Fashion designer Teresa Helbig (Barcelona, 1963) receives ARA at the showroom that the brand has on Mallorca Street in Barcelona. Each piece and each object has a story that Helbig explains with passion, vitality, and joy. Happy with the reception the retrospective dedicated to her by the Museo del Traje in Madrid has had –and hoping to be able to bring it to Barcelona as well–, the designer shows an imaginary that has been nourished by everything she has seen, felt, tasted, and drunk.Have you ever heard of Terra Remota? How did you get there?

In times of pandemic, culture was a refuge. And in dark times like the ones approaching, all voices turn once again to artists to serve as a beacon, a light at the end of the tunnel. "We find ourselves in a reactionary undertow that we must confront," said Mayor Jaume Collboni this Wednesday at the Ciutat de Barcelona Awards ceremony, "because the path to progress is that of culture, democracy, and the protection of the rights we have all won." The award winners in the thirteen cultural categories They are "those who set the course" for the city, which is why the mayor asked them to "make the revolution against reaction."