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Puppet International (Meppel)
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Picasso at Beelden aan Zee Museum
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Children´s Book Fair
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Zenobia Conference
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KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival
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Lecture by Jordi Gracia
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Spinoza Conference
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Two concerts by pianist Dorantes
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DE ESPAÑA
EN LA HAYA
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october
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rts
Two Spanish
theatre companies
at Puppet
International
Meppel
Presenting their work
from 5 to 9 October
2016
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uppet International is an international
festival which will be held from 5 to 9
October at different venues in Meppel,
showing a huge variety of puppets plays.
The Embassy of Spain in The Hague will collaborate in this year’s edition supporting the participation of two Spanish theatre companies. The
audience will be able to enjoy the plays “La plus
belle Poubelle” and “La Dernière Danse de Brigitte” by Zero en Conducta and “Goma Gom” by
Chapertons.
For more information about the program schedule
see the Web page of Puppet International.
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Ceramics and
sculpture by Pablo
Picasso at Beelden
aan Zee Museum
13 October 2016 – 5 March 2017, The Hague
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he Beelden aan Zee Museum in The Hague will present this fall “Picasso aan Zee, ceramics and sculpture”. The exhibition will provide an exciting image of
the time he spent on the French Riviera, a vital period
of his rich oeuvre in which he rediscovered ceramics, creating
more than 4.000 works of different materials.
Beelden aan Zee will exhibit some unique pieces in ceramics and
sculptures from the best Picasso collections in Europe, some of
which will be on show for the first time.
More information can be found at the website of the Beelden
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aan Zee Museum.
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Spanish stand
at Children´s
Book Fair The
Hague
October 16th, Cultural Centre
Zuid57
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he Kinderboekenmarkt Foundation will
organize, in cooperation with the Embassy of Spain, the 40th edition of the
annual Children’s Book Fair at Cultural Centre Zuid57 in The Hague on Sunday October 16th. “Forever young” is the title of this edition where grandparents are playing the leading
role.
The festival will have a Spanish Pavillion focusing
on Spanish-speaking countries and the language
we share. Spanish illustrator Marta Altés, author
of books like “I am an artist” or “The king of
the house” will attend this edition; other participating artists are César Fernández Arias (from
Venezuela) or Pilar González Virgil (from Peru).
Several children workshops will also be organized.
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More information can be found at the website of
the Kinderboekenmarkt Foundation.
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october
C
ultural
Zenobia Conference
on the ancient and
medieval history of
Spain
22 October 2016, auditorium
University of Amsterdam
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n Saturday 22 October the Zenobia Foundation, in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute, will organize a day of lectures on ancient and medieval history of Spain. The eleventh
convention of this foundation, whose objective is the study of
relations between East and West, will take place in the former Lutheran
church in Amsterdam in the historic city centre, nowadays serving as the
University of Amsterdam’s auditorium.
Under the title “Spain, the Near East in the Far West”, eight speakers
from seven international universities (Alcalá de Henares, Amsterdam,
Leiden, London, Madrid, Nijmegen and Utrecht) will present, in Dutch
and English, the rich history of intercultural relations in the Iberian
Peninsula from the first contact with the Phoenicians to the Reconquista.
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For more information and ticket reservations please visit the website of
the Zenobia Foundation.
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october
F
estival
A
Amsterdam
Animation
Festival “KLIK!”
includes Spanish
cinema
msterdam Animation Festival “KLIK!” will take
place from 25 to 30 October in Eye Film Institute.
This international festival features shorts, films,
artist talks and installations since 2007, presenting
the best animation artist from all over the world.
The Spanish film “Psiconautas, los niños olvidados” by directors Pedro Rivero and Alberto Vázquez will be screened
at this year’s edition. “Psiconautas” tells the story of Birdboy
and Dinki, two friends struggling with their own reality. As
explorers, they wish they could live in a better world, because the island where they live is polluted due to an industrial
disaster.
Furthermore, there will be 4 Spanish films competing for
awards in different programs: “Alike” by Rafa Cano Mendez & Daniel Martinez Lara (Animated Short for Kids); “Living” by Cesar Diaz Melendez (The Music Channel); “Down
by Love” by Jose Corral and “Decorado” by Alberto Vázquez
(Animated Shorts); and “You are not the strongest” by Emilio
Yebra (Political Animated Shorts).
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25-30 October 2016,
EYE Film Institute
More information can be found at the Website of KLIK.
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Lecture on
Miguel de
Cervantes by
Jordi Gracia
and Maarten
Steenmeijer
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3 November 2016,
Cervantes Institute, Utrecht
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he Cervantes Institute in Utrecht, in collaboration with the
Embassy of Spain in The Hague, hosts a conference on the
work of Miguel de Cervantes that will take place on November
3rd. Special guest speakers are essayist and lecturer Jordi Gracia (University of Barcelona), who recently wrote a biography about Cervantes, and Maarten Steenmeijer, lecturer in Modern Spanish Cultures
(University of Nijmegen).
Who was Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra? What do we know about his
life? What is his greatest contribution to world literature? What life experience led him to imagine such a revolutionary work as “Don Quixote”?
The activity is part of the commemoration of the IV Century of Cervantes´ death. The conference will start at 19:00 hours and costs five euros
per person; reservations to be made through: [email protected]
More information can be found at the website of the Cervantes Insti-
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tute.
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10th Edition of the
Spinoza Conference
The lecture will be given by Spanish
writer and philologist Alicia Giménez
Bartlett
T
he 10th edition of the Spinoza Conference will
be held at the University of Amsterdam on
Thursday 24 November 2016. The Spinoza
Conference is a joint initiative of the Embassy
of Spain, the Cervantes Institute and the University of
Amsterdam. Every year since 2005 it offers the opportunity to meet renowned Spanish-speaking writers and
thinkers from Spain and Latin America, who lecture
about any subject they wish.
The speaker this year is Spanish writer and philologist
Alicia Giménez Bartlett, well-known for her crime novels starring detective Petra Delicado. She was awarded
with the Nadal Prize in 2011 and the Planeta Prize in
2015. The conference will focus on the formation of modern Europe from the point of view of youth culture.
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More information can be found at the Websites of the
Cervantes Institute and Alicia Giménez Bartlett.
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december
M
usic
Spanish pianist
“Dorantes” will
perform in
Eindhoven and
Groningen
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ne of the most influential flamenco artists David Peña “Dorantes” will start
an international tour which will include
the Netherlands. The concerts will take
place on Friday December 2 at the Muziekgebouw
Eindhoven and Saturday December 3 at MC Oosterpoort Groningen.
Dorantes, who was born in Lebrija, near Seville
(Spain), mixes North-African influences with flamenco and jazz, pursuing global sounds without
forgetting his Andalusian roots.
More information can be found at the Websites of
Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, MC Oosterpoort
Groninga and Dorantes himself.
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2 and 3 December 2016
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