Schools away from home and the DAU festival: the one that has caught our attention the most this week

BarcelonaThis week we want to recommend the San Narciso Fairs, the Raval(s) cultural festival, the DAU festival, and Halloween activities, among others.

We also suggest a review of the week's news through Andrea Zayas's comic strip, the section Something to think about and the data and statements that have most caught our attention.

Cultural and leisure activities

Do you love board games? Then you can't miss DAU Barcelona, ​​the leading board game festival, which returns to Barcelona from November 13th to 16th at the Fabra i Coats venue, with its biggest and most ambitious edition in its 14-year history. For four days and two nights, the festival will offer over a hundred activities for families, professionals, and schools: family workshops, expert areas, demonstrations, new releases, and interactive activities that invite you to discover the magic of gaming. New features include a giant new pavilion with 107 game tables and the addition of the Fandom Zone, a space for meeting board game designers. As always, admission to the festival is free, but space is limited.

Girona celebrates the final weekend of the Sant Narciso Fair, with its main event taking place this Saturday. Various fairs will be scattered throughout the city center: a drawing fair, a crafts fair, and a food fair. In the afternoon, there's a children's tug-of-war (6:30 p.m.) and the traditional climb of the four-person pillar up the cathedral steps (7:30 p.m.). Families looking to extend the festivities into the evening can enjoy a concert by Doctor Prats, La Fúmiga, and Flashy Ice Cream at La Copa (10:30 p.m.). The fair concludes on Sunday with a fireworks display in Parc de les Ribes del Ter (8:00 p.m.).

From November 6th to 9th, the Raval neighborhood will host a new edition of the Raval(s) festival, with nearly 60 free activities organized by 140 local organizations and groups. With over 20 years of history, the festival fills various spaces in Raval with music, theater, workshops, walking tours, family activities, and artistic interventions. Families and young children will have their own space on Saturday the 8th and Sunday the 9th morning on the Rambla del Raval, where they can participate in creative and sensory workshops and games. There will also be puppet shows, readings, and music. For older children, on Friday the 7th, the Filmoteca de Catalunya will host a screening of short films made by young people from Raval between the ages of 16 and 25, showcasing their concerns and dreams.

If you have children who absolutely refuse to celebrate Halloween, theme parks offer alternatives that are sure to entertain them. Until November 11th, PortAventura World transforms into a unique setting, featuring amazing characters and a mix of terror and fun designed for all levels of bravery. Among the main new attractions is the premiere of...1, 2, 3… It's Halloween!, a family show that unites Count Dracula and the characters of Sesame Street in a magical story of music, humor and friendship.

If you've ever had a baby or are currently pregnant, you've surely heard of the Baby Concert, a pioneering project at L'Auditori specifically designed for families with children aged 0 to 12 months, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. This season, it can be enjoyed on the following weekends: February 28 and March 1, 2026, and May 9 and 10, 2026. The initiative is part of a larger, three-stage project that aims to introduce music from the earliest stages of childhood. The Baby Concert is preceded by the Musical Morning for Pregnant Women and the Baby Workshop. Anna Roig Dolz, creator and pedagogical director of the project, has composed a special birthday song that will be performed during the concert.

FilmoXica continues with the autumn cycle Free booksand gives up part of the family sessions on the November weekend to the proposals of My First Festival, a well-established group of new spectators that this year, among other proposals, takes us Little Amélie, winner of the audience award for best European film at the last San Sebastian Film Festival; Mary Poppins; Seven Chances, by Buster Keaton, and also, with an eye on Palestine, Fleeting dreamsThe story of Sami, a twelve-year-old boy who embarks on a journey from the refugee camp where he lives to Haifa in search of his carrier pigeon. Every Saturday and Sunday at 5 p.m.

If you want to enjoy catchy rhythms and profound lyrics, go listen to the new album from the family music group Xiula, who are releasing their seventh studio album. XiulalalandAcross thirteen songs, the group tackles themes such as gratitude, masculinity, the right to protest, screen addiction, and global warming through lyrics that don't infantilize their audience. After fourteen years in the business, Jan Garrido, Rikki Arjuna, Adrià Heredia, and Marc Soto have released an album to recapture what makes them happy: helping to create a better world through music. The album is available on all digital platforms and will be sold physically at concerts and in their online store. They are also preparing a tour that will kick off on February 1st at the Poliorama Theatre in Barcelona.

Fancy a bit of theatre? Well, Jove Teatre Regina presents Figaro(ck), From the company La Trepa, a musical theater show that fuses humor, social commentary, and contemporary rhythm to rethink what it means to be a revolutionary in today's world. A musical comedy that confronts the myth of Figaro with the world of the influencers and social media with live music. The show, aimed at children aged 10 and up, will run until November 16 at the Jove Teatre Regina on Saturdays and Sundays at 5:30 p.m.

If you enjoy puppetry, theater, circus, magic, and music, the program at La Casa Elizalde in Barcelona this autumn is sure to provide a great time for the whole family. It begins on October 11th with the puppet show... The maidens of Bellaguarda. Those who love the circus can go and see it on October 18th At a clown's pace and November 8 The crisis of imaginationThe shows take place on Saturday mornings and you can buy tickets at www.casaelizalde.com.

Literary recommendations from Marta Gil, bookseller at El Gat Pelut

When the master of horror Stephen King delves into a classic like Hansel and Gretel The result is as fascinating as it is unsettling. This version combines King's intense and dark narrative style with Maurice Sendak's powerful and character-filled illustrations, created for an opera based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. The result is a wonderful and timeless edition, as evocative as it is nostalgic, inviting us to venture into a forest where the path may not be so easy to find... but is well worth the journey.

Ages 6+.

Things that happen (to me), by Andrea Zayas

Something to think about

School is a social institution, a place where families build relationships and where neighborhood and community are fostered. One of the values of public schools is proximity, and the authorities always recommend choosing a neighborhood school. This is what the families who enrolled their children nine years ago at 9 Graons School, a newly established center in Barcelona, did. But now the Barcelona Education Consortium has assigned them three secondary schools that are more than 20 minutes away from the school, forcing the children to socialize and spend time outside their neighborhood and surrounding area, while the other schools in the vicinity have been assigned to secondary schools within a maximum of 5 or 10 minutes. This lack of equity contradicts the principles of public education and proximity that the administration claims to uphold.

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The data

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• Cultural and leisure plans for the whole week
• Series premiering this month
• Video games being released this month
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• New restaurants to discover
• The castellers agenda