Beatriz Bittencourt, known simply as Bia, is an editor born in São Paulo, the economic capital of Brazil and the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere. Before coming to live in Catalonia, she worked for the most influential newspaper in the Latin American country, Folha de São Paulo. She also ran a bookstore and collaborated with Plana, an independent literature festival. With this background, she landed in Barcelona in 2018, driven by personal reasons. Upon arrival, she founded the publishing house No Libros, with the desire to integrate into Catalan society through a project based on the premise of creating other forms of knowledge circulation and production. Before fully discovering what she wanted to do, she admits that she edited varied works by different authors, in search of a common thread that would give meaning to the whole of her publications.

For a long time, Brazil has been an inexhaustible source of footballing talent. Some of the best foreign players who have passed through Barça in recent decades come from the nation that exports the most footballers to other countries in the world. According to the global report by CIES Football Observatory, this year 1,455 Brazilian professionals are playing far from their homeland. But this data does not include footballers of a lower profile, who play in semi-professional leagues and do not move millions. This is the case of three young men in their early twenties, evangelicals, born and raised in Brazil, who in the coming weeks will do their pre-season with the first team of UE Balàfia. The historic neighborhood club of Lleida needs to strengthen its squad for the upcoming season, which they will play in Primera Catalana after being promoted last campaign.

“The first time I saw the sea was at night; and I, on board a raft with 124 people”. Born in a village in the interior of Senegal, Mamadou Sow (Tambacounda, 1991) landed in the summer of 2007 in El Hierro, in the Canary Islands, thanks to a tourist boat that spotted his adrift raft. He traveled from the capital, Dakar, with the help of an older brother, without the permission of his mother, the widow of his father. “In my village, everyone who had a house or a car had migrated to Europe or the United States”.

The Centre Artesà Tradicionàrius hosted the awards ceremony for the Núvol 2025 Awards on Thursday evening, the annual awards from the culture digital, which since 2017 have recognized works and artists under forty years of age who stand out in the fields of literature, art, jazz, classical and popular music, performing and audiovisual arts, illustration, language, and humor. Ten categories corresponding to the ten original sections of Núvol, a project started in 2012, created and directed by Bernat Puigtobella.

From June 14 to 17, the fourth edition of the international cinema and artificial intelligence festival +RAIN Film Festival will be held, an event promoted by Pompeu Fabra University that renews the debate on the impact of AI in cinema, audiovisual, and digital culture. As explained at the presentation by the festival director and professor of communication theories and quantitative research methods Frederic Guerrero, in the first editions, the discussion revolved around art and cinema created with artificial intelligence, while, for now, the thematic focus has shifted towards the social impact of AI in different aspects, such as accessibility, sustainability, and ethical implications.

This year's edition of FIRE!! will take place from June 4th to 14th, with its main venue at the Institut français de Barcelona. The quintessential LGBTIQ+ film event in the Catalan capital is no longer a showcase and is now recognized as a festival: the economic endowment of two thousand euros foreseen by the new Ventura Pons award for best feature film is the element that elevates the status of FIRE!!, an initiative launched in 1995 by Casal Lambda of Barcelona. “The percentage of LGBTIQ+ films worldwide is still lower than the ratio of non-strictly heterosexual people,” assured the festival director, Antoine Leonetti, at the presentation of the 31st edition to the media.

The Unió Esportiva Sant Andreu (UESA) is a century-old sports entity that is experiencing a sweet moment. The number of members, which was less than a thousand in 2020, has grown exponentially in the last five years and there are now more than 5,000 subscribers. The closeness between the club, players, and fans is one of the reasons that attract fans of Barça or Espanyol to adopt Sant Andreu as a second team or even as their first. Initiatives such as Avisgol, a team of older people who practice so-called walking football, further strengthen the bond between the entity and its members, especially the older ones.