cultural programme may 2015

arts & History exhibition

the waiting room.Spanish exile in the United Kingdom MON 27 APR – TUE 30 JUN

MON – FRI 10:30am – 7:00pmSAT 10:30am – 3:30pmExhibition Room and Room 01, Instituto Cervantes LondonOrganised by IC CommunicationIn collaboration with Instituto Cervantes London Admission freeFurther information:http://www.iccommunication.co.uk

The waiting room. Spanish exile in the United Kingdom

Spanish exiles arrived in the UK in the first part of the XX century. Trapped between two wars their presence was a period of transition that for some became permanent. This project serves to introduce a dialogue about the intellectual contribution of those who came to this country and to present their story as part of the very history of the UK.

Would it be possible today to rethink the notion of exile beyond its typical association of being a forced condition? Could that formulation give place to the creation of a new outcome, a global citizen able to transit among borders and cultures? The Waiting Room through two months of music, cinema, book, documentary, talks and art intends to explore these vital questions around exile, memory and identity, highlighted by a city as extraordinary as London.

great BRITISH hispanists series #7:PROF. paul preston In conversation with Dr. Julio Crespo Mac Lennan

TUE 5, 6:30pm

In Spanish with simultaneous translation into EnglishAuditorium Instituto Cervantes London Admission freeBooking essential: reservas.londres@cervantes.es | 0207 201 0752Further information: www.londres.cervantes.es

HISTORY, LITERATURE AND THOUGHT

Paul Preston studied for his undergraduate degree at the Oriel College, Oxford before moving to the University of Reading where he gained his MA in European Studies. He moved back to Oriel College to work on his PhD. He returned to Reading to take up a post ofLecturer before moving on to Queen Mary College, London. Paul Preston is a professor at the London School of Economics in London. Doctor from the University of Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy, the European Academy of Yuste and the Institut d’Estudis Catalans. Has the Knights of the Order of Civil Merit (1986) and the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (2007) and is the author, among others of the following books: La Guerra Civil española. Reacción, revolución y venganza (A concise history of the Spanish Civil War) (1978); Franco: Caudillo de España (Franco: A biography) (1993); Las tres Españas del 36 (1998); La Guerra Civil (2000);Palomas de guerra. Cinco mujeres marcadas por el conflicto bélico (Doves of war) (2001); La destrucción de la democracia en España (2001); Juan Carlos: el Rey de un pueblo (2003); El zorro rojo – La vida de Santiago Carrillo (2013); El final de la guerra (2014).

wine tasting

sherry, a tasting By Beltrán Domecq, President of the CRDO Jerez-Xérès-Sherry y Manzanilla de Sanlúcar de Barrameda

THU 7, 6:30pm

In English Organised by CRDO Jerez-Xérès-Sherry y Manzanilla de Sanlúcar de Barrameda In collaboration with Instituto Cervantes London Auditorium Instituto Cervantes London Admission free, limited placesBooking essential: reservas.londres@cervantes.es | 0207 201 0752

Sherry is the most cosmopolitan and internationally known of Spanish wines, widely appreciated for the way it combines perfectly with dishes from the most diverse of gastronomic cultures. Many leading lights from the culinary world have fallen under its spell and, spearheaded by the lists of cutting edge Spanish restaurants, Sherry is now finding champions on the broader UK dining scene.For most drinkers and wine vendors alike the tangy, salty-dry styles of Fino and Manzanilla provide the most obvious and popular entry point. As both an appetite whetting aperitif and incredibly versatile foil to a range of robust food flavours these aromatic dry Sherries are hard to beat. Beyond Fino and Manzanilla, the richer, nuttier Amontillados, Palo Cortados, Olorosos and Creams – not to mention treacly Pedro Ximénez – are being given some serious attention by more adventurous restaurateurs and wine merchants. These wines can be sublime drunk on their own, but also work as highly flexible food wines. From intensely-flavoured starters to cheeses by way of meat and game courses, the opportunities for being inventive are as diverse as they are exciting. We hope you enjoy our selection of seven classic styles, guided by Beltrán’s insights into Sherry’s quality and versatility.

