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October / November / December 2019

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Cultural Agenda 2019: October, November, December

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Rembrandt-Velázquez. Dutch and Spanish masters 3 National Day of Spain at Centro Español La Haya 4 Concert by Alberti String Quartet 5 North & South, medieval art exhibition 6 UAIA Hispanic Day in Rotterdam 7 Piano concert by Rosalía Gómez Lasheras 8 Spinoza Conference: Jorge Volpi 9 Tour by dance company Taiat Dansa 10 Recommendations 11

You can also check the website of Instituto Cervantes en Utrecht

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From 11 October 2019 to 19 January 2020, and on the occasion of the

commemoration of the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death, the Rijksmuseum

in Amsterdam will present “Rembrandt-Velázquez”. The exhibition shows works

by the main Dutch and Spanish masters of the 17th century, including for the first

time some of the greatest pieces by Rembrandt van Rijn, Diego Velázquez, Frans

Hals, Bartolomé Murillo, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco de Zurbarán and José de

Ribera, amongst other outstanding figures.

The Instituto Cervantes, the Rijksmuseum, the Embassy of Spain in The Hague

and other institutions have collaborated in organizing a cultural and educational

program that includes, among others, a lecture by British historian and hispanist

John Elliot in the public library (OBA) in Amsterdam (October 30), dance shows

by the Taiat Dansa company (November 15 at the Rijksmuseum, November 16 at

OBA), a round table on Dutch and Spanish art (November 24 at the Rijksmuseum;

November 28 at the Cervantes Institute in Utrecht) and a lecture by Alejandro

Vergara, Head of Conservation Flemish Painting and Northern Schools until 1700

of the Prado Museum in Madrid (November 29, the Hague).

More information can be found at the websites of the Rijksmuseum and the

Instituto Cervantes.

Rembrandt-Velázquez. Dutch and Spanish masters

11 October 2019 – 19 January 2020, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Francisco de Zurbarán, Agnus Dei, 1635 - 1640. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

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The Centro Español La Haya is an association that

aims to integrate Spaniards in the Netherlands and

promote Spanish culture to both the Dutch and

people from other nationalities. It will organize, in

collaboration with the Embassy of Spain to The

Hague, several cultural activities to celebrate the

National Day of Spain on October 12, 2019.

The program includes, among others, a children's

activity with musical games directed by Sonajero

Musical, a street market with Spanish products, and

several musical performances: animation of

sevillanas by the group Spaanse Dans, rumbas with

Jonay and Maiki, flamenco with Salud Moya,

Herminia and Arturo, and salsa with Angie.

More information can be found at the website of

Centro Español La Haya.

Celebrating the National Day of Spain

12 October 2019, Centro Español La Haya

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Alberti String Quartet at Literary Society De Witte

18 October 2019, The Hague

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Spanish Culture Table of Literary Society De Witte, and in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain and the Instituto Cervantes, a concert by Alberti String Quartet is organized in The Hague on October 18. The Alberti String Quartet is formed by four young Spanish musicians based in the Netherlands: Eduard Marcet Capella and Ángela Moya Domínguez (violins), Gabriel Hernández Dionis (viola) and Celia Torres Ruiz (cello). In this concert they will present a program dedicated to the Spanish quartet, with pieces by composers such as Cayetano Brunetti, Joaquín Turina and Conrado del Campo. More information about the concert can be found at the website of the Instituto Cervantes (reservation must be made).

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North & South, medieval art exhibition

25 October 2019 – 26 January 2020, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht

From 25 October 2019 to 26 January 2020, Museum Catharijneconvent will present “North & South”, an exhibition of medieval art with well-preserved works from both the far North and South of Europe. In collaboration with the Episcopal Museum of Vic (Spain), the Museum of the University of Bergen (Norway), the Museum of Cultural History (University of Oslo, Norway) and the Archbishop's Palace Museum of Trondheim (Norway), extremely rare altar decorations from the 12th to the 14th centuries will be reunited for the first time in Utrecht. Most of these works have never left the country due to their vulnerability. Separated by the Pyrenees in the South and the fjords in the North, they have been preserved in all their wealth, often in churches of small and remote villages. In central Europe, these pieces have not resisted the effects of, for example, iconoclasms and wars. Despite their miles away, the North and South collections show a surprising amount of similarities, something that indicates an enormous mobility of objects and cultural ideas at that time. More information can be found at the website of Museum Catharijneconvent.

