Cultural Agenda
Embassy of Spain in The Hague
April / May / June 2017
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Spanish Focus Program at Go Short Festival
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Amsterdam Spanish Film Festival
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Dutch premiere of “La vida es sueño”
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Spanish saxophonist Perico Sambeat
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El Greco, Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam
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Retrospective “Pablo!” Rueda Lara
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Exhibition by painter Alberto Carrera Blecua
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World Press Photo 2017
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Spain at European Junior Championship
American Football
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Spanish Focus Program at Go Short Festival Nijmegen
Nijmegen
5 - 9 April
The main Dutch festival for short films “Go Short” will take place in Nijmegen from 5
to 9 April 2017. At its ninth edition, Go Short has become a reference in the international shorts festival circuit, now being an Oscar® Qualifying and BAFTA recognized
festival. More than 300 productions will be screened of which 101 have been selected for the different competition programs.
This edition of the Go Short Festival will focus on Spain, screening 28 Spanish shorts
divided into 3 sections: New Views, Modern Family and Excelente. Every session will
last 90 minutes, including screenings and Q&A sessions. The Special Horror Program
(Fear and Laughter) that will take place on the evening of Friday 7th will also feature
Spanish shorts.
Two Spanish shorts are selected for the NTR Go Short Award: the experimental
movie FAJR (12”) by Lois Patiño and the documentary We all Love the Seashore (14”)
by Keina Espiñeira.
In collaboration with the Embassy of Spain, Spanish directors and producers Emilio
Martí (Unanimated), Isabel Herguera (Winter love), Leonor Díaz (Mystery), Esteve
Soler and David Torras (Interior.Family.), Manu Bueno (All you do is shag) and Luis E.
Pérez Cuevas (Beats) will attend the festival and talk with the audience during the
Q&A sessions.
More information can be found at the Website of the Go Short Festival Nijmegen.
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Third edtion of Amsterdam Spanish Film Festival
30 May - 4 June
The third edition of Amsterdam Spanish Film Festival (ASFF), organized by audio visual platform Sin Fin
Cinema, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in The Hague and other Spanish institutions and companies, will take place from 30 May to 4 June. This year the ASFF will be held in cinemas Pathé Tuschinski, Eye,
Pathé de Munt, Het Ketelhuis and Het Bimhuis.
The festival aims to connect Dutch audiences to Spanish cinema, showing a great selection of recently released films from different genres: from comedies to thrillers and dramas, from shorts to documentaries and
action movies. These films will be divided in 7 different sections: Core Programme, Latin Focus –Argentina-,
Vermouth Time, Treasures from the Past, Spanish Cinema without Fear, Movies that Matter and an Educational Programme where schools kids can enjoy Spanish animation films “Arrugas” (Wrinkles) and “Copito de
Nieve” (Snowflake).
The opening film on Tuesday 30 May is “Tarde para la ira” (The Fury of a Patient Man). Spanish actor Raúl
Arévalo makes his feature debut with this film. He will attend the Dutch premiere and talk with the audience
during a Q&A. This thriller won four Goya Awards this year (Best Film, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original
Screenplay and Best New Director).
The full program of ASFF will be launched on Tuesday April 25th, with a special preview screening of “El
ciudadano ilustre” (The Distinguished Citizen), the latest film of Argentinean directorial duo Gaston Duprat
and Mariano Cohn. This drama and comedy film was very well received in international circuits and won the
Goya Award for Best Iberoamerican Film, Best Actor and Young Jury Award at Venice Film Festival 2016 and
is nominated in eight categories for the Argentina Academy Awards this year.
More information about the festival can be found at the Website of ASFF.
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Dutch premiere of “La vida es sueño” by Spanish dramatist Calderón de la Barca
Tour through the Netherlands
6 April - 20 May
Toneelschuur Producties, the oldest production company in the Netherlands, presents “Het leven is droom” (La vida es sueño) by Spanish dramatist, poet and writer
Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681), based on the translation by Erik Coenen,
senior teacher at Madrid´s Complutense University. Coenen is an expert in literary
theory, baroque drama and lyrical poetry and literary translation.
