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Catalan Shots: A Discussion with Joan Fontcuberta and Agustí Torres

Posted on 27.11.2011 in Events

Monday, November 28
6PM-8PM

Tisch School of the Arts NYU
Riese Family Lounge
721 Broadway, at Waverly Place – Ground Floor
New York, NY 10003

The Department of Photography and Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, in collaboration with the Institut Ramon Llull will host the event Catalan Shots: A Discussion with Joan Fontcuberta and Agustí Torres. Fred Ritchin, professor and associate chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging will moderate the discussion.

Both renowned artists, Joan Fontcuberta from Barcelona and Agustí Torres from the Balearic Islands, have developed significant international careers and have exhibited their work in museums worldwide. They will talk about their work as well as debate the question of photographic reality and photography’s role in the perpetuation of cultural assumptions.

The event will be held on Monday, November 28, 2011, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Riese Family Lounge at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place), ground floor. Admission is free and open to the public but a photo ID is required when entering the building. For further information, call 212.998.1930, or visit www.photo.tisch.nyu.edu.

This event is part of the Catalan Days festival (www.llull.cat/catalandays), produced by the Institut Ramon Llull to promote Catalan culture and taking place in New York City from September through December 2011. Founded in 2002, the Institut Ramon Llull (www.llull.cat) is a consortium created by the governments of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands with the objective of promoting Catalan language and culture abroad.

The Department of Photography & Imaging is an intensive four-year BFA program centered on the making and understanding of images. It is a diverse department embracing multiple perspectives. The students work in virtually all modes of analog, digital, and multimedia photo-based image making, exploring photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression. For further information, visit www.photo.tisch.nyu.edu.

FILM: GARBO THE SPY

Posted on 20.11.2011 in Announcements

NOVEMBER 18-24, 2011
Quad Cinemas, 34 West 13th Street, New York
1pm, 3pm, 5pm, 7:15pm and 9:30pm

November 18 and 19:

Q&A after the 7:15pm screening, and a brief presentation before the 9:30pm screening

November 20: Q&A after the 5pm screening

“Garbo:The Spy,” tells the story of the life of Juan Pujol Garcia, a Barcelona-born man who deserted during the Spanish Civil War and, despite never again enlisting in an army, managed to fabricate a network of phantom agents across Europe to become one of the most important spies and notorious double agents in World War II. Juan Pujol even convinced Nazi officers that the Normandy invasion was a diversion and that the bulk of the invasion would take place miles away near Pas de Calais, weakening German defenses. The film illustrates how, and why, Juan Pujol, a double agent who was nicknamed “Garbo” by the British and “Alaric” by the Third Reich, came to earn the trust of the intelligence communities of both sides and change the course of the second World War.

More info:

http://firstrunfeatures.com/garbothespy/

Panellets confirmed!

Posted on 11.11.2011 in Announcements

We will have the luxury of professionally made Panellets in New York, thanks to our retired pastry chef Josep Pujol who will prepare assorted most traditional Catalan Panellets. Don’t forget to thank him for his effort one more year

Panellets (Catalan pronunciation: [pənəˈʎɛts], Catalan for “little bread”) are the traditional dessert of the All Saints holiday, the Castanyada, in Catalonia, Eivissa or the Land of Valencia, together with chestnuts and sweet potatoes. Panellets are often accompanied by a sweet wine, usually moscatell, mistela, vi de missa or vi ranci. Panellets are small cakes or cookies in different shapes, mostly round, made mainly of marzipan (a paste made of almonds and sugar). The most popular are the panellets covered with pine nuts, consisting of the panellet basis (i.e. marzipan) rolled in pine nuts and varnished with egg white