Altar Frontal of Saint Margalida of Vila-seca, 1175-1199. Episcopal Museum of Vic

Altar Frontal of Saint Ciprián of Cabanyes, 1300-1350. Episcopal

Museum of Vic

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Hispanic Day 2019: “Guernica and Rotterdam,

two soulless cities between 1937 and 1940”

26 October 2019, De Heuvel building, Rotterdam

The Embassy of Spain will collaborate on the Hispanic Day 2019, an initiative launched in 1954 by the Union of Iberian and Ibero-American Associations of the Benelux (UAIA) with the aim of celebrating annually, and in turn, a day dedicated to Spanish language and culture, organized by and for all UAIA members and external stakeholders. This year's edition will be organized by the Hispanic-American Association of Rotterdam (AHA) and will take place on 26 October 2019 at the De Heuvel building in Rotterdam. The theme chosen is: "Guernica and Rotterdam, two soulless cities between 1937 and 1940", contemplating two historical events highlighted by two artists in their respective countries: Picasso and Zadkine, Guernica and Rotterdam, Destruction and Renaissance, War and Peace. Guadalupe Galán (art historian and activity coordinator of the Instituto Cervantes of Utrecht) will talk about Guernica (in Spanish) and Cor van Dam (former AHA president and director of historical documentaries) will examine (in Dutch) the bombing of Rotterdam. For more information and reservations you can consult the AHA website.

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Concert by Spanish pianist Rosalía Gómez Lasheras

31 October 2019, Society “de Vereeniging”, The Hague

The Musica Antica da Camera foundation, in cooperation with the Embassy of Spain, organizes in The Hague a concert by the Spanish pianist Rosalía Gómez Lasheras who will perform romantic pieces by composers Robert and Clara Schumann. Rosalía Gómez Lasheras (Santiago de Compostela, 1994) studied piano in her hometown, at the Utrecht Conservatory and at the Hochschule für Musik Basel. Her interest for historical keyboards started in the Netherlands, where she took harpsichord lessons from Siebe Henstra, and continued at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where she studied fortepiano with Edoardo Torbianelli and harpsichord with Jörg Andreas Bötticher. As a soloist she has performed at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam (2013), Tivoli Vredenburg Utrecht (2015), Palau de la Música Catalana (2015), Cairo Opera House (2016), Konzerthaus Dortmund (2018) and Herkulessaal in Munich (2018), among other venues in Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Russia, Egypt and the USA. More information can be found at the website of the Musica Antica da Camera foundation and the artist herself.

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13th edition of the Spinoza Conference: Jorge Volpi

7th of November 2019, University of Amsterdam

The 13th edition of the Spinoza Conference will be held at the University of Amsterdam on the 7th of November 2019. The Spinoza Conference is a joint initiative of the Embassy of Spain to The Hague, the Instituto Cervantes in Utrecht and the University of Amsterdam. Since 2005 it has been a great opportunity to meet renowned Spanish-speaking writers and thinkers from Spain and Latin America, who lecture about any subject of their choice. The speaker this year is the Mexican writer Jorge Volpi (Mexico City, 1968). His lecture entitled “Memories of the Afterlife. How to imagine others from the center of violence” will focus on the war against drug trafficking in his homeland, unpunished or unsolved murders and how a writer responds to these events. Jorge Volpi has been a university professor, member of the National System of Creators in Mexico and director of the Mexican Cultural Center in Paris (2001). For four years, he directed Channel 22, Mexico’s cultural television station. He is the author of the "Trilogy of the Twentieth Century", formed by "In Search of Klingsor" (Short Library Award, 1999), "The End of Madness" (2003) and "Time of Ashes" (2005). His most recent novel is "A Criminal Novel" (Alfaguara Award, 2018). He has also written the essays "Read the Mind" (2008) and "Examination of my Father" (2015). Volpi received the Order of Isabel la Catolica of Spain and he is Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His books have been translated into thirty languages. For more information please visit the website of the Instituto Cervantes.

