Blog del Instituto Cervantes de Londres

Queridos todos:

Desde aquí queremos recordar vuestra participación en la actividad de Taller de Arte y Cuentacuentos que tuvo lugar el pasado sábado 13 de Noviembre en el Instituto Cervantes.

Asimismo, queremos agradecer por su actuación tanto a Lorena Carvajal como a Montse Domínguez que nos hicieron pasar una mañana de lo más divertida.

 Por ello, aquí os dejamos un vídeo con una recopilación de los mejores momentos vividos el pasado sábado.

Muchas gracias por vuestra asistencia y esperamos que os hayáis divertido!

This activity includes The Art Trolley Workshop with Lorena Carbajal from 10.30 to 11.30am and Storytelling by Montse Domínguez from 11.30 am to 1.00 pm.

The Art Trolley Workshops provide a creative atmosphere where children can explore, create, express themselves, and learn through art, using a variety of exciting techniques from animation to printmaking.

Lorena Carbajal is an art espcialist educator and professional artist. She has worked as a puppeter, actress and storyteller.

Montse Domínguez has great experience with children. She has worked in the Westminster libraries as storyteller.

Venue:

Instituto Cervantes
102 Eaton Square. London. SW1W 9AN.
Saturday 13 November from 10.30am to 1.00pm.

See you there!!

The WriteIdea Festival is a London’s free reading festival that takes place from 12-21 November near Tower Hamlet.

“Our City” is the theme of this year’s programme. It is focused on East London. The festival starts in style with a conversation with Tony Benn on November 12 and it includes poets, politicians, presenters, philosophers, performers as well as novelists and other writers talking about their work.

The distinguished authors that will take part in the festival are: Caroline Gilfillan, Salena Godden, Adam O’Riordan, Sarah Wise Paul Willetts, Martin Knight or Rob Young, to name a few. Signed books will be available to buy!

All events are free but will be ticketed so make sure you reserve a place.

Find the complete programme here!

Enjoy the WriteIdea Festival 2010!

 Flamenco dance classes!

Otoño 2010

Curso de sevillanas  a cargo de Sandra Castell García dirigdo a todas aquellas personas interesadas tanto con como sin experiencia en el baile.

¿Cuándo puedo hacerlo y cuánto dura el curso?

Lunes de 18.30 a 20.30 hs. (15 de noviembre – 13 de diciembre). 5 semanas. 10 horas.

Queridos todos:

Desde aquí queremos agradecer a Maisa y a Javier su actuación  en nuestro centro. Fue una actividad muy entrañable llena de movimiento, de sorpresas OH! y de risas.  

Para todos los que os acercásteis a participar en la actividad del sábado 9 de octubre, os enviamos los mejores momentos en un vídeo.

Muchas gracias por vuestra asistencia. Esperamos que os hayáis divertido !

Os recordamos que el 13 de Noviembre habrá un Taller de Arte y Cuentacuentos a cargo de Lorena Carbajal y Montse Domínguez.

Os esperamos!

Drama course in Spanish

Este curso es una introducción a la Estructura Dramática y a los principales elementos que componen una obra teatral. Es una propuesta ideal tanto para quienes pretendan iniciarse en los principios del arte de la actuación, como para quienes necesiten un espacio creativo en su desarrollo personal y en la práctica de la lengua española.

¿Cuándo puedo hacerlo y cuánto dura el curso?
Miércoles de 18.30 a 21.30 hs. (06 de octubre – 17 de noviembre). 7 semanas. 21 horas.

¿Cuánto cuesta?
£205

¿Qué material vamos a usar?

El cuerpo y la voz. Algunos textos de autores latinoamericanos y españoles. Improvisaciones teatrales.

¿Por qué hacer este curso?

Porque la experiencia artística teatral es una posibilidad de enriquecimiento integral de la persona que permite desarrollar la expresión corporal, la sensibilidad, la imaginación, la comunicación y demás aspectos de la conducta sin la presión del trabajo escénico pero con el goce estético de la práctica artística.

