What can you do this weekend? Tingladu, Dansàneu, the Bellvís Fairgrounds, and more!

Barcelona The ARA offers several plans throughout the country for this weekend.

This summer, the festival that fills the Àneu Valleys with art and memory returns. It will span ten days with around thirty offerings from diverse disciplines, including music, dance, theater, and popular culture, in a privileged natural setting. Under the theme "Heritage and Community," this year's festival will celebrate the return of a fragment of the Gothic altarpiece of Sant Martí de Escalarre to the valleys and reflect on historical memory and the connection between human groups and the heritage of the place where they live. The program will be organized into three time slots to facilitate attendance, and the organizers will provide buses to reach the various venues and minimize the ecological impact on the area.

Tingladu is celebrating its seventeenth edition. This Catalan music and culture festival, organized by Can Pistraus with the support of three hundred volunteers, will feature performances by Julieta, Maria Jaume, Sopa de Cabra, Pau Vallvé, and Guillem Gisbert. This year, the festival reaffirms its commitment to the music industry and will donate €1 from every ticket sold to the Col·lectiu Ovidi Montllor fundraising campaign to help musicians affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This weekend, La Fabra i Coats will host a new edition of the BlackCelona festival, a meeting point for the African diaspora and a celebration of the legacy of Black communities in Catalonia. The program includes a wide variety of offerings, including plays, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions, and concerts. The festival finds in music—particularly hip-hop and reggae cultures—a means of expressing a complex reality: that of existing in a world that has endeavored to erase its traces, generation after generation.

The Tortosa Proto-fest Music Festival celebrates its fifth edition, filling the city with fifteen instrumental, symphonic, vocal, and chamber concerts. The festival aims to recover the historical and musical heritage of the area, rediscovering and performing works preserved in various archives, as well as promoting the music of women composers forgotten by history. In addition to the concerts, several internationally renowned artists will offer master classes and lectures.

The sixth edition of the Experimental Photo Festival will fill several venues in Barcelona with workshops, exhibitions, conferences, and an artist residency focused on experimental photography. The festival will bring together more than 60 international artists and nearly 600 participants for a week dedicated to exploring the limits of photographic language. Activities will take place at the Pati Llimona Civic Center, the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia, the Experimental HUB, and the Bien Cuadrado gallery.

The new edition of the Empordà Music Festival will be held in the middle of summer in the heart of Empordà, specifically at the former La Bisbal football field. The festival will bring together leading names from the Catalan scene such as Miki Núñez, Sopa de Cabra, Dr. Prats, Triquell, and Lildami, as well as a wide selection of emerging DJs and bands. There will be two consecutive days of music and partying with a nonstop program from the afternoon until well into the early hours. The festival is organized by the Buitres de la Bisbal de Empordà.

Blanes celebrates its Santa Ana festival with an extensive program combining tradition, live music, family activities, and firework displays. One of the highlights is the 53rd Costa Brava International Fireworks Competition, a landmark event that fills the coast with light and color every night for five days. In addition to the fireworks, the festival will include correfocs, parades, stick dancing, sardanas, children's shows, and concerts with artists such as Svetlana and Buhos, on various stages throughout the city.

Bellvís returns to the 17th century this weekend with a new edition of the Feriales. Centered on the legend of Cal Bufalà, the festival will include concerts, puppet shows, wine and beer tastings, dance exhibitions, giants, acrobats, and fire. Legend tells how, in 1637, the lord of Bufalà made use of the royal prerogative that allowed his family to grant asylum to people persecuted by the law to protect Juan and María from Captain Rodrigo, a member of Philip IV's troops. In the ensuing public trial, Bufalà and the people of Bellvís defended them and expelled the captain and his soldiers.

This is the last weekend to enjoy the RUSC, the Espluga de Francolí Poetry Festival, which will once again transform the Tierra Museum into a meeting point for poetry lovers. In addition to the recitals, there will be book presentations, a rap workshop, and the opening of the exhibition Women and landscape and a concert by Borja Penalba.

The Museu Tàpies hosts the first major retrospective of the Catalan-Mexican artist Marta Palau, under the title My ways are earthlyThe exhibition brings her visual work—painting, drawing, and textile installations—into dialogue with previously undisplayed materials and objects from her personal archive. The exhibition, co-produced by the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, revolves around the artist's experiences as an exile following the Spanish Civil War and explores the relationship between land, the experience of exile, and the healing power of the body.

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