CINEma

The Forging of a Rebel Screening of the TV series MON 11 and 18, 5:00pm

In Spanish with English subtitles In collaboration with Radio Televisión Española Auditorium Instituto Cervantes London Admission freeBooking essential: reservas.londres@cervantes.es | 0207 201 0752

EVENT CANCELLED

Television series based on Arturo Barea’s autobiographical trilogy depicting the Spain of the first four decades of the 20th century or, better still, the life of a humble character from Madrid, his quest and the difficulties he encounters while struggle to survive.

Produced by Radio Televisión Española (1990)Directed by Mario CamusCast: Manuel Alexandre, Rafael Alonso, Simón Andreu, Lydia Bosch, Jorge Sanz, José Luis López Vázquez, Alejandra Grepi, Manuel Millán

EVENT CANCELLED

literature

meet the author: jesús carrasco out in the open, book launch TUE 12, 6:30pm

In English/Spanish In collaboration with the Office of Cultural and Scientific Affairs, Embassy of Spain in the UK, Instituto Cervantes London and Harvill Secker Auditorium Instituto Cervantes London Admission freeBooking essential: reservas.londres@cervantes.es | 0207 201 0752

A young boy has fled his home. Crouched in his hiding place he hears the shouts of the men hunting him. When the search party has passed, what lies before him is an infinite, arid plain, one he must cross in order to escape those from whom he’s fleeing. One night he crosses paths with an old goatherd and from that moment nothing will ever be the same for either of them.

Out in the Open tells the story of a boy in a drought-stricken country ruled by violence. A closed world where names and dates don’t matter, where morals have drained away with the water. In this landscape the boy, not yet a lost cause, has the chance to learn the painful basics of judgement, or to live out forever the violence with which he grew up.

Jesús Carrasco was born in Badajoz in 1972 and currently lives in Seville. Since 1996 he has worked as an advertising copy writer. His first novel, Out in the Open, was declared Book of the Year by booksellers in Madrid. The Dutch translation was shortlisted for the European Literature Prize 2014. Out in the Open will be published in nineteen countries around the world.

literature

european literature night 2015jesús carrasco WED 13, 1:30pm (lunchtime launch) + 6:30pm (conference)

In English Organised by EUNIC London In collaboration with the British Library, the Office of Cultural and Scientific Affairs, Embassy of Spain in the UK, Instituto Cervantes London and Harvill Secker British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DBMore information:www.bl.uk/events/european-literature-night-2015-the-writers

European Literature Night (ELN) is the British annual literary showcase bringing the best of the continent’s writers to the British Library. Held in May each year, ELN in London is part of a number of simultaneous events across European capitals and major cities in celebration of European liteature.Among the guest writers from different European countries that will be present in the ELN, Jesús Carrasco is the Spanish representative and he is taking part in two events:The Lunchtime Launch. Jesús Carrasco gives a bite-sized reading of his new book, Out in the Open, and talks to renowned translators Margaret Jull Costa and Daniel Hahn.The Writers. ELN presents an engaging literary tour of the continent, travelling from the northerly reaches of Denmark, east to Poland and Slovenia, to the southern shores of Italy and then west through France to Spain. A literary feast of compelling European poetry, fiction and short stories which explore the nature of relationships, childhood trauma, questions of morality and much more.This will be followed by a reception in the Entrance Hall of the British Library which will include music, a glass of wine and the chance to buy books by the participating authors and have them signed.

Latin American Dictatorships Series #2: Memories of Dictatorship in Brazil By Dr. Anthony W. Pereira

WED 20, 6:30pm

In English Organised by Canning House and Instituto Cervantes LondonAuditorium Instituto Cervantes London Tickets £10 | Concessions £5 for members of Canning House and Instituto Cervantes London (code CERVANTESMEMBER)Bookings: www.canninghouse.org/events/

history

Canning House and Instituto Cervantes are co-presenting this series of talks that looks at military dictatorships in 20th Century Latin America and their legacies to present day. Each talk will focus on a different country.