“La vida es sueño” was first published in 1635 and is considered to be the masterpiece of Spanish Golden Age drama. It is a philosophical allegory about the human
situation and the mystery of life, the play’s central theme being the conflict between
free will and fate. Other themes include dreams versus reality and the conflict
between father and son.
The play will premiere on 6 April at Toneelschuur Haarlem. Afterwards, the performance will tour the Netherlands until 20 May, including the cities of Utrecht,
Dordrecht, Amersfoort, Breda, Tilburg, Amstelveen, Amsterdam, Drachten,
Nijmegen, Rotterdam and The Hague.
More information can be found at the Website of Toneelschuur Producties.
Photo: Pieter van den Boogert
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Spanish saxophonist Perico Sambeat will perform
Rembrandt Frerichs Trio
Theatre de Nieuwe Regentes, The Hague
6 Abril
On 6 April 2017 Spanish saxophonist Perico Sambeat and the Dutch Rembrandt
Frerichs Trio will jointly perform at theatre De Nieuwe Regentes in The Hague.
Born in Valencia in 1962 Sambeat has become one of Spain’s great jazz musicians
and has been recognized internationally. He has received for example the North
Sea Jazz’s Bird Award in 2003. Sambeat has collaborated with renowned artists
such as Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Lee Konitz and Joe Chambers.
Throughout his career he has tried to link jazz and flamenco as can be seen, for
example, in the Flamenco Big Band album he made together with Miguel Poveda
and Javier Colina.
The Dutch Rembrandt Frerichs Trio consists of pianist Rembrandt Frerichs, bassist
Tony Overdewater and percussionist Vinsent Planjer. They have been performing
on concert stages in the Netherlands, Europe and the Middle East for over 12.
Rembrandt’s seventh album A Long Story Short was presented in the Royal Concert
Hall in Amsterdam in 2014.
The concert will take place at 08.15 pm in De Nieuwe Regentes, an old swimming
pool located in The Hague that has been reconverted into a theatre in 1996.
More information can be found at the website of De Nieuwe Regentes and Perico
Sambeat.
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Pentecost by El Greco in De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam
Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
18 February - 9 April
Thanks to a loan by Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, De Nieuwe Kerk
Amsterdam will show Pentecost (Pentecostés) by El Greco (1541-1614). The
exhibition will be a multidimensional experience, including a reconstruction of
the original altarpiece for which the canvas was painted and the projection of
the documentary El Greco: an artist’s Odyssey.
El Greco’s particular style is characterized by mannerist, long and expressive
figures, and also by the use of strong colors. All of this can be seen in Pentecost,
masterpiece created between 1597 and 1600.
From 18 February to 9 April 2017 the painting will be on exhibit in the sixth
edition of “De Nieuwe Kerk’s Masterpiece series”. Since 2011, this project
features works of art so extraordinary that they are almost never loaned out,
because of their fragility or their status as beloved favorites. Many of the works
featured in the series have a religious or spiritual dimension. Thanks to this
initiative, in previous editions De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam displayed
Rembrandt’s The Holy Family or Andy Warhol’s The Last Supper.
More information can be found at the website of De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam.
El Greco, Pentecostés, c. 1600. Oil on canvas, 275 x 127 cm
© Photographic Archive. Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid
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Exhibition Spanish ceramist Pablo Rueda Lara
Brink 16, Deventer
6 April - 25 June
From 6 April to 25 June, Dutch foundation “KunstaanZ Deventer” will present
the exhibition “Pablo!”, organized in collaboration with some Dutch museums
and private collectors. This will be the first retrospective about Spanish ceramist
Pablo Rueda Lara (1945-1993) in the Netherlands. His works have previously
been shown in museums and galleries in the United States, Belgium, Germany,
England, Ireland, Switzerland and Spain.
