Exactly thirty years ago, the Farrera Centre of Art and Nature (a village of just over a hundred inhabitants in Pallars Sobirà) was seen as a wild idea. It was founded by the painter Cesca Gelabert and the geographer Lluís Llobet, two neo-ruralists with anti-system ideas who already had a home in Farrera. They were convinced by the Irish activist Bernard Loughlin (1950-2018), who had been director years earlier of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, the name of a house-refuge for renowned European artists and writers. “You should do the same in Farrera, and only the two of you can build it,” Loughlin insisted to the young Catalan couple.

According to the dictionary, the cugula is a plant of the grass family, similar to oats, that frequently appears at the edges of cultivated fields. It is generally considered a weed. And, surely because of this, the rural world often used the term "cugula" to refer to what a pregnant woman carried in her womb: a girl.

What is the meaning of life? To what extent are we free? Who controls the world and how? Can we dream of a better world, or do we live in a nightmare? Is there room to confront everything we consider unjust?

"Something must change!" With this cry halfway between help and tiredness, the protagonist ofPrima facie, magnificently performed by Victoria Luengo, culminates a heartbreaking final monologue that addresses not only sexual assault, but also the lack of protection for victims.

Yoga has created a hymn in the fog in Lleida. Under the title Meet you there, the song was composed by American singer-songwriter Hayley Reardon on the occasion of the The Yoga Gallery Festival, which for the second consecutive year will be coming to the capital of Segrià. Between June 19th and 21st, this competition will bring the intensive practice of yoga, combined with different artistic disciplines, to the city of Lleida.