2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the military coup in Brazil, a coup that established a 21-year dictatorship. The Brazilian dictatorship of 1964-85 was influential in South America, becoming consolidated relatively early in the cycle of authoritarianism in the region, and assisting and cooperating with other military regimes in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The 50th anniversary of the coup saw the publication of a number of books on the dictatorship, as well as the release of the report of the National Truth Commission. This work portrayed the legacies of the dictatorship in very different ways. This presentation compares and contrasts the views of the dictatorship expressed in these works and in popular culture, pointing to the implications of the various views for today’s Brazil. It covers issues such as the role of the United States in the coup and dictatorship, the statist legacy of the authoritarian regime, and the link between the dictatorship and contemporary police violence.With Anthony W. Pereira – Professor and Director of the Brazil Institute at King’s College London. He obtained his B.A. from Sussex University in 1982 and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University in 1986 and 1991 respectively. He has held positions at the New School, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Tulane University, the University of East Anglia and (as a visitor) the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil. His most recent book is Ditadura e Repressão (Paz e Terra, 2010).

literature

IV FORO CERVANTES AT UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD: javier cercas WED 20, 5:00pm

In SpanishOrganised by Subfacultad de español, University of Oxford & InstitutoCervantes LondresTaylor Institution, St Giles’, OX1 3NA OxfordAdmission freeBooking essential: reservas.londres@cervantes.es | 0207 201 0752

Under the generic heading “Foro Cervantes” (Cervantes Forum), the University of Oxford and the Instituto Cervantes began a collaboration to present to British academia some of the Spanish writers best known to critics and to the reading public. This year`s session will feature Javier Cercas, who will give a lecture and meet undergraduates studying Spanish.Javier Cercas, novelist and essayist, is one of Europe’s most dis-tinguished contemporary writers. His works, which have been translated into more than twenty languages, include the acclaimed, Solados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamis, 2001), which was made into a film by David Trueba in 2003, La Velocidad de la Luz (The Speed of Light, 2005), Anatomia de un Instante (The Anatomy of a Moment, 2009) and Las Leyes de la Frontera (Outlaws, 2012).He has won numerous literary awards, including the Independent’s Foreign Fiction Prize, and Spain’s National Narrative award. He is currently a Professor of Spanish Literature at the University ofGirona, and a columnist for El Pais. His work, which is highly politically engaged, troubles the borders of history and fiction, as it explores the Spanish civil war, or the legacies of fascism. In this sequence of lectures, Javier Cercas will reflect on the nature of the novel as a genre, including discussions of The Anatomy of a Moment, as well as works by Vargas Llosa, Cervantes, Melville, James and Kafka. The final lecture will address the question of whether it makes sense to talk about intellectuals nowadays.

historyScreening & talk

The Man Who was there.Who was Manuel Chaves Nogales? THU 21, 6:30pm

This event is part of the exhibition:The waiting room. Spanish exile in the United KingdomIn EnglishAuditorium Instituto Cervantes London Organised by IC CommunicationIn collaboration with Instituto Cervantes London Admission freeBooking essential: reservas.londres@cervantes.es | 0207 201 0752

Documentary Director Daniel Suberviola and Manuel Chaves Nogales’ grandson Antony Jones, will have a conversation about the fascinating figure of the Spanish journalist who came lived and died in England.

As a well travelled journalist, Manuel Chaves Nogales witnessed the dramatic transformation of Europe that resulted in the II World War. His strong democratic convictions and the way he identified from the very beginning the rise of totalitarian regimes as enemies of liberty make his work unmissable.

THEATREDRAMATISED READING

NINABy Spanish Theatre Company

FRI 22, 7:30pm

In EnglishWith the collaboration of the Office of Cultural and Scientific Affairs, Embassy of Spain in the UK and Instituto Cervantes LondonMedia partner El IbéricoCanada Water Culture Space, 21 Surrey Quays Road, London, SE16 7ARTickets £8 Further information:http://canadawaterculturespace.org.uk/events/nina-performed-english

Written by Spanish playwright José Ramón Fernández.

Old friends, old places and old memories can be bittersweet when revisited, as Nina discovers when she returns to the small seaside town she grew up in. During a night in a quiet hotel she reminisces about the past with an old friend, Blas. Fuelled by drink, memories turn to love-making, and the sad realisation that life does not always work out the way we hope it will.