Rueda Lara (Castillo de Locubín, Andalusia) moved to the Netherlands in 1969
and studied drawing and painting at the Academy of Arts in Rotterdam. He was
interested in ceramics and he graduated in Monumental Design in 1976.
This retrospective shows a development in Rueda Lara’s style through a careful
selection of the almost 600 works he made throughout his life, from his early
daily life textile and wood objects in baked clay to his later pieces with political
and religious themes.
“KunstaanZ Deventer”, founded in 2010, promotes modern and contemporary
art in Deventer and surroundings. They organize exhibitions in different venues
in Deventer like The Old Church or Brink 16, a former bicycle parking which will
host “Pablo!”.
More information can be found at the Website of KunstaanZ Deventer.
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Exhibition by painter Alberto Carrera Blecua
Art Singel 100, Amsterdam
8 - 30 April
From 8 to 30 April Gallery Art Singel 100 in Amsterdam will present the
exhibition “Goya”, with works by Spanish painter Alberto Carrera Blecua,
who recently died in a car accident in Tarragon (Spain).
According to painter Antonio Saura, Carrera Blecua “belongs to the race
of the great artists that build up the material to give their paintings an existential background”. His work is charged with positive energy, alluding at
the same time to a tragic existential feeling. The schematized figuration in
a few strokes express symbolism and intensity.
Carrera Blecua studied Arts in Barcelona and exhibited for the first time at
S’Art Gallery (Huesca) in 1978. Later on his works have been shown in
Portugal, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, where he has been
exhibiting regularly at Art Singel 100 since 1999.
“Goya” will present his last work: mixed media on canvas or wood panel.
More information can be found at the Website of Art Singel 100.
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Three Spanish photographers awarded at World Press Photo 2017
Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
14 April - 9 July
World Press Photo foundation is an independent, non-profit organization based in
Amsterdam. Founded in 1955, the organization is known for holding an annual
press photography contest. After the contest, the winning photographs are shown
in a travelling exhibition around 45 countries. Furthermore, World Press Photo
organizes conferences and workshop to develop and promote visual journalism.
Three Spanish photographers have been awarded by World Press Photo in this
edition. Santi Palacios won the second prize in the category of “General news”
with a photo of the dramatic immigration from Africa to Europe by boat. Francis
Pérez won the first prize in the category of “Nature” with a photo of a loggerhead
sea turtle swimming entangled in abandoned fishing gear. Jaime Rojo won the
third prize in the same category, “Nature”, with a photo of a carpet of monarch
butterflies covering the floor after a snowstorm in Mexico.
From April 14th to July 6th World Press Photo will exhibit the prize-winning photos
in De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. Afterwards, the exhibition will tour the world,
including Spanish cities like Seville (28 April – 18 May 2017) and Madrid (29 September -1 November 2017).
Photo: Jaime Rojo
More information can be found at the website of the World Press Photo foundation.
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Spain in qualifying tournament for European Junior Championship American Football
Yanmar Stadium, Almere
2 - 4 June
The European Junior Championship of American football will be held in Paris
from 14-16 July 2017. Previously, two qualifying tournaments will take place: in
Belgrade, Serbia (5-7 May) participating teams from Italy, Russia, Hungary and
Serbia, and in Almere, the Netherlands (2-4 June), with Germany, Switzerland,
the Netherlands and Spain.
The two winners of these qualifying tournaments will compete in the final phase
of the European Junior Championship together with current champion Austria
and host country France.
In the Dutch tournament, organized by the Dutch Association of American Football (AFBN), Spain will first play against the Netherlands. This match will take
place on Friday 2 June at 08.00 pm at the Yanmar Stadium in Almere. If Spain
wins this match the Spanish team would play against the winner of the match
between Germany and Switzerland.
More information can be found at the Website of the AFBN.
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