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Meet “For A Film”, a project by Gonçalo Abrantes

The Lisbon Conservatory of Music, a place in the Gulbenkian Choir, playing in a band that has performed at the Super Bock Super Rock festival and a degree in Cinema are just a few steps on Gonçalo Abrantes’ artistic journey. This young Portuguese artist, currently living in London, talked to The...

Interviewing…Samir Cecir, Debut Contemporary (London).

Samir Cecir and his wife Zoe Knight are running Debut Contemporary, an exhibition and mentoring platform for emerging artists based in Notting Hill. Debut's aim is to introduce artists to collectors whilst at the same time teaching them about the business side of the industry and...

Spotlight Artist (by Debut Contemporary): Susana Lopez Fernandez

Susana López Fernandez is a visual artist from Gijón, Spain. She holds a Bachelor´s Degree in Fine Arts with a specialization in Painting from Barcelona University, from where she also holds a PhD. She focuses mainly on photography and mixed media, where the subjects of her work are taken...

Interviewing...Victor Bermúdez, director of Periplo Magazine.

Periplo magazine is a bimonthly digital publication on the humanities, with 19 publications to date. Born of a group of young men and women, who “underlying the linguistically pan Hispanic spirit share a language and a conviction: dreaming and believing in Spanish is in itself a point of...

An Italian-Spanish cultural cooperation project: The LRM Performance collective debut their latest work in the Miniere Sonore Festival 2012 in Sardinia (Italy).

By Diana GuijarroWhen we speak of European culture politics we normally think of treaties, agreements and diverse regulations. However something is changing regarding the concept of the concept of culture in Europe both at institutionally and in practice, specifically regarding help for new...

Interviewing...Ángel María Herrera, founder of Bubok, a "free online publishing service with an active author community".

Ángel María Herrera is one of the most successful Spanish entrepreneurs today. You may know him as the founder of Bubok.com, a platform to self-publish books.Ángel María Herrera is a computer technician and began his professional his career as such, until 2000 when a friend brought him...

Interviewing…Guillermo Spottorno Giner, director of SoyPoeta.com, a social network for Spanish speaking poets.

Many thanks for accepting the interview. Tell us, when and why did soypoeta.com begin?Soypoeta began in 2001, when my friend Carlos Mas and I brought together the things we liked most, web development and our passion for poetry. We saw that there was nothing like it on the internet, that if...

Interviewing…LaFonoteca, or how to promote Spanish music.

LaFonoteca started in February 2008 due to the impossible task of finding rigorous and detailed information online about Spanish bands. Created by a group of friends, music lovers from all over Spain quickly joined in with enthusiasm to take part in this titanic task.What began in early 2008...

Interviewing María Salas, director of Agenda Magenta, a platform for cultural and independent projects in the centre of Madrid.

We were speaking with Maria Salas, director of Agenda Magenta, a platform for cultural and independent projects in the centre of Madrid. Agenda Magenta just started a few weeks ago, but the project is promising. Its objective: to push for independent artistic infrastructures and collectives...

Interviewing Eduardo Lindes Burnao, director of Plastica Magazine, THE magazine for hispanic culture.

We chatted with Eduardo Lindes Burnao, the director of Plastica Magazine, a digital magazine with 13 editions to date, and which is now looking for financial support to launch a paper version. Plastic Magazine´s objectives: the professionalization of a semi-sufficient scene which generates...

The Scarpia project, or how to introduce public art into a rural setting.

We spoke to Miguel A. Moreno Carretero who told us about Scarpia, the artistic project he directs in El Carpio, Córdoba. For 12 years Scarpia has been organising artistic interventions in the natural and urban spaces of El Carpio, as well as organising workshops with artists of...

Sharing Art created by people with disabilities: an interview with Flavia Cuñer, director of Art Obert, Sitges, Spain.

Art Obert Sitges [Open Art Sitges] is an art project for people with disabilities. Its first project started in 2008 in collaboration with the Ave María de Sitges Foundation, with sixteen users attending the art classes. Starting from each person’s possibilities and interests, the project has...

Interview with illustrator Javi Montes.

We chatted with Gallego Javi Montes, a multifaceted artist who plies his trade as an illustrator nationally and internationally in a number of different areas, from comics to storyboard design and editorial illustration, he is especially outstanding his facility as a colourist. In this interview he...

Interview with Ofelia Grande, director of Siruela y Alevosía Publishing.

Ofelia Grande, the Director of Publishing House 'Siruela’ and ‘Alevosía', will be one of our next guests in 'the chat'. To get to know her better, we have published this interview with her before your first encounter. Born in Salamanca in 1970 to a family dedicated to publishing, she...

Advice for musicians by Laurent Filipe, trumpet player, composer, producer and director of Musiberia.

Hi Laurent, and thanks for accepting to do the interview. You are a trumpet player, producer, and now you are the head of Musiberia, the International Centre for Iberian Dance and Music, located in Serpa, Portugal.You are an internationally recognised musician. How did you get to...

Interview with Esther Morales, illustrator and drawer.

Esther Morales is an illustrator and drawer. She is currently studying her final year of Fine Arts in the Facultad de Bellas Artes de Salamanca , and is fully involved in various personal projects like the publication of an illustrated children´s book and a series of illustrations called “...

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