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Spanish dance company Taiat Dansa in the Netherlands

12-16 November 2019, the Netherlands

In collaboration with the Embassy of Spain to The Hague and the Instituto Cervantes in Utrecht, the Spanish dance company Taiat Dansa will be touring the Netherlands this fall with several shows. “Man Ray” focuses on the photographer’s fetishistic relationship with his muses and will be shown at Theater aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht (12 November 2019) and Musis & Stadstheater in Arnhem (13 November 2019). “No Half Measures” (Portraits in motion) is a choreographic installation that explores dance in relation to the space where it is performed, be it on stage, at a museum or in an unconventional space. It can be seen on November 15, 2019 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam on the occasion of the Rembrandt-Velázquez exhibition. The next day, (November 16) Taiat Dansa will perform another museum-like program entitled “Still Life”, which will be shown at the Amsterdam Public Library (OBA). Meritxell Barberá and Inma García, with degrees in Classical and Contemporary dance from the city of Valencia, founded their own company Taiat Dansa in the year 2003. Since then they have presented their creations in different prestigious venues and festivals in Spain and abroad. More information can be found at the website of Taiat Dansa, the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam and OBA.

“Man Ray”

“Still Life. Naturaleza muerta”

“No Half Measures. Portraits in motion”

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RECOMMENDATIONS

The 7th edition of the Pianoduo Festival Amsterdam will take place at De

Duif Church from 9 to 13 October 2019. This festival of classical and jazz

music, founded in 2013, promotes the piano duo genre (two pianists

playing one or more pianos).

Two young and upcoming pianists from Spain will be participating:

Daahoud Salim (Seville, 1990) and Xavi Torres (Tarragona, 1991). They

will perform some of their own pieces inspired by the style of composer

Johann Sebastian Bach, to whom the festival is dedicated.

More information: website of Pianoduo Festival Amsterdam.

Daahoud Salim and Xavi Torre at Pianoduo Festival

9-13 October 2019, De Duif Church, Amsterdam

“Meester op de Gitaar” concerts at the Concertgebouw

12 October 2019 / 14 December 2019, Amsterdam

“Meesters op de Gitaar” concert series, the classical guitar series in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, is organized by the guitarist Esther Steenbergen and the guitar maker Otto Vowinkel. The series consists of three concerts by internationally renowned guitarists. This season's series includes, among others, the Spanish Susana Prieto and the Greek Alexis Muzurakis, who will act as the Duo Melis on October 12, 2019 performing works by Rodrigo, Piazzolla and Ginastera, and the Spanish guitarist Margarita Escarpa, who will offer a concert with works by Chopin, Debussy, Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Albéniz on December 14, 2019. More information: website of Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

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Choreographer Marcos Morau returns with “Cathedral”

Touring the Netherlands from 30 October 2019 until 15 February 2020

From 30 October 2019, the Dutch Dance Company Scapino Ballet will present the new production by the Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau entitled “Cathedral, an evening with Arvo Pärt”. Through contemporary dance, theater and music a world is shown in which life is governed by digital techniques. In this alienating world, Arvo Pärt's minimalist music, performed live by the Sinfonia Rotterdam orchestra, offers an oasis of tranquility. More information: website of Scapino Ballet.

“Mi Vida”, new feature film by Norbert ter Hall

In several cinemas from 21 November 2019

“Mi Vida” (My Life), a feature film by Dutch director Norbert ter Hall largely shot in Cádiz (Spain) starring Loes Luca (Rotterdam, 1953) and Elvira Mínguez (Valladolid, 1965) will be screened in the Netherlands from 21 November 2019. The movie is directed by the well-known Dutch director Norbert ter Hall and produced by the Dutch company Phanta Film in collaboration with the Spanish producer All Go Movies. Singer María Jiménez (Sevilla, 1950) has recorded a Spanish version of Shirley Bassey’s ‘This is my life’ especially for the film. More information: website of Phanta Film.

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“Fígaro. Barbero de Sevilla” by Spanish company

Ibérica de Danza

6 – 24 November 2019, touring the Netherlands

“Figaro, Barbero de Sevilla” (The Barber of Seville) by the Spanish company Ibérica de Danza and choreographed by Manuel Segovia will premiere this fall in the Netherlands. This ballet show in four acts, inspired by the iconic trilogy of French playwright Pierre-Agustin de Beaumarchais and the music of Boccherini, Mozart, Rossini, Santiago de Murcia and popular themes, reflects on the archaic privileges of the nobility, as one of the original signs of the French Revolution. Ibérica de Danza was founded in 1993 by Manuel Segovia and Violeta Ruiz del Valle. It is well-known for a unique mix of classical Spanish ballet, flamenco, folk and modern dance. For almost 25 years, the company has received different awards, including the 1st prize of the International Dance Competition of Almería. “Fígaro. Barbero de Sevilla” can be seen from November 6, 2019 and will conclude its tour of the Netherlands on November 24 at the Schouwburg Amstelveen Theater. More information, dates and schedules: website of Ibérica de Danza or its representative in the Netherlands.

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