© Courtesy Spanish Theatre Company

Prehistory’s play centre andthe archaeologist’s suitcase SAT 23, 3:30pm

Organised by Instituto Cervantes London Auditorium Instituto Cervantes London Admission freeBooking essential: reservas.londres@cervantes.es | 0207 201 0752

PREHISTORY workshop

This workshop and conference is organised in order to reflect on the human evolution in Europe, starting with the survival of the different species that populated the caves from Sierra de Atapuerca. The archeological importance, the history and the geological factor of this settlement will be reviewed.

The attendants to this workshop will experience the prehistoric practises and experiments built following the patterns, skills of our european ancestors.

The workshop will have an archeologist (Marcos Terradillo Bernal) and one anthropologist (Verónica Martín Arroyo), both from Fundación Atapuerca team.

LITERATURE LECTURE

Hay-On-Way Festival 2015at Instituto Cervantes London:Roberto Ampuero and The Neruda Case TUE 26, 6:30pm

In EnglishOrganised by the Embajada de Chile en el Reino UnidoAuditorium Instituto Cervantes LondonAdmission free Booking essential reservas.londres@cervantes.es | 0207 201 0752

The acclaimed Chilean writer Roberto Ampuero will give a talk at the Cervantes Institute to present his book, which has recently been translated to the English Language, The Neruda Case. He will also talk about his career and the experiences that have been an inspiration to his work.Born in Valaparaíso, Roberto Ampuero has published a series of best sellers, amongst them Greek Passions, chosen in China as the best novel written in Spanish, 2006; Stockholm Lovers book of the year in Chile in 2003, and the autobiographical fiction Our Years Olive Green, praised by the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa. He is famous for his creation, the private detective Cayetano Brulé, who hasappeared in the novels Date in the Deep Blue (2009) and Night Hawkes (2009). Another exceptional novel was incorporated to this series breaking the chronological order in the life of the detective: The Neruda Case (2009), recently published in English by Souvenir Press. His latest book is Behind the Wall (2014), that talks about his exile in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Ampuero’s work circulates in the whole of Latin America and Spain, and severaltranslations have been published in Croatia, China, France, Italy, Greece, Portugal and now The United Kingdom. The author has lived in Chile, Cuba, the ex GDR, the current unified Germany , Sweden, the United States, where he was professor at Iowa University, and Mexico where he was the Chilean ambassador.

literaturetalk & poetry reading

Luis Cernuda: British Years WED 27, 6:30pm

This event is part of the exhibition:The waiting room. Spanish exile in the United KingdomIn English/SpanishAuditorium Instituto Cervantes London Organised by IC CommunicationIn collaboration with Instituto Cervantes London Admission freeBooking essential: reservas.londres@cervantes.es | 0207 201 0752

Exile defines the poetic voice of Luis Cernuda. His years in the United King-dom (London and Glasgow) were years of longing, isolation and uncertainty but also an intense period of work and study in which he deepen his knowl-edge of English poetry. In this event the life and poetic production of Cernuda come together with the voice of his biographer Antonio Rivero Taravillo and the one from actor Jorge de Juan.

Antonio Rivero Taravillo (Melilla, Spain, 1963) has published five collections of poetry, one novel, and three travel books. He is the author of the acclaimed two-volume biography of the Spanish poet Luis Cernuda, for which he was awarded the Premio Comillas de Biografía in 2007, and has written hundreds of articles, critical essays and reviews in literary journals, supplements and newspapers. Among his many translations, included John Keats’s Poemas (Premio de Traducción Rafael Cansinos Assens, Andalusia’s Literary Translation Prize, 2005), are Shakespeare’s Complete Poems and W. B. Yeats’ Collected Poems. Jorge de Juan Jorge is a Spanish actor, producer, and director. He graduated at RESAD in Madrid and has a Diploma in Direction and Production from the British Theatre Association, London.His more than 30 films and television series (with 14 leading roles) have led to him having strong audiovisual experience, as much with Spanish directors asforeign. He has played the lead in 12 of the more than 20 plays that he has appeared in; and he has directed and produced a number of theatre productions as well as films for the cinema. Winner of the Best Actor Francisco Rabal film prize for The Best of Times, and the Turia Prize for his protagonist role in the theatre play The Women in Black. He was Sir Ian McKellen’s assistant on ‘Acting Shakespeare’ in the Teatro Español, Madrid. He trained with Clifford Williams, Ron Daniels, and Michael McCallion in England.

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