Lugar:

Instituto Cervantes
102 Eaton Square. London. SW1W 9AN.
Tel.: 020 7235 0353 – cenlon@cervantes.es – www.londres.cervantes.es

Importante:

Es indispensable traer ropa cómoda para el trabajo corporal. También estar preparados para trabajar sin calzado.

– To enrol in the course contact the Instituto Cervantes:

E-mail: cenlon@cervantes.es

Tel.:02072350353

– For more information about the content of the course contact:

Germán D’Alessandro: Tel.: 078 5323 9028 / spanish.drama@gmail.com

Spanish Steps

PASSION and flamenco go together like pan con tomate, so it’s no surprise to hear producer-director Anna Holmes describe her film Spanish Steps: Flamenco in a Foreign Land as “a passion project”.

The making of this documentary has been a labour of love for the past 18 months or so after Anna was unable to secure funding from production companies. But thanks to a lifelong love of dance, plus the support of friends and family and her assistant producer Victor, Anna has succeeded in making her first film.

Her other reason for wanting to make this documentary was to capture a slice of social history before it’s too late – many of these flamenco pioneers are now in their 80s and sadly may not be with us for much longer.

London in the 1950s, what with post-war austerity and the notorious smog, must have been a pretty bleak place at times. But this was also an era of great social change, with many exciting, exotic new trends and tastes arriving from overseas.

Read more… LondonSpanish

Foto: Jim Kuhn

El Colectivo Magazine Reading Group offers the opportunity to talk about and discuss Spanish literature, imitating the traditional Spanish tertulia. 

The reading group meets one Friday per month at 6.30pm in the Instituto Cervantes; it is free to join and you are welcome to come along to any session.

In order to participate, there is only one requirement: to have read the scheduled book.

These are the titles and the dates for the last four months of 2010

Friday 17 September, 6.30pm

• El general en su laberinto by Gabriel García Márquez

 Friday 15 October, 6.30pm

• Un milagro en equilibrio by Lucía Etxebarría

 Friday 19 November, 6.30pm

• Abril rojo de Santiago Roncagliolo

 Friday 10 December, 6.30pm

• Los informantes by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

In collaboration with El Colectivo Magazine.
For more information: grupo(at)elcolectivolondres.com

• Felix Bruzzone

• Juan Francisco Ferré

• Iosi Havilio

• Pola Oloixarac

• Sergio Olguin

FLAMENCO can be enjoyed in London most nights of the week, and is probably Spain’s most successful cultural export.

Its popularity was shown once again this week when the Instituto Cervantes London was inundated with requests for places at a special preview screening of the film Spanish Steps: Flamenco in a Foreign Land.

This documentary pays homage to the pioneer flamencos who staged shows in London’s bars and restaurants from the 1950s onwards, paving the way for artists and aficionados alike to enjoy the thriving flamenco scene that is now so firmly established here.

These pioneers included both British amateurs and Spanish migrants escaping life under Franco, and many of the events were informal affairs, often in the basements of unglamorous Soho bars.

Nowadays flamenco is taken more seriously by London’s cultural establishment, with the annual festival at Sadler’s Wells and frequent events at other leading venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, as well as more informal concerts such as the monthly España on Fire at Ronnie’s Bar, upstairs at the famous Ronnie Scott’s. Then there’s restaurants including the well-known Costa Dorada in Hanway Street, the London Peña Flamenca . . .

Read more… LondonSpanish

ICLL Podcast series: New Episode (in English)

 Lecture

 One of the most distinctive types of Mesoamerican sculptures is that called Chacmool, representing reclining human figures holding vessels on the stomach. Chacmools have been found in Central and West Mexico as well as in the Maya region. 

Elizabeth Baquedano has written several books and articles on the Aztecs, and curated an exhibition for Henry Moore’s Centenary at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. She is a lecturer at University College London, Institute of Archaeology and at the Institute for the Study of the Americas.