
Is she asleep, peacefully clutching her pillow, that big sack of shit? Through the windows, she saw the foliage and, farther off, the volcano-now she was sure it wasn’t a mountain and sure she wasn’t Twiggy, but Mia Farrow playing the lead in a B horror movie. The elegance she’d imagined the day before had vanished when Miss Clara, instead of talking to her-which is what she had said she’d do-handcuffed her to a table screwed into the ground, went up the spiral staircase, and never returned. That’s how it felt to sleep handcuffed to a table: as if your bones and your flesh were two creatures fighting with open jaws to get at the roofs of each other’s mouths. She breathed deeply with the intention of calming herself but only managed to draw in all the snot caused by the cold air. Through improvisation and based on the cities narrated by the Italian writer, the pianist will establish a live musical narrative that will transport the audience to both fantastic and real cities alike.I’m not going to die, let’s not even talk about that. One of the most prominent events is the concert that Marco Mezquida, recipient of the City of Barcelona Award in 2019 and several Enderrock awards for best album of the year, among others, will offer on Saturday 8 May.Įntitled Around the World in 88 Keys, this unique concert will be inspired by Italo Calvino and his book Invisible Cities, a collection of descriptions of fantastic cities told by the traveller Marco Polo to the emperor of the Tartars, Kublai Khan. Milan is featured in Guest Cities, an initiative to promote exchanges between experts, institutions and artists from Barcelona and various other citiesĬASA SEAT continues its commitment to the city’s cultural agenda by programming a full schedule of concerts, workshops and meetings on current issues with various institutional and business agents this May.Gastronomy takes centre stage during the month of May with the Ametller Origen talk on healthy eating.There will be two more Literary Cafés, with Mónica Ojeda and Alicia Kopf, and further meetings on rethinking the challenges of the future with TEDxBarcelona Salon and ESADE Creapolis.The space will host a musical journey by Marco Mezquida and a chat with the Catalan rock group Sopa de Cabra to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their album Ben Endins.
