc)
Coinciding with her distinction with the Premi d’Honor de les Lletres Catalanes 2019, Marta Pessarrodona (Terrassa, 1941) has just published Variacions profanes [Profane...
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